#industrialrevolution

Who were the Luddites? Their legacy ripples through politics, cultural commentary and literature by Brian Lewis https://theconversation.com/who-were-the-luddites-their-legacy-ripples-through-politics-cultural-commentary-and-literature-287473 Books about Luddites at PG: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subjects/search/?query=Luddites #books #literature #IndustrialRevolution

Opinion | The West is debating AI’s future with half the world absent https://www.byteseu.com/2227877/ #AI #Airbnb #Anthropic #ArtificialIntelligence #China #DeepSeek #DoorDash #Europe #IndustrialRevolution #MoonshotAI #shanghai #Siemens #StanfordDigitalEconomyLab #UnitedStates #ZAi

...e. g. #Europe, are warming at a more rapid pace, e. g. the #BalticSea since the start of the #IndustrialRevolution: "With observed warming of 1.35 °C between 1982 and 2006 that 👉exceeds the global average rate by a factor of seven...👈" (2008) "The temperature trends show a similar three layers pattern with fast warming at the surface (~ 0.06 K decade− 1) and bottom (> 0.04 K decade− 1) and slow in the intermediate layers (< 0.04 K decade− 1)...." (2008) @kim_harding@mastodon.scot

I'll just sketch a few points regarding lessons of the two big revolutions, the Neolithic Revolution and the Industrial Revolution, preceding the present Information Revolution. This is not an exhaustive list, nor a comprehensive treatment. The Neolithic Revolution was a consequence of climate change after the end of the most recent ice age. People were forced to switch from hunting and gathering as the only ways of obtaining food to farming not because farming was better, but in order to survive. For the first few centuries their quality of life went down. The switch to a productive economy led after a couple of thousand years to social stratification and a division of society into rich and poor. The Industrial Revolution also initially reduced the quality of life of large parts of the population for many years. The Industrial Revolution boosted consumerism. Another of the consequences of the Industrial Revolution was environmental pollution. Mitigating some of it took many decades and mitigating other parts of it is insufficient, most acutely releasing carbon dioxide into the atmosphere, but also pollution with plastics etc. #IndustrialRevolution #InformationRevolution #NeolithicRevolution @circfruit@fosstodon.org

Coal was the lifeblood of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. It powered steam engines, factories, railways, ships, gas lighting, ironworks, and steel production. But underground, miners faced long shifts, cramped seams, explosions, collapses, coal dust, disease, and child labor. #Brewminate #Petroleum #Gas #Oil #FossilFuels #Environment #Climate #IndustrialRevolution https://brewminate.com/dirty-days-coal-mining-in-the-british-industrial-revolution/

What is this cast-iron device? It's way up high in a kitchen from the days of wood and coal. It could be cranked from below, and would cause the horizontal bar to rotate. The text on the iron box that holds the gears in place says "James Tuck" and then some illegible words. Was this to open a roof vent? Thoughts? Feel free to boost. #IndustrialRevolution #CastIron #kitchen