Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
🖥️ **‘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
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**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
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📚 **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
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🧬 **Genetic Ancestry Doesn’t Tell Your Whole Story**
🔗 https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/dna-and-its-discontents/.
#Ancestry #DNA #Science #Genetics
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🇨🇦 📸 **Toronto Skyline At Night**
#Image #Photo #Photography #Skyline #Toronto #Canada
#Image attribution: TheWxResearcher, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Toronto_Skyline_at_night_2024-08-23.jpg.
📖 **The Blood in Winter: England on the Brink of Civil War, 1642**
"_A brilliant account of how the seeds of battle were sown._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Review #Books #Bookstodon
#Image attribution: William Faithorne, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:King_Charles_I_Met_DP886208.jpg.
🇮🇹 **A Thousand and One Nights in Italy**
"_In mid-19th century Italy, two eccentric aristocrats set forth on parallel projects: constructing ostentatious castles in a Moorish Revival style._"
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/a-thousand-and-one-nights-in-italy/.
#Essay #History #Histodons #Architecture #Orientalism #Art #Culture #Italy
#Image attribution: Vincenzo Paganori, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Photo_by_Vincenzo_Paganori_of_Castello_di_Sammezzano_02.jpg.
**Some Arctic warming ‘irreversible’ even if we cut atmospheric CO2**
"_Efforts to lower the levels of CO2 in the atmosphere may come too late to prevent long-term changes to the Arctic_"
#Science #Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #Arctic
#Image attribution: U.S. Department of State from United States, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Two_Reindeer_Graze_in_the_Arctic_(27428057380).jpg.
📚 **6 books that inspired IMD professors in 2025**
"_From the systemic roots of corporate scandals to the unseen human cost of AI, plus timely insights from a 50-year-old classic, IMD professors reveal the six books that shaped their thinking in 2025._"
🔗 https://www.imd.org/ibyimd/book-review/6-books-that-inspired-imd-professors-in-2025/.
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_03.JPG.
🗄️ **How to Start a Zettelkasten When You Are Stuck in Theory**
"_This guide is deliberately concise. It is written for people who struggle to get started and get stuck endlessly consuming Zettelkasten theory_"
🔗 https://zettelkasten.de/posts/how-to-start-zettelkasten-when-stuck-in-theory/.
#Studying #Learning #Zettelkasten #Notes #Guide #Tips #Advice
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🇺🇸 **Religion Holds Steady in America**
"_Recent polling shows no clear evidence of a religious revival among young adults_"
Smith, Gregory. 2025. “Religion Holds Steady in America.” Pew Research Center. doi: https://www.doi.org/10.58094/dkgp-6k90.
#Religion #Data #DataViz #Polls #Polling #USA #UnitedStates
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🇨🇳 **China is the top import partner for most countries in the world**
#Data #DataViz #Trade #Globalization #Economy #Economics #China
**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.
🖥️ **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
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🖥️ **Expert Comment: What should we do about chatbots?**
"_He argues that we must educate users to see these systems not as new members of the human community, but as tools that risk reducing both therapy and relationships to one-dimensional, instrumental exchanges."_
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-12-05-expert-comment-what-should-we-do-about-chatbots.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Technology #Tech #Ethics
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🇩🇰 📖 🔭 **The Lord of Uraniborg: A Biography of Tycho Brahe**
"_The Lord of Uraniborg is a comprehensive biography of Tycho Brahe, father of modern astronomy, famed alchemist and littérateur of the sixteenth-century Danish Renaissance._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/lord-of-uraniborg/06D94F2184A543176965B1D026B41D31.
#History #Denmark #Science #Astronomy #HistSci #Nonfiction #Biography #TychoBrahe #Books #Bookstodon
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🌡️ 🌍 **New study warns of 'creeping catastrophy' as climate change drives a global rise in infectious diseases**
"_Participants reported that climate change, poverty, and drug resistance are combining to create an escalating health crisis that could become a ‘creeping catastrophe’ if left unaddressed._"
#News #Research #Study #Science #Epidemiology #Health #Medicine #Climate #ClimateChange
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**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**
"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics
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🖥️ **Bosses think AI will boost productivity — but it's actually deskilling workers, a professor says**
_"It's one thing for a senior coder to use AI," she said. "But the junior people are useless because they cannot help themselves from using it."_
_Because they lean on AI from day one, Berg said, they never build the foundational knowledge required to understand what the AI is doing — let alone verify or correct it._
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-tools-are-deskilling-workers-philosophy-professor-2025-11.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Careers #Jobs #Productivity #Deskilling
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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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Joined Nov 2022
