Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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<strong>Five common English words we don’t know the origins of – including ‘boy’ and ‘dog’</strong>
"_The English lexicon includes some terms known as “proper words”, which today apparently exist only in English. Cognates for them cannot be found in any other language._
_These are very simple and common words but being unique, we cannot apply the comparative method to them and therefore cannot reconstruct their origins._"
#History #English #Language #Linguistics #OldEnglish @linguistics
<strong>The United States has, by far, the highest death rate from opioids</strong>
"_In 2021, the United States had, by far, the highest death rate from opioids, with 15.4 deaths per 100,000 people each year. Second behind it was Canada, with 6.9 deaths per 100,000. Several European countries and Russia counted between 3 and 4 deaths per 100,000._"
**Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia**
"_This study suggests that the Bronze Age boat imagery in southern Scandinavia depicts plank-built vessels of a type that belonged to the same boatbuilding tradition as the c. 350 BC Hjortspring boat. More importantly, aspects of this boat imagery can be directly related to the contemporary ship-settings, suggesting use of sail and the existence of boats that from stem to stem (excluding horn projections) might have been in the region of up 20–30 metres or perhaps even larger._"
Bengtsson, B., Artursson, M. and Wehlin, J. (2024) ‘Evidence of Large Vessels and Sail in Bronze Age Scandinavia’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, pp. 1–26. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00293652.2024.2357135.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Scandinavia #Nordic #BronzeAge #Sailing #Boats #History #Europe #Academia #Academic #Academics @archaeodons
<strong>What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?</strong>
"_Fascism prospered from a paralysis of the state’s capacity for dispatching its key organizing functions, whether in the economy or for the larger tasks of keeping cohesion in society. At the worst points of the crisis, that paralysis encompassed the entire institutional machinery of politics, including the parliamentary and party-political frameworks of representation._"
Geoff Eley, What is Fascism and Where does it Come From?, History Workshop Journal, Volume 91, Issue 1, Spring 2021, Pages 1–28, https://doi.org/10.1093/hwj/dbab003
#Article #History #Histodon #Histodons #Fascism #Politics #PoliticalScience #DOI #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @histodon @histodons
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My footnote is bigger than yours.
Greetings from Christian Philipp Leutwein's 1691 pamphlet featuring a very space-consuming #footnote on page 18. In fact, the footnote started on page 17...
<strong>Moral Progress: A Controversial Yet Important Idea</strong>
"_A theory of progress can help guide the future of ethics by locating this “low-hanging ethical fruit” of intertheoretical moral consensus, which has a greater probability of being morally good, as well as defended by future generations of people and moral philosophers than views that only rely on a particular or fringe moral view._"
https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024/07/01/moral-progress-a-controversial-yet-important-idea/
<strong>The ancient dream of AI?</strong>
"_When it comes to bringing forth artificial human-like life and understanding, mythos preceded logos. The earliest AI stories are Greek mythological narratives._"
<strong>The Shocking Philosophy of Bullshit</strong>
"_Well, today we will look at Harry Frankfurt's essay on that very topic, and dive into the surprising philosophy of Bulls****_"
🎥 #Video length: twenty seven minutes and thirty five seconds.
<strong>Kipp Davis - Jewish Apocalypticism</strong>
"_Today I’ll be talking to Kipp about Jewish apocalyptic thought, apocalyptic writings and the relevance of these to an understanding of the historical Jesus._"
🎥 #Video length: one hour and thirty minutes.
<strong> Ten Classic Books For Summer</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifty one minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwU-bnenqjs
#Summer #Read #Reading #Literature #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
<strong>Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics </strong>
"_Dhoombak Goobgoowana has revealed the extensive influence of Nazi apologists, racists and massacre perpetrators in the history of the university – not referring to Nossal. It outlines how eugenic ideas about white superiority denigrated First Nations people, as well as non-white immigrants._"
#Australia #Genetics #Biology #Eugenics #Race #University #Education #History #HistSci @science
<strong>7 Philosophical Questions to Help You Journal</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty seconds.
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This is what an asteroid looks like up close.
Really close.
Through an electron microscope!
First studies of the pieces of asteroid Bennu gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are out now:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.14227 #space #astronomy #nasa #science #life #astrodon
@volkris Success or calamity all depends on which criterion is being used to make the judgement. For some it will be the verbal jabbing of a bare-knuckle pugilist and for others it will be the attributes of ethics and competency. A case of the idiom: horses for courses.
<strong>World's First Mobile Phone?</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQL44IYAcM
#Archive #History #Tech #Technology #Phone #C20th #20thcentury
<strong>It was an objectively disastrous performance for all those involved.</strong>
#Biden #Trump #Debate #PresidentialDebate #CNN #CNNDebate #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Media #MSM @politics
<strong>Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior</strong>
"_The aggregate results across treatments suggest the following conclusions: (1) in the absence of a lie-detection algorithm, people are reluctant to make accusations; (2) when the lie-detection algorithm is available, a minority of people want to obtain its prediction; (3) the minority that does almost always follows the algorithmic prediction, independent of whether the algorithm flags a statement as truth or lie; (4) individuals who actively request algorithmic predictions are not inherently more prone to make accusations, but follow accusation suggestions more than those who receive such predictions without actively seeking them; (5) those who would not actively request the algorithmic prediction do not change their behavior even when they passively receive one; (6) beliefs about the relative performance of the lie-detection algorithm correlate with adoption rates._"
Von Schenk, A. et al. (2024) 'Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior,' iScience, p. 110201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110201.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Computing #SocialScience #Social #MachineLearning #Algorithm #Lying #Academia #Academic #Academics @socialscience
@freeschool I hope @freemo is well if he is not been heard from recently.
<strong>Can ChatGPT Detect DeepFakes? A Study of Using Multimodal Large Language Models for Media Forensics</strong>
"_In this work, we investigate the capabilities of multimodal large language models (LLMs) in DeepFake detection. We conducted qualitative and quantitative experiments to demonstrate multimodal LLMs and show that they can expose AI-generated images through careful experimental design and prompt engineering._"
Jia, S. et al. (2024) 'Can ChatGPT Detect DeepFakes? A study of using multimodal large language models for media forensics,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.14077.
#Preprint #Research #ChatGPT #LLM #LLMs #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Deepfake #Deepfakes @ai
<strong>The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath</strong>
"_The rediscovery of the Mesopotamian epic complicated centuries-old and on-going debates about time and history: The major archaeologists of the period utilized it to return the field to its earliest arguments and better understand what time and history meant at the end of the nineteenth century, the Historians, Hebraists, and Biblicists began to question the originality of the Bible and verify its reliability, and figures specialized in literature and/or the arts got access to the primary sources of prehistory to update existing literature or create new fictional arts._"
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Literature #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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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