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Joined Nov 2022
**Martin Pelletier: The next phase of financial instability may be driven by weakness in sovereign debt markets**
“_Bond markets are applying increasing pressure on governments to confront their fiscal realities, but policymakers seem unwilling to rein in spending._”
🔗 https://financialpost.com/investing/investors-unaware-scale-bond-crisis.
#Debt #SovereignDebt #BondMarket #Finance #Economy #Economics @finance @economics
📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
Morning all.
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**
Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011645511/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #UncleSam #Tariffs #C20th #20thCentury
🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
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Eew. This is a great example of why I ditched Audible years ago and now get audiobooks from Chirp.
Even Audiobooks Aren't Safe From AI Slop
... And as an added incentive, it's offering better royalty rates to authors who use Audible's AI to create an audiobook exclusively for the platform, Bloomberg reported.
#Books #AI #Audiobooks #Audible #Amazon #AmReading
https://futurism.com/audible-announces-ai-narrators
🇦🇪 🌡️ **UAE hits record May temperature of 51.6C**
“_Scientists have shown that recurring heatwaves are a clear marker of global warming and that these heatwaves are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense._”
🔗 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250524-uae-hits-record-may-temperature-of-51-6c.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UAE @climatechange
🇺🇸 “Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand”
#Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Economy #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @bookstodon
Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/four-books-sound-the-alarm-about-the-power-of-pr...
🇺🇸 **15 Times U.S. Presidents Defied the Constitution (and Got Away With It)**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-times-u-s-presidents-defied-the-constitution-and-got-away-with-it/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #Constitution @histodons
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#SundayReads — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-old-very-old-man/
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Posting a social media disclaimer won't stop AI from using your data. This will | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/social-media-disclaimer-stop-ai-using-data-copypasta?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
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Are you interested in populism? → L. Jacobs, C. Close, and J. Pilet. “The Angry Voter? The Role of Emotions in Voting for the Radical Left and Right at the 2019 Belgian Elections”. In: International Political Science Review (Feb. 2024), p. 01925121231224524.
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Brilliant essay -- "The Copilot Delusion" -- on how "AI" is ruining so much, programming in this case.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
"We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door."
**Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa**
“_For the first time, we also demonstrate the persistence of North African ancestry in a Christian cemetery until the seventeenth century, in addition to evidence of slave trafficking from North Africa._”
Oteo-Garcia, G., Silva, M., Foody, M.G.B. et al. Medieval genomes from eastern Iberia illuminate the role of Morisco mass deportations in dismantling a long-standing genetic bridge with North Africa. Genome Biol 26, 108 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s13059-025-03570-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Biology #Science #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Genomes #History #Medieval #Iberia #Academia #Academics @science @archaeodons
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Elon Musk called empathy a “weakness” of Western civilization. But philosophers argue the opposite: empathy is a hard-won form of knowledge — and essential for understanding others and making informed decisions https://buff.ly/WTS28lC
I am considering changing my Mastodon server. For those that know the type of content that I post, what do you advise would be the best instance for me?
Is it difficult for one to self-host a Mastodon account?
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Turns out, boredom may have some advantages. @ScienceAlert explains in more detail, including how we all need to “embrace the pause.”
**Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world**
“_Australians might well be disheartened when they discover that they are not the top users of profanity among English-speaking countries. Their deep national attachment to the vernacular dates back to the original mix of slang, dialect and underworld jargon that gave rise to Australian English — fueled by anti-authoritarian sentiment, the colloquial part of the language expanded to become the feature that best distinguished the established citizen (or old chum) from the stranger (or new chum).”
Schweinberger, M. and Burridge, K. (2025) 'Vulgarity in online discourse around the English-speaking world,' Lingua, 321, p. 103946. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lingua.2025.103946.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Linguistics #Swearing #Vulgarity #StrongLanguage #English #Language #Academia #Academics @linguistics
💻 **AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’**
“_The IEA estimates that all data centres – excluding mining for cryptocurrencies – consumed 415 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity last year. De Vries-Gao argues in his research that AI could already account for 20% of that total._”
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/ai-data-centre-power-consumption.
#AI #Artificialintelligence #Computing #Energy #Technology #Tech @ai
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