Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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**The Uncomfortable Truth: How Christianity Both Supported and Fought Against Slavery **
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Tamerlane: A Nomadic Conqueror Even More Feared Than Genghis Khan
https://www.thecollector.com/tamerlane-nomadic-conqueror-feared/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into THECOLLECTOR @thecollector-thecollector
**Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week**
#Graphs #Charts #Business #Finance #Economics #Markets @economics
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Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs
https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/
▪️Despite Lunar Lake, Intel is seeing stronger demand for older Raptor Lake systems.
▪️The Intel 7 node is seeing production shortages due to increased demand.
▪️AI PCs powered by Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake are more expensive, leading buyers to Raptor Lake, according to Intel.
🇺🇸 💻 **Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/.
#Data #DataCentres #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Tariffs @ai
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27 Apr 1663: John Milton signs a contract #otd with a publisher for £5 for Paradise Lost - when 1,300 copies were sold, he'd get another £5.
This came to pass 5 years and 364 days later...
@tootbrute 25 more than many people on this planet.
**Why are influencers being blamed for rise in shark attacks**
“_A new study claims social media is responsible for encouraging people to interact with sharks_”
📖 🏴 🎙️ **Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England**
“_In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Simon Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism._”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/cartographies-of-exclusion.
#Podcast #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Judaism #Maps #England @histodon @histodons @medievodons @bookstodon
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**What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**
Survive the Jive
_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17qQ
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons
In some places, libraries are moving away from physical collections into the virtual realm only. It is good to hear that libraries in your local area still hold physical #books.
📚 **What to do with too many books?**
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/04/what-to-do-with-too-many-books/.
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For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.
What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.
Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
**Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy**
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/04/26/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/.
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New #ebook @gutenberg_org: The freedom of the seas by Hugo Grotius https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75962
📖 **Reaching The End**
I have reached page 704 of a book that is 730 pages in total. I currently have a virus, and I am struggling to concentrate. It is becoming increasing more difficult to reach the end. I am near; but, not near enough!
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Canada’s Constitution – and the heroes who forged it – made us who we are as a country
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1a6fe9cc9da1c024ee0021adc103c77808554f1e0570bdd46e8f4dce78fbde25/V3EZLP56LZFCDGLG5T5EDEXJG4/
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PhD Timeline (US 2025)
📚 **the most obvious reason to read a book, today**
Tim DeMoss
#Video length: six minutes and five seconds.
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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