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Joined Nov 2022
🇺🇸 **US bond market braces for surge in Treasury supply in second half**
"_With the flood of Treasuries, market participants are left to wonder: who is going to buy them all?_"
https://www.reuters.com/business/us-bond-market-braces-surge-treasury-supply-second-half-2025-06-24/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Business #Bonds #BondMarket #Debt #Economy #Economics @economics
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 **The Demographic Race between India and China**
"_Using multi-dimensional demographic projections by age, sex, education, and labor force participation, we show that China’s current apparent demographic travails will not necessarily threaten its leading status relative to India for most of the next half century given India’s disadvantage in educational attainment and very low female labor force participation._"
Marois, G., Gietel-Basten, S. & Lutz, W. The Demographic Race between India and China. Popul Res Policy Rev 44, 44 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11113-025-09966-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Demography #Demographics #Population #India #China #Education #Academics
**The Anthropocene illusion**
"_Zed Nelson’s photographs capture how nature has become a curated experience._"
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/06/24/1118442/zed-nelson-photography-nature-curation/.
💻 **AI helps spread new stereotypes across cultures**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Culture #Stereotypes @ai
💻 **AI will make you a dumber writer, says science.**
🔗 https://lithub.com/ai-will-make-you-a-dumber-writer-says-science/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Science #Research @ai @science
📖 **The Lost Colony of the Confederacy**
"_Eugene Harter vividly describes the lives of these last Confederates who founded their own city and were called Os Confederados. They retained much of their Southernness and lent an American flavor to Brazilian culture._"
🔗 https://www.tamupress.com/book/9781585441020/the-lost-colony-of-the-confederacy/.
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Brazil @histodons @bookstodon
**A Confederate Raider Fired the Final Shots of the Civil War in the Arctic, Two and a Half Months After Robert E. Lee Surrendered**
#History #Histodons #Confederacy #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
**Why physicists think geometry is the path to a theory of everything**
💻 **Fact or Fiction? Artificial Intelligence Misinformation**
_How to recognize AI “hallucinations."_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Misinformation @ai
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**How to Read Hard Books (and actually understand them)**
#Video length: thirty-four minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNHttO4MxM.
#Reading #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
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🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
📖 ✏️ **Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend**
#Marginalia #Books #Bookstodon #BookTok #Instagram #SocialMedia @bookstodon
**Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/22/nvidia-gets-into-money-burning-ai-startups/.
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Eastern half of U.S. braces for more long days of dangerous heat
https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-eastern-central-united-states-advisories-d7b93e295c42cdb4787cf95c1f09858b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
**The importance of rhythm for memorization**
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved.
📸 💻 **Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. Op-Docs**
The New York Times
"_Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?_"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and forty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3wEg9tsCY.
#Documentary #Photography #Photos #Images #Cameras #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
🇬🇧 💻 **The AI hallucination: Why tech will add problems, not solve them**
🔗 https://feweek.co.uk/the-ai-hallucination-why-tech-will-add-problems-not-solve-them/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIHallucinations #Education #Teaching #UK #UnitedKingdom @ai
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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Joined Nov 2022
