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🔴 Being followed by bots?

Recently I have noticed a few new accounts following bibliolater. They have zero posts and no followers to their name. I was wondering are they bots? If they are, why would they be following me?

#Fediverse #Mastodon #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Question

🔴 🇺🇸 Who predicted six months ago that the words simulated fellatio and microphone would be used in the same sentence during this election campaign?

#Politics #USpol #Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates

@tkinias @mhedney Seems to be working.

🔴 🇺🇸 The only poll of any real significance is the one that determines the group of presidential electors for the Electoral College, everything else is speculation.

#Poll #Polls #ElectoralCollege #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates

#Image attribution: Chessrat, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:ElectoralCollege2024.svg.

🔴 📚 🖋 I am trying to set up a blog to write book reviews on Write Freely but the process is proving more difficult than I intially thought. I think the reason may be age, and also the fact that there are very few tutorials to show a novitiate how to begin. I first started a blog on Write As and found that it required a monthly subscription. Subsequently, I deleted that blog and started anew on Write Freely however I still not cannot seem to operate the site correctly. I have not been able to federate the blog with Mastodon as that feature is not available. I also may have to learn Markdown from scratch. It appears I am running around in circles.

#WriteFreely #Blog #Fediverse #AskFedi #AskMastdon #BookReview #Bookstodon

🔴 Eating the Unspeakable: The Bible and Current Politics on Immigration

"The rumor of immigrants eating cats and dogs in Ohio goes in a slightly different direction but with the same aim: stoking virulent and violent xenophobia. The horror and hate that false claim evokes comes from the idea not only of immigrants eating cats and dogs but also “stealing the pets” of American households."

🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2024/11/01/eating-the-unspeakable-the-bible-and-current-politics-on-immigration/

#Xenophobia #Migration #Migrants #Immigrants #Immigration #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Religion

🔴 🎥 Five Reasons Why Classical Civilisation Matters

#Video length: nineteen minutes and twenty nine seconds

🔗 https://youtu.be/10HAtQLswoM

#Classics #Civilisation

🔴 Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800)

"From the Bernoullis to the Eulers, families of scholars have been common in academia since the foundation of the first university in 1088. In this paper, we have shown that this was the result of two factors: Initially, scholars’ sons benefited from their fathers’ connections to get jobs at their fathers’ university. Between 1088 and 1543, about one in two scholars’ sons benefited from nepotism. They became academics even when their underlying human capital was lower than that of marginal first-generation scholar. After the Scientific Revolution, nepotism faded but families remained in academia."

Croix, D.d.l., Goñi, M. Nepotism vs. intergenerational transmission of human capital in Academia (1088–1800). J Econ Growth 29, 469–514 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10887-024-09244-0

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Economics #Nepotism #Universities #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @economics

🔴 A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem

"From this, we can see that all but the most trivial of phrases will, in fact, almost certainly never be produced during the lifespan of our universe. There are many orders of magnitude difference between the expected numbers of keys to be randomly pressed before Shakespeare's works are reproduced and the number of keystrokes until the universe collapses into thermodynamic equilibrium..."

Woodcock, S. and Falletta, J. (2024) 'A numerical evaluation of the Finite Monkeys Theorem,' Franklin Open, p. 100171. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fraope.2024.100171.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Infinity #Combinatorics #Probability #Monkeys #Shakespeare #Academia #Academic #Academics

I was considering starting a blog in which I would upload reviews of books that I had read. Subsequently, I posted a toot asking for recommendations for blogging platforms to use. One of the recommendations provided was for Write.As, from the #Fediverse. I promptly signed up to a free account and found out there is no way for an external audience to read what I have written without me using the paid version. Is this correct or have I misunderstood?

#Writing #Blog #Books