Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Politics: Trump Interview (2013)
🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 "That's too long!" - The Moment Donald Trump Coined his Iconic Campaign Slogan (2013)
"On 19 July 2013, Donald Trump spoke to ITN's Matt Frei at Trump Tower in New York. The main subject of the interview was Donald Trump's increasing involvement in US politics, and in the course of an at times heated conversation, he revealed the slogan that would come to dominate his political career."
#Video length: thirty three minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o3ICpcRUePw
#MAGA #MakeAmericaGreatAgain #DonaldTrump #Trump #POTUS #USPolitics #Trump2024 #USPol #Politics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Television #TV #Interview #Archive
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Analysis of inflation in the US over the last 4 decades. #economics
https://www.reuters.com/graphics/USA-ELECTION/INFLATION/jnpwjxkdavw/
Sitting down to follow #election2024 for the next few hours.
🔴 📖 “Land Between the Rivers: A 5,000-Year History of Iraq” by Bartle Bull
"Land Between the Rivers is an easy read, with a flowing narrative line and long, interesting digressions on such subjects as the Epic of Gilgamesh, Zoroastrianism and its influence on the Abrahamic religions and the “ramshackle” Pathian Empire’s predilection for Hellenism (the court was rather fond of Euripides)....."
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #BookReview #Bookstodon #Ancient #History #Iraq #MiddleEast #Asia @bookstodon
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Portuguese lacks a lot of n's.
For example, whereas Spanish has 'luna' (moon), in Portuguese it's 'lua'.
This n was lost in the Middle Ages.
Initially, it made the preceding vowel nasal, but this nasality was lost in many words after 1500.
Click the video to hear how it went:
🔴 🇳🇱 📚 Dutch publisher to use AI to translate ‘limited number of books’ into English
“Taking the translator out of the loop opens the door to incorrect or misleading translations that will serve readers poorly,” said David McKay, a literary translator who translates from Dutch into English. He added that while it is understandable that publishers want to use new technologies to “increase their efficiency”, VBK’s plans “sound very reckless”.
#Bookstodon #Books #Publishing #Translation #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Dutch #Netherlands #Europe @bookstodon @ai
🔴 🏴 🇮🇪 From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland
"English colonialism meant replacing one type of kingdom with another, and thus bringing the pre-existing Gaelic kingdom of Ireland into conformity with an English model. In this way, Ireland was transformed from a kingdom to a colony."
Colin Veach, From Kingdom to Colony: Framing the English Conquest of Ireland , The English Historical Review, 2024;, ceae210, https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/ceae210.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #England #Ireland #Colonialism #Empire #Imperialism #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
@freemo Thank you for the update.
@undefined @tultican I do not think the problem is immigration as such, rather more a case of having the 'right type' of immigrant.
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70% of the land in Britain is still owned by 1% of the population, largely descended from William the Conqueror’s army
https://www.zmescience.com/other/shorties/70-percent-britain-land-owned-by-the-rich/
Norman descendants are still doing very fine in today's Britain
🔴 📖 🎥 How To RECLAIM Your Attention Span - 4 Mindsets to Deepen Focus
"A practical episode on how to reclaim your attention span and the 3 key reframes and mindsets to help you retrain your focus muscle."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and fifteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WtQ27HQsROw
#Attention #Focus #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 How To RECLAIM Your Attention Span - 4 Mindsets to Deepen Focus
"A practical episode on how to reclaim your attention span and the 3 key reframes and mindsets to help you retrain your focus muscle."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and fifteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/WtQ27HQsROw
#Attention #Focus #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 🎥 What Increases The Value Of A Rare Book?
#Video length: twenty nine minutes and thirty nine seconds.
🔴 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?
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Only 30 #Manuscripts added by the #Vatican this week
https://www.wiglaf.org/vatican/2024/week44.html
Includes a c. 1000 Gospel book with
Hebrew marginalia, several Chinese lexicons, a Math Miscellany, more memories of the 17th C, some classics, a nice Roman Missal/Breviary, and more!
Note that the BAV broke something in their web code on Friday which broke their Pal.lat page and has caused me issues. Hoping for a quick resolution
#Medieval #Medievodons @bookhistodons @medievodons
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Penguin Random House is adding an AI warning to its books’ copyright pages
https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/19/penguin-random-house-is-adding-an-ai-warning-to-its-books-copyright-pages/
Penguin Random House, the trade publisher, is adding language to the copyright pages of its books to prohibit the use of those books to train AI.
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I just encountered R A Proctor's "A Students Atlas" (1889) ... which prefigured 20c work by Cahill and Fuller by mapping the earth as a dodecahedron, each facet separately projected as a circle, with blisters or boils for some places ... and each circle is done on azimuthal equidistant, prefiguring Richard Edes Harrison! Need to learn more!!
Fortunately internet archive has a scanned file from UWisc at https://archive.org/details/studentsatlasin00procgoog/mode/2up
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
