Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
Our instance is being upgraded. I think the process is still on going, normal service will resume as soon as possible.
🔴 **Bigger AI chatbots more inclined to spew nonsense — and people don't always realize**
_In other words, the chatbots’ tendency to offer opinions beyond their own knowledge has increased. “That looks to me like what we would call bullshitting,” says Mike Hicks, a philosopher of science and technology at the University of Glasgow, UK, who proposes the term ‘ultracrepidarianism’ to describe the phenomenon2. “It’s getting better at pretending to be knowledgeable.”_
🔴 📖 **Thomas Jefferson Knew his Greek**
"_Among these, he owned at least two copies of Xenophon’s Cyropaedia, a biographical novel written in Greek about the Persian Emperor Cyrus the Great (circa 600 – 530 BCE)_"
🔗 **https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/09/25/thomas-jefferson-knew-his-greek/**
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #RareBooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Scientists grow ‘lost tree’ mentioned in Bible using mysterious 1,000-year-old seed**
"_Researchers suspected the “Sheba” tree to be a candidate for the “Judean Balsam” or “Balm of Judea”, which was cultivated exclusively in the desert region of southern Levant during Biblical times._"
#News #Bible #Levant #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons @science @archaeodons
🔴 **Migrant Voices in Multilingual London,** **1560****–****1600**
"_By charting how linguistic diversity was part of the lives of ordinary Londoners in this period, including close examination of incidents of multilingual insult, slander, and conflict, this article argues that the civic and religious authorities relied on the stranger churches’ abilities to carry out surveillance of speech in languages other than English, and that urban social relations and urban spaces were shaped by multilingualism._"
Gallagher, J. (2024) ‘Migrant Voices in Multilingual London, 1560–1600’, Transactions of the Royal Historical Society, pp. 1–23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0080440124000069
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Language #Linguistics #Anthropology #London #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @linguistics @earlymodern
🔴 📖 **Oliver Cussen** **-** **Prophet of the Past**
"_According to the environmental historian Chris Otter, Britain in 1930 ‘imported 99 per cent of the world’s exports of ham and bacon, 63 per cent of its butter, 62 per cent of its eggs, 59 per cent of its beef, 46 per cent of its cheese, and 28 per cent of its wheat and wheat flour’, despite having only 3 per cent of the world’s population. Malthus may well have helped build the infrastructure of this empire, but he would have been horrified by the way it enabled Britain to live beyond its means and to ignore a natural law designed to stimulate not gluttony, but self-reliance and restraint._"
🔗 **https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n18/oliver-cussen/prophet-of-the-past**
#Review #BookReview #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 💻 **Internet People**
"_The better you are online, the worse you are in real life._"
🔗 **https://emptyrailroadgulch.substack.com/p/internet-people**
🔴 **The forging of countries**
"_The nobilities of the Habsburg-ruled kingdoms – of diverse ethnic and linguistic origins – had strong and well-developed conceptions of belonging to a common nation. So strong, in fact, that they resisted incorporation into the kind of centralised absolutist states characteristic of 18th-century Europe. The Habsburg Monarchy was nearly torn apart by the pressures of such policies pursued by Joseph II, who rescinded most of them on his deathbed in 1790._"
🔗 **https://aeon.co/essays/the-myth-of-civic-vs-ethnic-nationhood-in-europe-east-and-west**
#History #Essay #Histodon #Histodons #Europe #Nation #Empire #Politics #Race #Ethnicity @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 🗺️ **Made in America: U.S. Manufacturing in Gilded Age Census Maps**
"_I recently heard a factoid in passing that fascinated me and sparked further investigation: after having been decidedly middle of the pack immediately post-Civil War, the United States’ share of total world manufacturing output became the highest in the world between 1880 and 1900, with a near exponential pace of growth during these decades._"
🔗 **https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/09/made-in-america-maps/**
#Map #Maps #Cartography #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Manufacturing #History #Economics
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **1957: BRITISH SUNDAYS - Should We Have More FREEDOM?**
"_Christopher Chataway reports on the British Sunday, when theatres, shops and restaurants are closed and most sporting events are prohibited._
#Video length: eight minutes and fourteen seconds.
🔗 **https://youtu.be/n62zZATx9Ts**
#History #Sunday #Europe #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Freedom #C20th #20thCentury
🔴 **The invention of whiteness: the long history of a dangerous idea**
"_What’s more, historians such as Oscar and Mary Handlin, Edmund Morgan and Edward Rugemer have largely confirmed Du Bois’s suspicion that while xenophobia appears to be fairly universal among human groupings, the invention of a white racial identity was motivated from the start by a need to justify the enslavement of Africans._"
🔗 **https://www.theguardian.com/news/2021/apr/20/the-invention-of-whiteness-long-history-dangerous-idea**
🔴 🎥 **Why There's a New Race to the Moon**
"_It’s been over 50 years since an astronaut last walked on the moon, but this decade could see a number of countries attempt to send humans back. So, who’s in the race and why now?_"
#Video length: twelve minutes and eleven seconds.
🟡 **<font color="yellow">What Americans think about the Roman Empire</font>**
"_The longevity of the Roman Empire, its conversion to Christianity, its political structure, its pagan religion, and its military conquests are each viewed positively by more Americans than view them negatively, among the population who knows at least something about the Roman Empire. And Americans overwhelmingly say Roman slaveholding was a mostly negative aspect of the Roman Empire._"
🔗 **https://today.yougov.com/entertainment/articles/50546-what-americans-think-about-the-roman-empire**
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Lord Kelvin: how the 19th century scientist combined research and innovation to change the world</font>**
"_Thomson’s lifelong talent for inventing ingenious scientific instruments secured him 70 patents, enabled dozens of scientific breakthroughs and made him a highly successful entrepreneur._"
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Sources where you can get interesting and free images:
Getty Museum Collection: https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/
Public Domain Review: https://publicdomainreview.org/collections
Public Work: https://public.work/
PhyloPic: https://www.phylopic.org/
MNAHA Collections (careful, check copyright, not everything is public domain here!) https://collections.mnaha.lu/index/
QIMBY (quality transport): https://qimby.net/
🟡 **<font color="yellow">From Jewish to Gentile How the Jesus Movement Became Christianity</font>**
"_The switch in the perception of Jesus from charismatic prophet to superhuman being coincided with a geographical and religious change, when the Christian preaching of the gospel moved from the Galilean-Judean Jewish culture to the pagan surroundings of the Greco-Roman world._"
🔗 **https://library.biblicalarchaeology.org/article/from-jewish-to-gentile/**
🟡 🇸🇪 **<font color="yellow">Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right</font>**
"_Drawing parallels to the UK, where pub closures led to increased support for UKIP, this study investigates similar trends observed in Sweden. Utilizing a novel dataset of over 50,000 alcohol-serving permits and electoral data from 2002 to 2018, the study finds that a reduction in permits is associated with a 3.7% increase in support for the Sweden Democrats (SD)._"
Isaksson, Z. (2024) 'Spirited away: Access to alcohol and support for the populist radical right,' Electoral Studies, 91, p. 102850. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.electstud.2024.102850.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #PoliticalScience #Politics #Populism #Europe #Sweden #Swedish #Alcohol #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience
🟡 **<font color="yellow">Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev</font>**
"_The churches were the only public structures of Nessana to have been previously exposed; all were ornately decorated basilicas, belonging to the most common architectural form of early ecclesiastical edifices in the Holy Land._"
Tchekhanovets, Y. (2024) ‘Excavating ancient pilgrimage at Nessana, Negev’, Antiquity, pp. 1–7. doi: https://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2024.132
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Ancient #Antiquity #Byzantine #Christianity #Pilgrimage #Desert #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
