Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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@jglypt Why do you say that?
@Ruth_Mottram @jimalkhalili An excellent science broadcaster I have been watching him for years.
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Welcome to one of my favourite science writers and broadcasters ... @jimalkhalili
From: @jimalkhalili
https://mastodon.social/@jimalkhalili/113259325361012902
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DID YOU KNOW that you can create your own timelines using the List feature?
Here's a video run-down on how to use Lists on Mastodon by @paulomalley 💜
@drahardja Luckily for some they never subscribed in the first place to have to cancel now.
@InnerAlien @pluralistic You could try Librivox for public domain audiobooks. The quality of the reading can be hit and miss at times however there some gems waiting to be found.
@freeschool @grim_fandango Don't forget Ceefax as well.
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⚠️ #Milton is now forecast to become a Category 3 Major Hurricane before striking the west coast of the Florida Peninsula on Wednesday.
🔴 Oklahoma seeks to buy 55,000 Bibles – exactly like the ones Trump is hawking
"The request is part of Republican state superintendent Ryan Walters’ ongoing efforts to require Bibles in every classroom, which has been met with resistance by some of Oklahoma’s largest school districts.
Walters is seeking to spend $3m in state funds for Bibles that fit a certain criteria, including that the pages are supplemented with US historical materials. The Bibles must also be “bound in leather or leather-like material for durability”, according to state bidding documents posted this week."
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/oct/05/oklahoma-schools-trump-bible
#Bible #News #Religion #Oklahoma #Education #Trump #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @religion
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
🔴 🎥 How are holograms possible?
"3d scenes on 2d film, and a diffraction lesson along the way."
#Video length: forty six minutes and twenty three minutes.
Do you roll your eyes when you hear a person claim that they are 'classically liberal'?
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ 🇵🇹 🇮🇳 Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries
"Furthermore, the Portuguese state continued to allow the extraction of labor from communities on the basis of caste. The famed physician Garcia d’Orta, writing in 1563, described such labor extraction from communities deemed untouchable in Portuguese Bassein: “In every village, there is a people despised and abhorred by all, who do not touch others, who eat everything, even carrion [as cousas mortas]. Each village gives them its leftovers to eat, without touching them. Their concern is to cleanse the houses and streets of dirt."
Chakravarti, A. (2024) ‘Slavery, Mobility, and Identity on the Western Coast of India, Sixteenth–Eighteenth Centuries’, Comparative Studies in Society and History, pp. 1–30. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0010417524000203.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #Labour #Labor #Slavery #Caste #Race #Goa #Portugal #Portuguese #Empire #Imperialism #India #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
⭐ Data centre emissions are soaring – it’s AI or the climate
"AI models consume a lot of electricity, and the World Economic Forum estimated in April that the computer power dedicated to AI is doubling every 100 days. Powering this boom in the US, where many AI tech pioneers are based, have been revitalised gas power plants once slated for closure."
https://theconversation.com/data-centre-emissions-are-soaring-its-ai-or-the-climate-240137
#Data #Climate #ClimateChange #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @ai @climatechange
⭐ Experts say these species will be brought back from dead before 2028 – with help from Paris Hilton
"But Ben Lamm, the company’s chief executive, said it is “highly likely” the dodo and the Tasmanian tiger could potentially pip the mammoth – which went extinct around 4,000 years ago – to the post within the next three years."
⭐ 🎥 Why Ancient Greek is so hard... and how to fix it!
#Video length: one hour and fifteen minutes.
#AncientGreek #AncientGreece #Ancient #Greek #Greece #Language #Learning #Education
⭐ 🎥 The invention that broke English spelling
"The invention of the printing press ushered in a literary revolution, helping to create the world as we know it. However... it also made a terrible mess of English."
#Video length: twenty two minutes and forty six seconds.
Not a bot, just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very, very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph 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.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
