Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
💻 **Anthropic’s new AI model (Claude) will scheme and even blackmail to avoid getting shut down**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIEthics #Ethics @ai
📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ**
“_Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._”
Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697.001.0001, accessed 22 May 2025.
#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon #Christianity #Religion #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #Theology #Academic @bookstodon @religion
🗺️ 🧲 **Mapping Magnetism**
Abraham Parrish
“_Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator depicted magnetic mountains on what was to be the first published map of the Arctic and North Pole, which was an inset on his world map published in 1569._”
🔭 **Astronomy Picture of the Day**
🇺🇸 💵 **The dollar is struggling to rebound since ‘liberation day.’ Why it may keep falling.**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #Forex #Currencies #Economy #Economics @economics
🇺🇸 **3 reasons bond investors are panicking about the US budget deficit**
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-bill-gop-budget-deficit-bond-market-yields-selloff-2025-5.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Deficit #Debt #BondMarket #Economy #Economics @economics
🧬 **Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals 1,000 years of genetic history in the Low Countries**
“_Remarkably, it also uncovered the first direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders, at a time when no written sources from the town make mention of the disease._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Research #News #Ancient #DNA #Palaeogenomics #LowCountries #Medieval #Migration #Plague #Flanders @archaeodons
🇮🇹 **Italian irredentism and propaganda**
“_The history of Italian unification, the emergence of the sentiment of irredentism, and how it was used by fascism during the 20th century._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/italian-irredentism-and-propaganda.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartogrpahy #Italy #Europe @histodons
**Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man**
“_The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road._”
🇺🇸 **Immigration and Citizenship: Why the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Case is Relevant Today by Carol Nackenoff**
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/05/22/immigration-and-citizenship-by-carol-nackenoff/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #PoliticalScience #Immigration #Citizenship #History #Histodons @histodons @politicalscience
🇺🇸 **Twenty Facts About Japanese Internment Camps In The United States**
🇺🇸 Did inflation lead to the demise of the US penny?
#Question #Treasury #Coins #Inflation #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
Goodbye to the Penny! Treasury Department announces plan to phase out the coin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/penny-...
Evening all.
💻 **Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds**
_In a report on the threat, the researchers conclude that it is easy to trick most AI-driven chatbots into generating harmful and illegal information, showing that the risk is “immediate, tangible and deeply concerning”._
📚 **Help! I Think I’m a Reading Snob.**
“_At the core of my snobbishness was an insatiable desire to be perceived as ‘cool’, whatever that means._”
🔗 https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/help-i-think-im-a-reading-snob/.
#Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Literature @bookstodon @literature
🇮🇪 **Medieval manuscript the Book of Leinster goes on public display in Trinity College**
#Ireland #Irish #Medieval #Medievodons #Manuscript #Literature @medievodons @literature
**The four-letter word lust**
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/05/the-four-letter-word-lust/.
#Words #Etymology #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
🌔 🚀 **Moon landing conspiracy theories, debunked**
“_Yes, Apollo 11 did go to the Moon. No, the US flag isn't 'waving' in the wind..._”
🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/moon-landing-conspiracy-theories-debunked.
#Moon #Space #Astronomy #Debunk #ConspiracyTheories @astronomy
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 
**Why America’s Small Businesses Can’t Quit China**
#Video length: six minutes and four seconds.
**From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries**
“_The results suggest that Viking Age seafaring networks along the Norwegian coast may have been more decentralised than their medieval counterparts, and may have relied on relatively outlying nodes on small islands and headlands._”
Jarrett, G. From the Masthead to the Map: an Experimental and Digital Approach to Viking Age Seafaring Itineraries. J Archaeol Method Theory 32, 42 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-025-09708-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Vikings #Scandinavia #Academia #Academic @archaeodons
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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Joined Nov 2022
