AxelPolleres (Q54860587) @AxelPolleres@wien.rocks

Well, it's Groundhog Day, again.*

“Only in America do we accept weather predictions from a rodent but deny #ClimateChange evidence from scientists.”

* I share this meme every year on February 2. Source unknown. #science

Catastrophic (and to be frank - hugely depressing)

This new research in @PNASNews suggests earth will cross the 1.5 degrees C temperature increase threshold in the next decade (within just 10 to 15 years) and is likely to exceed 2 degrees C by around 2060.

This should be THE lead story on the news today (and onwards) and the lead action point for our governments. It should trigger a massive call for real global action to combat the #climateemergency - sadly though I fear this news will barely register.

We have to stop believing the siren calls of future technology solutions and #carbonoffsets - the immediate need is a rapid end to the use of #fossilfuels and a massive rollout of #renewableenergy

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2207183120

#ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis

Time to apply for #ISWS2023 - the International #SemanticWeb #Research #SummerSchool! Applications are open until March 30th, School dates: June 11th-17th, 2023. Venue: Bertinoro, Italy. Don't miss this unique opportunity and apply now at
https://2023.semanticwebschool.org/index.php/apply/
#ai #knowledgegraphs #LLM #LLMs #creativeai @AxelPolleres @albertmeronyo @tabea @fizise

Analyse: EU produziert erstmals mehr Strom aus Erneubaren als aus Gas

Die Stromproduktion aus Wind und Sonne hat im Jahr 2022 in der EU knapp die Gasverstromung überholt. Der Ukraine-Krieg habe die Energiewende angeschoben.

https://www.heise.de/news/Analyse-EU-produziert-erstmals-mehr-Strom-aus-Erneubaren-als-aus-Gas-7475890.html?wt_mc=sm.red.ho.mastodon.mastodon.md_beitraege.md_beitraege

#Energie #Energiewende #ErneuerbareEnergie #EU #Solarenergie #UkraineKrieg #Windkraft #news

Die Würde des Menschen ist ein Konjunktiv.
Wiglaf Droste

"If we switched to renewable energy, the number of ships crossing the ocean would fall almost in half. Because they're just carrying #coal and #oil and gas" -Bill McKibben on Bird.

Port of Long Beach exports a good deal of #petroleum coke & coal that are deemed too dirty to burn in the US. #Shipping fuel is itself filthy (dirtier than diesel).

Map is a screenshot of global marine traffic (red vessels are #tankers), via http://marinetraffic.com

EDIT: for my reply guys: https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/O/bo185167017.html

The Press needs to get a clue about social media!

They don't want to moderate discussions on their websites.

So they're shutting down discussions on their websites.

But what that does is move the discussion to a space (Twitter, Meta, etc.) that's largely unmoderated.

And on social media, few people are clicking to read the articles -- they're just seeing headlines.

What's the net effect? Big Social owns the news!

https://www.lohud.com/story/news/2023/01/28/usa-today-network-lohud-restricting-reader-comments-to-social-media/69851367007/

Die Ergebnisse unserer #Wahltagsbefragung für NÖ sind online! https://www.sora.at/fileadmin/downloads/wahlen/2023_LTW-Noe_Wahlanalyse-Grafiken.pdf
#wahl23 #ltwnö #ltwnoe #ltw23

In Niederösterreich durften nur österreichische Staatsbürger:innen wählen und in der Gemeinde mit dem größten Asyl-Erstaufnahmezentrum Österreichs sieht das Wahlergebnis so aus.

#ltwnoe #ltwnoe23

Die Ernennung von Adolf Hitler zum Reichskanzler 1933 änderte den Lauf der Geschichte - nicht nur der deutschen. Hätte es anders ausgehen können? Das fragt die Ausstellung "Roads Not Taken" in Berlin.
1933: Hätte Adolf Hitlers Machtübernahme verhindert werden können? | DW | 29.01.2023
#1933 #Machtergreifung #Hitler #NSDAP #Nazis

Wow, there's innovation in propeller shapes (which i thought we're close to optimal for a century): toroidal propellers https://newatlas.com/aircraft/toroidal-quiet-propellers/ >50% performance improvement at midrange rpms in liquids!

“Apples and Oranges”

Cartoonist: Clay Bennett, Chattanooga Times Free Press

The first text line detection model for historical documents available on @huggingface : paper+code+models, all open-source https://huggingface.co/Teklia/doc-ufcn-generic-historical-line https://teklia.com/research/publications/boillet2022/ #digitalhumanities via @_teklia_@twitter.com