Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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It's Pi Day. Here's Why This Special Number Gets a Global Celebration.
https://www.sciencealert.com/its-pi-day-heres-why-this-special-number-gets-a-global-celebration?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🔴 🗺️ 🇬🇧 🇪🇸 **Trade map of the West Indies and North America, 1741**
#Image attribution: Henry Overton, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_new_and_correct_map_of_the_trading_part_of_the_West_Indies.png.
#Map #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Europe #NorthAmerica #WestIndies #Caribbean #Trade #C18th #18thCentury @histodon @histodons
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**Nvidia's rise in the age of AI. FT Film**
Financial Times
#Video length: twenty-seven minutes and one second.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HDQH6ReAyw
#FT #FinancialTimes #Film #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Nvidia #DeepSeek #SiliconValley #USA #US #UnitedStates #China @ai
🔴 🇺🇸 🌎 **Uncle Sam, Teddy Bear And Trade Routes**
Title: My, my, such possibilities
Artist: Clifford K. Berryman, 1869-1949.
Created/Published: [ca. 1913].
Citation: Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, Artist. My, My, Such Possibilities., ca. 1913. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2016679406/.
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Cartoon #Drawing #Map #PanamaCanal #UncleSam #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #CentralAmerica #SouthAmerica #Trade @histodon @histodons
🔴 🏴 **The Real Magna Carta**
_“Less famous than its 1215 predecessor, the Magna Carta of 1225 held the true power.”_
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/real-magna-carta
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #England #MagnaCarta @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 **The rise and fall of the Hanseatic League**
_”The Hanseatic League united merchants to bargain with kings, blockade cities, and even win wars. But when technology changed, defections began and the coalition fell apart.”
🔗 https://worksinprogress.co/issue/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-hanseatic-league/
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Trade #Europe @histodon @histodons @medievodons
🔴 **We calculated pi with colliding blocks**
Stand-up Maths
#Video length: twenty-three minutes and thirty-six seconds.
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#Mastodon is taking off! But Internet history provides numerous examples of other promising platforms for the digital public sphere that have died untimely deaths (remember Second Life?).
@rwg and @aram, who have reviewed the history and looked at the challenges, and still bullish on the #Fediverse.
Do you think Mastodon will have staying power? https://theconversation.com/the-fediverse-promises-social-media-without-big-tech-if-it-can-avoid-familiar-pitfalls-247178
#MastodonMigration
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A French University has so much interest from American scientists trying to flee the country that it is now asking other European universities to begin taking them into "scientific exile"
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How long have we been forced into narrow copyright regimes to benefit a few powerful companies, and now all data suddenly belongs to the new "AI" lords?
Everyone should read this!
#imperialism #ai #copyright #theft
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/13/openai_data_copyright/
🔴 🇪🇸 **Fossil face found in Spanish cave belongs to first known Western European**
_”Ancient remains suggest at least two types of early humans roamed Europe about 1 million years ago”
🔗 https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.zpcszwz.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Spain #Europe @archaeodons
🔴 **How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons**
_“Using existing estimates for manuscript production and loss we may infer, under the assumption that the estimates are valid, that at least 110000 manuscripts were copied by female scribes, of which around 8000 should still exist.”_
Ommundsen, Å., Conti, A.K., Haaland, Ø.A. et al. How many medieval and early modern manuscripts were copied by female scribes? A bibliometric analysis based on colophons. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 346 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04666-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #History #Histodon #Histodons #Linguistics #Religion #EarlyModern #Medieval #Manuscripts #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons @earlymodern @linguistics
🔴 **The Emergence of Pastoralism East of the Jordan Valley**
The Institute for the Study of Ancient Cultures
_“Drawing from the archaeological and biomolecular records, Makarewicz will first investigate how the spread of domesticated goats and sheep during the mid-seventh millennium into the rapidly changing built Neolithic environments of the Jordanian highlands sparked the emergence of a novel form of animal management central to pastoralism: seasonal transhumance.”_
#Video length: one hour and eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xlGot6ur0g
#Lecture #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Ancient #Culture #History #Histodon #Histodons #MiddleEast #Asia @archaeodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🔖 **Vintage Journal Cover - Making a Quick and Easy Blank Book Block Insert**
Four Keys Book Arts
#Video length: seventeen minutes and sixteen seconds.
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That weird CAPTCHA could be a malware trap - here's how to protect yourself
https://www.zdnet.com/article/that-weird-captcha-could-be-a-malware-trap-heres-how-to-protect-yourself/
Follow the 'I'm not a robot' CAPTCHA, and you might just end up with malware on your PC.
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128 New Moons Found Orbiting Saturn in Mindblowing Discovery
https://www.sciencealert.com/128-new-moons-found-orbiting-saturn-in-mindblowing-discovery?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
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🔴 📖 **Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic**
“The corpus consists mostly of translations from Greek, highlighting significant lexical borrowings and idiosyncratic syntax, such as periphrastic verb constructions. The article traces evidence of Arabic substrate influence in pre-Islamic times, including phonological shifts and loanwords, reflecting interactions between Arabic- and Aramaic-speaking Christians.”_
Gzella, H. (2025) 'Christian Palestinian Aramaic between Greek and Arabic,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 747–770. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.27.
#History #Aramaic #Greek #Arabic #Languages #OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 📖 **Aramaic: Lingua Franca, Koine, or Both?**
_”The study investigates the historical roles of Aramaic as both a lingua franca and a koine, examining its development and usage across various periods. It identifies three main contexts: as the administrative and diplomatic language of the Achaemenid Persian Empire, as the religious and scholarly language of Jewish communities in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, and as the liturgical and literary language of Syriac Christianity.”
Healey, J. (2025) 'Aramaic: lingua franca, koine, or both?,' in Open Book Publishers, pp. 771–796. https://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0463.28.
#History #Aramaic #Language #OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Academia #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇺🇸 **Question**
What if the plan was all along to crash the American economy and the dollar?
#Economics #Trade #Tariffs #Economy #Dollar #DonaldTrump #Trump #Politics #USPol #GOP #Republicans #AskFedi #AskMastodon
🔴 🚗 **How Elon Musk and Tesla lost $800 billion**
Channel 4 News.
#Video length: one minute and nineteen seconds.
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
Toots are humanities, science, non-fiction, books, maps, charts and graphs related. Some toots containing videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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