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@ChemicalEyeGuy @histodons I doubt that they will likely get even a penny in 'claw back'.
Sorry for the delay in replying to comments; sometimes, one's physical health takes precedence even over #Mastodon and #socialmedia.
🇬🇧 **Imperfect Memories of British Slavery**
“_British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently “forgot” slavery ever existed._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/imperfect-memories-of-british-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Slavery @histodons
📚 **How to read and why**
“_Some of the best advice I have had is that if you really want to get your head around a topic, read two different books about it simultaneously._”
💻 **AI Makes Workers More Anti-Social, Unmotivated, and Lonely, New Research Warns**
**7 Fun Facts About New England’s Colonial Rangers**
🔗 https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/7-fun-facts-about-new-englands-colonial-rangers/.
**Born On This Day: Sarah Rapelje**
Sarah Rapelje was born on this day in Albany on 9th June 1625. She was the first child of European descent to be born in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
💻 **The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity**
“_We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles._”
🔗 https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LRMS #Technology #Tech #Thinking #Reasoning @ai
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**how to remember your best ideas (in under 3 minutes)**
#Video length: two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset**
_Getting back to “gotten”, which has been described by the linguist David Crystal in his Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language as “probably the most distinctive of all the [American English/British English] grammatical differences”._
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/04/use-word-gotten-some-readers-upset.
📖 **Fascism: The History of a Word**
_Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term’s use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini’s political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a “fascist minimum.”_
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo247752701.html.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Fascism #Fascist #History #Histodons @histodons @bookstodon
💻 **Is the AI Bubble About to Burst?**
“_As François Chollet and other AI researchers have pointed out, deep neural networks suffer from inherent brittleness: they struggle to generalise beyond their training data, fail at basic reasoning tasks, and remain unreliable for applications requiring consistency or accuracy._”
🔗 https://www.versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/news/is-the-ai-bubble-about-to-burst.
🇺🇸 **Half of the bond market is US Treasurys. Why it's 'not healthy.'**
_“This is not healthy,” Sløk wrote. “Half of credit issued in the economy should not be going to the government.”_
🔗 https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/markets/2025/06/08/us-treasurys-half-bond-market/84102197007/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy #Economics #Debt #Credit @economics
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A very stylish #Roman enclosed boot with a highly decorative and intricate cut-out design that would have shown off the wearer’s socks.
Found in London, dating c. 75-125 AD.
From the collections at the Museum of London.
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Will The Washington Post Embrace the AI Slush Pile? https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/06/washington-post-ai-opinion/683064/?utm_source=feed
📸 🇳🇴 **King Harald Hardrada**
#Image attribution: Lerwick Town Hall, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Haraldhardrada.jpg.
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#Earthquake 23 km SE of #Ierissós (#Greece) 19 min ago (local time 15:46:20). Updated map - Colored dots represent local shaking & damage level reported by eyewitnesses. Share your experience via:
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**Gold Solidus of Theodosius II, Constantinople, 425–429 AD.**
#Gold #Coin #Numismatics #History #Byzantine #Empire
#Image attribution: ANS, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Gold_Solidus_of_Theodosius_II,_425-429.jpg.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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