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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Xbox producer tells staff to use AI to ease job loss pain
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/ckglzxy389zo?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology @technology-BBCNews
🖋️ **Can learning cursive help kids read better? Some policymakers think it’s worth a try**
"_Why might cursive make a difference? On the surface, it seems like a simple motor skill. But under the surface, cursive handwriting draws upon deep reading knowledge and requires the coordination of multiple cognitive and physical processes._"
🌎 **The Americas In 1818**
A map by Franz Fried.
#Image attribution: Franz Fried, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:America_fried_1818.jpg.
🇧🇷 📸 **Rio de Janeiro**
#Image attribution: Wilfredor, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Images_from_Rio_de_Janeiro_Project_234234_01.jpg.
#Rio #RioDeJaneiro #Brazil #Brasil #SouthAmerica #Photography #Photo
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Beside the Tengwar, Tolkien created many other writing systems. There is enough work for an army of Type Designers.
I hope to sparkle some interest with my publications. I cannot create all the scripts Tolkien coined. The more the better!
Below another interesting script that Tolkien called "Cursive Runes".
These are the cursive forms of the Elvish Runes, the Angerthas in the Appendix E of "The Lord of the Rings".
🇬🇧 **Coins worth Roman soldier's monthly wage found**
_"Coins in both hoards range from the AD60s to AD180s, including for emperors such as Trajan, his cousin Hadrian and Marcus Aurelius."_
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0q88yjd97lo.
#History #Histodons #RomanEmpire #Coins #Numismatics @histodons
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Algorithms used to counteract implicit and explicit biases may well replicate these very biases.
Hertwig et al argue combining Rawls’ Veil of ignorance with deliberate ignorance can help shield individuals, institutions, and algorithms from biases:
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/pdf/10.1177/17456916231188052?download=true
**Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary**
"_We study vocabulary changes in more than 15 million biomedical abstracts from 2010 to 2024 indexed by PubMed and show how the appearance of LLMs led to an abrupt increase in the frequency of certain style words. This excess word analysis suggests that at least 13.5% of 2024 abstracts were processed with LLMs._"
Dmitry Kobak et al., Delving into LLM-assisted writing in biomedical publications through excess vocabulary. Sci. Adv.11, eadt3813 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.adt3813.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Writing #DOI #ComputerScience #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLM #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics
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Count Per Brahe the Younger had a quirk. He raised memorial stones on his land holdings in the 1600s, when nobody else did. Here's the one at Bogesund Manor. Count Per was the patron of Sweden's first major travel writer, an illegitimate relative of his named Nils Mattsson Kiöping. In 2021 I published Nils's big book in an annotated English translation. It's a great read!
Afternoon all.
🇯🇵 📸 **Night cityscape in Nagasaki - view from near the mouth of Urakami River**
#Image attribution: Eiji Kikuta (AG2016) from Sendai, Japan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_cityscape_in_Nagasaki_-_view_from_near_the_mouth_of_Urakami_River_(2016-04-09_by_Eiji_Kikuta_@Pixabay_1342591).jpg.
🇩🇪 📸 **Frankfurt Skyline At Night**
#Image attribution: Mathias Konrath konni, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurt_Skyline_at_night_(Unsplash).jpg.
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Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it
The history of a compromise that was created to resolve an unsolvable geometry problem. The virtues and shortcomings of some of the most iconic map projections.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/cartographic-projections
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🇬🇧 **University jobs at risk amid lower student numbers**
"_University staff who teach language and communication skills to international students say their jobs are at risk under "devastating" new redundancy plans._"
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e416n65lpo.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #University #Bristol #Redundancy #Education
📚 **Pretty Privilege in Publishing: The Book Deal Everyone’s Talking About**
"_For Luke Bateman, it took less than thirty days, a smart phone, and a few well-timed TikToks. Seemingly overnight, he built a massive following on BookTok and secured a book deal, before even starting his manuscript._"
**The Most Common Public Speaking Fails - and How to Fix Them**
"_They include a boring beginning, an ineffectual ending, trying to be too clever, overwhelming your audience and sloppy slides._"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3hnL4DAqI.
#Webinar #Speech #PublicSpeaking #Fails #Failure #Advice #Tips
🎵 I do not know why, but I am listening to Bellini's _Samba De Janeiro_.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read
Many of these are at PG.
Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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