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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Joined Nov 2022
Afternoon all.
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**How To Fix Your Brain After the Internet Broke It**
Productive Peter
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTVJie0OQeI.
#Digital #Attention #Detox #Mindfulness #Internet #Brain #BrainRot
**First Evidence of Roman Pig-Jaw Funerary Ritual Uncovered in Israel**
“_The discovery offers a rare glimpse into how Roman soldiers honored their dead through symbolic animal sacrifice and structured ceremonial acts._”
🔗 https://greekreporter.com/2025/05/14/roman-funerary-pig-ritual-israel/.
#Ancient #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #Romans #RomanEmpire @histodons @archaeodons
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Mark Zuckerberg wants you to use AI as friends.
When you invest your time with AI instead of creating genuine bonds with real people, you become completely isolated without even noticing it.
This all serves capitalism and authoritarian regimes.
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to help you financially (AI won't).
When you are isolated, you can't find humans to rise up with you against abuse (AI won't).
You become completely alone (with AI friends), and completely vulnerable to manipulation and exploitation by the system implemented by those who control your AI "friends".
It seems obvious, I know. But how is Mark Zuckerberg able to market this insane idea at all then?
🧠 **The Cambridge view on memory**
"_By tying together more than a century of memory research at Cambridge, the Memory Lab gives us tangible ways to improve, preserve and understand our memory._"
🔗 https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-cambridge-view-on-memory.
#Cambridge #Memory #Brain #Research #Neuroscience #Psychology
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The bizarre 10th-century Exeter Book contains a whole bunch of cool Saxon riddles. Eleven of them are a good fit for your RPG campaign! Some are jokes, some are dirty, and some are very clever indeed. #ttrpg #history
https://moltensulfur.com/post/eleven-riddles-from-the-old-english-exeter-book/
**Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway**
“_According to previous accounts, Lovaas and his family were forced farm workers during the German occupation of Norway between 1940 and 1945, when Lovaas was 13–18 years old. This article shows that the Løvaas family were in fact members of the collaborationist fascist party Nasjonal Samling._”
Gjerde, Å. B. (2025). Hidden Nazi past: Ole Ivar Lovaas during the German occupation of Norway. History of the Human Sciences, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/09526951251324102.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #History #Histodons #Nazism #Fascism #Norway #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic @histodons
🇺🇸 📖 **Not White Enough: The Long, Shameful Road to Japanese American Internment**
“_This book is the first to trace the full arc of prejudice against Asian Americans that made internment inevitable and serves as a legal and political history of anti-Asian racism, beginning with the California gold rush and ending with Korematsu._”
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700634255/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons #Racism #Prejudice #USA #US #UnitedStates #Japanese #Asian #Internment @histodons
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The World Record for the Shortest Math Article: 2 Words
https://www.openculture.com/2025/05/the-world-record-for-the-shortest-math-article.html
**All Four Pillars of the Bond Market Are Trembling Simultaneously**
🔗 https://goldbroker.com/news/four-pillars-bond-market-trembling-simultaneously-3541.
📚 **How to read like Benjamin Franklin**
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/05/how-to-read-like-benjamin-franklin/.
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Grok AI Went Off the Rails After Someone Tampered With Its Code, xAI Says
https://futurism.com/grok-ai-white-genocide-tampered?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism
**For over 500 years, Oxford graduates pledged to hate Henry Symeonis. So, who is he?**
📖 **Hokey Cowboy**
_“Neoliberalism morphed into paleolibertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek’s bastards were into cavemen.”_
🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy.
#Neoliberalism #Hayek #LRB #Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Politics #PoliticalScience @bookstodon @politicalscience
Afternoon all.
**Linguistics expert explains why the c-word 'still has the ability to shock'**
_“The sounds are blunt, there are only four sounds in it, it's a very short sharp word. It's normally delivered with quite a lot of emphasis that it's being used as a profanity and for that reason, that still has the ability to shock.”_
#English #StrongLanguage #Words #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
**How much medieval literature was lost to time?**
🔗 https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/lost-medieval-literature-unseen-species.
How long will this last?
UK has fastest growing economy in G7 in boost for Starmer https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/economy-growth-rachel-reeves-business-b27...
🏴 🌡️ **Risk of drought after UK experienced driest start to year for decades**
📈 🇪🇺 **EU economy greenhouse gas emissions up 2.2% in Q4 2024**
“_In the fourth quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq)._”
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250515-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
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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