How AI is revealing the language of the birds

Researchers have been eavesdropping on an unusual family of crows in Spain, collecting data on hundreds of thousands of different sounds the birds made. Small microphones recorded a variety of soft calls, far quieter than the familiar ‘caws’ people usually hear. The team then used AI to analyse the sounds and group them together. The researchers hope is to one day be able to understand the meaning of the birds’ vocalisations and perhaps even try to speak their language.

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This is apparently how it started

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The road along the maternity ward in Qatar.

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Shoreditch, London

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Laura McGarrity | 🐯 #embroidery

Posting my embroidery so people can find me… 🐯 #embroidery #handembroidery

Laura McGarrity (@a-warm-garlic-yurt.bsky.social) 2025-02-21T18:54:18.316Z

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5 Ways To Stop Fascism with Paul Mason

Journalist and author Paul Mason breaks down 5 ways we can stop fascism and resist the rise of the far right. Order your copy of How To Stop Fascism here: https://amzn.to/3w6jGad

The far right is on the rise across the world. From Modi’s India to Bolsonaro’s Brazil and Erdogan’s Turkey, fascism is not a horror that we have left in the past; it is a recurring nightmare that is happening again – and we need to find a better way to fight it.

In How to Stop Fascism, Paul Mason offers a radical, hopeful blueprint for resisting and defeating the new far right. The book is both a chilling portrait of contemporary fascism, and a compelling history of the fascist phenomenon: its psychological roots, political theories and genocidal logic. Fascism, Mason powerfully argues, is a symptom of capitalist failure, one that has haunted us throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.

History shows us the conditions that breed fascism, and how it can be successfully overcome. But it is up to us in the present to challenge it, and time is running out. From the ashes of Covid-19, we have an opportunity to create a fairer, more equal society. To do so, we must ask ourselves: what kind of world do we want to live in? And what are we going to do about it?

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Up and down in space…

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AmiW Streetart | “La Fille des Remparts” – (📷 by Yann Le Noay)

💙 Artist: #CitéCréation + #MaxCabannes in City: #Angoulême /6 Bd Pasteur / France 🇨🇵 2002 – Title: "La Fille des Remparts" – (📷 by Yann Le Noay) – #Art #Streetart #Mural #Artist #Painting #Blue #Classics #Travel

AmiW Streetart (@amiwstreetart.bsky.social) 2025-02-21T05:38:40.734Z

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🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 | The incomparable Muhammad Ali

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekHforHeroes in conjunction with #Februarty #ArtYearThe incomparable Muhammad Ali#WallsonWednesday #WindowsOnWednesday #StreetArt #LA #mobilephotography

🅢🅗🅔🅔🅝🅐 (@sheena-mck.bsky.social) 2025-02-19T15:36:55.764Z

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London School of Samba | Bateria of @mocidadeoficial rehearsing for carnival 2025

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