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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@cjd A wholesome future that everyone can look forward to in anticipation.
💻 **Platform payments fuel AI slop flood across social media**
"_Monetization programs from TikTok, Meta, YouTube and X drive creators to mass-produce low-quality AI content for financial gain._"
🔗 https://ppc.land/platform-payments-fuel-ai-slop-flood-across-social-media/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #SocialMedia @ai
Morning all.
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Imaginary numbers are real
These odd values were long dismissed as bookkeeping. Now physicists are proving that they describe the hidden shape of nature
Karmela Padavic-Callaghan
Mathematics - Philosophy at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/subject/17657
@bwaber I am currently reading the same book. I too highly recommend it as an introduction to Japanese history.
🇺🇸 💵 **Value Of The US Dollar Over The Last Six Months**
The value of the US dollar as tracked by the 'US Dollar Index Futures' has fallen against a basket of currencies over the last six months. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/quote/NYICDX:INDEXNYSEGIS?window=6M
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics @economics
💻 **AI swallows misinformation and spits it back at us: ‘It’s optimized to give useful information, but not for it to be correct’**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Disinformation #Misinformation @ai
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So duckduckgo has a 'no AI' version, at the link https://noai.duckduckgo.com/
I do wish they went for an opt-in so you could choose the ai version at something like 'ai-dot-duckduckgo'. But it's better than nothing.
**Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin**
“_Our findings reveal minor East Asian ancestry in the Carpathian Basin (CB) Sarmatians, distinguishing them from other regional populations. Using F4 statistics, qpAdm, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analysis, we show that CB Sarmatians descended from Steppe Sarmatians originating in the Ural and Kazakhstan regions, with Romanian Sarmatians serving as a possible genetic bridge between the two groups._”
Schütz, Oszkár et al., (2025). Unveiling the origins and genetic makeup of the “forgotten people”: A study of the Sarmatian-period population in the Carpathian Basin. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2025.05.009.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Archaeogenetics #Genetics #Roman #Migration #Academia #Academics @science
📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.
#ProjectGutenberg #Read #IsaacNewton #Newton #Science #Physics #Ebook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science
#Image attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Sir_Isaac_Newton_(4670220).jpg.
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AI might undermine one of the better alternatives to the Kindle
https://www.engadget.com/ai/ai-might-undermine-one-of-the-better-alternatives-to-the-kindle-123039955.html?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
**Scandinavia has its own dark history of assimilating Indigenous people, and churches played a role – but are apologizing**
#Finland #Colonialism #Christianity #Scandinavia #Nordic #Sami #Lutherans #Religion
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Google’s emissions up 51% as AI electricity demand derails efforts to go green https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/jun/27/google-emissions-ai-electricity-demand-derail-efforts-green #Artificialintelligence(AI) #Environment #Technology #Worldnews #Alphabet #Google #Energy
**Darius the Persian: An Archaeological Biography**
🔗 https://biblearchaeologyreport.com/2025/06/27/darius-the-persian-an-archaeological-biography/.
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Citation manipulation through citation mills and pre-print servers
https://rdcu.be/etMbV
💻 🧠 🖋️ **A.I. Is Homogenizing Our Thoughts**
"_Recent studies suggest that tools such as ChatGPT make our brains less active and our writing less original._"
🔗 https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-is-homogenizing-our-thoughts
#Culture #Thinking #Writing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai @writing
🌍 **Global economy to slow amid 'most severe trade war since 1930s', says Fitch**
_“Our latest GDP forecasts reflect extreme volatility in US trade policy in recent months, which has increased uncertainty and will further weigh on growth,”_
🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/global-economy-trump-trade-war-us-china-143342764.html
💻 **Gartner: More than 40% of agentic AI projects will fail by 2027**
"_More than 40% of agentic AI projects will be cancelled by the end of 2027 as organizations struggle with rising costs, unclear business value and inadequate risk controls, according to a new forecast from Gartner._"
🔗 https://www.rcrwireless.com/20250627/business/agentic-ai-gartner
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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