Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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🇨🇳 **China's exports continue to grow, despite a sharp decline in its trade with the U.S.**
"_China just released monthly trade data showing that its exports rose about 4.5% in August._"
🔗 https://www.marketplace.org/story/2025/09/08/chinas-exports-grow-despite-trade-decline-with-the-us.
🇺🇸 **Why does the USA have a 'President'?**
#Video length: short
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/TvrQBgO16ws.
#History #Histodons #Politics #BenjaminFranklin #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @histodons
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Some 16th-century ballads to pen?
Manipulus Vocabulorum is a rhyming dictionary from 1570, thought to be the first ever: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/manipulus-vocabulorum-a-rhyming-dictionary-from-the-16th-century
🖥️ 🖋️ **This Stanford computer science professor went to written exams 2 years ago because of AI. He says his students insisted on it**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/09/07/stanford-professor-jure-leskovec-hand-written-graded-tests-ai/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Writing #Exams #Education #Learning #Stanford #ComputerScience
A great idea.
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🇺🇸 **The Former Capital of the Confederacy is Leaving the Lost Cause Behind**
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-former-capital-of-the-confederacy-289.
#History #Histodons #Virginia #Confederacy #LostCause @histodons
**A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos**
"_Biber Deresi is identified as a key site, facilitating hominin movement and communication between Asia and Europe, and providing a novel contribution to the Palaeolithic map of the Aegean._"
Karahan, G. and Arslan, N. (2025) ‘A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos’, European Journal of Archaeology, 28(3), pp. 281–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2025.10.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #AcademicChatter @archaeodons @academicchatter
**Across cultures and centuries, Aristotle and Confucius agree: virtue is good in moderation**
@diffgeom Does being the recipient of unctuous attention count as experiencing love? If it does then may be love can be bought especially with one trillion dollars.
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‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says
"Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/reading-for-pleasure-study
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The strange reason space won't let liquids exist | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/strange-reason-space-wont-let-liquids-exist?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
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How Did Eleanor of Aquitaine Become One of the Most Powerful Women of the Middle Ages?
Eleanor of Aquitaine carved her way into the English court through a series of cunning and tactical maneuvers.
by Erin Wrigh
https://www.thecollector.com/eleanor-of-aquitaine-most-powerful-woman-middle-ages/
Eleanor of Aquitaine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Eleanor+of+Aquitaine
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**The Brothers Grimm: The Unknown Political Story**
"_They were preserving the past to reshape the future._"
#Video length: fifty-two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3L3v7M2aw4.
#Documentary #History #Histodons #Germany #Politics #Literature @literature
**Roman Emperor: Philip**
#Image attribution: Heritage centre Rozet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M._Julius_Philippus_Arabs_Erfgoedcentrum_Rozet_300_191_d_6_a-d.jpg.
@EvelineSulman So true. I would also list contentment as an attribute that cannot be bought, one either has it or one does not.
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Given the spectacular failure of Open AIs new ChatGPT version (ChatGPT 5) it's easy to ridicule it. Brian Merchant however has a good and sadly sobering point:
"If we wake up to millions of addicted and deluded AI chatbot users, students incapable of finishing their homework without help from an app, and automation software that surveils and immiserates workers, each hurriedly installed on the top layer of our society, well, the joke will have been on all of us."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter
**"Is the decline of writing making journalism dumber?"**
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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