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.
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hīw, n.n: form, figure, appearance, likeness. (HEE-ew / ˈhiːw)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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DAY LIGHTS. Eyes. To darken his day lights, or sow up his sees; to close up a man's eyes in boxing.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
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Life lessons from differential equations
https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2015/07/23/life-lessons-from-differential-equations/
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Would you pay $200 a month for ChatGPT!? OpenAI thinks you will!
#News #Technology #ArtificialIntelligence #chatgptpro #ChatGPT #subscriptions #FutureTech
🔴 🇸🇬 📸 **Singapore At Night**
#Image attribution: Pierpaolo Lanfrancotti, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Singapore_night.jpg.
🔴 **ChatGPT: Monthly Subscription**
Sorry, I do not think I will be able to afford $200 / month:
https://mastodon.social/@NickAEsp/113614057464591142
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Subscription #ChatGPT #OpenAI #Tech #Technology @ai
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@bibliolater @bookstodon As an English teacher, I would only observe that "reading too much" is an extremely rare affliction these days.
🔴 📖 🎥 **What too many books and TBR's might be doing to your reading**
Tristan and the Classics
_"In HOW TO RUIN YOUR READING, we dive into the pitfalls of reading for quantity over quality and why obsessing over goals can strip the joy from the literary journey."_
#Video length: sixteen minutes and nineteen seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/Iws0yTDXfLQ
#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @bookstodon
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@bibliolater inasmuch as if I make it to the second half, I therefore enjoy the book, and I read books I enjoy quickly
🔴 **Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa**
_“In the cases of both the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa, it is evident that banks in Luxembourg provided financial services to borrowers accused of forced labor, environmental degradation, racist discrimination, sanctions busting, and other morally inexcusable practices. In other words, ‘their ‘profit’ came in the form of both shareholder dividends and the reproduction of global white supremacy’ (Hudson, Reference Hudson2017: 14).”_
Weeks, S. (2024) ‘Financing white rule: How Luxembourg became a banker for the Belgian Congo and Apartheid South Africa’, Finance and Society, 10(3), pp. 234–250. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/fas.2024.12.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Apartheid #SouthAfrica #Congo #Belgium #Luxembourg #Finance #Europe #Africa #Anthropology #Academia #Academics @finance @anthropology
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Oldest Known Alphabet Unearthed in Ancient Syria–Predating All Others by 500 Years https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/oldest-known-alphabet-unearthed-in-ancient-syrian-city-predating-all-others-by-500-years/
🔴 **A linkless internet**
Collin Jennings
_“Most discussions of AI are concerned with how soon an AI model will achieve ‘artificial general intelligence’ or at what point AI entities will be able to dictate their own tasks and make their own choices. But a more basic and immediate question is: what pattern of activity do AI platforms currently produce? Does AI dream of itself?”_
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/when-ai-summaries-replace-hyperlinks-thought-itself-is-flattened
#Essay #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Computing @ai
🔴 🇯🇵 🇸🇬 🎥 **Japan - Singapore - 1941. Movietone Moment**
British Movietone
_"On this day in 1941, Japan invaded Singapore. Here is a British Movietone report of the first blitz on Singapore."_
#Video length: one minute and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://youtu.be/RZgCMQVTNaw
#OnThisDay #OTD #History #Histodon #Histodons #Japan #Singapore #WorldWar2 #WorldWarII #WW2 #WWII @histodon @histodons
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Why ‘Brain Rot’ Is 2024’s Word of the Year
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-brain-rot-is-2024s-word-of-the-year/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Scientific American @scientific-american-SciAm
🔴 📖 **Papermaking: A Rags to Riches Story**
Posted by: Patrick Hastings
_“Beginning in the 1300s, the Italians adopted and adapted techniques first developed in China and the Middle East, and their innovations spread throughout Europe, lasting for centuries as the highest standard in paper production.”_
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2024/12/05/papermaking-a-rags-to-riches-story/
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More specifically: “in Nature, the quantity action (la quantité d’action) necessary for change is the smallest possible. Action is the product of the mass of a body times its velocity times the distance it moves”
Maupertuis derived the law of refraction using a minimization process, replicating Fermat’s method. However, in his calculation, rather than minimizing time, he minimizes the action V × AR + W × RB, where V and W are the velocities of light in the different media.
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🔴 🎥 **The Algorithm Has Been Hiding Something From You**
The New York Times
_As you scroll through the internet, you’ve probably noticed the same problem Kirby Ferguson has: “Everything looks the same, sounds the same, is the same.”_
#Video length: five minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔴 🇦🇷 🎥 **Argentina after one year of President Milei**
DW Documentary
_“Is Javier Milei a savior or a destroyer? It’s been just over a year since the far-right, chainsaw-wielding 54-year-old was elected President of Argentina, and society is more divided than ever before.”_
🔗 https://youtu.be/SWhDTdWND1I
#Documentary #Argentina #JavierMilei #Economics #Politics #SouthAmerica
🔴 📖 **The Timeless Value of Hardback Books**
_"Printed books last. A well-made hardcover book on acid-free paper can last for a thousand years with minimal care."_
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/12/04/the-timeless-value-of-hardback-books/
🔴 **Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”**
_“The article examines the birth and evolution of the roman and gothic typefaces, following Gutenberg’s printing press in the fifteenth century, and assesses how Nazi publications harked back to German and European typographic traditions to make the printed word a vehicle of German “Aryan” identity and divide readers.”_
Waldeck, M. and Leoussi, A. S. (2024) ‘Race and the printed language: roman and gothic letterforms in the making of the “Aryan race”’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2024.2430057.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Race #Language #Script #Typeface #Nazi #Academia #Academics
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
