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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🇺🇸 💻 **Trump tariffs taking out AI data centres too**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/04/27/trump-tariffs-taking-out-ai-data-centres-too/.
#Data #DataCentres #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Tariffs @ai
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27 Apr 1663: John Milton signs a contract #otd with a publisher for £5 for Paradise Lost - when 1,300 copies were sold, he'd get another £5.
This came to pass 5 years and 364 days later...
**Why are influencers being blamed for rise in shark attacks**
“_A new study claims social media is responsible for encouraging people to interact with sharks_”
📖 🏴 🎙️ **Cartographies of Exclusion: Anti-Semitic Mapping in Medieval England**
“_In his close analyses of English maps from the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, Asa Simon Mittman makes a valuable contribution to conversations about medieval Christian perceptions of Jews and Judaism._”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/cartographies-of-exclusion.
#Podcast #Read #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #Histodon #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons #Judaism #Maps #England @histodon @histodons @medievodons @bookstodon
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**What is left of the Viking Sagas in modern Iceland?**
Survive the Jive
_'Sagas of the Raven Land' is a a history documentary in which historian Tom Rowsell journeys to Iceland, immersing himself in the landscapes that inspired the Icelandic sagas of the Viking Age._
#Video length: one hour and one minute.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GKjAK8d17qQ
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Iceland #Vikings #Sagas #Europe @histodon @histodons
📚 **What to do with too many books?**
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/04/what-to-do-with-too-many-books/.
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For me, this is the best image symbolizing what Gen AI actually is. A black box, burning the planet, understood best, paradoxically, through technological means.
What you see here is a thermal image of xAI's Datacenter in Memphis, where 33 methane power generators are burning without permission.
Photograph: Steve Jones/Flight by Southwings for Southern Environmental Law Center.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2025/apr/24/elon-musk-xai-memphis
**Arrian: The Biographer Who Preserved Alexander the Great’s Legacy**
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/04/26/arrian-biographer-alexander-the-great/.
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New #ebook @gutenberg_org: The freedom of the seas by Hugo Grotius https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75962
📖 **Reaching The End**
I have reached page 704 of a book that is 730 pages in total. I currently have a virus, and I am struggling to concentrate. It is becoming increasing more difficult to reach the end. I am near; but, not near enough!
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Canada’s Constitution – and the heroes who forged it – made us who we are as a country
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/gift/1a6fe9cc9da1c024ee0021adc103c77808554f1e0570bdd46e8f4dce78fbde25/V3EZLP56LZFCDGLG5T5EDEXJG4/
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PhD Timeline (US 2025)
📚 **the most obvious reason to read a book, today**
Tim DeMoss
#Video length: six minutes and five seconds.
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Some good news - Irish people buy more books than anyone else in Europe!
https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/edn-20250423-1
🛰️ **Astronomy Picture of the Day**
“_This stunning portrait of NGC 5335 was captured by the Hubble Space Telescope. Some 170,000 light-years across and over 200 million light-years away toward the constellation Virgo, the magnificent spiral galaxy is seen face-on in Hubble's view._”
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>40% drop at Port of LA isn't exactly "local" news.
That's the bottom dropping out at the biggest container port in the Western Hemisphere
🇺🇸 **How Bond Vigilantes Made Trump Blink**
Bloomberg Originals
“_US President Donald Trump retreated from his sweeping “reciprocal” tariffs after a bond selloff sent Treasury yields soaring. But who are the much-feared bond vigilantes behind his reversal?_”
#Video length: ten minutes and fifty-four seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5vB8wB1lDF0.
#Bonds #Trump #Tariffs #Markets #Economy #Economics @economics
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **UK trade with the United States: 2024**
“_In 2024, the UK imported £57.1 billion of goods from the United States (9.7% of all goods imports) and exported £59.3 billion of goods (16.2% of all goods exports)._”
Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 25 April 2025, ONS website, article, https://www.ons.gov.uk/economy/nationalaccounts/balanceofpayments/articles/uktradewiththeunitedstates/2024.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Trade #Economy #Business #Economics #UK #UnitedKingdom #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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