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
💻 
**The AI Cultural Slop Apocalypse is Here**
Lewis Waller
#Video length:thirty-two minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DyZQhzv7Q.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Culture @ai
🇯🇵 **Japan's population crisis reaches tipping point**
“_Japan has been struggling to cope with a combination of anaemic economic growth and a shrinking population for over 30 years. 2025 marks the tipping point when the rising costs outstrip the country's capacity to pay for them._”
#Video length: twenty minutes.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmdujC0MUKA.
#FT #Japan #Demographics #Demography #Economy #Economics #Population #Asia #Immigration #Birthrate #Fertility #Fertilityrate @economics
🇨🇳 **How Apple trained China to be a world power - Patrick McGee interview**
“_In his new book Apple in China: The Capture of The World's Greatest Company, he contends that China allowed Apple to exploit them so they could in turn exploit Apple, making it impossible for the tech giant to extract itself from the country._”
#Video length: eight minutes and twelve seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PtL0XQeA8.
#C4News #interview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Apple #China
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **Why America’s Small Businesses Can’t Quit China**
#Video length: six minutes and four seconds.
🇺🇸 **Is Trump the same as Nixon in 1968? - Luke A. Nichter**
#Video length: forty-six minutes and thirty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruqU--AR7Qo.
#Lecture #History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Trump #Nixon @histodons
🧠 💻 **How To Fix Your Brain After the Internet Broke It**
Productive Peter
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVJie0OQeI.
#Digital #Attention #Detox #Mindfulness #Internet #Brain #BrainRot
⭐ 📖 **Going Insane at One Star Reviews of Classic Books (again)**
#Video length: forty-three minutes.
🇮🇹 🖋️ **Why don’t they teach this anymore??**
#Video length: thirty-seven seconds.
**English words from Old Norse**
#Video length: nine minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSiXpqB8Pr4.
#English #OldNorse #Words #Languages #Linguistics @linguistics
📚 **Why You Don't Remember What You Read**
ParkerNotes
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bY0Kd2aSU1o.
#Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Memory #Tips #Advice @bookstodon
💻 **But what is Quantum Computing? (Grover's Algorithm)**
3Blue1Brown
"_Qubits, state vectors, and Grover's algorithm for search._"
#Video length: thirty-six minutes and fifty-three minutes.
**Did Vikings Really Wear Horned Helmets—or Was It All Just Opera?**
Gresham College
#Video length: one minute and one second.
**Runes are not from Phoenician letters**
Jackson Crawford
#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🇮🇸 **What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**
Survive the Jive
_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17qQ
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons
📚 **the most obvious reason to read a book, today**
Tim DeMoss
#Video length: six minutes and five seconds.
🇺🇸 **How Bond Vigilantes Made Trump Blink**
Bloomberg Originals
“_US President Donald Trump retreated from his sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs after a bond selloff sent Treasury yields soaring. But who are the much-feared bond vigilantes behind his reversal?_”
#Video length: ten minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vB8wB1lDF0.
#Bonds #Trump #Tariffs #Markets #Economy #Economics @economics
📖 **Stop Silent Reading - Try This Instead**
Robin Waldun
“_A video on why we struggle to stay awake and make our reading more immersive, and an overlooked technique for overcoming this._”
#Video length: twelve minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
🌍 **The end of globalization (as we know it).... I guess.**
The Burning Archive
“_Trump blasted tariffs. The world screamed, “It is the end of globalization as we know it. I guess...? But what does history say?_”
#Video length: twenty minutes and forty-one seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMZ1X6dgT-I.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Globalization #Sociology @sociology @histodon @histodons
**Nazareth, Galilee and Jerusalem: ITN Explores the Holy Land (1958)**
ITN Archive
“_On 1 May 1958, ITN’s Michael Barely took viewers on a trip around the Holy Land. He reported from several sites of Biblical significance including including Nazareth, Ashkelon and the Sea of Galilee. He ended his report in Jerusalem where he watched tourists navigate the border of the divided city (in 1958, West Jerusalem was under Israeli control while East Jerusalem was annexed by Jordan)._”
#Video length: sixteen minutes and fifty-three seconds.
🇦🇺 **Why Australia’s Miracle Economy Is Failing**
Bloomberg Originals
“_The country’s GDP per capita fell for 21 consecutive months. Household disposable income is going down, while household debt is going up. The cost of living crisis will likely be front-and-center in federal elections._”
#Video length: nine minutes and thirty-six seconds.
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
