https://www.fromoldbooks.org/Brennecke-AltEngland/pages/137-english-manufacturing/

The working title i had for this picture was Mordor,! There ought to be boys on the corner of the street in their sparking clogs.

Source: _Alt-England: Eine Studienreise_ by Adolf Brennecke, c. 1885. The title means Old England: A Study Tour (h/t Google Translate).

#fobo #Victorian #cityscape #industrialRevolution #pollution #chimney #city

Not posted for a while because i’ve been posting for the #GIMP account & mastodon makes it hard to switch accounts!

How the end of #carboncapture could spark a new #industrialrevolution

https://theconversation.com/how-the-end-of-carbon-capture-could-spark-a-new-industrial-revolution-257894

If the word “ #singularity” signifies a period where the development of #technology becomes uncontrollable and irreversible, we’ve really been in it since the beginning of the #IndustrialRevolution.

AI & the End of Thinking?
https://consortiumnews.com/2025/06/04/ai-the-end-of-thinking/
Wolfgang Messner explores the risks that mediocrity and conformity will accompany an AI-powered cognitive revolution. By Wolfgang Messner The Conversation Artificial Intelligence began as a quest to simulate the human brain. Is it now in the process of transforming the…
#Politics #AdvancedTechnologies #Commentary #Science #Ai #ArtificialIntelligence(ai) #Cognition #IndustrialRevolution #MassProduction #WolfgangMessner

https://www.europesays.com/2130377/ Baton Rouge’s bishop says Pope Leo XIV’s name is fitting, faces societal change similar to namesake #21stcenturychallenges #AI #Americanpontiff #BatonRouge #BatonRougePressClub #BishopMichaelDuca #CatholicChurch #CatholicChurch #cheaperlabor #conflict #HolySpirit #humandignity #IndustrialRevolution #Pope #PopeLeo #PopeLeoXIV #PopeLeoXIV #StatoDellaCittàDelVaticano #StatusCivitatisVaticanae #Vatican #VaticanCity #VaticanCityState #Vaticano

In the past week, 3 times the boat crossed an elevated aqueduct that passed OVER other canals. Twice there were 4-way level junctions.

There was money to burn in the late 1700s and early 1800s…!

It's amazing that—however briefly—it was profitable to build all this infrastructure in order to move goods by barge and power the industrial revolution.

Carlingwark Loch in Castle Douglas is a picture perfect sanctuary for birds and a well loved local walking and fishing spot, but the history of the Loch has some surprising depths.
Join me as I take you back through the 18th century all the way to prehistory to tell you the tale of the Village beneath the waves of Carlingwark Loch.
https://youtu.be/Ar_BWdAa3Vo

Victorian #Valentines cards weren't all hearts and roses. Some were designed to mock, insult or discourage unwanted suitors. A history professor explains how a whole subgenre targeted specific professions.
@histodons #Histodons #ValentinesDay #IndustrialRevolution
https://buff.ly/3QhLqDs

Victorian #Valentines cards weren't all hearts and roses. Some were designed to mock, insult or discourage unwanted suitors. A history professor explains how a whole subgenre targeted specific professions. https://theconversation.com/how-valentines-day-was-transformed-by-the-industrial-revolution-and-manufactured-intimacy-247441 @histodons #Histodons #ValentinesDay #IndustrialRevolution

Wicked Ennui

The thread Stewart and Harrington don’t actually connect here is that #fascism came out of the Industrial Age.

The mechanization of society (i.e. waves of #IndustrialRevolution) resulted in both psychic injury as well as ennui.

We use #science, #technology, #engineering and #math to offload labor to machines, and then give ourselves bandwidth to sit, think, and contemplate stuff, which affects #art, #culture, and how people find #meaning.

http://inaniludibrio.com/2025/02/02/wicked-ennui/

Advanced in human-machine interactions have always resulted in altered states for humans.

It’s been like this since the #IndustrialRevolution.

https://www.superversive.co/blog/altered-states-of-learning-to-work-with-machines