Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🔴 **Welcome**
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HAPPY PUBLIC DOMAIN DAY! And Happy New Year!
Books published in 1930 will enter the U.S. public domain, such as:
The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett: This novel introduced the world to the famous detective Sam Spade.
As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner: A masterpiece of American literature.
The Murder at the Vicarage by Agatha Christie: This was the first novel to feature the beloved character Miss Marple.
🇺🇸 💲 **The Dollar Is Facing an End to Its Dominance**
"_In 2026, the real threat to the dollar may not come from a single rival currency. Instead, it will come from alternative payment and settlement systems built to bypass dollar-based channels—especially in emerging markets that never fully enjoyed the security of dollar liquidity or reliable access to dollar networks._"
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/the-dollar-is-facing-an-end-to-its-dominance/.
**‘Weights of gold in bullion’: how the ancients invested in precious metals**
📖 **Why We Keep Reading All Quiet on the Western Front**
"_A new translation vividly renders the sadly evergreen influence of the Erich Maria Remarque’s World War I novel._"
🔗 https://www.thenation.com/article/culture/all-quiet-western-front-new-translation/.
#Reading #Culture #Fiction #WWI #Novel #Books #Bookstodon #Literature
🇨🇳 🎥 **How the Han dynasty changed Chinese pronunciation**
📚 **Why Are The Classics So Hard To Read?**
🔗 https://www.amugofinsights.org/why-are-the-classics-so-hard-to-read/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Advice #Tips
#Image attribution: freestocks.org from Olsztyn, Poland, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_pile_of_books_(29767858348).jpg.
**The Death of Charles the Bad**
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/months-past/death-charles-bad.
🇧🇬 **Mystery of the Varna Gold: What Caused These Ancient Societies to Disappear?**
"_Treasure found in prehistoric graves in Bulgaria is the first evidence of social hierarchy, but no one knows what caused the civilization’s decline_"
#History #Histodons #Chalcolithic #Gold #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bulgaria #Europe
🇸🇪 **Charles XII's unknown field book found at Gothenburg University Library**
"_Several chapters in the 268-page field book were written prior to the Battle of Poltava in the spring of 1709. The book also contains detailed illustrations in the form of drawings, figures and troop formations._"
#History #Histodons #Book #Sweden #Scandinavia
#Image attribution: Gardelle, Robert (Swiss painter and engraver, 1682-1766) (artist) (designer), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_XII,_PA01337.jpg.
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A look at global temperatures so far this year (January to November) compared to each other period since 1850... 2025 is the 2nd highest on record!
Data from https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/products/land-based-station/noaa-global-temp
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China’s Plans for Human-Like AI Could Set the Tone for Global AI Rules
Beijing is set to tighten the country’s rules for human-like artificial intelligence, with a heavy emphasis on user safety and societal values.
📸 **2025's best photos of the natural world, from volcanoes to icebergs**
🖥️ **The AI bubble is all over now, baby blue**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/the-ai-bubble-is-all-over-now-baby.
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Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-austen-as-a-writer-about-law
Personal blog
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/12/jane-austen-as-a-writer-about-law/
🖥️ **‘Artificial stupidity’ made AI trading bots spontaneously form cartels when left unsupervised, Wharton study reveals**
"_A study from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology found that when placed in simulated markets, AI trading bots did not compete with one another, but rather began colluding in price-fixing behaviors._"
🔗 https://fortune.com/article/what-is-artificial-stupidity-ai-pricing-collusion-study/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Markets
#Image attribution: Negative Space, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Blur-chart-data-69760.jpg.
**Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth**
#Pi #Maths #Mathematics #Computer
#Image attribution: GJ_on_Wiki (talk) (Uploads), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Pi_pie_2.jpg.
📚 **I started reading for two hours a day - now I'm happier and drink less**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/reading-challenge-feel-happier-drink-less-4100890.
#Reading #Books #Health #Wellbeing
#Image attribution: Foto por formulario PxHere, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libros_de_papel.jpg.
📚 **The Best Books Of 2025**
According to #SteveDonoghue from #BookTube.
Non-fiction: https://substack.com/@stevedonoghue/note/p-181464998
Fiction: https://substack.com/@stevedonoghue/note/p-181382279
#Reading #Nonfiction #Fiction #Books #List #Recommendations
#Image attribution: Foto por formulario PxHere, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Libros_de_papel.jpg.
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@bibliolater
Nice to see a positive argument for the scruffy, difficult, inefficient process of teaching as an essential part of student learning.
We need more of this to fend off the technifacist tech-solutionism that is trying to justify pushing skilled teachers out of the education process.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BSMachines #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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