Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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"#GoogleSearch was the gold standard—a product born in a dorm room during the #internet’s early, idealistic era. But when internal emails surfaced they revealed a deeper conflict inside the company: was Google making Search worse, on purpose, to boost ad revenue? Google says its changes are benefiting users. Critics say it’s all part of a bigger pattern—one that host #CoryDoctorow calls #enshittification: the slow, deliberate decay of platforms in the name of profit."
https://www.cbc.ca/listen/cbc-podcasts/1353-the-naked-emperor/episode/16144078-dont-be-evil
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 🚗 **US automakers rip Trump trade deal with UK**
_“The British auto industry expressed excitement about the deal, which allows the U.K. to export 100,000 cars to the U.S. at a 10-percent tariff rate, and effectively removes another national security tariff._
_American carmakers didn’t share that enthusiasm.” _
🔗 https://thehill.com/business/5292037-auto-industry-critics-trump-uk-deal/.
#Trade #Cars #Industry #Tariffs #Business #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Teachers Using AI to Grade Their Students' Work Sends a Clear Message: They Don't Matter, and Will Soon Be Obsolete
https://futurism.com/teachers-ai-grade-students?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
🇬🇧 **'Naseby was the battle that transformed Britain'**
_A rare 17th Century map showing details of "the battle that transformed Britain" has gone on show at a new exhibition._
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/ce82dz2ep4po.
#History #Histodons #UnitedKingdom #UK #Britain #C17th #17thCentury @histodons
📖 🎙️ **Globalization's Backlash: Echoes of the Interwar Era in Today’s World**
“_She highlights how economic insecurity, the rise of mass politics, and anxieties over immigration and trade shaped political reactions in both eras, while noting key differences—such as the role of environmentalism today and the absence of a world war in recent memory._”
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/globalizations-backlash-echoes-of-the-interwar-era-in-todays-world.
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Politics #Culture @bookstodon @histodons
_A lorry driver in California tells Sky News: “We're already seeing work slowing down. How are we going to survive?”_
Trump's tariffs hit the West's busiest port - with traffic down by nearly a third https://news.sky.com/story/trumps-tariffs-hit-the-wests-busiest-p...
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“It's not just that students aren't attempting to write their own work, what we're also starting to find is that students aren't even attempting to read the work."
There are students only interested in the credentials. Others care about learning. Looks like soon the two types will stop sharing educational paths. Their present entanglement serves the current university financing system via common fees. The disruption of this arrangement will reshape universities.
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Mexico sues Google over 'Gulf of America' name change
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c5yk5nj7p7ko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-BBCNews
**European and British soils seriously degraded by intensive farming**
"_Experts found 60% of the EU’s agricultural soils had been degraded, with about 40% similarly damaged in the UK_"
**Narcissism and Affective Polarization**
“_We argue that the personality trait of narcissism (entitled self-importance) is an important correlate of affective polarization. We test this claim in Britain using nationally representative survey data, examining both long-standing party identities and new Brexit identities. Our findings reveal that narcissism, and particularly the ‘rivalry’ aspect of narcissism, is associated with both positive and negative partisanship._”
Tilley, J., Hobolt, S. Narcissism and Affective Polarization. Polit Behav 47, 599–618 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11109-024-09963-5.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Polarization #Partisanship #Identity #Narcissism #Politics #Academia #Academics
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**Why don’t they teach this anymore??**
#Video length: thirty-seven seconds.
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**Linguists Find Proof of Sweeping Language Pattern Once Deemed a ‘Hoax’**
💻 **Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI**
“_Through four experiments with over 4,400 participants, we reveal a social penalty for AI use: Individuals who use AI tools face negative judgments about their competence and motivation from others._”
J.A. Reif, R.P. Larrick, & J.B. Soll, Evidence of a social evaluation penalty for using AI, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 122 (19) e2426766122, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2426766122 (2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #SocialSciences #Management #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
💻 **Hallucinations are not the same as errors**
“_An AI can’t lie, because it doesn’t know it’s lying. In that sense, it’s sort of pathological, careening forward without a conscience._”
🔗 https://seths.blog/2025/05/hallucinations-are-not-the-same-as-errors/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #Errors #Lying #Lies @ai
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English 'wood', Dutch 'woud', and German 'Wald' can all mean "forest".
However, despite their similar forms, 'wood' is not in any way etymologically related to 'woud' or 'Wald'.
'Woud' and 'Wald', which do have a common ancestor, are related to English 'wold' instead.
Click my graphic for more.
On my Patreon, I explain how Old English 'widu' could become 'wudu' (400 words):
https://www.patreon.com/posts/128532757
📖 **An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires by Alexander Pope**
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/2428.
#AlexanderPope #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Ebook #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Bronze Age leprosy hitched rides along ancient copper and pottery trade route**
“_4000-year-old scarred jaws in Oman hub mark oldest cases outside South Asia_”
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How to do without the Donald
Face-eating leopard or tantrum-prone toddler? It would be nice to know the answer, because it would tell us how much attention we need to pay to Donald Trump’s latest outburst. (I don’t know what that outburst is, of course. Something new is likely to happen in the time it takes you to finish this page.) If he is just a toddler having a full-blown meltdown, then the best
https://timharford.com/2025/05/how-to-do-without-the-donald/
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