Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
@not3ottersinacoat Thank you that helped.
@not3ottersinacoat Thank you for your assistance, I really appreciate it. A lot of the options are not available to me as I am running a very old desktop on the XFCE version of Linux Mint.
🇺🇸 **Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons**
"_Black Friday involved two robber barons, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, who worked with Abel Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant, to drive up the price of gold. Their scheme resulted in a dramatic price crash on September 24, 1869, which shuttered many brokerage firms and led to the value of gold and stocks falling by $100 million._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/.
Afternoon all, it is Friday and the start of the weekend is here.
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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
"AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite" lead to more debugging work.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/developer-survey-shows-trust-in-ai-coding-tools-is-falling-as-usage-rises/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
📰 **Curate Your Own Newspaper With RSS**
"_Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read_"
**‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?**
🧠 🖥️ **Brain Rot And The Rise Of AI Slop**
"_Finian Murphy looks at the influence of AI on our feeds, our news and ultimately, our thought processes._"
🔗 https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ai-slop-6772946-Jul2025/.
#BrainRot #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech
🇺🇸 **Fed’s preferred inflation gauge accelerates in June as tariffs bite**
"_Goods prices increased by 0.4% from the prior month, the fastest pace since January, while services prices held steady at 0.2% for the fourth consecutive month, according to government data released Thursday._"
🔗 https://realeconomy.rsmus.com/feds-preferred-inflation-gauge-accelerates-in-june-as-tariffs-bite/.
#Data #DtaViz #Statistics #Inflation #Tariffs #Economy #Economics @economics
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**Neoconservatism: A Roundtable**
"_Emerging in the 1960s as a critique of the perceived leftward drift in liberal politics, neoconservatism—while broadly characterized by anti-communism, cultural conservatism, and commitment to liberal democracy—exhibited significant internal variations and shifts in focus._"
🔗 https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/07/30/neoconservatism-a-roundtable/.
#Neoconservatism #Politics #PoliticalScience @politicalscience
**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**
"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"
🔗 https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15187?v=pdf.
#OpenAccess #OA #Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Migration #Britain #Germanic #AngloSaxons #Linguistics #History @linguistics
**How the riches of its graduates tied Edinburgh University to slavery**
"_Alumni such as Robert Halliday Gunning helped the university raise the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds_"
🍔 **Uber Eats is stuffing AI slop into your meal**
"_AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads._"
🔗 https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/uber-eats-is-stuffing-ai-slop-into-your-meal-174413765.html.
Afternoon all.
**"The Holy City" 1951 Jerusalem Travelogue Omar Mosque House Of Caiaphas Gethsemane**
#Video length: ten minutes and nine seconds.
**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
🎙️ **The Truth About Bullshit: On Harry Frankfurt**
"_Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation of truth – in all its forms. We’re excited to introduce a short series of interviews with experts on fields ranging from AI to business, to politics._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-truth-about-bullshit-on-harry-frankfurt.
@gabosh I do not think it is the graphics card. Would you like to see the readout for that command?
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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