Johannes S. Vogel

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Social scientist. Discourses of development. PhD researcher at University of Freiburg. Previously DAAD, IDOS, WZB Berlin. Photo: Sander/WZB
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Jemand, der argumentiert, Forschung sei kein Selbstzweck und hätte gefälligst der Wirtschaft zu dienen, ist derart weit vom Weg abgekommen, dass er völlig ignoriert, dass Wirtschaft kein Selbstzweck ist.
Kann ich das so lassen, ja oder?

The cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price

The Environmental Reporting Collective (ERC) supports nearly 40 journalists working on how the energy and resource constraints in traditional tech hubs are forcing companies to look beyond the U.S. and China, pushing into countries with weaker environmental regulations and less public oversight:

https://www.dirtydata.earth/

#AI #infrastructure #energy #technology #journalism

Dirty Data

An ERC investigation looking into the cost of data center infrastructures powering AI and the people paying the price.

Dirty Data — Environmental Reporting Collective
Patterns of reviewer 1 and 2? No public transport strike can keep the #dgfs2026 participants from coming to @fussballinguist 's keynote on patterns of evaluation and a corpus linguistic perspectives on reviews ☕️🤩

The Chinese word for ‘owl’ is ‘cat headed bird’.

#Cats #CatsOfMastodon #Torties

Baden auf eigene Gefahr!

Because of the complexity of its pronouns, the Vietnamese translation adds an extra layer of depth to the otherwise shallow dialogue of the Star Wars original trilogy, which I watched on TV in Vietnam.

People speak to droids with the pronouns used to speak to pets or farm animals. Droids address people as professional superiors.

Droids speak to each other like they are siblings.

Vader speaks to everyone (except the emperor and Tarkin) as an arrogant superior addressing an underling.

Auch die Geister und Dämonen in Südostasien haben Gruselpotential. In unseren Katalogen finden Sie mit den Schlagworten „Geister“ oder „Schauererzählung“ mehr aus der Region. In diesem Sinne: Happy Halloween!
@stabi_berlin

Dude from Hong Kong learned Welsh, and goes to Wales

https://youtu.be/LGSoyxJUSu8

#Welsh #Languages #Welsh

Going to Wales after learning Welsh for 2 years

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Keeping spirits company: Marking the Hungry Ghost Festival at a cemetery in S’pore

At a cemetery, the Hungry Ghost Festival is more than a ritual – it is a reminder of responsibility and compassion.

The Straits Times