Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇺🇸 📖 **The Great Contradiction: The Tragic Side of the American Founding**
"_The author’s new book focuses on two “tragic contradictions”: the Founding Fathers’ failure to adopt measures to eliminate slavery in the new nation or to grant security for America’s native tribes."
📚 **Best Of The Year 2025**
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/12/08/best-of-the-year-2025/.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **UK agrees higher drug prices to secure zero-tariff deal with US**
"_NHS could pay up to 25% more for innovative drugs, but exports will be tariff free for three years_"
🇨🇳 **China is the top import partner for most countries in the world**
#Data #DataViz #Trade #Globalization #Economy #Economics #China
🏴 🏴 🇮🇪 **Linguists start compiling first ever complete dictionary of ancient Celtic**
"_More than 1,000 words used as far back as 325BC to be collected for insight into past linguistic landscape_"
#News #Press #Linguistics #Ancient #Celtic #Language #Archaeology #Wales #Scotland #Ireland
🇨🇳 **China trade surplus tops $1 trillion for first time on non-US growth**
"_China's trade surplus topped $1 trillion for the first time as manufacturers seeking to avoid President Donald Trump's tariffs shipped more to non-U.S. markets in November, with exports to Europe, Australia and Southeast Asia surging._"
@Em0nM4stodon Just like the old days.
**Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks**
"_Our findings show that Americans use fuck most frequently, while Australians least frequently but they are highly creative with spelling variants of the word._"
Laitinen, M. et al. (2025) 'Do we swear more with friends or with acquaintances? F#ck in social networks,' Lingua, 320, p. 103931. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103931.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Swearing #SocialMedia #Sociolinguistics #Academia
🖥️ **AI Safety Index: Winter 2025 Edition**
"_AI experts rate leading AI companies on key safety and security domains_"
🔗 https://futureoflife.org/ai-safety-index-winter-2025/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Safety #Report
🧠 **Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors**
"_The results in this study revealed that in general the greater the mathematics training of the participant, the more tasks were completed correctly, and that performance on some tasks was also associated with performance on others not traditionally associated. A ceiling effect also emerged._"
Cresswell C, Speelman CP (2020) Does mathematics training lead to better logical thinking and reasoning? A cross-sectional assessment from students to professors. PLOS ONE 15(7): e0236153. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0236153.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Maths #Mathematics #Reasoning #Logic #Academia
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William T. Vollmann: By the Book (Published 2015)
https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/26/books/review/william-t-vollmann-by-the-book.html?unlocked_article_code=1.7U8.uLkw.tOfGSdBCX5tl&smid=url-share
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Evidence That Humans Now Speak in a Chatbot-Influenced Dialect Is Getting Stronger
Slop may be seeping into the nooks and crannies of our brains.
Archive: ia: https://s.faithcollapsing.com/m9pn0
https://gizmodo.com/chatbot-dialect-2000696509#artificial-intelligence #chatbots #chatgpt #linguistics
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
