Around all the AI argument circles this basic fact - our evolved brains do, on 1500 kcal a day, something that exceeds by multiple orders of magnitude what whole warehouses full of hot-running chipsets can do.
It is not *physically possible* to make those warehouses full of chips "intelligent".
THIS. If you’re in central Glasgow tonight please close your windows; if you have to be out please wear the best mask you have available. If you can smell it, you’re at risk.
Made in Manchester: Ann Lee (1736-84), at the wilder end of religious nonconformism, became ‘Ann the Word’, leader of a sect known as the Shakers, so called because they worshipped by ecstatic dancing or ‘shaking’. 1/7
The Mournes
Reddit screenshot from Glasgow thread. Bright flames rising out the side of a Victorian building.
Video screenshot from Reddit. Building is now a shell with flames visible in every window.
The roof has collapsed embers rise into the night sky.
The fire at Glasgow central station is utterly devastating. Shops, homes and our transport link to England are being wiped out.
I am amazed by the limited news coverage.
Was only a matter of time, but the cupola has gone.
This is no longer about saving the corner building. It's lost. All the SFRS can do is try to prevent what would be a catastrophic spread to Glasgow Central Station.
📷 Vyro Media
Part of the Union Street facade has collapsed into the street.
📷 Glasgow by drone
I'll be signing copies of 'These Isles: A People's History of England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales' at Waterstones Oldham, Saturday 14th March, 12-2pm. All welcome.
'Why is it always the women that get punished?'
Link 👉 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I forgot to say, the engravings are not placed randomly in the book. Each portrait has been placed by or near the person's appearance in the text. On some of them you can see the relevant page number pencilled in so that the bookbinder would know where to place them. #book #history
'Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797) thought that a woman’s place was in the resistance.' #InternationalWomensDay #DifficultWomensDay
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Hornbeam catkins in a hedge by a #Cambridge P&R #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
#SignsofSpring for #Wildflowerhour from my home patch today, what I think are male flowers of Goat Willow (Salix caprea) and female flowers of Grey Willow (Salix cinerea). Hopefully providing lots of fuel for the early emerging bees and moths..
Deep purple sweet violet in woods.
Sweet violet in the woods. #WildflowerHour
Mummy portrait depicting a woman wearing a necklace, a Medusa pendant and golden ear-pendants with pearls. Dated AD 161-192.
Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna, Austria.
#InternationalWomensDay ♀️
You can check out our latest storytelling blog from the Glencoe Archaeology Project here: glencoe.glasgow.ac.uk/the-house-of...
This story explores the 17th century tacksman's house in Achnacon, and the biography of this dwelling, its occupants and finds.
From the Archive: From Flax to Linen – Observations by Carl Linnaeus and Artworks illustrating these Textile Traditions (2200 words). www.ikfoundation.org/itextilis/fr...
….that changed when Bruntwood (one of MCC’s long time favourite developers) acquired Manchester Science Park in 2012 and when AZ announced they were leaving Alderley Park in Cheshire the City, along with the University, were key members of the group set up to manage the transition.
There is arguably no public figure in Manchester - not even the mayor Andy Burnham - whose role matters as much to the prosperity of the city as the one held by Ivison, a 6o-year-old Canadian academic who wears a hangdog expression and speaks with the pleasing precision of a political scientist. The University of Manchester employs more than 12,000 staff and brought in £1.4 billion last year, more income than Manchester City and Manchester United combined. Its research makes waves around the world. Its 46,000 students are so pivotal to the economics of the city that when Ivison was recruited in 2023, Manchester's council leader was part of the hiring process. When the BBC's economics editor Faisal Islam analysed Manchester's success recently, he noted that along with MMU, it makes up Europe's biggest university campus. "Everything comes back to this," wrote Islam, a Mancunian himself. "The knowledge and the educated workforce are the essential raw ingredient upon which this growth has emerged."
Striking statistics on the importance of the University of Manchester @manchestermill.bsky.social MCC has long recognised this (as did NWDA with Martin Harris on its Board) although initially more as a tool of physical regeneration (eg via the merger with UMIST)…
Thank you! I hadn't come across him before.
Yesterday's visit. The exhibition closes on 29 March I think (check the website first) so do visit if you can.
Ironically, Granger himself did not use images in this way. It seems that what he did was to leave blank pages for his readers to add their own images en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_G... #book #history
And this process of adding additional pictures to beautify a book was called 'grangerisation' by the Victorians, in honour of writer James Granger www.thefreedictionary.com/grangerised #book #history
Image of Angelika Kauffman holding a paintbrush
This image of Angelika Kauffman has been cut out of a magazine/book and then pasted into a piece of paper, then bound into the book
Sculptor John Bacon
But my copy has several engravings from other sources, like this one of sculptor John Bacon (from the European Magazine, 1790) bound with the text
Frontispiece engraving of Josiah Wedgwood on left; title page on right 'Josiah Wedgwood His Personal History by Dr Samuel Smiles, John Murray, 1894.'
This edition of Samuel Smiles' 'Life of Josiah Wedgwood' was mostly sold with just one engraving, of Josiah himself
When I bought an old book yesterday I learnt a new word yesterday - 'grangerised'. A note inside from the bookseller said it had 'grangerised' illustrations. I thought at first it must be some kind of photogravure technique, perhaps, but no. #book #history
🛤️ Embrace #SundayInTheBorders with a journey along the historic Dere Street Roman Road! This ancient marvel, known as Deere Street or Via Regia, spans from York to Cramond, tracing through Hadrian's Wall at Corbridge.
