Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
@Peternimmo Delivery drivers can be the bane of modern existence.
Morning all.
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**
Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011645511/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #UncleSam #Tariffs #C20th #20thCentury
🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
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Eew. This is a great example of why I ditched Audible years ago and now get audiobooks from Chirp.
Even Audiobooks Aren't Safe From AI Slop
... And as an added incentive, it's offering better royalty rates to authors who use Audible's AI to create an audiobook exclusively for the platform, Bloomberg reported.
#Books #AI #Audiobooks #Audible #Amazon #AmReading
https://futurism.com/audible-announces-ai-narrators
🇦🇪 🌡️ **UAE hits record May temperature of 51.6C**
“_Scientists have shown that recurring heatwaves are a clear marker of global warming and that these heatwaves are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense._”
🔗 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250524-uae-hits-record-may-temperature-of-51-6c.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UAE @climatechange
🇺🇸 “Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand”
#Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Economy #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @bookstodon
Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/four-books-sound-the-alarm-about-the-power-of-pr...
🇺🇸 **15 Times U.S. Presidents Defied the Constitution (and Got Away With It)**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-times-u-s-presidents-defied-the-constitution-and-got-away-with-it/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #Constitution @histodons
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#SundayReads — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-old-very-old-man/
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Posting a social media disclaimer won't stop AI from using your data. This will | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/social-media-disclaimer-stop-ai-using-data-copypasta?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
@rodlux With the amount of debt (in the tens of trillions) can there be any other way?
@citc Thank you for the suggestion I will have to take a look at Hubzilla.
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Are you interested in populism? → L. Jacobs, C. Close, and J. Pilet. “The Angry Voter? The Role of Emotions in Voting for the Radical Left and Right at the 2019 Belgian Elections”. In: International Political Science Review (Feb. 2024), p. 01925121231224524.
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Brilliant essay -- "The Copilot Delusion" -- on how "AI" is ruining so much, programming in this case.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
"We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door."
**Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa**
“_For the first time, we also demonstrate the persistence of North African ancestry in a Christian cemetery until the seventeenth century, in addition to evidence of slave trafficking from North Africa._”
Oteo-Garcia, G., Silva, M., Foody, M.G.B. et al. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa. Genome Biol 26, 108 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Biology #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Genomes #History #Medieval #Iberia #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
@rolandmcs.bsky.social It was all predictable for those willing to see.
@mrundkvist Sundays are for catching up on reading.
@jenbanim Yes it does, thank you.
@jenbanim Thank you for answering, could I not restrict the server so that I would be the only account on it?
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