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What size population can Australia sustain? Or should we avoid trying to answer the question?
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"Although sustained below-replacement fertility will pose serious potential challenges for much of the world over the course of the century, it also presents opportunities for environmental progress," they wrote.
"Alongside strong pro-environmental regulations, a smaller global population in the future could alleviate some strain on global food systems, fragile environments, and other finite resources, and also reduce carbon emissions.
"A 2012 study suggests that if global population were to follow a low-growth rather than a medium-growth path, worldwide carbon emissions would be 15 per cent lower by 2050 and 40 per cent lower by 2100.
"The 2023 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report likewise suggests that low population growth (a result of low fertility) is an important factor in limiting global warming.
"However, increasing consumption per capita due to economic development could offset the benefits of smaller populations."
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What size population can Australia sustain? Or should we avoid trying to answer the question?
Australia's falling fertility rate raises some difficult โ and controversial โ questions.Gareth Hutchens (ABC News)
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"Fossils Found in Meteorites Since 1961 | Richard B. Hoover, D.Sc., h.c."
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It's wild how social media outside of the fediverse has deteriorated. You have followers, but if your post doesn't please some opaque algorithm, they'll never see what you post. You have to avoid certain words to please the algorithm. If you refresh the page good luck finding the same posts again. And people put up with it.
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@ntnsndr you connected with this work yet?
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> Weโre experimenting with taking [Collective Constitutional AI] process and making it possible for any group of people to come together, construct a constitution, and fine-tune an open-source model based on this constitution. This brings together our Roadmap priorities around advancing collective fine-tuning, building for open-source approaches to model governance..
A Roadmap to Democratic AI
Our roadmap outlines concrete steps that can be taken in 2024 to build a more democratic AI ecosystem that is adaptive, accountable, processes decentralized information, provides public goods, and safeguards human wellbeing.Divya Siddarth (The Collective Intelligence Project)
Hey #believeinfilm friends,
Film photography took a back seat in the 2000s and 2010s because it couldn't compete with digital cameras' speed and convenience.
But does that still hold true in 2024?
Apparently, not. Miles Myerscough-Harris shot the Jests game on Portra, had it developed, and posted the results as the game continued.
I discuss this idea further on the blog: analog.cafe/comments/k676
What was the fastest film photo turnaround for you?
#editorial for October 19, 2024
โIs same-day event reportage on film back? This week, Miles @expiredfilmclub shot the NY Jets game on film, developed itโฆโ.www.analog.cafe
So @ErikUden made an unboxing and review video of the #plushtodon. If you want to see The Creature in action, here you go:
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This week's comic is for my home state of Pennsylvania and other swing states that will decide the US election.
#cartoon #comic #uspol #USPolitics #election #pennsylvania
Growing up in Cumberland County, I never really felt at home. Something always felt off about living someplace the civil war came to โ that left scars on the area and took lives from local families โ yet still had assholes flying Confederate flags.
Saddens, but doesn't surprise, me when I go home to visit my mom and see Trump banners all over the damned place.
Welcome to #Groningen (NL), dear #plushtodon!
We can't wait to show you around our #library on Monday. #Mastodon
Soviet linguist Yuri Knorozov was instrumental in deciphering Mayan script. His whole life he tried to be co-credited with his cat Asya but his editors always refused. In 2012, the Mexicans honored him with a monument that included his beloved cat.
#Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #Catstodon
On October 29, come join me and some leading co-op builders from Colorado and Puerto Rico at a US Dept. of Agriculture webinar:
"Cooperative Ecosystems: Transformations in Worker Ownership, Housing, Community Development, and Agriculture"
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Changing Free Registrations
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Weโre excited to launch Mosaic: a new initiative from the Bonfire team that empowers organisations by creating their own customised and federated digital space - built just for them.
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Well @Christoph S, this video says that Paderborn created the weirdest bank note in the world! And @Cass Cook Islands has one of the other weirdest bank notes!
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