Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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**Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration**
"_In summary, in the current political climate, as invasion discourses about migrants are indeed a global trend from Europe and the US to South Africa, India or Hong Kong, drawing parallels between biological invasion and human migration risks facilitating the misappropriation of invasion science research by political ideologies, potentially criminalising migrant communities and legitimising exclusionary measures of migrants._"
Barbulescu, R. et al. (2025) ‘Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2496–2501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2527906.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Race #Migration #Migrants #Culture #AcademicChatter #Academia @science @academicchatter
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How good is AI.
IKEA order arrived with a damaged box. The return AI booked a replacement drop off and pickup scheduled for Friday. All good zero touch customer rep experience. Status updates telling us it’s on the way etc.
Except it never arrived.
Called IKEA this morning took 45m of waiting and dealing with humans to discover. The AI had hallucinated the whole thing. The schedule was too tight For the warehouse to load the goods. So the AI just faked the rest of the delivery updates.
Cust rep couldn’t fix it so just created two new deliveries, one for the replacement and one for the damaged part pickup.
So much time wasted and inconvenience to our family.
Grr.
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“There’s something very dialectical about the aphorism”
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/aphorisms-andrew-hui/
🇺🇸 📖 **Bookshelf: age of economic warfare challenges US power**
"_While the US may have led the world in economic warfare, China is in a strong position to implement export controls on minerals for which it dominates production and refining._"
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-age-of-economic-warfare-challenges-us-power/.
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔬 **We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #PeerReview #Academia #Research #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
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ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-symptoms-fine-cancer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Future Society @future-society-Futurism
**Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media**
"_While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist narratives._"
Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (2025). Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340145 (Original work published 2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialMedia #ConspiracyTheories #Academia
**How font psychology is linked to human nature**
🔗 https://www.michigandaily.com/michigan-in-color/how-font-psychology-is-linked-to-human-nature/.
Good morning
🏴 **Over 6 million cancer diagnoses by 2040: charities call for bold action**
"_Our new analysis looks to the future, and projects that between now and 2040 6.3 million new cancer cases are expected to be diagnosed across England._"
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The Clock That Changed the World: How John Harrison’s Portable Clock Revolutionized Sea Navigation in the 18th Century
https://www.openculture.com/2022/09/the-clock-that-changed-the-world.html
Artificial intelligence may not be for the majority, unless they want to be poorer.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Wealth #Economy
🏴 📖 **The history of the Norman conquest of England, its causes and its results : Vol. 1**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76820.
#Read #Download #ProjectGutenberg #History #Histodons #England #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **Translated Texts from Antiquity Vol. 1: Pomponius Mela’s Geography of the World**
#Ancient #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **U.S. unemployment rate jumps to nearly 4-year high as weak job creation in August tees up Fed rate cut**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Jobs #Unemployment #Economy #Economics @economics
🇺🇸 **Lost Cause: historical interpretation**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/topic/Lost-Cause.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #LostCause #Confederacy #History #Histodons @histodons
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On Sunday, 7 September 2025, a total lunareclipse will take place in the evening hours and can be observed for the most parts of Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Enjoy watching the sky! 🔭😍 (The next total lunar eclipse will not take place until New Year's Eve 2028/29)
🗺️ **Mapping Oceania with Hawai‘i Artist Sean Connelly**
"_Sean Connelly's Spheric Oceania offers an alternative cartography, mapping Oceania as a cosmic container of ancestral connection._"
🔗 https://www.metmuseum.org/perspectives/mapping-oceania-hawaii-artist-sean-connelly.
🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **India, China, Europe, and the United States are on very different population paths**
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Population #Demography #India #China #Europe #USA #US #UnitedStates
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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