Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
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<strong>Moral Progress: A Controversial Yet Important Idea</strong>
"_A theory of progress can help guide the future of ethics by locating this “low-hanging ethical fruit” of intertheoretical moral consensus, which has a greater probability of being morally good, as well as defended by future generations of people and moral philosophers than views that only rely on a particular or fringe moral view._"
https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024/07/01/moral-progress-a-controversial-yet-important-idea/
<strong>The ancient dream of AI?</strong>
"_When it comes to bringing forth artificial human-like life and understanding, mythos preceded logos. The earliest AI stories are Greek mythological narratives._"
<strong>The Shocking Philosophy of Bullshit</strong>
"_Well, today we will look at Harry Frankfurt's essay on that very topic, and dive into the surprising philosophy of Bulls****_"
🎥 #Video length: twenty seven minutes and thirty five seconds.
<strong>Kipp Davis - Jewish Apocalypticism</strong>
"_Today I’ll be talking to Kipp about Jewish apocalyptic thought, apocalyptic writings and the relevance of these to an understanding of the historical Jesus._"
🎥 #Video length: one hour and thirty minutes.
<strong> Ten Classic Books For Summer</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifty one minutes and thirty three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bwU-bnenqjs
#Summer #Read #Reading #Literature #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
<strong>Great science, uncomfortable history: Sir Gustav Nossal and the long tail of eugenics </strong>
"_Dhoombak Goobgoowana has revealed the extensive influence of Nazi apologists, racists and massacre perpetrators in the history of the university – not referring to Nossal. It outlines how eugenic ideas about white superiority denigrated First Nations people, as well as non-white immigrants._"
#Australia #Genetics #Biology #Eugenics #Race #University #Education #History #HistSci @science
<strong>7 Philosophical Questions to Help You Journal</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty seconds.
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This is what an asteroid looks like up close.
Really close.
Through an electron microscope!
First studies of the pieces of asteroid Bennu gathered by NASA's OSIRIS-REx spacecraft are out now:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/maps.14227 #space #astronomy #nasa #science #life #astrodon
<strong>World's First Mobile Phone?</strong>
🎥 #Video length: fifty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TtQL44IYAcM
#Archive #History #Tech #Technology #Phone #C20th #20thcentury
<strong>It was an objectively disastrous performance for all those involved.</strong>
#Biden #Trump #Debate #PresidentialDebate #CNN #CNNDebate #Politics #USPol #USPolitics #Media #MSM @politics
<strong>Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior</strong>
"_The aggregate results across treatments suggest the following conclusions: (1) in the absence of a lie-detection algorithm, people are reluctant to make accusations; (2) when the lie-detection algorithm is available, a minority of people want to obtain its prediction; (3) the minority that does almost always follows the algorithmic prediction, independent of whether the algorithm flags a statement as truth or lie; (4) individuals who actively request algorithmic predictions are not inherently more prone to make accusations, but follow accusation suggestions more than those who receive such predictions without actively seeking them; (5) those who would not actively request the algorithmic prediction do not change their behavior even when they passively receive one; (6) beliefs about the relative performance of the lie-detection algorithm correlate with adoption rates._"
Von Schenk, A. et al. (2024) 'Lie detection algorithms disrupt the social dynamics of accusation behavior,' iScience, p. 110201. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2024.110201.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Computing #SocialScience #Social #MachineLearning #Algorithm #Lying #Academia #Academic #Academics @socialscience
<strong>Can ChatGPT Detect DeepFakes? A Study of Using Multimodal Large Language Models for Media Forensics</strong>
"_In this work, we investigate the capabilities of multimodal large language models (LLMs) in DeepFake detection. We conducted qualitative and quantitative experiments to demonstrate multimodal LLMs and show that they can expose AI-generated images through careful experimental design and prompt engineering._"
Jia, S. et al. (2024) 'Can ChatGPT Detect DeepFakes? A study of using multimodal large language models for media forensics,' arXiv (Cornell University) [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.2403.14077.
#Preprint #Research #ChatGPT #LLM #LLMs #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Deepfake #Deepfakes @ai
<strong>The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath</strong>
"_The rediscovery of the Mesopotamian epic complicated centuries-old and on-going debates about time and history: The major archaeologists of the period utilized it to return the field to its earliest arguments and better understand what time and history meant at the end of the nineteenth century, the Historians, Hebraists, and Biblicists began to question the originality of the Bible and verify its reliability, and figures specialized in literature and/or the arts got access to the primary sources of prehistory to update existing literature or create new fictional arts._"
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Literature #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
<strong>Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler</strong>
"_Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics._"
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Journalism #Fascism #Read #Reading #Book #Books #BookReview #Review #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @journalism @bookstodon
<strong>Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia</strong>
"_The directly dated cut-marked bones of ungulates indicate the presence of AMHs in inland Iberia during the early and mid-Upper Paleolithic. The paleoecological inferences suggest that human populations occupied Malia when climatic and ecological conditions were not particularly severe in terms of aridity and temperature._"
Nohemi Sala et al., Nobody’s land? The oldest evidence of early Upper Paleolithic settlements in inland Iberia. Sci. Adv.10, eado3807 (2024). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ado3807
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Anthropology #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Iberia #Europe @anthropology @archaeodons @science
An even more relevant question in 2024.
<strong>2007: What's the point of FACEBOOK? | BBC Breakfast | Retro Tech | BBC Archive</strong>
"_What exactly is social media, what is it for, and why are people using it?_"
🎥 #Video length: five minutes and nineteen seconds.
<strong>A Brief History of English Numeracy</strong>
"_The people of late medieval and early modern England were almost universally numerate. Is our ability to count the thing that makes us human?_"
https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/brief-history-english-numeracy
#History #Histodon #Histodons #England #English #Numeracy #Maths #Mathematics #Math #STEM #HistSci @histodon @histodons
<strong>In Need of a New Myth</strong>
"_Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests._"
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v46/n13/eric-foner/in-need-of-a-new-myth
#Read #Reading #Nonfiction #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Review #BookReview #Bookstodon #US #USA #UnitedStates #America @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
Image #attribution: IonlyPlayz, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Flag_map_of_the_USA_~_Rivers_and_Lakes.png
<strong>Episode 300 – The 10 Greatest Byzantine Emperors</strong>
https://shows.acast.com/b53d3462-8bc8-46b5-875c-99d8b173ed52/667ac8b9a2475610ca6ebc97
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodon #Histodons #Byzantium @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Claus Grünstäudl w18, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Elegant_steel_microphone_(Unsplash).jpg
<strong>Royal Society exhibition revives 18th-century debate about shape of the Earth</strong>
"_Some members of the French Academy of Sciences interpreted measurements taken in Paris by scientists including Jacques Cassini as supporting the idea that the Earth was elongated at the poles, resembling a lemon or a melon._
_By contrast, Isaac Newton had proposed that the centrifugal force caused by the Earth’s rotation would result in the planet being flattened at its poles, thus having a similar shape to an orange._"
https://www.theguardian.com/science/article/2024/jun/26/royal-society-exhibition-shape-of-the-earth
#News #Science #History #HistSci #France #Europe #C18th #18thCentury #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain @science
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
