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
🔴 📖 🎥 **My 5 Favorite Books I Read in 2024**
Better Than Food
#Video length: eleven minutes and thirty seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wBOanRaL7i4
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 **The HARDEST BOOK I Ever Read and ... How ANYONE Can Read It**
Rob Pirie - The Cause
_“The poem is written in blank verse in iambic pentameter. The poem makes music when read correctly which allows the poem to have a charm and enchantment I have never experienced in any other book.”_
#Video length: six minutes and forty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nFikiP4g-f8
#English #Poetry #Literature #JohnMilton #Milton #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @poetry @literature @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 **The Books That Shaped My 2024**
To Readers It May Concern
_“My reading highlights of 2024 in 20+ Books.”_
#Video length: forty-six minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1n-XOtOcAE
#Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **How Trump Plans to Deport 4% of the U.S. Population**
The Wall Street Journal
_“WSJ breaks down the logistics and explains why an operation of this scale could require hundreds of billions of dollars over the course of a decade.”_
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqPgAU1JRL4
#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #USpol #Politics #Trump #Immigration #Deportation
🔴 📖 🎥 **7 Books to Change Your Life in 2025 (No Self-Help)
Unsolicited advice
#Video length: thirty minutes and six seconds.
🔴 🚗 🎥 **The Hidden Autopilot Data That Reveals Why Teslas Crash**
The Wall Street Journal
_“Video and data gathered by the Wall Street Journal from over 200 Tesla Autopilot crashes shows that longstanding concerns about Tesla’s camera-based technology, which differs from the rest of the industry, are showing up on the roads and putting the public at risk.”_
#Video length: eleven minutes and five seconds.
🔴 🎥 **Daniel Yergin – Oil Explains the Entire 20th Century**
Dwarkesh Patel
#Video length: one hour and twenty-eight minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sveBcfz0fHk
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Energy #Oil #FossilFuels #C20th #20thCentury @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **This open problem taught me what topology is**
3Blue1Brown
#Video length: twenty-seven minutes and twenty-five seconds.
🔴 💻 **The Dark Matter of AI [Mechanistic Interpretability]**
#Video length: twenty-four minutes and eight seconds.
🔴 💻 🎥 **How AI Got a Reality Check**
Bloomberg Originals
_“Two years ago, OpenAI’s ChatGPT became the tech industry’s biggest product in years. Now, leading developers like OpenAI, Google and Anthropic are finding their models aren’t improving as dramatically as they once did and profitability remains elusive.”_
#Video length: eight minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🔴 🏴 🎥 **Rome’s African Emperor & His Campaigns in Scotland**
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
_"In the early 3rd century Severus launched an immense shock and awe assault on Scotland that was so devastating it resulted in 80 years of peace on Rome’s most troublesome border. Uncover the fascinating tale of the largest force to ever campaign on British soil."_
#Video length: one hour and four minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fxOVY0Rg0c8
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Britain #Scotland #Africa #Rome #RomanEmpire #Imperium #Empire #Imperialism #SeptimiusSeverus @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **Much Ado About Numbers: Shakespeare’s Mathematical Life and Times - Rob Eastaway**
Gresham College
_“ Rob Eastaway will explore the surprising ways in which mathematical ideas connect with Shakespeare and reveals that the playwright could be as creative with numbers as he was with words. Along the way you will discover surprising new mathematical insights on the Elizabethan world.”_
#Video length: forty-two minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🔴 🎥 **The Life of Jochi Khan: First son of Genghis Khan**
The Jackmeister: Mongol History
🔗 (i) https://youtu.be/jvaMjlxuQNw
🔗 (ii) https://youtu.be/EkVeDsPg6lE
#Video #History #Histodon #Histodons #GenghisKhan #JochiKhan #Khan #Mongol #Empire @histodon @histodons
🔴 📖 🎥 **Modern Iliad vs 500-Year-Old Iliad!**
Tom Ayling
#Video length: fifty-six seconds.
🔴 **Video is AI’s new frontier – and it is so persuasive, we should all be worried**
Victoria Turk
_“In the past couple of years, we’ve witnessed the proliferation of generative AI text and image generators, but video feels even more high-stakes. Historically, moving pictures have been more difficult to falsify than still ones, but generative AI is about to change all that. There are many potential abuses of such technology. Scammers are already using AI to impersonate people’s friends or family members’ voices, in order to trick them out of money.”_
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/10/ai-openai-sora-video-new-frontier
🔴 📖 🎥 **Antique Book Rescue - Saving a 130-Year-Old Book - Part 2**
#Video length: twenty-one minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔴 📖 🎥 **What too many books and TBR's might be doing to your reading**
Tristan and the Classics
_"In HOW TO RUIN YOUR READING, we dive into the pitfalls of reading for quantity over quality and why obsessing over goals can strip the joy from the literary journey."_
#Video length: sixteen minutes and nineteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/Iws0yTDXfLQ
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇯🇵 🇸🇬 🎥 **Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**
British Movietone
_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_
#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 **The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You**
The New York Times
_As you scroll through the internet, you’ve probably noticed the same problem Kirby Ferguson has: “Everything looks the same, sounds the same, is the same.”_
#Video length: five minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔴 🎥 **The rise of deepfakes: How can you know what's real online?**
60 Minutes Australia
_"Seeing used to be believing, but the rise of ‘deepfakes’ and AI technology is making it harder than ever to know what’s real online."_
#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/p4E-tVzwvsQ
#Internet #Online #Deepfakes
#60MinutesAustralia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @ai
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
