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Misha

@MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
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I am a lecturer at #AUC (Amsterdam University College).

I teach #PoliticalEcology & #EarthScience.

Studied/lived in #Mumbai, #India for PhD.

Because of love, I divide my time between #Medellín,#Colombia and #Amsterdam, #Netherlands.

I spend too much time playing around with #linux, #emacs.

I have a small blog: https://mishathings.org

I like to make #music: https://mishathings.org/music_things/

I play a small role in the background of #BIJ1 Amsterdam

On Matrix: https://matrix.to/#/@mishathings:matrix.org

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Joined November 13, 2022
Blog and website:
https://www.mishathings.org/
Music: my little songs:
https://mishathings.org/music_things/little_songs/little_songs.html
Music: my electronic songs:
https://mishathings.org/music_things/new_album_electro/new_album_electro.html
Bookwyrm:
https://bookrastinating.com/user/misha
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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

TED talk of David Wengrow, colleague of the late #DavidGraeber, about the widespread belief that the transition from hunter gatherer societies to agricultural civilisations inevitably led to increasing levels of #inequality.

Archeological research, often focusing on societies that were destroyed by #colonial conquest, suggests that other forms of civilisation are possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SJi0sHrEI4

For full story, see book: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/oct/18/the-dawn-of-everything-a-new-history-of-humanity-by-david-graeber-and-david-wengrow-review-have-we-got-our-ancestors-wrong

(Thanks @vtijms@akademienl.social & @Iris@scholar.social)

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

@aral@mastodon.ar.al Interesting, I didn't know. Thanks. Just curious then: what is your preferred browser?

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

#MaxVerstappen verdiende in 2022 ruim 50 miljoen euro. Als hij een mooie villa in Schin op Geul als officiële residentie had gekozen, zou hij over alle inkomsten boven de 70.000 euro 49,5% inkomstenbelasting hebben moeten afdragen. Dat zou een kleine 25 miljoen euro zijn – voldoende om de opvang van duizend asielzoekers te bekostigen. Daarnaast zou hij in box 3 nog een enorm bedrag kwijt zijn als heffing over een vermogen dat door Quote wordt geschat op 120 miljoen."

https://www.volkskrant.nl/economie/is-belastingontwijking-van-topsporters-te-vergoelijken~b4035fe4/

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

@joenepraat@todon.nl Goede slogan ja :)

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

@joenepraat@todon.nl Zeker. Al denk ik dat we de metafoor op een gegeven moment ook lost moeten laten.

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

Als het normaal is om elke dag minstens twee minuten je tanden te poetsen, voor mondhygiëne, waarom is het dan niet ook normaal om elke dag minstens een half uur de wereld te poetsen, voor wereldhygiëne. Er is meer onrecht en vervuiling in de wereld dan tandplak in je mond.

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

"Wat van niemand was, wordt van iedereen."

Mooie kop van #MarciaLuyten (no pun intended) in de #Volkskrant over het onlangs uitonderhandelde VN-verdrag over de open/volle zee #HighSeasTreaty

https://www.volkskrant.nl/nieuws-achtergrond/wat-van-niemand-was-wordt-van-iedereen-nu-komt-het-er-op-aan-het-zeeleven-te-beschermen~b0eaf9bc/

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 44mo ago

@BIJ1@social.bij1.org fantastisch

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 44mo ago

If you, like me, sometimes use this image to visualize how global warming is something that is happening in *our* lifetime...

... and if you like me, dislike the fact that the image has no date, and kind of needs to be updated every year...

... just clone this repository and your troubles are over!

https://codeberg.org/mishathings/share_CO2_generation

#climate #CO2 #climatechange

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 47mo ago
Replying to
@JoseMarichal@mastodon.social Interesting. Thanks for sharing. As a relative newcomer, I am just wondering how difficult it is for older users to "save" their communities in more or less sheltered instances?
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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

If it's so common to take care of our teeth for at least two minutes a day, for the sake of dental hygiene, why isn't as common to take care of the #planet in the same way, let's say 30 minutes a day, for the sake of planetary hygiene? There is more #injustice and #pollution in the world than plaque in your mouth. And it's the world that we leave to the next generation, not our teeth.

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 43mo ago

"Eerste moderne mens op Nederlandse bodem had zwarte huidskleur en blauwe ogen."

Hmmm, interessant.

"'Onze voorouders werden altijd neergezet als van die stoere, blanke types. Maar ze zagen er toch wat anders uit’, zegt archeoloog en dna-expert Eveline Altena..."

Ok doei.

@volkskrant@mastodon.nl #onhandig

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 44mo ago

One other thing I am excited about (on this same condition: https://akademienl.social/@MishaVelthuis/109942572482400153):

At some point LLMs like #ChatGPT will be able to produce more than text. Simple steps could be:

"Show me a map of all the places mentioned and described in Mark Twain's 'The Innocents abroad. Create little popups at this places and show the excerpts from the book that mention those places".

"Show me a network graph of how the top 100 most-cited articles on ocean acidification reference each other."

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Misha @MishaVelthuis@akademienl.social
· 44mo ago

Just like I am a fan of desktop search engines like #Recoll (bringing the power of something like Google to my own personal data), I am excited about the potential of the application of LLMs like #ChatGPT *[Footnote1] to my own library of articles, books and notes.

"Show me who has written about the rise of ecofascism in 1930s in Germany, and summarize my notes on it."

Something like this: https://org-roam.discourse.group/t/a-demo-of-ai-for-linking-writing-and-thinking-with-org-roam-should-we-build-org-roam-ai/2891?u=misha

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