fingolas

@fingolas@procial.tchncs.de

Writing as @mho for @heiseonline

Also on Mastodon as @fingolas and @fingolas

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fingolas, to France

I'll write this down in English too because this blew my mind & I don't think anyone has written it up this concisely:

explains in "How Really Works" if you stop or strongly restrict you get more & :
This sounds absurd, but it happens because, people who are only coming to a country for a certain amount of time (for example for seasonal work) will stop leaving and stay indefinitely. Others will race to come before the border closes. Both groups will later get their families to follow them. Others will find new ways to come (different routes, illegal routes etc.).

This has happened multiple times (European Union, USA/Mexico), but there is a perfect example in South America:
There are three former colonies in the Guiana Shield with comparable population in (800k), (540k) and (300k). It's comparatively difficult to emigrate from the first two since they've been independent, the third belongs to with its open to and other perks.
Yet from the first 440k and 270k people have emigrated, from the third only 5k:
https://www.migrationpolicy.org/programs/data-hub/charts/total-immigrant-and-emigrant-populations-country

Isn't that remarkable?

Another example is the area in Europe, where the mass migration that was feared before the opening of the borders never materialized.

Here's the book:
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/455478/how-migration-really-works-by-haas-hein-de/9780241632208

fingolas, to greece

& pictures from two devastating floods around the : From and . Absolutely horrific!

fingolas, to mastodon

The most important part in English:

Past weeks articles of heise online (https://heise.de) got more visits via than via #X/. There are a few effects in it (we're re-sharing some articles in the on the weekend, so that brings extra visits and last Friday our twitter-bot did not work), but the trend seems clear: While Mastodon/the remain stable, the visits via X are decreasing now.

The one-year anniversary of the is still some time in the future, maybe Mastodon overtakes X as traffic source for us completely until then?

https://social.heise.de/@mho/111008490038540490

fingolas, to science

ancestors nearly went extinct 900,000 years ago

A new technique analysing modern data suggests that pre-humans survived in a group of only 1,280 individuals.

“About 98.7% of human ancestors were lost,” says Haipeng Li, a population geneticist at the University of Chinese Academy of in Beijing, who co-led the study. He says that the fossil record in Africa and Eurasia between 950,000 and 650,000 years ago is patchy and that “the of this bottleneck may explain the chronological gap”.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02712-4

fingolas, to ai

These women fell in love with an -voiced . Then it died | @restofworld

An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.

"Chinese voice startup 's "Him" created virtual companions that called users and left them messages.

Some were so moved by the messages, written by humans but voiced by AI, that they considered "" to be their romantic partner.

Timedomain shut down "Him", leaving these users distraught."

https://restofworld.org/2023/boyfriend-chatbot-ai-voiced-shutdown/

fingolas, to Georgia

Exclusive: prosecutors have messages showing ’s team is behind system breach

"Investigators in the Georgia criminal probe have long suspected the was not an organic effort sprung from sympathetic Trump supporters in rural and heavily – a county Trump won by nearly 70% of the vote. They have gathered evidence indicating it was a top-down push by Trump’s team to access sensitive voting software, according to people familiar with the situation."

https://edition.cnn.com/2023/08/13/politics/coffee-county-georgia-voting-system-breach-trump

fingolas, to random

Just switched instances, let's see, how works over here. 👋

https://firefish.social/notes/9hxonbkqpyhpieb3

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