Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**The More Scientists Work With AI, the Less They Trust It**
🔗 https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/ai-research-scientists-hype.
**Gold hits US$4,000/oz - trend or turning point?**
🔗 https://www.gold.org/goldhub/gold-focus/2025/10/gold-hits-us4000oz-trend-or-turning-point.
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U.S. supply chain faces another tariff headwind ahead of new port fees
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/13/us-supply-chain-faces-another-tariff-headwind-ahead-of-new-port-fees.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into News @news-thenewsdesk
The figure on #socialmedia engagement and #disinformation is astronomical.
**Moloch's Bargain: Emergent Misalignment When LLMs Compete for Audiences**
"_We show that optimizing LLMs for competitive success can inadvertently drive misalignment. Using simulated environments across these scenarios, we find that, 6.3% increase in sales is accompanied by a 14.0% rise in deceptive marketing; in elections, a 4.9% gain in vote share coincides with 22.3% more disinformation and 12.5% more populist rhetoric; and on social media, a 7.5% engagement boost comes with 188.6% more disinformation and a 16.3% increase in promotion of harmful behaviors._"
El, B. and Zou, J. (2025) 'Moloch’s bargain: emergent misalignment when LLMs compete for audiences,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2510.06105.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #ComputerScience #Preprint #Research #Academia
🇦🇺 **Soaring number of Aussies living in poverty, study reveals**
_A new report from the Council of Social Services and UNSW shows one in seven Australians live below the poverty line._
_That's 3.7 million people living on "less than half the median income"._
**When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults**
"_A new survey of U.S. young adults finds that while higher algorithmic awareness and knowledge are linked to greater concerns about misinformation and filter bubbles, individuals with greater algorithmic awareness and knowledge are less likely to correct misinformation or engage with opposing viewpoints on social media—possibly reflecting limited algorithmic agency._"
Chung, M. (2025). When knowing more means doing less: Algorithmic knowledge and digital (dis)engagement among young adults. Harvard Kennedy School (HKS) Misinformation Review. https://doi.org/10.37016/mr-2020-186
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Survey #SocialMedia #Technology #Tech #Algorithms #Misinformation #Academia
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Minnesota farmers struggle to stay afloat as China boycotts U.S. soybeans
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/minnesota-farmers-struggle-to-stay-afloat-as-china-boycotts-u-s-soybeans?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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**Active night-time tweeting is associated with meaningfully lower mental wellbeing in a UK birth cohort study**
"_We found strong evidence the average hour participants posted Tweets was associated with depressive symptoms, anxiety symptoms, and mental wellbeing. Average hour explained almost 2% of the variation in mental wellbeing, comparable to reports of the impact of binge drinking and exercise._"
Joinson, D., Haworth, C.M.A., Simpson, E. et al. Active night-time tweeting is associated with meaningfully lower mental wellbeing in a UK birth cohort study. Sci Rep 15, 34301 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-14745-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Anxiety #Depression #Epidemiology #Psychology #Statistics #Science #SocialMedia #Twitter #Technology #Academia
🖥️ **Lessons from Gary, a helpful office chatbot who sometimes hallucinates**
"_While AI can handle tedious work, it lacks the human intuition and emotional intelligence crucial to the workplace._"
🔗 https://tennessean.com/story/money/2025/10/12/office-chatbot-artificial-intelligence-ai/86591691007/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbot #Technology #Tech #Jobs
📖 🎙️ 🏴 🇺🇸 **Fighting with the Past: How Seventeenth-Century History Shaped the American Civil War By Aaron Sheehan-Dean**
"_As Dr. Aaron Sheehan-Dean reveals in this fascinating work of comparative intellectual history, nineteenth-century Americans were especially conversant with narratives of the English Civil Wars of the 1600s. Northerners and Southerners alike drew from histories of the English past to make sense of their own conflict, interpreting the events of the past in drastically different ways._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/fighting-with-the-past.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #England #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Is Jack Sparrow based on a 16th Century Kent pirate?**
"_A former fish gutter from Kent may have been the inspiration for Captain Jack Sparrow, the character made famous by Johnny Depp in the Pirates of the Caribbean films._"
**Marie Antoinette portrait really sister, study finds**
"_A famous portrait of Marie Antoinette as a child is really of her sister, new research has found._"
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🎥 The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
"_How dynamics explain Euler's formula, and vice versa._"
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Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
https://wapo.st/474Gp9w
🎥 **The Month Of October In History**
"_In 1929, New York Stock Exchange Slump_
_In 1946, Nuremberg - The Verdicts
In 1962, President John F Kennedy Speech - Sound_
_In 1962, Crisis Over Cuba
In 1967, Vietnam Protest_"
🇦🇺 **The World’s Largest Gold Nugget Was So Heavy, It Had To Be Broken To Be Weighed**
"_Just beneath the surface of the Australian outback, a chance strike in 1869 revealed a gold discovery so enormous it left a local town in disbelief._"
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/world-largest-gold-nugget-was-so-heavy/.
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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