Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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🔴 🇪🇺 **More than 47,000 people died in Europe last year due to heat, report says**
"_Researchers used death and temperature records from 35 European countries. They estimate that 47,690 died from causes related to high temperatures._
_Adjusting the data for population, Greece, Bulgaria, Italy and Spain were the countries with the highest mortality rates related to heat._"
#Weather #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Health #Environment @climatechange
🔴 💵 **Wall Street banker bonuses forecast to rise 35% this year**
"_Fresh predictions suggest that staff across a range of financial firms – including hedge funds, asset managers and investment banks – will see payouts rise for the first time in two years. It follows a rebound in business confidence and market activity, with companies more willing to take risks amid easing inflation that has started to translate into lower borrowing costs._"
#News #Article #WallStreet #Banking #HedgeFund #StockMarket #Business #Finance #Corporations
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Change is opportunity dressed in new clothes.
The Civil War upended the business of cattle ranching.
During the War, while Texas ranchers were away fighting, their cattle herds scattered across the open range.
Their enslaved labor left.
And the market for beef changed.
Markets in the South collapsed, but demand for beef surged in the North.
https://open.substack.com/pub/look/p/photo-of-the-day-b91?r=12u3ju&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
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The Jim Crow Museum has a good article on what’s known as the “Jezebel stereotype.” There’s a 𝙡𝙤𝙣𝙜 history of hyper-sexualizing black women as “exotic," “erotic," and sexually powerful.
As we watch right wing social media flail around in a panic for ways to tear down Kamala Harris, understanding the racist and sexist history of the Jezebel stereotype will help us recognize certain attacks in their historical context.
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19 Essays on ‘Galileo’s Error’
https://conscienceandconsciousness.com/2021/08/01/19-essays-on-galileos-error/
#philosophy
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@bibliolater @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
It is a bit weird New England's name didn't get changed when the United States got independent. But I suppose that would have mean renaming most of the "New X" places.
🔴 🇬🇧 **A quarter of Britons think they could qualify for the 2028 Olympics**
"_The youngest Britons are by far the most likely to think they have what it takes to compete on the world stage, with 39% of 18-24 year olds saying so, alongside 34% of 25-49 year olds. Understandably the oldest Britons are far less certain, although even still 15% of the over-65s think they could compete at an Olympic level in four years’ time if they put their mind to it._"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #British #Olympics #YouGov #Poll #Polls #Sports
🔴 🏴 **How the English Named New England**
_Explorer John Smith named New England. He sailed to the coast of what was then called Northern Virginia from Chesapeake Bay. Smith mapped it, using his version of Indian names, but he didn’t like Northern Virginia. He didn’t like the other names people had called it either, like Norumbega, Nuskoncus, Penaquida and Canada._
_Smith hit on “New England” and wrote a book about his travels there, with a map. The book sold well. Six years later, King James granted the land in a charter in which he wrote, “The name shall be called by the name New England in America.”_
https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/how-the-english-named-new-england/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EarlyModern #NewEngland #England #English @histodon @histodons @earlymodern
🔴 **How Alexander the Great Taught me How to Live**
_There are three crucial ideas in this four-sentence letter that left me sleepless for days. First, Alexander confirms to us that an exclusive piece of knowledge exists; second, that those who possess it have an edge over those who do not (‘what is there now that we excel others in…’); and finally third, perhaps the most amazing part of this letter, is the fact that Alexander tells to his tutor that he would rather excel in this knowledge than ‘in the extent of my power and dominion’._
https://armenikus.substack.com/p/how-alexander-the-great-taught-me
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Most people think the Baby Boom in the United States was “officially” from 1946 to 1964, and yet neither of our two principal candidates for president in 2024 are Baby Boomers. How is this possible?
https://familyinequality.wordpress.com/2024/08/11/the-definitive-explanation-for-why-neither-donald-trump-nor-kamala-harris-are-baby-boomers/
Thank you to everyone who partook in this poll. The number of respondents was 20 with 75% answering that extreme humidity was worse to bear than extreme heat.
On a personal note, I too find humidity more bothersome than heat especially in the amount of sweat the human body can produce.
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wīdgilness, f.n: vastness, spaciousness, vast expanse. (WEED-yill-ness / ˈwiːd-jɪl-nɛs)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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Now in the GISTEMPv4 dataset, July 2024 was the hottest month on record for our planet... 🔥
(Preliminary) data/info available from: https://data.giss.nasa.gov/gistemp/faq/. Small differences are expected between global temperature datasets (uncertainties and different methods).
Message to self: I am on here scrolling when I should be reading a book from my TBR list!
#mastodon #socialmedia #read #reading #tbr #book #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
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How we display text in modern word processors such as Microsoft Word depends on norms from the age of typewriters and even the dawn of the printing press.
When I (accidentally) used a non-standard glyph for the Greek letter kappa in my PhD thesis, the line spacing of 1.0 in Word became a fourth wider - at nominally identical font type and size. I then learned that the interline distance (in fact not 1 for 1.0) is calculated based on letter shapes to emulate historic typesetting.
@freemo It is good to see you back.
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(must-read: a masterpiece of business journalism) #SwingStates economic realities shaping US #Election2024 - chart @sdonnan @the_nazmul @homiedonttweet @BW https://www.bloomberg.com/graphics/2024-election-swing-state-economy/
🔴 🎥 **The Vinland Sagas as evidence**
"_The Vinland sagas (Saga of the Greenlanders, Saga of Eirik the Red) were written in Iceland centuries before Columbus and describe Viking exploration in lands southwest of Greenland. Modern archaeology has confirmed a Norse presence here, but this video addresses the question of whether the sagas would be worthwhile as evidence on their own._"
#Video length: nineteen minutes and twenty eight seconds.
🔴 🇪🇸 **Roman treasure trove found by construction workers in Spain could help explain empire’s downfall**
"_Some wealthy Romans even added lead acetate to their wine to sweeten it, unwittingly poisoning themselves with the neurotoxin._
_Some historians suggest that widespread lead poisoning of its rulers likely played a role in the mighty empire’s downfall._"
🔗 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/roman-trade-lead-treasure-spain-b2593701.html
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Cordoba #Spain #Europe #Romans #Empire @archaeodons
🔴 🎥 **Why ChatGPT sucks at some languages**
"_Chatbots like ChatGPT perform very well in English, but when put to the test in a range of languages the performance was sometimes poor. Lack of training data and other resources can reduce performance in these chatbots with implications for how accessible they are worldwide._"
#Video length: six minutes and four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgjVJHp0W28
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #ChatGPT #Chatbots #Languages @ai
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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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Joined Nov 2022
