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 Holy City" 1951 Jerusalem Travelogue Omar Mosque House Of Caiaphas Gethsemane**
#Video length: ten minutes and nine seconds.
🇺🇸 **1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA. BBC Archive**
"_It's no longer a fight to survive in a world in which there's too little, but a fight to survive in a world in which there is too much. We can now make more of practically everything than we can ever possibly hope to use. And to prosper, we must become a race of massive consumers wasting to live._"
#Video length: forty-nine minutes and forty-nine seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGlybglr28.
#Documentary #History #USA #US #UnitedStates #Culture #Consumerism #Consumption
**Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!**
#Video length: seventeen minutes.
**Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!**
#Video length: seventeen minutes.
📖 **Indo-Europeans Rediscovered (mini book review)**
#Video length: short.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvdm3IMgpTc.
#IndoEuropeans #Linguistics #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon
📚 **The 3 Hardest Books of all Time & How to Read Them**
>>The list is subjective; however, these are this particular Youtuber's thoughts and tips, they may have utility if you are considering reading the books in the future.
#Video length: shorts.
🖥️ **Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSdBg6AhOw.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #OpenAI
📚 **5 Books That Made Me A Better Reader**
#Video length: fifteen minutes and twenty-four seconds.
📚 **How to Understand Your Books (and remember everything)**
#Video length: eleven minutes and nine seconds.
**The entire history of English in 22 minutes**
#Video length: twenty-two minutes and twenty-one seconds.
**The Ancient Machine That Measured Time With Water**
"_In the 3rd century BCE, in the city of Alexandria, a brilliant Greek inventor named Ctesibius created a water-powered timekeeping device, so precise it remained unmatched for the next 1,800 years, until the invention of the pendulum clock in 1656._"
#Video length: ten minutes and seventeen seconds.
🇺🇸 **Franklin D. Roosevelt And A Fourth Term**
"_On this day in 1944, Franklin D. Roosevelt announced he would run for a fourth term as President of the United States._"
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-nine seconds.
🔬 **This 300-page mirror life report has scientists terrified**
#Video length: twelve minutes and thirty-one seconds.
**The Most Common Public Speaking Fails - and How to Fix Them**
"_They include a boring beginning, an ineffectual ending, trying to be too clever, overwhelming your audience and sloppy slides._"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3hnL4DAqI.
#Webinar #Speech #PublicSpeaking #Fails #Failure #Advice #Tips
📖 **Why my book isn't on Amazon**
🇩🇰 **Denmark’s ambitious plan to boost plant-based foods. FT Rethink**
#Video length: seven minutes and five seconds.
**‘Who were the first people in the Pacific?’: An interview with Dr. Dylan Gaffney**
"_Dr. Gaffney explains human dispersal in the Pacific, the role it played in human cultural evolution, and the questions about the topic that are still unanswered._"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and two seconds
📚 **How to Read Hard Books (and actually understand them)**
#Video length: thirty-four minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNHttO4MxM.
#Reading #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
📸 💻 **Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. Op-Docs**
The New York Times
"_Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?_"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and forty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3wEg9tsCY.
#Documentary #Photography #Photos #Images #Cameras #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @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
