Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇺🇸 📖 **The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding**
"_The author’s new book focuses on two “tragic contradictions”: the Founding Fathers’ failure to adopt measures to eliminate slavery in the new nation or to grant security for America’s native tribes."
📚 **Best Of The Year 2025**
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/12/08/best-of-the-year-2025/.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **UK agrees higher drug prices to secure zero-tariff deal with US**
"_NHS could pay up to 25% more for innovative drugs, but exports will be tariff free for three years_"
🇨🇳 **China is the top import partner for most countries in the world**
#Data #DataViz #Trade #Globalization #Economy #Economics #China
🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 **Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic**
"_More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape_"
#News #Press #Linguistics #Ancient #Celtic #Language #Archaeology #Wales #Scotland #Ireland
🇨🇳 **China trade surplus tops $1 trillion for first time on non-US growth**
"_China's trade surplus topped $1 trillion for the first time as manufacturers seeking to avoid President Donald Trump's tariffs shipped more to non-U.S. markets in November, with exports to Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia surging._"
**Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks**
"_Our findings show that Americans use fuck most frequently, while Australians least frequently but they are highly creative with spelling variants of the word._"
Laitinen, M. et al. (2025) 'Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks,' Lingua, 320, p. 103931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Swearing #SocialMedia #Sociolinguistics #Academia
🖥️ **AI Safety Index: Winter 2025 Edition**
"_AI experts rate leading AI companies on key safety and security domains_"
🔗 https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-winter-2025/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Safety #Report
🧠 **Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors**
"_The results in this study revealed that in general the greater the mathematics training of the participant, the more tasks were completed correctly, and that performance on some tasks was also associated with performance on others not traditionally associated. A ceiling effect also emerged._"
Cresswell C, Speelman CP (2020) Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236153. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236153.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Reasoning #Logic #Academia
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William T. Vollmann: By the Book (Published 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/william-t-vollmann-by-the-book.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.uLkw.tOfGSdBCX5tl&smid=url-share
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Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/m9pn0
https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-dialect-2000696509#artificial-intelligence #chatbots #chatgpt #linguistics
**From 400-year-old globes to cosmic shrouds: A Maine library brings maps to life**
🔗 https://www.opb.org/article/2025/12/07/from-ancient-globes-to-cosmic-shrouds-the-stories-maps-tell/.
#Maps #Cartography #Maine #Library #Archive
#Image attribution: Adam Bernaert, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Adam_Bernaert_-_%22Vanitas%22_Still_Life_-_Walters_37682.jpg.
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Why do students choose mathematics as a career? New post in "Devlin's Angle" for the MAA. https://maa.org/math-values/why-do-we-become-mathematicians/
🖥️ **Artificial intelligence research has a slop problem, academics say: ‘It’s a mess’**
"_Farid says that he now counsels students to not go into AI research, because of the “frenzy” in the field and the large volume of low-quality work being put out by people hoping to better their career prospects._"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/dec/06/ai-research-papers.
#News #Press #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia
#Image attribution: Gre123gr, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Backlit_Laptop_Keyboard.jpg.
🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**
"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Archives #Database #USA #UnitedStates
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@bibliolater An excellent overview of #nonfiction #books from some of #Canada's fabulous #writers.
🌍 **Billionaires Now Hold a Record $15.8 Trillion of the World’s Wealth, a New Report Says**
"_Just over 190 people hit the $1 billion mark this year, altogether adding $386.5 billion to their net worths, marking the second-highest annual increase ever recorded by the firm._"
🔗 https://robbreport.com/lifestyle/news/ubs-billionaire-ambitions-report-1237395428/.
📚 🇨🇦 **The best Canadian nonfiction of 2025**
🔗 https://www.cbc.ca/books/the-best-canadian-nonfiction-of-2025-9.6998488.
🇳🇴 **Over a span of 150 years, a billion Islamic silver coins may have flowed into the Viking world**
_"Here you see part of the driving force behind the Viking Age," says a Norwegian coin expert._
#History #HIstodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Numismatics #Silver #Coins #Norway #Scandinavia
🖥️ **PropensityBench: Evaluating Latent Safety Risks in Large Language Models via an Agentic Approach**
"_Across open-source and proprietary frontier models, we uncover 9 alarming signs of propensity: models frequently choose high-risk tools when under pressure, despite lacking the capability to execute such actions unaided._"
Sehwag, U.M. et al. (2025) 'PropensityBench: Evaluating latent safety risks in large language models via an agentic approach,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2511.20703.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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