Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇳🇴 **How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History**
📖 🎙️ **Intellectual Origins of American Slavery: English Ideas in the Early Modern Atlantic World**
"_Over time, English observers started to assert that the common customs of enslavement among the nations of Africa fit within the Roman model. Englishmen had initially expressed reluctance to take part in the Atlantic slave trade. But once assured that the slave trade could be traced back to customs they understood to be legitimate, they proved keen to profit from it._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/intellectual-origins-of-american-slavery.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Audio #Podcast
🇪🇸 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 **1807-09: How The Peninsular War Began**
"_This documentary explores the brutal beginnings of the Peninsular War, from the bloody Madrid uprising to Sir John Moore’s harrowing retreat to Corunna._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kwmJGL7aA.
#Video #Documentary #History #Histodons #Spain #Portugal #UK #UnitedKingdom #France #Iberia
📖 **Surviving Rome: The Economic Lives of the Ninety Percent**
"_Drawing on new archaeological and textual evidence, Surviving Rome presents a radical new perspective on the economy of ancient Rome while speaking to the challenges of today’s laborers and gig workers surviving in an unforgiving global world._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691273334/surviving-rome.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #History #Histodons #Rome #Economy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📚 **The Lost Art of Reading an Actual Book**
"_What happens when people stop reading books? We’re starting to see what a postliterate society looks like—and it’s very lame._"
🔗 https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a69920140/lost-art-of-reading-a-book/.
🖥️ 🧠 **Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation**
"_Results revealed that while the misleading summary condition increased false memory occurrence, misleading chatbot interactions led to significantly higher rates of false recollection_"
Pat Pataranutaporn, Chayapatr Archiwaranguprok, Samantha Chan, Elizabeth F. Loftus, and Pattie Maes. 2025. Slip Through the Chat: Subtle Injection of False Information in LLM Chatbot Conversations Increases False Memory Formation. In 30th International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’25), March 24–27, 2025, Cagliari, Italy. ACM, New York, NY, USA, 17 pages. https://doi.org/10.1145/3708359.3712112.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbot #LLM #Technology #Tech #Misinformation #Memory #Academia #Academics
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Theorem of the Day (January 10, 2026) : Euler’s Even Zeta Formula
Source : Theorem of the Day / Robin Whitty
pdf : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/NumberTheory/EvenZeta/TotDEvenZeta.pdf
notes : https://www.theoremoftheday.org/Resources/TheoremNotes.htm#238
**Science history: Sophie Germain, first woman to win France's prestigious 'Grand Mathematics Prize' is snubbed when tickets to award ceremony are 'lost in the mail' — Jan. 9, 1816**
"_Sophie Germain was a brilliant, self-taught mathematician who won one of France's most prestigious prizes, yet she declined to attend the award ceremony because the committee members didn't respect her work._"
🇬🇱 **Greenland is rich in natural resources – a geologist explains why**
"_Three of Greenland’s REE-bearing deposits, deep under the ice, may be among the world’s largest by volume, holding great potential for the manufacture of batteries and electrical components essential to the global energy transition._"
🔗 https://theconversation.com/greenland-is-rich-in-natural-resources-a-geologist-explains-why-273022.
#Geology #ClimateChange #RareEarths #FossilFuels #Greenland #Denmark
🇿🇦 **Can Black South Africans be Afrikaners?**
"_There are millions of Coloured and Black South Africans who speak Afrikaans as their first language. They share the same taal, eat the same food, tell the same jokes. The numbers tell their own story: today, roughly six in ten Afrikaans speakers in South Africa are Black or Coloured._
_Yet historically, they’ve been excluded from the Afrikaner identity by those who insisted it was defined by race as much as culture._"
🇯🇵 🇺🇸 **Samurai and Guerrillas: The First Official Japanese Visit**
_The first Japanese delegation to the US captivated crowds and confounded expectations, as the press cast its samurai as “effeminate.”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/samurai-and-guerrillas-the-first-official-japanese-visit/.
#History #Histodons #Japan #USA #UnitedStates #USPol #Politics #Diplomacy #Samurai
#Image attribution: Mathew Benjamin Brady, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:-Japanese_Embassy,_Navy_Yard,_Washington,_DC-_MET_DP229934.jpg.
🎞️ **Buster Keaton’s ‘The General’: Why do we root for a confederate soldier?**
🔗 https://theboar.org/2026/01/buster-keatons-the-general-why-do-we-root-for-a-confederate-soldier/
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #Film #Movie #Cinema #BusterKeaton
#Image attribution: Buster Keaton Productions, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Buster_Keaton_attempts_to_enlist_in_The_General.jpg.
🖥️ 🎙️ **Will the AI bubble burst?**
"_They talk about the history of companies such as Nvidia and OpenAI, the reasons ‘artificial intelligence’ is a misnomer, the harms that large language models can cause and why you shouldn’t rely on them for advice in the kitchen._"
🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and-videos/podcasts/the-lrb-podcast/will-the-ai-bubble-burst.
#Audio #Podcast #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
📖 🖋️ **Philosophy of Writing**
"_In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true.
🔗 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-writing-9781350473898/
📚 **How to get yourself out of a reading rut**
🔗 https://www.rnz.co.nz/life/books/how-to-get-yourself-out-of-a-reading-rut.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Advice #Tips
#Image attribution: ClkerFreeVectorImages, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Reading-297450.png.
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"Dictionary of the Oldest Written Language--It Took 90 Years to Complete, and It's Now Free Online" https://www.openculture.com/2026/01/dictionary-of-the-oldest-written-language-free-online.html
📚 🎥 **Gutenberg & the European Invention of Printing**
"_This talk examines what Gutenberg actually invented and why it could create such a big change. It looks at the books Gutenberg produced and uses them to tell the story of the technical and economic problems that had to be solved._"
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From Rutgers University Press:
Don't Forget! American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Save 30% on All Titles Whether you are attending or not, you can make use of our special conference discount code (RAHA26)
More info: https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/
**How medieval monks tried to stay warm in the winter**
🔗 https://theconversation.com/how-medieval-monks-tried-to-stay-warm-in-the-winter-270829.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Winter
#Image attribution: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Woodcutters_Working_at_a_Deer_Park_(from_the_Hunting_Parks_Tapestries)_MET_DP358126.jpg.
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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