An international research team involving researchers from Spain, the USA and Germany have reconstructed plausible trajectories of global language diversity across the last 12,000 years. Their study, published in Science, suggests that language diversity increased for most of the Holocene, reached a remarkable peak between approximately 1,000 and 3,000 years ago, and then declined rapidly thereafter.

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Russia is much bigger than Ukraine. You might succeed in wrestling someone to the ground in a one on one fight, much less likely (to say the least) if you're up against two or three people. Ukraine is far from a position where they can pick and choose the nicer methods to win the war.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 4 days ago

    The thing that pisses me off is the fact that they demonstratively did move away from Twitter, acknowledging its usage as problematic, but now have changed their mind and provided a dumb non-explanation. Either way they've taken a dump on their own decision-making.

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    Google (and/or the libraries that collaborate with Google Books) and Archive.org usually scan non-destructively. Some of Google's book scans still show the fingers holding the corners of the pages, some of them were taken mistakenly mid-flip, etc. So they clearly used whole, normally bound books.

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    I make the case that Wikipedia communities often do not live up to their intent to be inclusive in internal policy-making; that our policies are more conservative than we realize; and that a large part of the reason is structural – the twenty-year-old format we use to make decisions is quietly working against us. Our processes have been designed with an abundance of time in mind, in an era of exponential growth. That time is over. The good news, which I'll come back to in a companion post, is that there are tangible ways to make these processes better.

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