Bibliolater ππππ @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
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βIf you are still contributing to X, you are the energy-dense fuel that Musk is pouring into his hate machine. This is true no matter how complex your post-hoc rationalisations are.β
https://ketanjoshi.co/2024/04/19/you-are-the-fuel-that-energises-elon-musks-hate-machine/
Is it anything to do with corporate profits?
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I bought some cheap highlighters yesterday for annotating purposes. I hope they do not bleed through the pages of the #book.
#Read #Reading #NonFiction #Books #Bookstodon #Annotation #Marginalia @bookstodon
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#AI The worldβs largest #commodity traders are investing heavily in data processing and analysis in a race to develop a technological edge over rivals, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/ffc4d781-8761-47e4-bb2b-83fa974252b1?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
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In 1495, the Danish warship Gribshunden sank off the coast of Sweden. In recent years, researchers have dived to explore the wreck and have made several important discoveries
https://www.medievalists.net/2024/04/sunken-medieval-warship/
#GoodMorning #Mastodon, it is time to get back to the #books.
#Read #Reading #Book #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
#Image attribution: Rijksmuseum, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portret_van_Ren%C3%A9_Descartes,_RP-P-OB-55.341.jpg
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(High Concentration) A third of the value of the S&P 500 index lies in the #MagnificentSeven #tech stocks, raising concerns about overexposure and over-concentration, chart @GoldmanSachs
When a person has to intellectually contort themselves more than the most accomplished contortinist it may be time for his/her audience to realise that arriving at the truth is not the speaker's main objective.
If you want to know why some people are deceptive, ask yourself this #question: how many of their aims can be achieved without employing #sophistry?
@shoq Or that after doing aforementioned research they arrive at an erroneous conclusion.
@4sphere Thank you for sharing.
@Annoesjka1 I did not know this but it is a well worn path. Thank you for sharing.
@rolandweyers Thank you for sharing.
@rolandweyers Was it any good?
#Question: can you please share with us something that you found out this week that you did not know before?
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What is good for #German companies is not good for #Germany - chart @MESandbu @FT https://www.ft.com/content/2ff22d32-390a-4126-865f-7365178a0d6c
Oxford shuts down institute run by Elon Musk-backed philosopher
"The center was run by Nick Bostrom, a Swedish-born philosopher whose writings about the long-term threat of AI replacing humanity turned him into a celebrity figure among the tech elite and routinely landed him on lists of top global thinkers. OpenAI chief executive Sam Altman, Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Tesla chief Musk all wrote blurbs for his 2014 bestselling book Superintelligence."
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/apr/19/oxford-future-of-humanity-institute-closes
#ElonMusk #Tech #Technology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Oxford #Philosophy #News #Press @philosophy
Using RSS feeds may be better for your mental health
"Your RSS feed shows content in chronological orderβnot curated, manipulated, or in some random order determined by some artificial intelligence that thinks it knows what you want to see better than you do."
https://openrss.org/blog/rss-feeds-may-be-better-for-your-mental-health
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male approaching fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are humanities, sciences, non-fiction books, maps, charts and graphs related. Toots or follows or boosts or mentions β endorsements of any particular notion or notions. Expect many typing errors.
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