Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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💻 **Fact or Fiction? Artificial Intelligence Misinformation**
_How to recognize AI “hallucinations."_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Misinformation @ai
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**How to Read Hard Books (and actually understand them)**
#Video length: thirty-four minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrNHttO4MxM.
#Reading #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
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Switzerland 🇨🇭
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UK 🇬🇧
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🔭 **Astronomy**
On this day in 1675 the Royal Observatory Greenwich was founded.
📖 ✏️ **Marginalia mania: how ‘annotating’ books went from big no-no to BookTok’s next trend**
#Marginalia #Books #Bookstodon #BookTok #Instagram #SocialMedia @bookstodon
**Nvidia gets into money-burning AI startups**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/06/22/nvidia-gets-into-money-burning-ai-startups/.
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Eastern half of U.S. braces for more long days of dangerous heat
https://apnews.com/article/heat-wave-eastern-central-united-states-advisories-d7b93e295c42cdb4787cf95c1f09858b?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into U.S. News @u-s-news-AssociatedPress
**The importance of rhythm for memorization**
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved.
📸 💻 **Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. Op-Docs**
The New York Times
"_Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?_"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and forty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3wEg9tsCY.
#Documentary #Photography #Photos #Images #Cameras #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
🇬🇧 💻 **The AI hallucination: Why tech will add problems, not solve them**
🔗 https://feweek.co.uk/the-ai-hallucination-why-tech-will-add-problems-not-solve-them/
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIHallucinations #Education #Teaching #UK #UnitedKingdom @ai
**What History Tells and Teaches Us? We Ask Oxford Professor**
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/06/what-history-tells-and-teaches-us-we-ask-oxford-professor/.
🌍 **Have you ever met a globemaker?**
🔗 https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/attractions/hidden-london-bellerby-globemaker-b1233800.html.
💻 **AI hallucinates more frequently as it gets more advanced — is there any way to stop it from happening, and should we even try?**
"_Research conducted by OpenAI found that its latest and most powerful reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinated 33% and 48% of the time, respectively, when tested by OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIHallucinations @ai
Afternoon all.
**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**
"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"
Mitrovic, D. (2025). <i>Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English</i> [University of Chicago]. https://doi.org/10.6082/UCHICAGO.15187.
**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**
**Ancient linguistic clues reveal that the European Huns had Siberian roots**
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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