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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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**Lying increases trust in science**
Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science
Afternoon all.
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Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us.
“The difference lies in how we use it,” writes professor of information systems Aaron French. https://theconversation.com/is-chatgpt-making-us-stupid-255370
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Well-timed for #ishpssb2025 👇 these authors are among the few academics actively trying to tackle the scourge of scientific racism. Would be great to see more historians and philosophers of science engage with this problem
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hhs6eirikabtdfx3ougekmkq/post/3lupiyvnlcs2b
@Yehuda I received a similar toot, different account and instant details but the same link to click:
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In Denmark we have one of highest proportions of renewables AND some of highest electricity prices in Europe.*
But funnily it's correlation not causality. We also pay a lot of tax on energy.
Good deep dive by @andrewdessler.com
* & Sometimes price is negative
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/have-renewables-decreased-electricity-da4
@badbede These were all red flags for me. These toots must work on some level for the scammers, otherwise why waste time composing them?
🇪🇺 🏭 **Decrease in industrial production in 2024**
"_In nominal terms, the EU’s value of sold production went down from €5 975 billion in 2023 to €5 860 billion in 2024, indicating a 1.9% decrease._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250724-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #Industry
@fatchy A certain cohort of users must fall for it otherwise why would it be worth going to the trouble to compose such toots?
**Math Is Erotic**
"_The purely mental activity of doing mathematics can be a mode of access to something that transcends the human mind. That this should be the case would seem to indicate that there is a deep resonance between mind and cosmos—almost as if cosmos participates in mind._"
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📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/diamonds-bust.
#History #Histodons #Biography #CecilRhodes #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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**Indo-Europeans Rediscovered (mini book review)**
#Video length: short.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvdm3IMgpTc.
#IndoEuropeans #Linguistics #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Who Won the Battle of Baton Rouge?**
Thank you for the suggestion.
🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**
"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.
#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon
🖥️ **AI Is Getting Smarter—and Less Reliable**
"_The chatbots’ vulnerability to manipulation, along with their susceptibility to groupthink and their inability to recognize basic facts, should alarm all of us about the growing reliance on these research tools in industry, education, and the media._"
🔗 https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/ai-is-getting-smarter-and-less-reliable.
🖥️ **DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deepmind-and-openai-achieve-imo-gold.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Maths #Mathematics #Math
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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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