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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Joined Nov 2022
🔴 🎥 Did the Phoenicians Reach America Before Columbus?
Bath Royal Literary and Scientific Institution
“…Philip Beale examines the remarkable proposition that ancient Phoenicians might have travelled to the Americas more than a thousand years before Christopher Columbus.”
#Video length: one hour and twenty minutes.
🔴 📖 🎥 Scared to write in books? Watch this.
Odysseas
#Video length: eleven minutes and forty-three seconds
🔗 https://youtu.be/TYA5EmY72zY
#Write #Writing #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 The Triangle Of Power
3Blue1Brown
#Video length: two minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔴 🌍 The global number of people aged 65 years and older is set to double within the next thirty years
Simon van Teutem
“Today, there are around 830 million people aged 65 and older in the world. According to the latest UN data, it is projected to grow to 1.7 billion by 2054.”
🔴 Do tariffs raise the rate of inflation?
#Tariffs #Inflation #Economics #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon
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ChatGPT is a human conversation simulator, not an information system or a knowledge base.
It has no understanding of anything: it only outputs plausible responses.
Because ChatGPT has no understanding of anything, it does not know what things like “a source” or “a true statement” are.
Do not trust its directions.
Do not ask an intermediary who has no capacity to understand information to explain it to you.
You will waste time and make mistakes.
Instead, go to your university library and look it up yourself, with the help of your local librarians.
Actual information is contained in brains, documents and databases.
Further:
Formatting citations and bibliographies means presenting metadata according to formal style instructions.
This is not natural language.
ChatGPT will make errors, which will take time to track and correct.
Instead, use a reference manager, such as Zotero.
It will format things reliably, exactly as expected.
Just clean up the references’ metadata as you collect them, and then your bibliographies will not contain mistakes.
https://www.arthurperret.fr/blog/2024-11-14-student-guide-not-writing-with-chatgpt.html
🔴 No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany
"Through the appropriation of medieval Old Norse imagery and mythology, as well as the construction of the idea of a pure Nordic race and the spread of propaganda through media by artists like Richard Wagner, the Nazi Party was able to utilize the newfound elevation of Nordic culture to legitimize its own ideas of racial purity and culture."
Nighswander, Lena (2020) "No Nazis in Valhalla: Understanding the Use (and Misuse) of Nordic Cultural Markers in Third Reich Era Germany," International ResearchScape Journal: Vol. 7, Article 6. DOI: https://doi.org/10.25035/irj.07.01.06
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Culture #Europe #History #Histodon #Histodons #Germany #Medieval #Medievodons #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons @medievodons
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Economic disruptions from #climatechange, especially massive disruptions of real estate and insurance markets in vulnerable regions, are starting to develop now.
#FF: any suggestions for accounts to follow related to #science or the #humanities on this #FollowFriday?
🔴 Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission
"This imaginary Phoenicia entered historiography and
cartography as a reality, not only in France but also in the
Ottoman Realm, then the sovereign entity over the Levant.
The toponym was used, anachronistically, for Biblical
maps to refer to the Sidonians and the Tyrians of the Ancient Testament. Already, in the popular Van Dyck-Smith Arabic translation of the Bible, the versions illustrated with maps showed a “Phoenicia” in the time of David and Solomon."
Keilo, J.: Putting Phoenicia on the Map. From the Greeks to Ernest Renan’s Mission, Proc. Int. Cartogr. Assoc., 3, 9, https://doi.org/10.5194/ica-proc-3-9-2021, 2021.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Map #Maps #Cartography #Ancient #Phoenicia #Lebanon #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Greeks #RomanEmpire #History #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academic #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 Being 'Well-Read' Isn't What You Think - Emerson On Self-Education
Robin Waldun
#Video length: twelve minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/QprhcZTS5IM
#Education #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🌍 🎥 Rise and Fall of Global Empires 1600 to 1750: Early Modern Balance of Power
The Burning Archive
#Video length: forty-four minutes and thirty-five seconds.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Imperialism #Empire #Colonisation #Colonization @histodon @histodons
🔴 🌍 Packaging is the source of 40% of the planet’s plastic waste
Veronika Samborska
"Packaging accounts for 37% of total plastic waste in the United States. It’s 38% in Europe, and in China, it's 45%. Together, these regions account for 60% of global packaging waste generation."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/packaging-is-the-source-of-40-of-the-planets-plastic-waste
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PSA: If you have an old #Twitter account lying around? Today is a good day to delete it.
More > Settings > Account > Deactivate: https://x.com/settings/deactivate
Twitter are loading _everyone's_ data (public + private) into their stupid LLM today. Nov 15.
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Archeology confirms that that Norway's southern coast was dangerous at this time. 21 shipwrecks from the period have been found, most of them in calm waters close to land, where they might have been anchored. Many have traces of fire. As might have been the result of being brought to shore and deliberately sunk and/or burned.
Good background on this (in English) in this article by Frans-Arne H. Stylegar: https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Skrifter/article/view/277/231
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🔴 📖 “Here I Gather All the Friends” Machiavelli and the Emergence of the Private Study
"Andrew Hui tracks the rise of the private study by revisiting the bibliographic imaginations of Machiavelli, Montaigne, and W. E. B. Du Bois, and finds a space where words mediate the world and the self."
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/machiavelli-and-the-emergence-of-the-private-study/
🔴 📖 The Queens of the Arabs During the Neo-Assyrian Period
_Whereas previous scholarship has considered the Queens of the Arabs in relation to the military and economic history of the Neo-Assyrian empire, Eleanor Bennett focuses on identity, using gender theory to locate points of the women’s alterity in Assyrian sources and to analyze how Assyrian cultural norms influenced the treatment of the “Queens of the Arabs._
🔗 https://www.eisenbrauns.org/books/titles/978-951-51-8582-2.html
#Ancient #Assyriology #History #Histodon #Histodons #NearEast #Arabs #Arabia #MiddleEast #Asia #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 🎥 A bizarre probability fact
#Video length: two minutes and forty eight seconds.
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Developing Expertise Improves the Brain’s Ability to Concentrate
Expertise bulks up the brain’s ability to think deeply, a skill that may generalize across tasks
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
