Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🇸🇪 **Viking silver treasure uncovered in Täby in Stockholm**
“_Several coins are of European origin, representing countries as England, Bohemia and Bavaria. In addition, the treasure consisted of five Arabic coins, so called dirhams. One of the European coins is extremely rare and was minted in the city of Rouen, in Normandy, France. It dates to approximately the 10th Century AD._”
🔗 https://arkeologerna.com/viking-silver-treasure-uncovered-in-taby-stockholm/.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Coins #Vikings #Sweden #Europe @archaeodons
**Exclusive: 'Turk-Kagan' coin discovery reshapes early Turkic history, says Uzbek professor**
“_Perhaps most significantly, the “Turk-Kagan” coins predate the famed Orkhon inscriptions—those of Tonyukuk, Kultegin, and Bilge Kagan—by more than 150 years. This pushes back the earliest known written usage of “Turk” and “Turk-Kagan” to the late sixth or early seventh century A.D._”
#Coins #Culture #Numismatism #Turk #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons @archaeodons
**Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?**
“_Fichte was not a proto-fascist, though certain aspects of his writing and his style had a strong appeal to fascists._”
Phillips, R. L. (2025) ‘Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?’, The European Legacy, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2500229.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Fichte #Fascism #Fascist #NationalSocialism #Germany #Europe #Academia #Academic @philosophy
💻 “_Tactics used to make AI tools more engaging can drive chatbots to monopolize users’ time or reinforce harmful ideas._”
Your chatbot friend might be messing with your mind https://wapo.st/43GCGwW
For those that do not work on Sunday: its great when you finish a book on Saturday evening, and then start a new book on Sunday morning. There exists the possibility that you could be immersed in the thoughts of the author for the rest of the day.
Morning all.
🇬🇧 🖋️ **What is the state of Britain’s handwriting?**
"_Just one in six Britons (17%) update a personal journal or diary by hand at least a few times a month, while only 7% of the public are handwriting letters that regularly._"
🔗 https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52273-what-is-the-state-of-britains-handwriting.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Handwriting #Writing #Poll #Data #Dataviz
**Babylonia and Across the River**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/05/31/babylonia-and-across-the-river/.
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**TOP 15 Most Expensive Texts on Earth**
#Video length: twenty-five minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqyNaBi1gI.
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Auctions @histodons @bookstodon
**Virginia capital likely has 742 unmarked graves, some of Confederate soldiers, study finds**
**Battle of the Kalka River**
On this day in history in 1223, the Mongol Army led by Jebei and Subutai defeated the combined forces of the Kievan Rus at the Kalka River.
Afternoon all.
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Earth without water, by Thomas Burnet, ca. 1700⠀
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Note California depicted as an island. See more maps depicting California adrift from the mainland here — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-showing-california-as-an-island
🧬 **Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes**
“_Their analysis revealed something that seems counterintuitive: Despite the fact that Punic people originally came from the eastern Mediterranean, an area called the Levant, those who were living in Punic settlements several centuries later showed almost no trace of Levantine ancestry._”
🔗 https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-29/punic-study.
#Research #News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Ancient #DNA #Levant @archaeodons @anthropology
💻 **The AI Cultural Slop Apocalypse is Here**
Lewis Waller
#Video length:thirty-two minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DyZQhzv7Q.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Culture @ai
🇯🇴 **Lost Byzantine city resurfaces in S. Jordan: Ancient settlement of Tharais identified**
“_The town of Tharais, once featured on the renowned Madaba Mosaic Map, has been positively identified near the modern town of El-‘Iraq in the Karak Governorate, providing a new chapter in the archaeological and cultural history of the region._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #Culture #Byzantinum #Jordan @archaeodons @histodons
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@bibliolater You could start with an English/German edition of Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" and then consider if you really want to learn it. 😉
🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 🇱🇺 🇱🇮 **Language Question**
I am thinking about learning German. What do you think the best books to use in this endeavour would be?
#German #Language #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Education #Learning #Books
Afternoon all.
**Tips from a Wisconsin librarian: How can you know if what you’re reading is false?**
“_Librarian Kate Hinnant shares how to spot falsehoods online and how to slow the spread of misinformation_”
🔗 https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-librarian-tips-reading-false-misinformation-online.
#Reading #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Online #Internet #Tips
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