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Re:The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:48AM (#50367262)

Ungated: https://archive.ph/ZlVuU

The Currency of the Journal Article Is Collapsing

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday November 04, 2026 @10:47AM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/10/ai-journal-articles-writing/689186/

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How is life at different levels of GDP per capita?

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @09:42PM
from the ourworldindata.org dept.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/how-is-life-at-different-levels-of-gdp-per-capita

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Economic policy for AGI

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday September 17, 2026 @01:12PM
from the institute.deepmind.com dept.

https://institute.deepmind.com/essays/economic-policy-for-agi/

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Is China's growth model bad for its own people?

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday September 14, 2026 @10:48AM
from the chat-gdp.org dept.

https://www.chat-gdp.org/p/is-chinas-growth-model-bad-for-its

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China just missed the income cutoff to become a high-income country this year

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:59AM
from the ourworldindata.org dept.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/china-only-just-missed-the-income-cutoff-to-become-a-high-income-country-this-year

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2025 Pisa Results

Posted by alphabetatango on Tuesday September 08, 2026 @08:47AM
from the oecd.org dept.

https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/pisa-2025-results-volume-i_73451bc5-en.html

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My Students Think About AI

Posted by alphabetatango on Friday September 04, 2026 @12:35PM
from the lesswrong.com dept.

https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/ySXuvJcqRindQwAk7/how-my-students-think-about-ai

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The Impact of AI-Generated Text on the Internet

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:10PM
from the ai-on-the-internet.github.io dept.

https://ai-on-the-internet.github.io

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How Much of the Internet Is Written with AI?

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday September 03, 2026 @11:07PM
from the pewresearch.org dept.

https://www.pewresearch.org/data-labs/2026/08/20/how-much-of-the-internet-is-written-with-ai/

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More Indians live in the Gulf states than in the US, UK, and Canada combined

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday September 03, 2026 @01:37PM
from the ourworldindata.org dept.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/more-indians-live-in-the-gulf-states-than-in-the-us-uk-and-canada-combined

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Why Google Bid $10M for a Failed Airline's Data

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @08:52PM
from the time.com dept.

https://time.com/article/2026/08/25/google-spirit-airlines-ai-data-RL/

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How AI Is Ruining the Electric Grid

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:53PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__HO-akNC8

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China's solar expansion policy reduces bird diversity

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday September 02, 2026 @02:51PM
from the science.org dept.

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aee0747

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UPenn Global Economic History – Intro Slides [pdf]

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:55PM
from the sas.upenn.edu dept.

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~jesusfv/GEH_1_Introduction.pdf

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Bill Gates says we've passed AI's danger thresholds. Now what?

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday August 26, 2026 @06:52PM
from the technologyreview.com dept.

https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/08/26/1142946/bill-gates-ai-danger-threshold/

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Relative income and global inequality: Evidence from the United Kingdom

Posted by alphabetatango on Tuesday August 18, 2026 @01:03PM
from the sciencedirect.com dept.

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014292126001911#b6

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After 2C – Histories of the Future of Global Warming

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday August 17, 2026 @02:12PM
from the after2c.com dept.

https://after2c.com/#top

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Re:Is Europe safer than America? on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:54AM (#49332074)

Open link: https://archive.ph/yYMWY

Is Europe safer than America?

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:54AM
from the economist.com dept.

https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2026/08/09/is-europe-safer-than-america

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Which countries have passed peak population, and when will the rest do?

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday August 17, 2026 @10:52AM
from the ourworldindata.org dept.

https://ourworldindata.org/which-countries-have-already-passed-peak-population-and-when-will-the-rest-do-so

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Sexually transmitted infections are surging in Europe

Posted by alphabetatango on Saturday August 15, 2026 @01:01AM
from the economist.com dept.

https://www.economist.com/europe/2026/08/09/sexually-transmitted-infections-are-surging-in-europe

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Number of malaria attacks since birth: A longitudinal study of African children

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday August 13, 2026 @06:02PM
from the thelancet.com dept.

https://www.thelancet.com/journals/eclinm/article/PIIS2589-5370(23)00556-4/fulltext

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Re:Road deaths in the US have fallen more slowly than in other rich co... on Monday August 10, 2026 @10:29PM (#49252656)

This is from the article: > There’s also a connection with how much Americans use their cars. In the US, people drive much more. However, that doesn’t fully explain the gap — US roads are also significantly more dangerous than those in Germany per kilometer traveled (https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/road-accident-deaths-per-...)

Road deaths in the US have fallen more slowly than in other rich countries

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday August 10, 2026 @08:45PM
from the ourworldindata.org dept.

https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/road-deaths-in-the-united-states-have-fallen-much-more-slowly-than-in-other-rich-countries

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Re:Flock Cameras Can Track Every Car in America. Police Love Them. Cit... on Monday August 10, 2026 @02:46PM (#49247935)

Open link: https://archive.ph/LPQQX

Re:The Great Chinese Oil Mystery on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:54AM (#49245336)

Ungated: https://archive.ph/ejPTZ

The Great Chinese Oil Mystery

Posted by alphabetatango on Monday August 10, 2026 @11:53AM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/economy/2026/07/china-iran-usa-oil-prices/688086/

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The energy use of agentic AI

Posted by alphabetatango on Thursday August 06, 2026 @06:59PM
from the theclimatebrink.com dept.

https://www.theclimatebrink.com/p/the-real-energy-use-of-agentic-ai

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We Can Spend $50B a Year Effectively

Posted by alphabetatango on Wednesday July 29, 2026 @07:17PM
from the cgdev.org dept.

https://www.cgdev.org/blog/we-can-spend-50-billion-year-effectively

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