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@SimonRoyHughes@thefolklore.cafe I absolutely agree, the old books have stood the test of time.
@SimonRoyHughes@thefolklore.cafe I would say it might be time for a good book; however, even books nowadays are increasingly being generated by AI.
<strong>Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem</strong>
"_Earlier scholarly accounts that portray Origen as a champion of human equality and as engaged in anti-racist efforts therefore cannot stand up to scrutiny. Origen disparages certain ethnic groups and develops arguments that connect ethnic identity and geographical location with various degrees of sinfulness. His work offers clear evidence that theories of ethnic inferiority have a long history within the Christian matrix that stretches considerably beyond the modern and medieval periods._"
Matthijs den Dulk, Origen of Alexandria and the History of Racism as a Theological Problem, The Journal of Theological Studies, Volume 71, Issue 1, April 2020, Pages 164–195, https://doi.org/10.1093/jts/flaa025
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Essay #Theology #History #Histodon #Histodons #Christianity #Church #Racism #Racist #Religion #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @theology
#Image attribution: Luyken, Jan (1649-1712), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:OrigenStudentsLuyken.jpg
"_The fakes created during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century tell us another story, one of the rediscovery of the ancient Near East within the Orientalism movement. This fascination about the Orient and the past led certain individuals to create some fantastic stories and theories, such as those published by the writer Zecharia Stichin (1920–2010) who took the mythological battles of gods related in the authentic Babylonian Epic of Creation to be real astronomic phenomena._"
Michel, C. 2020. Cuneiform Fakes: A Long History from Antiquity to the Present Day. In: Michel, C. and Friedrich, M. ed. Fakes and Forgeries of Written Artefacts from Ancient Mesopotamia to Modern China. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter, pp. 25-60. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110714333-002
#OpenAccess #OA #Chapter #Research #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodon #Histodons #Fake #Cuneiform #NearEast #MiddleEast #Asia #Academia #Academic #Academics #Read #Reading #NonFiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon @archaeodons
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“Creators may be in a stronger position than they realise. To obviate the necessity of licensing, models are being trained on the artificial output of AI itself. But this hasn’t gone…well. Researchers have found that AI models “collapse” or go “MAD” — Model Autophagy Disorder — in the words of one team who explicitly evoke the analogy of BSE (mad cow disease) to describe the cannibalistic process. It turns out they need” humans after all.
https://thecritic.co.uk/ai-and-the-great-data-robbery/
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On average, a #ChatGPT query needs nearly 10x as much #electricity to process as a #Google search. In that difference lies a coming sea change in how US, #Europe, and the world at large will consume power - and how much that will cost, chart @Goldmansachs
I wonder if there are more opportunities for profit?
"_The extent to which the worship of Baal and Asherah affected Israel’s understanding of Yahweh is seen in the inscriptions found at Kuntillet Ajrud. Jezebel was not fully responsible for the ongoing worship of Canaanite deities in Israel and Judah but her reign gave legitimacy to the long held tendency._"
Dolan, M. (2024) “Jezebel: A Hebrew Disaster”, Buried History: The Journal of the Australian Institute of Archaeology, 40, pp. 39–48. https://doi.org/10.62614/7d25h288
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Antiquidons #Israel #Phoenicia #Yahweh #Baal #Levant #MiddleEast #NearEast #Hebrew #Bible #Religion #Canaan #Canaanite #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons @antiquidons @histodon @histodons
#Image (Baal Ugarit) attribution: Louvre Museum, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL:https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Baal_Ugarit_Louvre_AO17329.jpg
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What do we know about the early migrants to Britain’s shores?
Who Were the First Humans on British Shores?
The Story of 'Cheddar Man'
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2KelhUMc5R0
Dr Selina Brace explains how her team at the Natural History Museum
<strong>The Lost Roman Legion | Possible Explanations</strong>
"_An exploration into the fate of the Legio IX Hispana and where exactly it drops out of the historical records._"
#Video length: twenty three minutes and forty six seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mLD6gwdcAzU
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Roman #Romans #Empire #Antiquity #Antiquidons @histodon @histodons @antiquidons
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Nice little piece on some of the photocopy techniques for copying #maps ... https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2024/05/copy-that/?loclr=eamap
"<strong>Because a growing share of Americans hold highly unfavourable views of big corporations, we argue that the belief that large firms win from trade will provoke hostility towards trade and globalization. To test this theory, we show experimentally that informing people that large corporations benefit from trade makes them markedly more hostile towards trade compared to a treatment emphasizing that firms in exporting industries benefit.</strong>"
Menon, A. and Osgood, I. (2024) ‘The Wrong Winners: Anti-Corporate Animus and Attitudes Towards Trade’, British Journal of Political Science, pp. 1–18. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123424000152.
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#deindustrialisation -- #Schuldenbremse , high #energy costs, weak global #demand, a disruptive shift towards net-zero economies, and growing competition from #China are raising existential questions for #Germany 's economic model, chart @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/europe/s-fears-german-de-industrialisation-may-be-overblown-now-2024-05-16/
@undefined @falcennial Climate change is here. It's effects can already be felt. Refusing to acknowledge it does not make it go away.
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Who would have ever guessed that…?
𝘿𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙫𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙁𝙖𝙘𝙚𝙗𝙤𝙤𝙠 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙟𝙪𝙨𝙩 𝙖 𝙛𝙚𝙬 𝙬𝙚𝙚𝙠𝙨 𝙧𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙚𝙨 𝙗𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙚𝙛 𝙞𝙣 𝙛𝙖𝙠𝙚 𝙣𝙚𝙬𝙨
#facebook #social #media #SocialMedia #fake #news #FakeNews #disinformation #meta
@feliz @pvonhellermannn I was being charitable.
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@bibliolater I like this chart, clean and uncluttered with a clear story to tell.
@barefootstache I think the prognosis is dependant on assumptions in fertility and mortality holding true.
@pvonhellermannn Blissful ignorance may be a viable option for some of us.
"Focusing on classical philologists and biblical scholars in nineteenth-century Germany, it examines how Hyperkritik developed from a technical philological term into a pejorative label that was widely invoked to discredit the latest trends in classical philology and, especially, biblical scholarship."
Paul, H. (2024) ‘Hypercriticism: A Case Study in the Rhetoric of Vice’, Modern Intellectual History, pp. 1–25. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S1479244324000155.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philology #Language #Rhetoric #History #Histodon #Histodons #Bible #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
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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