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Mystery AI Hype Theater 3000, Episode 49 - The UK's Misplaced Enthusiasm (with Gina Neff), 2025.01.20

BBC complains to Apple over misleading shooting headline

Apple's new artificial intelligence features falsely made it seem the BBC reported Luigi Mangione had shot himself.
Graham Fraser (BBC News)
#energy #workers #artificial intelligence #kier starmer #united kingdom

In the U.S., recent annual estimates of bird deaths due to:

Cats = 2.4 billion bird deaths

Collisions from building glass = 600 million bird deaths

Land wind turbines = <200,000 bird deaths

Some politicians claim wind turbines “kill all the birds.”

But… they’re not really worried about birds. Rather, they prefer we stick with oil & gas over renewable #energy.

https://www.statista.com/chart/amp/15195/wind-turbines-are-not-killing-fields-for-birds/ #climatechange

Wind Turbines Are Not Killing Fields for Birds

This chart shows the annual estimated bird mortality for selected anthropogenic causes in the U.S.
Sarah Feldman (Statista)
#ClimateChange #energy

Fission is in the news, but few recognize that a woman physicist was behind the discovery.

Lise Meitner’s brilliance led to the discovery of nuclear fission. But her long time collaborator Otto Hahn, was awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry w/o her in 1944, even though she had given the first theoretical explanation.

Albert Einstein called Meitner “our Marie Curie." She also adamantly refused to work on the atomic bomb during WWII. https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/201502/physicshistory.cfm #women #history #science #energy
Lise Meitner around 1906 in Vienna. Photographer unknown. Public domain.
#history #science #energy #women

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