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🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Lord Mountbatten's Emotional Tribute to Winston Churchill (1965)**

#Video length: six minutes and thirty eight seconds.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKirZk6qFCU

#GB #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #WinstonChurchill #Churchill #Mountbatten #History #Histodon #Histodons #Television #TV #Archive @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Follow Friday Request**

Requesting recommendations for accounts to follow this Friday. If you would like to know the type of content that I am interested in just have a look at my timeline.

Thank you.

#FollowFriday #FF #Request #Recommendations

🔴 🇺🇸 🎥 **Why The US South Is Insanely Religious**

#Video length: twenty one minutes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=knHhPDfT9Jw

#USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Religion #Christianity @religion @christianity

@divilian As the article mentions it might be that the mispronunciation is a deliberate dog whistle as opposed to low IQ or diminishing cognitive abilites.

🔴 **The New Roman Empire: A History of Byzantium by Anthony Kaldellis.**

"_He reprehends the terms ‘Byzantine’ and ‘Byzantium’ as the fraudulent legacy of 19th-century scholars determined to claim the heritage of Roman antiquity for (North-) Western Europe, dispossessing its rightful heirs and smearing them, perversely, with tropes of Oriental despotism invented by the Greeks of the classical age. Save in the book’s subtitle, a commercial concession, Kaldellis restricts the offending word to historiographical contexts._"

https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n15/michael-kulikowski/real-romans

#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Byzantium #History #Histodon #Histodons @bookstodon @histodon @histodons

🔴 **Elon Musk says he’s a ‘cultural Christian’ – why some leading thinkers are embracing Christianity**

"_Musk joins many western conservative thinkers troubled by a rapidly changing world. Some of these thinkers have embraced Christianity to combat these changes. Yet they often struggle to accept Christianity’s central supernatural claims, like Christ’s resurrection._"

https://theconversation.com/elon-musk-says-hes-a-cultural-christian-why-some-leading-thinkers-are-embracing-christianity-233601

#ElonMusk #Musk #Religion #Philosophy #Christianity #Conservatism @religion @philosophy @christianity

🔴 **‘The ick’, ‘boop’ and ‘chef’s kiss’ added to Cambridge Dictionary**

"_A phrase popularised by Love Island joins more than 3,200 other entries relating to online gaming, parcel thefts and more._"

https://www.theguardian.com/books/article/2024/jul/25/the-ick-boop-and-chefs-kiss-added-to-cambridge-dictionary

#News #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Linguistics #Lexicon @bookstodon

🔴 **Google DeepMind takes step closer to cracking top-level maths**

"_Even though computers were made to do maths faster than any human could manage, the top level of formal mathematics remains an exclusively human domain. But a breakthrough by researchers at Google DeepMind has brought AI systems closer than ever to beating the best human mathematicians at their own game._"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jul/25/google-deepmind-takes-step-closer-to-cracking-top-level-maths

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #DeepMind #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Google #Tech #Technology #News @ai

🔴 🇯🇵 **The transformative power of translation**

"_...In both 1870 and 1910 most of the technical knowledge of the world is in French, English, Italian and German but look at what happens in Japan–basically no technical books in 1870 to on par with English in 1910. Moreover, no other country did this._"

https://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=65111

#Language #Translation #Japan #Japanese #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Technology #Tech @bookstodon

🔴 **Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice**

"_Moreover, participants indicated lower willingness to follow the advice when AI was believed to be involved in advice generation. Our findings point toward an anti-AI bias when receiving digital medical advice, even when AI is supposedly supervised by physicians._"

Reis, M., Reis, F. & Kunde, W. Influence of believed AI involvement on the perception of digital medical advice. Nat Med (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41591-024-03180-7

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Medicine #Health #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Academia #Academic #Academics @psychology

@erictopol I still wear a face mask when at work.

@heidilifeldman On a side note he looks a lot better than he did for the debate.

@peterbrown From memory I did some reading around this topic a while back. I think the settlement after interaction with the outside world just became unviable.