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  1. #AfricanUnion Joins Calls To End Use Of #Mercator Map That Shrinks Continent’s Size
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    theguardian.com/world/2025/aug <-- shared media article
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    [just a reminder that the Mercator projection was developed in 1569 for use in marine navigation, so as to utilise “rhumb line[s],… a path on the Earth's surface that crosses all meridians of longitude at the same constant angle, allowing for a steady compass bearing to be followed.” (this is most specifically NOT pedantry!)
    Glad that the suggested projection to make – rightly – the size of Africa be accurately represented is Equal Earth (equal-earth.com/, 4th figure) - rather than the (1) gross shapes distortion and (2) (erroneous) ‘socially concerned groups’ baggage that has been attached to the Gall-Peters projection]
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #Africa #size #truesize #accurate #representation #stereotypes #CorrectTheMap #marine #navigation #campaign #equalearth #projection #shape #mapprojection #education #continent
    #AfricaNoFilter #SpeakUpAfrica

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  3. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  4. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  5. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  6. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  7. Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

    One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

    One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

    It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

    Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

    These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

    You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

    #Linguists. Students of language.

    You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

    #FFS.

    #pedant #unhelpful #rant

  8. Are #artificial #intelligence (AI) #detectors #accurate? What can happen when they’re not? Many universities are using them to try to ascertain whether students are having #AI programs write their classroom assignments for them. cbsnews.com/video/colleges-try

  9. 👨‍🏫 Because mastering #OSINT starts with understanding the language.

    🔎 Let’s explore: What does #FalsePositive mean?

    "A False Positive is an information that seems relevant at first but in reality, it has no connection to the target."

    ⚠️ False positives can waste your valuable time and in some cases, jeopardize your #investigation.

    👉 That’s why, when we integrate a new module into Epieos, we make sure it doesn’t generate false positives.

    Delivering a #stable, #accurate, and #reliable OSINT solution is part of our core commitment.

  10. @thejapantimes

    I don't think this an #accurate summary. Canada's position is that "We have enough hard #evidence to #conclude that a #Canadian #citizen was murdered on Canadian soil by #Indian operatives at the direction of the #government of #India. And we would like them to not do that anymore."

    Hardly maximalist. "Hey, don't #kill our citizens extra-judicially, ok?"

    #ExtraJudicialKilling

  11. ""#aborted #fetuses are not #technically #lives and it's #harmful and not #medically #accurate to refer to them that way" and "#people who have early #miscarriages of wanted #pregnancies are still #allowed to grieve and consider them their #child" are two #statements that can and should #coexist"

    ""people who made the difficult #decision to have an #abortion #because it's right for them and their #situation are still allowed to grieve how things could have been if their #circumstances had been different" is another statement that should be added"

    #ausgov #politas

    tumblr.com/anarchistmemecollec

  12. #Freshwater #mussels, many of which are of #conservation #concern, are a great target for #environmental #DNA (#eDNA) detection to guide #management #tactics and #strategies.

    But as the authors of this new paper point out: "Confidence in our ability to identify eDNA #metabarcoding reads relies on a #curated, #accurate #database."

    Use of eDNA methods various purposes is going to mean a lot of work with #specimens and databases in coming years.

    🧬 #biodiversity

    🔗 peerj.com/articles/15127/

  13. How, why and when #GenerativeAI will kill the #searchengine The big news today is #GoogleBard vs. #ChatGPT infused #Bing. But the real news is that the #SearchEngine is #dead. mikeelgan.substack.com/p/how-w #google #bing #ecommerce #advertising #marketing #search #online I never make predictions. This will no doubt change Search as we know it. Will this lead to more #reliable #accurate #comprehensive #actionable #search that is #trusted and not #biased? Does it even matter? Yes it does.