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📖 **The Harvard-Educated Linguist Breaking Down ‘Skibidi’ and ‘Rizz’**
"_Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language._"
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/style/algospeak-etymology-nerd-adam-aleksic-slang.html.
#English #Language #Slang #Etymology #Linguistics #Algorithms #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @linguistics
🇳🇴 🚗 **One-third of cars on the road in Norway are now electric**
"_Almost every new car sold in Norway is electric. Hardly anyone buys a combustion engine car anymore._"
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/one-third-of-cars-on-the-road-in-norway-are-now-electric.
🇭🇺 **Ancient Horse Bones Shatter Myths About Medieval Christian Diets**
_“The assumption has always been that Christianity made eating horse taboo,” says Professor László Bartosiewicz of Stockholm University, one of the study’s lead authors. “But our findings show that horsemeat remained on the menu long after conversion. History is rarely as simple as it seems.”_
🔗 https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/ancient-horse-bones-shatter-myths-about-medieval-christian-diets.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Hungary #Europe #Medieval #Christianity @medievodons @archaeodons
📚 🖥️ **Books on BookTok: Character.AI 'crosses a line'**
"_Once you have created an account on the website, Character.AI gives the user the ability to "talk" to book characters such as Violet Sorrengail, the protagonist of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series, or Cal Calore, a character from Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series._"
>>> Why not try talking to someone who is sentient and alive, rather than an algorithm that converts text into numbers, regurgitates them back to you in order that it's owners can give the impression that it can converse with you?
🔗 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/books-on-booktok-characterai-crosses-a-line.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🖋️ **The 10 Most Expensive Fountain Pens in the World**
A fountain pen, the mark of a true gentleman and at these prices one would need to be part of the landed gentry to be able to afford one.
🔗 https://www.aol.com/10-most-expensive-fountain-pens-150234017.html.
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🤔 So, who's going to tell the authoritative New York Times that a #medieval scribe, writing by hand, cannot make a "typo"?
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers**
"_In one, an AI-generated John Adams says “facts do not care about our feelings,” a phrase commonly attributed to conservative commentator and PragerU contributor Ben Shapiro._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/.
#PagerU #History #Histodons #FoundingFathers #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @histodons
📚 🐲 **Dragons in the Astronomicum Caesareum**
"_In 1540, humanist polymath, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, professor, and printer, Peter Apian (1495-1552) published one of the most lavishly illustrated scientific books ever printed. Dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his brother, Ferdinand I, the Astronomicum Caesareum (Imperial Astronomy) contains 21 volvelles and 58 hand-colored woodcuts that involve some of the most spectacular computational dragons in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/07/18/dragons-in-the-astronomicum-caesareum/.
#Dragons #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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🇫🇮 **Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland**
"_Using ancient genomic data, contemporary Finnish Biobank data, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analyses, we identified strong regional continuity between the medieval and modern Finnish populations, and evidence for mobility within Finland and between Finland and Scandinavia._"
Nordfors, U., Peltola, S., O’Sullivan, R.J., Valtueña, A.A., Lamnidis, T.C., Majander, K., Traverso, L., Krause, J., Salmela, E., Onkamo, P., Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland, iScience (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113086.
#Ancient #DNA #Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Medieval #Finland #Scandinavia @science @archaeodons@a.gup.pe
🇺🇸 🖥️ **Americans are increasingly likely to say AI will negatively affect society**
"_The share of Americans who believe that the effects of artificial intelligence on society will be negative has steadily increased, from 34% in December 2024 to 40% in March 2025 to 41% in April and to 47% in June._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #USA #US #UnitedStates #Poll #Data #DataViz #Statistics
🌎 **The Population of the Americas in 1492 is Disputed**
_Needless to say, this is a brutally emotional and partisan topic, because to ask “how many people lived in the Americas in 1492?” is to ask “how great an atrocity was the European settlement of the Americas?”_
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/07/20/the-population-of-the-americas-in-1492-is-disputed/.
🇺🇸 🇬🇧 **War Plan Red: The Forgotten U.S. Plot to Battle Britain**
"_The existence of War Plan Red highlights the intense atmosphere of suspicion and military planning that defined the early 20th century, a time when even America’s closest allies were viewed as potential rivals._"
🔗 https://historycollection.com/war-plan-red-the-forgotten-u-s-plot-to-battle-britain/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #UK #UnitedKingdom @histodons
🗺️ **The true size of countries**
Via @mapasmilhaud
"_Cartographic projections distort countries, which can lead us to believe that some countries are larger or smaller than others. Sometimes, this is not true._"
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/the-true-size-of-countries.
📚 **This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour**
"_Built in Austria, the bot does exactly what its name implies—it autonomously scans and digitizes manuscripts. But whereas it might take a single librarian days or weeks to scan a single book, the ScanRobot 2.0 can handle up to 2,500 per hour._"
Morning all.
🖥️ 🧠 **Is Artificial Intelligence Turning Off Our Minds?**
🔗 https://english.elpais.com/society/2025-07-17/is-artificial-intelligence-turning-off-our-minds.html
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Psychology @psychology
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"If you weren't so stupid, you could understand how stupid you are."
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2025/06/conspiracy-theorists-unaware-their-beliefs-are-fringe
#science #biology #physics #chemistry #technology #education #space #engineering
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Book Review: ‘The Hiroshima Men’ is a reminder of the horrific human costs of atomic attack
https://apnews.com/article/hiroshima-men-6ed866bd3d48a5086510f51f53164d00?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Asia @asia-AssociatedPress
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Italian is a weird language when it comes to its word for "us".
In all major Romance languages, the word for "us" stems from Latin 'nōs', for example Spanish 'nos' and French 'nous'.
Italian, by contrast, uses an entirely different word for the unstressed form for "us": 'ci'.
My new infographic tells you the story of 'ci' and other plural pronouns:
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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