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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Joined Nov 2022
💊 🎥 **‘MAGA math’: Dr Oz jumps through hoops – and changes the laws of math – to explain Trump claims about lowering drug prices**
_“The president does the calculation by saying, ‘OK, if a drug was $100 and you reduce it to $50, it’s 100 percent cheaper because you’re taking $50 off and left with only $50, so the amount you took off the price is equal to the amount that’s left. They’re equal so it’s 100 percent.’”_
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/bulletin/news/dr-oz-trump-drug-prices-b2851095.html.
📖 **The Shape of a Life: One Mathematician's Search for the Universe's Hidden Geometry**
"_Beginning with an impoverished childhood in China and Hong Kong, Yau takes readers through his doctoral studies at Berkeley during the height of the Vietnam War protests, his Fields Medal–winning proof of the Calabi conjecture, his return to China, and his pioneering work in geometric analysis._"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/book/9780300235906/the-shape-of-a-life/.
#Nonfiction #Autobiography #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 **The Birth of Birthright Citizenship**
"_A Chinatown cook's fight to re-enter the U.S. in 1895 went up to the Supreme Court, which upheld his claim to birthright citizenship and guaranteed it for all through the 14th Amendment._"
🔗 https://www.americanheritage.com/birth-birthright-citizenship.
>>One trillion dollars in two months and counting is that sustainable?<<
🇺🇸 **$38 trillion and growing: The national debt interest costs are “harming the economy for every American”**
"_The growth of the US national debt is accelerating at its fastest clip according to data from the US Treasury, jumping $1 trillion in just two months._"
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US beef prices are soaring. Will Trump's plans lower them?
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr7m2pd3810o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
**Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs**
"_By combining confidential transaction prices with foreign suppliers and U.S. distributors as well as retail prices, we trace price impacts along the supply chain, from foreign producers to U.S. consumers. Although pass-through at the border was incomplete, our estimates indicate that U.S. consumers paid more than the government received in tariff revenue, because domestic markups amplified downstream price effects._"
Aaron B. Flaaen, Ali Hortaçsu, Felix Tintelnot, Nicolás Urdaneta, and Daniel Xu, "Who Pays for Tariffs Along the Supply Chain? Evidence from European Wine Tariffs," NBER Working Paper 34392 (2025), https://doi.org/10.3386/w34392.
🇺🇸 **Scope downgrades the United States of America’s credit ratings to AA- and revises Outlooks to Stable **
"_Scope Ratings GmbH (Scope) has today downgraded the United States of America’s local and foreign currency long-term issuer and senior unsecured debt ratings to AA-, from AA, and revised the Outlooks to Stable, from Negative._"
🔗 https://scoperatings.com/ratings-and-research/rating/EN/179482.
📚 🏴 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**
"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Auction #Edinburgh #Scotland
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing**
_Hawkins in August had asked the firm and Cassie Preston, the lawyer representing creditor Progressive Perfusion, to explain why they should not be sanctioned after submitting a filing with what the judge called "pervasive inaccurate, misleading, and fabricated citations, quotations, and representations of legal authority."_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Legal #Litigation
**How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World**
"_Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation._"
Morning all.
🇬🇧 **Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame**
"_Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living._"
#Food #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Climate #ClimateChange
🖥️ **AI Assistants Get News Wrong 45% of the Time, Study Finds**
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/ai-assistants-get-news-wrong-45-of-the-time-study-finds-2000676069.
**The art of note-taking and how to excel academically**
🔗 https://blog.utc.edu/news/2025/10/the-art-of-note-taking-and-how-to-excel-academically/.
@citc Thank you for the recommendation.
Evening all, how has your day been? It has been a cold wet day here in the land of the bibliolater.
Did you do any productive #reading today? Last night I started a new #fiction #book which I hope to continue tonight. I am also thinking about starting a #Pixelfed account to post images of the #books that I am currently reading. Do you think that it is a good idea? Is there any particular server you would recommend?
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 **China overtakes US as Germany's top trading partner**
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-overtakes-us-germanys-top-trading-partner-2025-10-22/.
🇪🇸 **Spanish Public Debt Grows at Rate of 4.7% and Sets Historical Record: €1.699 Trillion**
🇺🇸 **US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic**
🌍 🎥 **Plastic fantastic — How the world is choking on plastic**
"_Plastic is everywhere, not just in our rivers and oceans. It permeates the air, soil, and even our bodies. The problem is getting worse, and yet the plastics industry is increasing production._"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-fantastic-how-the-world-is-choking-on-plastic/video-74443428.
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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Joined Nov 2022
