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Steve Battle

@stevebattle

Information Scientist working in the middle-ground between the web of documents and the web of data; a land of both shadow and substance, of things and ideas.

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MIT CSAIL (@mit_csail) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Happy birthday to the late Claude Shannon, whose compression equation is how youโ€™re here right now: bit.ly/1RoxfHu (credit: Gizmodo)

Happy birthday to the late Claude Shannon, whose compression equation is how youโ€™re here right now: bit.ly/1RoxfHu (credit: Gizmodo)
Nitin Sawhney (@thenitinsawhney) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is hilarious. Nutella attempts to โ€œexposeโ€ views of protestors against genocide and, accompanied by Generic Bollocks News, finds herself sent to Coventry instead of Rwanda. Eventually she attempts to confront a Jewish man, also against genocide, about Israel, presumably with

Dale Vince (@dalevince) 's Twitter Profile Photo

.Jacob Rees-Mogg is dangerously out of touch as I found out in a recent interview on GB News - and Iโ€™m keen to help efforts to remove him from Parliament by supporting @VoteDanNorris' campaign - Mogg doesnโ€™t belong there, itโ€™s an important position requiring knowledge and

.<a href="/Jacob_Rees_Mogg/">Jacob Rees-Mogg</a> is dangerously out of touch as I found out in a recent interview on GB News - and Iโ€™m keen to help efforts to remove him from Parliament by supporting @VoteDanNorris' campaign - Mogg doesnโ€™t belong there, itโ€™s an important position requiring knowledge and
Wonkhe (@wonkhe) 's Twitter Profile Photo

NEW on Wonkhe: A collapse in on-campus engagement is often blamed on online lectures or part-time work. Sunday Blake follows up on belonging research with Pearson to find out what's really driving them away @SundayMargot wonkhe.com/blogs/reduced-โ€ฆ

NEW on Wonkhe: A collapse in on-campus engagement is often blamed on online lectures or part-time work. Sunday Blake follows up on belonging research with Pearson to find out what's really driving them away @SundayMargot wonkhe.com/blogs/reduced-โ€ฆ
Steven Pinker (@sapinker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Reports today of Noam Chomsky's death (in Jacobin and New Statesman, since taken down) were greatly exaggerated. I have confirmation from Valeria, his wife, that he is alive and well.

The Culturist (@the_culturist_) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What did Jesus of Nazareth look like? The 6th century Christ Pantocrator is the most recognized image of Jesus โ€” but what about before then? Well, that's where things get weird... (thread) ๐Ÿงต

What did Jesus of Nazareth look like?

The 6th century Christ Pantocrator is the most recognized image of Jesus โ€” but what about before then?

Well, that's where things get weird... (thread) ๐Ÿงต
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It's the 76th anniversary of the first program run on the #Manchester Baby, the first electronic stored-program computer. Designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first true RAM, it is a cornerstone of modern digital computing ๐Ÿ’ป ยฉ User:Geni/ Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA

It's the 76th anniversary of the first program run on the #Manchester Baby, the first electronic stored-program computer. Designed as a testbed for the Williams tube, the first true RAM, it is a cornerstone of modern digital computing ๐Ÿ’ป

ยฉ User:Geni/ Wikimedia Commons / CC-BY-SA
Carol Vorderman (@carolvorders) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This Jacob Rees Mogg video is ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ from MP Watch @mpwatch.bsky.social ๐Ÿคฉ Vote tactically to oust Rees Mogg on July 4th No more of his harmful โ€œworkโ€ Labourโ€™s Dan Norris @votedannorris is favourite now in โ€œNorth East Somerset and Hanhamโ€ Itโ€™ll be a moment ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿผ

Liz Webster (@lizwebstersbf) 's Twitter Profile Photo

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain โ€œEvery decision taken by Tory (and Liberal Democrats) governments was a political decisionโ€”it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich

USA media dishes brutal truth about Brexit Britain 

โ€œEvery decision taken by Tory (and <a href="/LibDems/">Liberal Democrats</a>) governments was a political decisionโ€”it did not need to happen that way. Austerity was never the hard logic of dutiful caretakers; it was a political calculation to rescue rich
Nick Reeves #RejoinEU #NAFO #FBPE (@nickreeves9876) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Starmer wrote in the Express that he will not restore Freedom of Movement. Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored. We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.

Starmer wrote in the Express that he will not restore Freedom of Movement.

Please retweet if you want our Freedom of Movement restored.

We were robbed of our right to live, work, study, and love in 30 countries by the worst abuses of democracy in modern British history.
Deniz (@ojelibalon) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Do you want to learn how the Physarum algorithm works playfully? It can be very intimidating at first glance, but we can break it down into smaller bits of information: 1/8

Watershed (@wshed) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Come explore desert island life in Pervasive Media Studio with a special creative family workshop for your 7 โ€“ 14 year-old explorer, run by roboticist and co-founder of Air Giants, Richard Sewell! Thu 15 Aug, 10:00 watershed.co.uk/whatson/12799/โ€ฆ

Massimo (@rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This 1912 Baker Electric car was retrofitted with a solar panel by Charles Escoffery for the International Rectifier Corp back in 1960. The panel cost $20,000 at the time, which in todays currency would be roughly around $161,700. [๐Ÿ“น British Pathรฉ]

Luiz Pessoa (@pessoabrain) 's Twitter Profile Photo

๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฑ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ?? Listening to Varela's Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) and it's absolutely remarkable. So many of the current issues on principles of biological systems are outlined with such clarity and depth.

๐—–๐—ฎ๐—ป ๐—ฎ ๐—ฏ๐—ผ๐—ผ๐—ธ ๐—ฏ๐—ฒ ๐Ÿฐ๐Ÿฑ ๐˜†๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฟ๐˜€ ๐—ฎ๐—ต๐—ฒ๐—ฎ๐—ฑ ๐—ผ๐—ณ ๐—ถ๐˜๐˜€ ๐˜๐—ถ๐—บ๐—ฒ??

Listening to Varela's Principles of Biological Autonomy (1979) and it's absolutely remarkable. So many of the current issues on principles of biological systems are outlined with such clarity and depth.