Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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#Viking people if you haven’t read this book yet put it next on your list.
I literally closed the first edition of this one back in 2010 and said “Welp, I’m going to get a PhD in archaeology.” #Medieval #Archaeology #histodons
📚 **What books do professors of different subjects read?**
Harriet Breakey
“_I asked these professors whether they found reading to be an escape from their field of study or if reading was yet another way they could remain immersed in their subject. The response I received overwhelmingly favoured reading as a form of wider research._”
🔗 https://cherwell.org/2025/05/28/oxford-professors-read-books/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @bookstodon
💻 **AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos**
“_A survey of college students taken in January 2023, just two months after ChatGPT's launch, found that some 90% had already used it on assignments, New York Magazine reports._”
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/26/ai-chatgpt-cheating-college-teachers.
#School #Education #Learning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
**It's Not Just Austen – Posh Accents Are Ruining Period Dramas, Historian Says**
🔗 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/not-just-austen-posh-accents-132208449.html.
🔬 **Scientists Warns That AI Images May Cause Havoc in Medical Research**
“_The authors argue that the growing sophistication of AI image-generation tools makes it harder to detect fraudulent data through traditional means._”
#Science #Research #Fake #Images #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @science @ai
**Harvard agrees to relinquish early photos of slaves, ending a long legal battle**
“_Harvard University will relinquish 175-year-old photographs believed to be the earliest taken of enslaved people to a South Carolina museum devoted to African American history as part of a settlement with one of the subjects’ descendants._”
🔗 https://apnews.com/article/harvard-university-slave-photos-d9c01b7926bba2a686ff325617e93ce9.
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Wall Street braces for more bond turbulence as traders bet Washington won't tackle deficits**
#Debt #Deficit #BondMarket #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates @economics
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The World’s Oldest Homework: A Look at Babylonian Math Homework from 4,000 Years Ago
https://www.openculture.com/2025/05/the-worlds-oldest-homework.html
💻 **Firing people for AI is not going so well**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/26/firing-people-for-ai-not-going-so-well/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Jobs #Employment @ai
**Adverse reactions to the use of large language models in social interactions**
“_Here, we report the results of a large-scale, preregistered online experiment (n= 3,552) showing that human players’ fairness, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation, and coordination in economic two-player games decrease when the decision of the interaction partner is taken over by ChatGPT. On the contrary, we observe no adverse reactions when individuals are uncertain whether they are interacting with a human or a LLM._”
Fabian Dvorak, Regina Stumpf, Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Adverse reactions to the use of large language models in social interactions, PNAS Nexus, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2025, pgaf112, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf112.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #LLMS #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics @ai @economics
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Unlocking Google's Hidden Maps - mapShare is a new platform to help you search and discover the millions of Google My Maps created by people around the world.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/05/unlocking-googles-hidden-maps.html
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Giant datacenters are taking over the U.S. - & angering local residents · "They're noisy. They take a lot of power & water, & some communities do not want them."
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18th century, Huguenot mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, was born 26 May 1667 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a-newtonian-refuge/
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What is it about the radical right Alternative for Germany and Germany's East? Glad you asked, b/c I have a bootlegged preprint for you.
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/afd-east-west-cleavage-breakthrough/
**Minting Power: Phoenician Coins and the Politics of Identity**
🔗 https://aub.edu.lb/articles/Pages/Minting-Power-Phoenician-Coins-and-the-Politics-of-Identity.aspx.
#Numismatics #Identity #Politics #Phoenicia #History #Histodons @histodons
**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
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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