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**The Amorites: Rethinking Approaches to Corporate Identity in Antiquity**

🔗 anetoday.org/amorites-corporat.

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🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **‘The British are coming’ and the outbreak of hostilities during the American Revolutionary War**

“_During the summer of 1776, they defined their objective as total separation and declared independence. Yet declaring independence was very different to actually achieving it. King George III’s government, under Prime Minister Frederick, Lord North regarded their actions as no more than insurrection and remained determined to crush them._”

🔗 blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/t.

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**sheriff / reeve**

Dave Wilton

“_The word sheriff comes from the Old English scirgerefa (shire-reeve). A gerefa, or reeve in Present-Day spelling, was the chief official who administrated justice and collected taxes in a region._”

🔗 wordorigins-org.ghost.io/sheri.

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💻 **I Hate Wasting Time on Identifying AI Slop**

Alex

“_It's an annoying cognitive task: detecting weird photo artifacts, bizarre movement in videos, impossible animals and body horror, and reading through reams of anodyne text to determine if the person who prompted the synthetic media machine cared enough to dedicate time and energy to the task of communicating to their audience._”

🔗 buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive.

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**“Eye-watering”**

"_It’s an extension of “mouth-watering,” as in something imagined to be delicious; thus, “eye-watering” can mean very pleasing to the eye._"

🔗 notoneoffbritishisms.com/2025/.

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:youtube: **Mini Essays - The Perfect Tool for Lifelong Learners**

Odysseas

length: eleven minutes and forty-two seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=hi8meiPUt8

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💻 **Why This MIT Professor Says We Need to Act Fast to Keep AI From Stealing Our Jobs**

Kit Eaton

“_If certain AI tools are better than human workers, or significantly cheaper, or can do the work of three former staff under the supervision of, say, one human fact-checker, some jobs will be lost to AI automation._”

🔗 inc.com/kit-eaton/why-this-mit.

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:youtube: **The Last Nazi Election - August 1945!**

Mark Felton Productions

“_Incredibly, over three months after Hitler's death, one place was still ruled by Nazis, and indeed in August 1945 an election returned the Nazi Party to power!_”

length: twelve minutes and sixteen seconds.

🔗 youtube.com/watch?v=spnO0olgUb

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BrianKrebs

Wow. The tech and NASDAQ giant NVIDIA's shares have tanked in after hours trading, down 7 percent right now. Might have something to do with this disclosure:

"On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government, or USG, informed NVIDIA Corporation, or the Company, that the USG requires a license for export to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) and D:5 countries, or to companies headquartered or with an ultimate parent therein, of the Company's H20 integrated circuits and any other circuits achieving the H20's memory bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth, or combination thereof. The USG indicated that the license requirement addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China. On April 14, 2025, the USG informed the Company that the license requirement will be in effect for the indefinite future.

The Company's first quarter of fiscal year 2026 ends on April 27, 2025. First quarter results are expected to include up to approximately $5.5 billion of charges associated with H20 products for inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves."

Expect an extra wild ride on Wall Street when the bell rings tomorrow.

Item 8.01 Other Events. On April 9, 2025, the U.S. government, or USG, informed NVIDIA Corporation, or the Company, that the USG requires a license for export to China (including Hong Kong and Macau) and D:5 countries, or to companies headquartered or with an ultimate parent therein, of the Company's H20 integrated circuits and any other circuits achieving the H20's memory bandwidth, interconnect bandwidth, or combination thereof. The USG indicated that the license requirement addresses the risk that the covered products may be used in, or diverted to, a supercomputer in China. On April 14, 2025, the USG informed the Company that the license requirement will be in effect for the indefinite future. The Company's first quarter of fiscal year 2026 ends on April 27, 2025. First quarter results are expected to include up to approximately $5.5 billion of charges associated with H20 products for inventory, purchase commitments, and related reserves.
A graphic from Google showing NVIDIA Corp. stock price tanking in after hours trading.
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Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago

openculture.com/2025/04/hear-t

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🅰️ 📖 🖋️ **The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's “The Scarlet Letter”**

“This image responds to chapter 2, where Hester leaves prison to endure public humiliation on the town scaffold. The text describes women resentful of Hester's beauty, who find her punishment too lenient–figures shown here below the steps.”

Felix Octavius Carr Darley | The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne’s 'The Scarlet Letter' | The Metropolitan Museum of Art (1879). metmuseum.org/art/collection/s.

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Title: The Market Place, from Nathaniel Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter" Artist: Felix Octavius Carr Darley (American, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1822–1888 Claymont, Delaware) Date: ca. 1879
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Bob LeFridge :tinoflag:

Not content with losing billions of dollars annually on it's AI slop with little to no chance of ever turning a profit, OpenAI is branching out.

They're planning to launch their own social media platform, because every self-respecting American broligarch needs his own Twitter clone.

gizmodo.com/openai-is-reported

#OpenAI #AISlop

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European Commission

2024 was the warmest year on record for Europe.

This alarming trend highlights the urgent state of our climate:

🌪️Storms and flooding affected an estimated 413,000 Europeans

🌡️60% of Europe saw more days than average with at least ‘strong heat stress’

❄️All European regions saw a loss of ice

Despite the challenges, the proportion of electricity generation by renewables reached a record high in 2024, at 45%

In a boiling planet, our action is ever more urgent, and vital.

Two circular maps of Europe from the "European State of the Climate Report 2024" by the EU's Copernicus Climate Change Service. The left map shows temperature anomalies and extremes in 2024, with most of Europe shaded in red tones indicating warmer to much warmer than average temperatures. The right map displays precipitation anomalies and extremes in 2024, with much of western and central Europe in shades of blue indicating wetter than average conditions, while eastern regions show brown shades representing drier conditions. Colour scales at the bottom of each map range from "coolest" to "warmest" (left) and "driest" to "wettest" (right).
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🇺🇸 📖 **The Age of the Borderlands: Indians, Slaves, and the Limits of Manifest Destiny, 1790–1850**

“_Isenberg takes readers to the contested borders of Spanish Florida, Missouri, New Mexico, California, Texas, and Minnesota at critical moments in the early to mid-nineteenth century, demonstrating that the architects of American expansion faced significant challenges from the diverse groups of people inhabiting each region._”

🔗 uncpress.org/book/978146968505.

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**What is the bond market, and why is it so important for the economy?**

“_When bond yields rise, the cost of every other type of borrowing — credit cards, mortgages, business loans, financing the federal debt — increases._”

🔗 politifact.com/article/2025/ap.

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Project Gutenberg

Lost for 400 Years: Researcher Discover Hidden Copy of Shakespeare Sonnet

By University of Oxford

scitechdaily.com/lost-for-400-

Full article by Leah S Veronese is available here:
academic.oup.com/res/advance-a

#books #literature #oldmanuscript

Shake-Speare's Sonnets, quarto published by Thomas Thorpe, London, 1609, title page
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**Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality**

“_This study supports the contention that transitions from labor- to land-limited systems, rather than cultivation and/or herding per se, have contributed systematically to the long-term dynamics of economic inequality._”

A. Bogaard, P. Cruz, M. Fochesato, J. Birch, G. Cervantes Quequezana, S. Chirikure, E.R. Crema, G.M. Feinman, A.S. Green, H. Hamerow, G. Jin, T. Kerig, D. Lawrence, M.D. McCoy, J. Munson, S.G. Ortman, C.A. Petrie, & P. Roscoe, Labor, land, and the global dynamics of economic inequality, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (16) e2400694122, doi.org/10.1073/pnas.240069412 (2025).

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🇺🇸 **How Trump's tariff shock rippled through U.S. credit: chart**

🔗 marketwatch.com/livecoverage/s.

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Thomas

Yesterday I read that #facebook is now setting a date for using European GPDR protected user content for #AI training. Today I read that #OpenAI considers entering the Social Media business. Twitter, of course, is already in the business of mining the cumulated production of its many million users.

The new gold rush appears to be emulation of emotion/personality reflecting communication. On social media. Biased by "salience", or even by "salience exploiting algorithms".

tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/

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**Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library**

“_The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production._”

Maeir N (2025) Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library. PLOS ONE 20(3): e0320265. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0.

Material philology and Syriac excerpting practices: A computational-quantitative study of the digitized catalog of the Syriac manuscripts in the British Library

This study explores the literary practice of excerpting in Syriac manuscripts through a computational-quantitative analysis, contributing to the emerging field of Syriac material philology. The primary objective is to offer a “big picture” charting of Syriac excerpting as a non-authorial literary practice. Using digitized data from the British Library’s Syriac manuscript collection, the study analyzes nearly 20,000 excerpts, introducing the Excerpts Per Manuscript (EPM) metric to quantify and compare excerpting practices across manuscripts. The results reveal that most manuscripts contain fewer than 20 excerpts, but a small number show much higher levels of excerpting, highlighting the immense intellectual and literary activities implicated in their production. These high-EPM manuscripts appear across multiple genres, indicating that excerpting was a widespread and essential cultural activity rather than confined to specific literary types. The study also finds that manuscripts with the highest EPM values are concentrated between the 6th and 9th centuries CE, corresponding with a period of intense literary compilation in late antiquity. This pattern reflects the importance of excerpting in knowledge organization, aligning with broader trends in the canonization of texts within Christian, Jewish, and Greco-Roman traditions. The research emphasizes the limitations of earlier cataloging approaches, which obscure non-authorial practices by focusing on authors and texts. By reorienting data through computational analysis, the study provides new insights into the role of excerpting in Syriac manuscript culture. This approach demonstrates the value of digital tools in material philology, uncovering patterns that bridge genres and timeframes, and identifying high-EPM manuscripts as key sites of intellectual and cultural activity in the Syriac literary tradition.

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