Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

@mhedney It was great to put a voice to your avatar picture. Was I correcting in noting an underlying British accent?

🖥️ **AI ‘slop’ and the end of the internet**

"_The internet that once held great promise to bring humans universal knowledge, connectivity, freedom and education will have been turned into a wasteland of unreal, unbelievable, and untrustworthy slop._"

🔗 https://www.brandonsun.com/opinion/columns/2025/07/14/ai-slop-and-the-end-of-the-internet.

#AISlop #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Internet

🖥️ **Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI**

"_Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others._"

J.A. Reif, R.P. Larrick, & J.B. Soll, Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (19) e2426766122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426766122 (2025).

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academic @psychology

🖥️ 🖋️ **AI Can’t Gaslight Me if I Write by Hand**

"_We all have concerns about property infringement, the loss of jobs, the banality of ideas only formulated by the clunky cobbling together of what’s already been written and fed into the maw of the large language model (LLM)._"

🔗 https://electricliterature.com/ai-cant-gaslight-me-if-i-write-by-hand/.

#Essay #Writing #Handwriting #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLM #LLMS

🇺🇸 **The evolution of import tariffs: Rates and revenue as a percentage of GDP**

"_Both rates jumped noticeably in 2018 during the first trade war, more or less doubling by 2022. Despite this increase, tariffs still make up only a small part of federal revenue: about 0.3% of GDP per year, far too small to close the gap in the federal deficit, which has been close to 7% of GDP annually in recent years._"

🔗 https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/07/the-evolution-of-import-tariffs/.

#Tariffs #GDP

🇬🇧 🌡️ **Why the UK's extreme weather is 'new normal'**

"_Climate change means there will be longer, hotter summers as well as more powerful storms and floods across the continent, so can anything be done to stop it?_"

#Video length: nine minutes and twenty-three seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffmQ5UoDU0.

#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Weather @climatechange

**Everything Has a Price: The Commercial Gaze and the Origins of Corporate Empire**

"_As travel narratives from the early days of the English East India Company—1601 to 1611—show, the mature form of the British Empire took shape via a commercial gaze that increasingly rendered the world as inventory. By the end of this period, such narratives focused obsessively on the dry heights of markets, merchandise, and profit—even when the journeys themselves had been harrowing._"

🔗 https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/07/14/everything-has-a-price-the-commercial-gaze-and-the-origins-of-corporate-empire/.

#History #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire @histodons

🗺️ 📻 **The history of mapping takes 50 years to tell**

A radio interview with @mhedney on the Larry Meiller Show discussing the history of cartography.

https://www.wpr.org/shows/larry-meiller-show/ais-mixed-success-and-the-history-of-cartography.

#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography

🖥️ "New research suggests the chorus of techno-optimism is based on falsehoods"

#Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #GiftLink #GiftArticle

**Political Bibliography**

For those interested in a reading list that incorporates academic articles concerning the politics of the European far right, please look no further than: https://fediscience.org/@kaiarzheimer/114847310894179596, complied by @kaiarzheimer.

#Bibliography #Reading #List #ReadingList #Politics #FarRight #Europe

📵 A good #idea?

**Flag: American Party, 1844-1860**

#History #Flag #KnowNothingParty #AmericanParty #USPol #Politics #Nationalism #Nativism #Populism

#Image attribution: American Party (1844-1860), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Digital_Reproduction_of_the_Know-Nothing_Party_Flag.jpg.