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
Revealed: Elon Musk wanted to stay in White House but was rejected https://www.telegraph.co.uk/gift/93ea18ab2ba8f028
🇬🇧 **Five outstanding manuscripts acquired for the nation**
“_Together, these manuscripts shed exceptional light on the study of Hebrew by Christian monks in medieval England, on the administration of a medieval English town, and on spiritual devotion in medieval England and Ireland._”
#Manuscripts #Medieval #Medievodons #History #Histodons @medievodons @histodons
🇺🇸 **When the Founding Fathers Spoke Yiddish**
🔗 https://mishpacha.com/when-the-founding-fathers-spoke-yiddish/.
**Nearly 40% of the world’s glaciers are already doomed, scientists say**
"_Researchers estimate glaciers will eventually lose 39% of their mass relative to 2020, a trend that is already irreversible no matter what comes next and will likely contribute a 113-millimeter increase to global sea level rise._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/02/climate/worlds-glaciers-future-study-intl-scli.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Envirnoment #Glaciers #Science #Research @climatechange @science
🇨🇦 🇺🇸 **When Canada was the Promised Land: What Canada Taught America about Freedom and Inclusive Democracy**
#History #Histodons #Canada #USA #US #UnitedStates #America @histodons
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**6 Ways to Get Out of a Reading Slump**
#Video length: nine minutes and forty-six seconds.
**Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts**
“_We found that learning constrained to the language domain captures human-level conceptual representation in non-sensorimotor dimensions such as valence and emotional arousal but yields impoverished representation of sensorimotor knowledge._”
Xu, Q., Peng, Y., Nastase, S.A. et al. Large language models without grounding recover non-sensorimotor but not sensorimotor features of human concepts. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02203-8.
#OpenAcces #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Science #Technology #Tech #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Psycholofy #Academia #Academics @ai @psychology
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📊 #MakeoverMonday – 2025 W20 | The Religious Composition of the World’s Migrants
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#rstats | #DataFam | #dataviz | #ggplot2
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📊 #TidyTuesday – 2025 W22 | Project Gutenberg
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#rstats | #r4ds | #dataviz | #ggplot2
🇬🇷 **Greece is turning its back on coal and replacing it with solar and wind**
Hannah Ritchie & Pablo Rosado
“_The chart shows that just over a decade ago, almost half of the country’s power came from coal. This has now fallen to 6%._
_Solar and wind have replaced it; their share has tripled in the last decade; when combined, they’ve become the largest source._”
#Data #DataViz #Energy #Coal #SolarEnergy #Wind #Renewables #Greece
📱 **Your smartphone is a parasite, according to evolution**
“_Many of us are hostage to our phones – and it’s not unlike having head lice._”
🖋️ **The black-letter, or Gothic, style (9th to 15th century)**
🔗 https://www.britannica.com/art/calligraphy/The-black-letter-or-Gothic-style-9th-to-15th-century.
**Pivotal Week for Global Debt Markets: Pressure Mounts on Japan**
**Opinion: Here’s how much higher gold prices can still go — even after doubling the past two years**
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Law clerk fired over ChatGPT use after firm’s filing used AI hallucinations
Law school grad’s firing is a bad omen for college kids overly reliant on ChatGPT.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
🗺️ **Looking For A Maps Related Account To Follow?**
Please consider following @mapasmilhaud, he has great content.
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A Cartographer's Tale
After so many years writing only in Spanish, it is time for a new adventure, this time in English.
Please share it with all your English-speaking friends. It will be worthy.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/welcome-to-a-cartographers-tale
PS: I know Mapstodon instance is mainly English-speaking, so this is your chance!
@mapasmilhaud Thank you for following. It is great to see that you have an account on the Fediverse.
🇨🇭 **Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland**
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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