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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Joined Nov 2022
Afternoon all.
💻 🖋️ **Writing With AI: An English Professor Makes The Case For The Unexpected**
"_Letting A.I. do our writing reduces our capacity for the best kind of human thinking. The timing couldn’t be worse._"
🔗 https://slate.com/life/2025/06/ai-chatgpt-generator-grok-gemini-writing.html.
#Writing #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education @ai
🔭 **Night Sky Highlights - July 2025**
"_Discover what to see in the night sky this July, including two magnificent nebulae in Cygnus, Mercury at its best, and more!_"
🔗 https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/space-astronomy/astronomy/night-sky-highlights-july-2025.
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The Link Between Highly Processed Foods and Brain Health (Published 2023)
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/04/well/eat/ultraprocessed-food-mental-health.html?unlocked_article_code=1.R08.0jhh.BjELPTK9vpYo&smid=bs-share
🇧🇬 **Archaeology: Gold coin dating from 6th century Eastern Roman emperor Justin II found in Bulgaria**
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US economy shrank 0.5% in the first quarter, worse than earlier estimates had revealed
https://apnews.com/article/economy-tariffs-trump-gdp-shrink-86d1f15e66c646ac4ce88ffc0a956942?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress
📖 🎙️ **J. P. Mallory, "The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story"**
"_In The Indo-Europeans Rediscovered: How a Scientific Revolution Is Rewriting Their Story (Thames & Hudson, 2025) Mallory explores ancient migrations, linguistics, and archaeology, applying cutting-edge genetic research to untangle the key arguments with wit and verve._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/the-indo-europeans-rediscovered.
#Audio #Podcast #History #Archaeology #Linguistics #Book #Bookstodon @histodons @linguistics @archaeodons
🇰🇿 **Kazakh Archaeologists Uncover Scythian-Era Treasures**
"_The standout find was a gold ring engraved with a lion, a symbol of strength and authority. Researchers believe the image combines human and animal traits, reflecting the spiritual worldview of the Saka tribes in the 3rd-4th centuries BC._"
🔗 https://timesca.com/kazakh-archaeologists-uncover-scythian-era-treasures/
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**Denmark’s ambitious plan to boost plant-based foods. FT Rethink**
#Video length: seven minutes and five seconds.
🧬 **Work begins to create artificial human DNA from scratch**
"_But critics fear the research opens the way for unscrupulous researchers seeking to create enhanced or modified humans._"
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Plutarch & His Parallel Lives: The Biographer of Greece & Rome
https://www.thecollector.com/plutarch-parallel-lives/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Ancient History @ancient-history-thecollector
📚 **Summer 2025 reading from MIT**
🔗 https://news.mit.edu/2025/summer-reading-from-mit-0626.
#Reading #ReadingList #List #Books #Bookstodon #MIT @bookstodon
💻 **AI blunders: Six-finger hands, two suns and Jesus Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea**
"_AI's cultural bias was apparent when a user prompted the tool to depict Jesus Christ walking on water in a stormy sea and received an image of Christ on a surfboard in a stormy sea._"
🔗 https://techxplore.com/news/2025-06-ai-blunders-finger-suns-jesus.html.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Technology #Tech #Blunders @ai
Evening all.
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Reading Mary Beard about Pompeii, love how she supports her statements with argument. Fascinated to learn about the amount of salvaging and/or looting that took place in the months and years after the town died. Survivors neatly extracted all the statuary and the town bylaws placard cast in bronze from the forum.
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UK firms to be protected from cheap imports
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr5v2821q2ro?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-BBCNews
**Medieval experts reveal how they found Harvard’s Magna Carta**
"_An investigation led by Prof David Carpenter of King’s College London revealed the document held at Harvard Law School since the 1940s and thought to be a copy had actually been issued by King Edward I in 1300._"
**‘Who were the first people in the Pacific?’: An interview with Dr. Dylan Gaffney**
"_Dr. Gaffney explains human dispersal in the Pacific, the role it played in human cultural evolution, and the questions about the topic that are still unanswered._"
#Video length: sixteen minutes and two seconds
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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