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**Is Google’s reign coming to an end? AI threatens the leading search engine**
**15 Wealthy & Wicked Slave Owners You Never Learned About**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-wealthy-wicked-slave-owners-you-never-learned-about/.
**Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities**
"_Results showed that dark personality traits were significantly associated with academic dishonesty, anxiety, and procrastination, and that these markers of academic misbehavior were linked to increased frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use._"
Song, J., Liu, S. Dark personality traits are associated with academic misconduct, frustration, negative thinking, and generative AI use habits: the case of Sichuan art universities. BMC Psychol 13, 633 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1186/s40359-025-02949-w.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Research #Psychology #Personality #Academia #Education #Procrastination #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @psychology
**Mathematicians are chasing a number that may reveal the edge of maths**
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First thing of the day -- newly acquired #map digitized by Osher Map Library - Walter Crane's famous 1886 Imperial Federation map!!
Online at https://oshermaps.org/map/59097.0001
🖥️ **AI coders think they’re 20% faster — but they’re actually 19% slower**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/11/ai-coders-think-theyre-20-faster-but-theyre-actually-19-slower/.
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Trillions in new U.S. debt will push gold prices higher even without a fiscal ‘crisis’ – World Gold Council**
🌡️ **Climate change tripled heat-related deaths in early summer European heatwave**
#Heatwave #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @climatechange
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If only more people understood that. LLMs aren't ready for serious work.
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The AI was defensive and at times accusatory and kind of gaslighting "you keep saying the paper does not exist, when I have given you the PMID and DOI and have checked that it does" (PMID was for a different paper, DOI didn't resolve).
When asked about how it checks that a paper is real, it listed the steps, but when told to recreate the steps, it obfuscated.
I find the reality distortion we're heading into and the degradation of facts by these tools to be very troubling indeed.
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A colleague showed me a disturbing interaction with Gemini (AI/LLM).
Asked for an interpretation of a scientific result, it suggested something and hallucinated a paper to support its idea (no news here). Upon repeated questioning and showing that the paper did not exist, the AI showed really disturbing behaviour.
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🇳🇴 **Lost Medieval Town at Hamar Uncovered: Excavation Confirms GPR Data**
🔗 https://www.niku.no/en/2025/07/lost-medieval-town-at-hamar-uncovered-excavation-confirms-gpr-data/.
#Medieval #Medievodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Norway @medievodons @archaeodons
**YouTube prepares crackdown on ‘mass-produced’ and ‘repetitive’ videos, as concern over AI slop grows**
#Youtube #Videos #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech
🇺🇸 💵 **The dollar is having its worst year since Nixon. Three reasons it will get even weaker.**
"_These days, few on Wall Street expect the dollar to strengthen over the next year or so. Some even believe this could be just the start of a lengthy stretch of dollar weakness._"
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics @economics
🇧🇷 🇵🇹 **The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal**
"_In this paper, we show that the discovery of massive quantities of gold in Brazil over the eighteenth century played a key role in the long-run development of Portugal. The country suffered from an economic and political resource curse. A counterfactual based on synthetic control methods suggests that by 1800 Portugal’s GDP per capita was 40 percent lower than it would have been without its endowment of Brazilian gold._"
Kedrosky, D. and Palma, N. (2025) ‘The Cross of Gold: Brazilian Treasure and the Decline of Portugal’, The Journal of Economic History, pp. 1–37. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050725100764.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #History #Histodons #Gold #Brazil #Portugal #Academia @histodons
🖥️ **Opinion: AI is changing our world. At what point will it change our reality?**
"_These scenarios all share similarities in that victims are gaslit to believe AI is a sentient being that understands them on a deeper level. They fall prey to confirmation bias and the spiritual psychosis that follows. The false reality spewed by AI becomes their all-encompassing truth._"
**Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia**
"_Genetic ancestry among Andalusians seems to be constituted by three foremost continental origins: European, African and Middle Eastern. The examined male group has revealed a noticeable proportion of individuals (over 45%) with a non-correspondence between maternal and paternal haplogroup origins, a signal of different population demographic histories linked to both sexes in the past._"
González-Barrio, M. et al. (2025) ‘Further insights into maternal and paternal human histories in southern Iberia’, Evolutionary Human Sciences, pp. 1–28. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/ehs.2025.10006.
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #Science #Genetics #Genome #Haplogroups #Ancestry #Iberia #Academia #Academics
📖 **Portable Magna Carta: Rare Book of the Week**
"_This week's Rare Book of the Week is a 14th century portable Magna Carta on vellum in Latin and Anglo-Norman French which comes to auction on July 9 at Christie's with an estimate of £15,000- £20,000._"
🔗 https://www.finebooksmagazine.com/fine-books-news/portable-magna-carta-rare-book-week.
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Alpha males are the exception, not the rule, bold new study claims | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/alpha-males-are-the-exception-not-the-rule-bold-new-study-claims?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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