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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The UK’s inflation figures were wrong and now we just have to live with that
https://enterprise-sharing.ft.com/redeem/6bf8ab71-3b6f-4938-8677-261fae3135f2
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Trump set to ease tariff impact on US car makers
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c70zy5w983go?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. and Canada @u-s-and-canada-BBCNews
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Glass is dead.
Humankind is overdue for moving past glass for state-of-the-art optics. We’re never going to be completely rid of glass, but we have been coasting on 17th century technology for 21st century applications.
**The Periodic Table of Primes**
“_We identify 48 integers out of a period of 2x3x5x7=210 to be the roots of all primes as well as composites without factors of 2, 3, 5, and 7. Each prime, twin primes, or composite without factors of 2, 3, 5 and 7 is an offspring of the 48 integers uniquely allocated on the PTP._”
Li, Han-Lin and Fang, Shu-Cherng and Kuo, Way, The Periodic Table of Primes (April 6, 2024). Available at SSRN: https://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4742238.
🇺🇸 🚢 **Trump tariffs prompt slump in shipments to US ports**
“Number of vessels scheduled to arrive at Port of Los Angeles next week is down by almost a third year on year_”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/apr/28/trump-tariffs-shipments-us-ports.
**The Uncomfortable Truth: How Christianity Both Supported and Fought Against Slavery **
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Tamerlane: A Nomadic Conqueror Even More Feared Than Genghis Khan
https://www.thecollector.com/tamerlane-nomadic-conqueror-feared/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into THECOLLECTOR @thecollector-thecollector
**Five Key Charts to Watch in Global Commodity Markets This Week**
#Graphs #Charts #Business #Finance #Economics #Markets @economics
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Intel admits what we all knew: no one is buying AI PCs
https://www.xda-developers.com/intel-admits-what-we-all-knew-no-one-is-buying-ai-pcs/
▪️Despite Lunar Lake, Intel is seeing stronger demand for older Raptor Lake systems.
▪️The Intel 7 node is seeing production shortages due to increased demand.
▪️AI PCs powered by Meteor Lake and Lunar Lake are more expensive, leading buyers to Raptor Lake, according to Intel.
🇺🇸 💻 **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!
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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