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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
🇨🇳 💡 **China’s electricity use hits record in 2025, surpasses 10 trillion kWh**
"_The 10.37 kWh milestone exceeded the combined consumption of the European Union, Russia, India and Japan in 2024, according to state media reports._"
#China #News #Economy #Electricity
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🇯🇵 🇺🇸 **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.
📚 **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
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**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
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📖 **An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume 1 by John Locke**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/10615.
#ProjectGutenberg #JohnLocke #Philosophy #Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📚 🇺🇸 📻 **10 books to help you understand America as its 250th birthday approaches**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/12/22/nx-s1-5646641/best-books-us-history-america.
#NPR #Reading #List #Nonfiction #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #USA #UnitedStates
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📚 **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
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🇸🇪 **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
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🖥️ **‘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
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📚 **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
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📚 **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/.
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🗄️ **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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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
