"Zehn Thesen zu einer #KI-#Vergütung – ein neues Thesenpapier von @iRightsLab@mastodon.social2
"Plans to artificially dim the sun have divided scientists – here’s what they’re actually arguing about"
#Sun #SolarEngineering
Heute vor 81 Jahren: Am 20.08.1945 kam es bei Experimenten mit einem #Plutoniumkern versehentlich zu einer kritischen Reaktion. Harry Daghlian erlitt dabei eine tödliche Strahlendosis. Er war der erste bekannte Todesfall durch einen #Kritikalitätsunfall.
POL-STD: Harsefeld: Körperverletzung auf dem Schützenfest - Polizei sucht Zeugen nach Auseinandersetzung Stade (ots) - In der Nacht zu Sonntag gegen 01:43 Uhr gingen bei der Leitstelle der Polizei mehrere Notrufe zu einer körperlichen Auseinandersetzung auf dem Schützenfest in Harsefeld ein. Der Vorfall ereignete sich im Außenbereich des Festes. ... …
Deep in the Atlantic, a vast circulation of water carries heat from the tropics towards Greenland.
This is the Atlantic meridional overturning circulation, or Amoc.
It does this work largely out of sight,
so doesn’t have the public profile of rainforests, polar ice caps or other huge climate-regulating systems.
Recent studies suggest it is weakening.
If it slows further, northern Europe could experience much colder winters even as the world warms,
while t…
Hoped to bike with the potential next governor tonight but it’s gonna rain so we’ll see. In the meantime, crepes, egg bacon tea coffee, then work! We lost our game of Nemesis last night 😬 #TogetherBreakfast https://photos.app.goo.gl/hzU51nbJfvbTTQmb8
"any activity based on intellectual capacity is about to be hyper-inflated. Academia will fall first, the rest of the job market will follow. Academia has of course been inflating for the past 20–30 years, driven by bad career proxies that rewarded the quantity of papers rather than their quality....
Reputation becomes hereditary: you get read because you were read before...
in an age of technofeudalism,
"Water pollution has long been a threat to the Great Barrier Reef – plans to fix it aren’t up to the task"
#GreatBarrierReef #Environment #Oceans