Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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🖥️ **Disturbing Signs of AI Threatening People Spark Concern**
"_In one particularly jarring example, under threat of being unplugged, Anthropic's latest creation Claude 4 lashed back by blackmailing an engineer and threatened to reveal an extramarital affair._"
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/disturbing-signs-of-ai-threatening-people-spark-concern.
🇹🇻 🇦🇺 **1 in 3 Tuvaluans is bidding for a new ‘climate visa’ to Australia – here’s why everyone may ultimately end up applying**
_While the visa itself doesn’t mention climate change, the treaty that created it is framed in the context of the “existential threat posed by climate change”._
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Tuvalu #Australia #Pacific #Visa #Migration
**Leonardo's Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery**
"_This paper demonstrates that Leonardo’s explicit textual reference to ‘an equilateral triangle’ between the figure’s legs provides his construction method and reveals the anatomical foundation for his proportional choices._"
Sweeney, R. M. (2025) ‘Leonardo’s Vitruvian Man: modern craniofacial anatomical analysis reveals a possible solution to the 500-year-old mystery’, Journal of Mathematics and the Arts, pp. 1–13. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/17513472.2025.2507568.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Art #LeonardoDaVinci #VitruvianMan
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"_The last time the dollar weakened so much at the start of the year was 1973, when the United States made a seismic shift and ended the linking of the dollar to the price of gold._"
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/30/business/dollar-decline-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.S08.ELSc.0pKcaLrNCAwE&smid=url-share
🇺🇸 **Painting the birth of American independence**
🔗 https://news.yale.edu/2025/06/30/painting-birth-american-independence.
🖥️ **AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all**
🔗 https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/.
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Wikipedians on the front line of keeping AI nonsense from getting into articles have prepared a list of common catchphrases and signs.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Evening all.
@MelissaBearTrix Still enjoying Sunday for a few more hours until the 'Monday feeling' arrives.
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AI agents get office tasks wrong around 70% of the time, and a lot of them aren't AI at all
More fiction than science Feature IT consultancy Gartner predicts that more than 40 percent of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 due to rising costs, unclear business value, or insufficient risk controls.…
#theregister #IT
https://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.com/2025/06/29/ai_agents_fail_a_lot/
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Spain records temperature of 46C as Europe heatwave continues https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9dgqnndx9xo
@Sustainable2050 @extretemps It is not just Portugal:
🖥️ **Anthropic’s AI utterly fails at running a business — 'Claudius' hallucinates profusely as it struggles with vending drinks**
"_It's like a business graduate with no common sense._"
📚 **Hearing The Author's Voice**
Before starting a new book, I try to go online to see if I can find either a video or an audio recording of the author. I find the exercise adds an extra layer to my enjoyment of the book. As I read the words, I can hear the author.
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Rembert Dodoens author of the Cruydeboeck, which was plagiarised in English by John Gerard, was born 29 June 1517 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2010/06/29/of-herbs-and-herbals/
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Authors hit by bad reviews on Goodreads before review copies are even circulated
https://www.thebookseller.com/news/authors-hit-by-bad-reviews-on-goodreads-before-review-copies-are-even-circulated
Are these reviewers even real? Trolls and bots...
**Archaeologists Found a 500-Year-Old Compass—Turns Out It May Have Belonged to Copernicus**
@grimalkina Technology and human reliance upon it is slowly but surely reducing our abilities to think and write in long form. As we become ever more reliant on machines to do the 'hard work' of thinking for us, this phenomenon will only worsen over time.
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People will share a thousand takes about AI and writing but when you write a long piece people tend not to share it. People will go on and on about bad science but when you laboriously research something with cites and lit reviewing you KNOW people won't read or share it. I'm not saying things are hopeless I'm just saying we are in an attention economy and if you are too good to try to use your energy to support things you say you care about how do you think it's going to work?
🖥️ 🧠 **Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume**
“_Our two-sample MR analysis revealed a positive causal effect of moderate to vigorous physical activity (PA) on childhood IQ (β = 0.42, 95 % confidence interval (CI): [0.12, 0.72], p = 6.26 × 10−3), whereas leisure screen time (LST) exhibited a negative causal effect (β = −0.35, 95 % CI: [ −0.60, −0.10], p = 5.59 ×10−3). Reverse MR analysis found no evidence of causations._”
Feng, J., Wan, Y., & Zhang, L. (2025). Causal effects of physical activity and screen time on childhood intelligence via Mendelian randomization: The mediating role of intracranial volume. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 74, 101586. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dcn.2025.101586.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Neuroscience #Psychology #ScreenTime #Exercise #IQ #Academia #Academics @psychology
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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