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📖 **Was ‘Aeneid’ critiquing or glorifying empire?**
_Virgil doesn’t, by any means, invent Aeneas, but he gives Aeneas, who was a relatively minor figure in Homer’s “Iliad,” new primacy at the center of his epic. During Virgil’s time, Augustus emerged, after the Battle of Actium in 31 B.C., as the first emperor of Rome, and it was as this new regime was being consolidated in the 20s B.C. that Virgil wrote “The Aeneid.”_
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/was-aeneid-critiquing-or-glorifying-empire/.
**Kant on language, culture and politics**
"_Indeed, he seems not to have anticipated the role that the concept of language was to play in twentieth century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, nor does he foresee the sometimes-devastating role that linguistic and ethnic national divisions were to play in nineteenth and twentieth century European politics._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/16/kant-on-language-culture-and-politics/.
📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ **
"_Writing in 93/4 ce, Josephus composed an account of Jesus known as the Testimonium Flavianum. Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._"
Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697.001.0001, accessed 15 Oct. 2025.
Evening all.
🖥️ 🇰🇷 **AI-powered textbooks fail to make the grade in South Korea**
🔗 https://restofworld.org/2025/south-korea-ai-textbook/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #SouthKorea
📚 **BOOK REVIEW: A Perfect Frenzy: A Royal Governor, His Black Allies, and the Crisis that Spurred the American Revolution by Andrew Lawler**
🖥️ **AI Bubble May Pop — Wiping Out $40 Trillion. Learn What Could Happen And What To Do**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Business #Finance #Debt
**Ambitious parents should aspire for their children to be philosophers**
"_In a world where robots can do almost everything better than us, philosophy may be the last redoubt of the human._"
🔗 https://news.yahoo.com/ambitious-parents-aspire-children-philosophers-181621131.html.
📚 **Certified organic and AI-free: New stamp for human-written books launches**
"_As machine-made books flood online marketplaces, a new UK initiative is introducing an Organic Literature stamp to help readers identify books created by real authors_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Books #Bookstodon
🌎 **What if Christopher Columbus had never reached the Americas?**
🔗 https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/what-if-christopher-columbus-had-never-reached-the-americas.
🛂 🇺🇸 **US Passport Drops From Top 10 Most Powerful For First Time—Here’s What That Means**
"_More specifically, the United States’ ranking on the Henley index is suppressed by the country’s lack of reciprocity. While American passport holders can access 180 out of 227 destinations visa-free, the U.S. itself allows only 46 other nationalities to enter visa-free, putting it in 77th place on the Henley Openness Index, where it barely outpaces Iraq._"
@kevinrns They may be working on the assumption that partial refund is better than zero refund.
🖥️ 🇦🇺 **440,000 dollars for copy-paste from AI? Deloitte has to pay back money to Australia!**
**Racism Is Not Innate**
"_Research shows a link between racism and anxiety, insecurity, and lack of a sense of identity._"
🔗 https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/blog/out-of-the-darkness/202510/racism-is-not-innate
**BlackRock’s assets hit record US$13.46 trillion on third-quarter markets rally**
"_Total revenue – most of which is earned as a percentage of assets under management – rose to US$6.5 billion from US$5.2 billion a year ago, driven mainly by the market rally and an 8 per cent growth in organic base fee._"
**When Knowledge Is Free, What Are Professors For?**
"_The lesson for educational leaders is clear: when your core offering becomes free, you don't fight the technology, you find higher ground. In education's case, that higher ground is teaching students not just what to think, but how to think wisely when the stakes are real._"
📖 🇬🇧 **The Union Jack: The Story of the British Flag**
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/the-union-jack/
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Nonfiction #Politics #UKPol #Books #Bookstodon
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How easy is it to "poison" a large language model's data? Much easier than experts previously thought. New research from the Alan Turing Institute indicates that only 250 documents are needed to be inserted in order to manipulate a model's behavior. Here's more from institute's blog, including a link to the original paper.
#Technology #Tech #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #LargeLanguageModels #LLM #DataPoisoning
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Hear What the Language Spoken by Our Ancestors 6,000 Years Ago Might Have Sounded Like
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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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