Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

Evening all, just #writing up some #reading #notes and I will be with you shortly.

📖 **The Invention of Infinite Growth: How Economists Came to Believe a Dangerous Delusion**

"_In The Invention of Infinite Growth, environmental historian Christopher F. Jones takes us through two hundred and fifty years of economic thinking to examine the ideal of growth, its powerful influence, and the crippling burdens many decisions made in its name have placed on us all._"

🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/I/bo253356508.html.

#History #Economics #Environment #Academic #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

📖 **The Dreaded Pox: Sex and Disease in Early Modern London**

"_Olivia Weisser's remarkable history invites readers into the teeming, vibrant pox-riddled streets of early modern London. She uncovers the lives of the poxed elite as well as of the maidservants and prostitutes who left few words behind, showing how marks of the disease offered a language for expressing acts that were otherwise unutterable._"

🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/dreaded-pox/8C6FB43D373BF4BB088AF614980F1240.

#EarlyModern #London #History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Academic #Books #Bookstodon

🇺🇸 **U.S. consumers bearing more than half the cost of tariffs so far, Goldman Sachs says**

🔗 https://www.nbcnews.com/business/consumer/us-consumers-bearing-half-cost-tariffs-far-goldman-sachs-says-rcna237283.

#Inflation #Tariffs #Economy #Economics

**The Economic Geography of American Slavery**

"_We find that the economic impacts of emancipation are substantial, generating welfare gains for the enslaved of roughly 1,200%, while reducing welfare of free workers by 0.7% and eliminating slaveholder profit. Aggregate GDP rises by 9.1%, with a contraction in agricultural productivity counteracted by an expansion in manufacturing and services driven by an exodus of formerly enslaved workers out of agriculture and into the U.S. North._"

Treb Allen, Winston Chen, and Suresh Naidu, "The Economic Geography of American Slavery," NBER Working Paper 34356 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34356.

#Academia #Research #History #Histodons #Economics #Slavery #USA #US #UnitedStates

🇺🇸 📖 **Opium Slavery: Civil War Veterans and America's First Opioid Crisis**

"_Drawing from veterans' firsthand accounts as well as mental asylum and hospital records, government and medical reports, newspaper coverage of addiction, and advertisements, Jonathan S. Jones unearths the poorly understood stories of opiate-addicted Civil War veterans in unflinching detail, illuminating the war’s traumatic legacies._"

🔗 https://uncpress.org/9781469689531/opium-slavery/.

#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Academia #Books #Bookstodon

**Attachment Anxiety and Problematic Use of Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Mediation of Emotional Attachment and Moderation of Anthropomorphic Tendencies**

"_Individuals with high attachment anxiety urgently need relatively perfect partners to reduce negative emotions. While the emergence of conversational artificial intelligence meets their needs, there is a risk of excessive dependence._"

Heng S, Zhang Z. Attachment Anxiety and Problematic Use of Conversational Artificial Intelligence: Mediation of Emotional Attachment and Moderation of Anthropomorphic Tendencies. Psychol Res Behav Manag. 2025;18:1775-1785 https://doi.org/10.2147/PRBM.S531805.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Study #Psychology #Anxiety #Emotions #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Academia

🖥️ **The real danger of AI in education isn't cheating — it's dependency on Big Tech algorithms, a business professor warns**

_"When we bypass the cognitive journey of synthesis and critical evaluation, we're not just losing skills," she said. "We're changing our epistemological relationship with knowledge itself."_

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-is-handing-control-of-knowledge-to-big-tech-professor-2025-10.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning

🖥️ **The real danger of AI in education isn't cheating — it's dependency on Big Tech algorithms, a business professor warns**

_"When we bypass the cognitive journey of synthesis and critical evaluation, we're not just losing skills," she said. "We're changing our epistemological relationship with knowledge itself."_

🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/ai-is-handing-control-of-knowledge-to-big-tech-professor-2025-10.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning

Is this delusional?

🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20251016-people-are-using-ai-to-talk-to-god

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

Afternoon all.

@mason Fabricating 'facts' out of thin air with the assured confidence of an inveterate liar.