Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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The promise of AI is waning. It’s time for tech companies to stop making big promises and produce reliable, useful products that do more than line the pockets of CEOs. https://www.byteseu.com/529902/ #FutureStudies #FuturesStudies #Futurology
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17th century, English mathematician, John Wallis, was born 3 December 1616 (ns), 23 November (os) #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2013/11/23/cromwells-code-breaker/
🔴 🎥 **The rise of deepfakes: How can you know what's real online?**
60 Minutes Australia
_"Seeing used to be believing, but the rise of ‘deepfakes’ and AI technology is making it harder than ever to know what’s real online."_
#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/p4E-tVzwvsQ
#Internet #Online #Deepfakes
#60MinutesAustralia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @ai
🔴 **The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030**
_“The primary trigger of the rapid transition to the first ice-free day within 3–6 years that we identified was a warm atmosphere in the previous winter and spring, leading to a loss of sea ice mass year-round Fig. 3b).”_
Heuzé, C., Jahn, A. The first ice-free day in the Arctic Ocean could occur before 2030. Nat Commun 15, 10101 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-54508-3.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Arctic #Ocean #Climate #Science #Academia #Academics @science
🔴 🎥 **Advertising doesn't work the way you think it does**
Jeffrey Kaplan
_"This is a video lecture in which I argue that association ads are best explained by what I call the social connotation theory, rather than the emotional inception theory."_
#Video length: twenty-six minutes and twenty-four seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/GFYasDoJ-98
#Advertisements #Psychology #Philosophy @psychology @philosophy
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Wow. I knew the Amazon river was big, but I just looked it up properly. It's 18% of GLOBAL outflow from all rivers to the ocean, five times bigger by volume than the next biggest river. The Amazon basin is about 5% of all the land, so it really is disproportionately wet. Impressed.
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2 Dec 1594: d. Gerardus Mercator, the little-travelled maker of world maps #otd
🔴 **AI is transforming the world of work, are we ready for it? FT Working It**
#Video length: seventeen minutes and five seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/hQX_wIW9Nh0
#FT #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Jobs #Tech #Technology #STEM #Business @ai
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@bibliolater That is simply nonsense. The Vikings were state builders, they created states wherever they went.
🔴 **The Vikings lacked a long-term vision**
Dr Cristian Ispir
_"This short-term plundering mentality left the Vikings culturally impoverished, unable to build upon the ruins of what they destroyed. And ignorance added cultural insult to civilizational injury."_
🔗 https://www.biblonia.com/p/the-vikings-lacked-a-long-term-vision
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Trolling is a science.
When you respond to trolls, you reward them with clicks and clout.
Better to:
1. Avoid the engagement trap.
2. Frame issues from your own viewpoint.
3. Block!
Why you can’t win debating trolls (w @gilduran):
https://www.theframelab.org/response-in-reward-why-you-cant-win/
🔴 **‘Brain rot’: Oxford word of the year 2024 reflects ‘trivial’ use of social media**
Harry Taylor
_Oxford University Press said the term “gained new prominence in 2024 as a term used to capture concerns about the impact of consuming excessive amounts of low-quality online content, especially on social media”._
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/dec/02/brain-rot-oxford-word-of-the-year-2024
#BrainRot #English #Language #Word #WordOfTheYear #SocialMedia
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What will enter the #publicdomain in 2025? Each day through December we’ll open a window in our advent-style calendar to reveal our highlights! https://publicdomainreview.org/features/entering-the-public-domain/2025/
(+ for the impatient/curious we've links to lists of new entrants.)
🔴 🇬🇧 🎥 **Stephen Fry's Best Bits: Melchett & Duke of Wellington. Blackadder. BBC Comedy Greats**
It is Sunday night and I thought I would share some Blackadder with you:
#Video length: ten minutes and forty-four seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/df2hO0rhX6o
#British #Comedy #Blackadder #StephenFry #RowanAtkinson #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Television #TV
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People using abbreviations while texting is commonplace. However, research from Stanford University suggests it could signal that you don’t care about the conversation. “A lack of perceived effort could be detrimental to interpersonal connections when texting,” the authors wrote in the study, published by the American Psychological Association. @sciencefocus has more: https://flip.it/wIQvB7
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A new #book - #AI Snake Oil: What Artificial Intelligence Can Do, What It Can’t, and How to Tell the Difference by Arvind Narayanan @random_walker and @sayashk Sayash Kapoor @PricetonUPress Sept 24, 2024 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691249131/ai-snake-oil
🔴 🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **British Identity Within the Indian Setting in Zoffany’s Portraits**
Rose Akcan
_"Palmer and Bakhsh’s relationship was not unique in the time of East India Company representatives taking over Indian provinces. The boundaries between enslaved people and servants were contested in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries as masters struggled to differentiate between these roles."_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #EastIndiaCompany #Art #Portraits #Culture #UK #UnitedKingdom #Europe #India #Asia #Identity #Colonialism @histodon @histodons
Trump threatens BRICS nations with 100% tariff on de-dollarization plans https://seekingalpha.com/news/4350236-trump-threatens-brics-nations-with-1...
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gearcian, wk.v: to prepare, make ready, procure, furnish, supply. (YEH-ar-ki-ahn / ˈjɛar-kɪ-an)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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This is what a rocket launch looks like from space.
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.
Toots automatically delete after two weeks.
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Joined Nov 2022
