Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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🚗 ❓ **Questions**
I do not understand the modern phenomenon of inhaling laughing gas whilst driving a motor vehicle. Why would anyone want to do this? For those who partake in such activities, why do they think it is a good idea with no or minimal associated risk?
🇨🇿 **Brno museum unveils unique Bronze Age armour find**
"_Brno City Museum has announced the discovery of a rare Bronze Age armour fragment, dating back over 3,200 years to the time of the legendary Trojan War._"
🔗 https://english.radio.cz/brno-museum-unveils-unique-bronze-age-armour-find-8857572.
**Morning all.**
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"_The shift in tone marks a shift in power now that companies are shrinking their white-collar staff. With jobs harder to find, many workers are seeing perks disappear and their grievances ignored._"
‘Everybody’s Replaceable’: The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/corporate-bosses-workers-culture-changing...
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@bibliolater @bookstodon I haven't done so yet myself (gasp!), but based on Ulysses: 1. listen to a good audiobook adaptation while reading, esp. a dramatized production with different actors for each character (lots of directorial decisions there, obvs). 2. Read it in community---a book club, a class--so you can discuss each chapter right after reading it. 3. Consult commentaries lightly, but don't let them overwhelm you. 4. When the text seems like sheer nonsense, listen to it as music.
🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**
_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._
Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.
#History #Histodons #UncleSam #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cartoon #RudyardKipling #Poetry @histodons
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Yet Another Study Finds That Overloading #LLMs With Information Leads to Worse Results (via @TheDecoder https://the-decoder.com/yet-another-study-finds-that-overloading-llms-with-information-leads-to-worse-results/ #AI
🏴 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**
>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.
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**The 3 Hardest Books of all Time & How to Read Them**
>>The list is subjective; however, these are this particular Youtuber's thoughts and tips, they may have utility if you are considering reading the books in the future.
#Video length: shorts.
🖥️ 🧠 **Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)**
"_Emerging, and rapidly accumulating, evidence indicates that agential AI may mirror, validate or amplify delusional or grandiose content, particularly in users already vulnerable to psychosis, due in part to the models’ design to maximise engagement and affirmation, although notably it is not clear whether these interactions have resulted or can result in the emergence of de novo psychosis in the absence of pre-existing vulnerability._"
Morrin, H., Nicholls, L., Levin, M., Yiend, J., Iyengar, U., DelGuidice, F., … Pollak, T. (2025, July 11). Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cmy7n_v5
#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Psychology #Neuroscience #Psychiatry @psychology
🖥️ 🇬🇧 **How many Britons know AI lies?**
"_One in nine Britons who use AI for factfinding on a daily basis say they have "never" encountered it hallucinating_"
🔗 https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52617-how-many-britons-know-ai-lies.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Poll #Data #DataViz
🌍 💵 **Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth**
"_Two hundred years ago, people in all regions were similarly poor. Today, the average incomes of people in Australia, the US, or Denmark are more than 15 times higher than those in Sub-Saharan Africa._"
#Economics #Inequality #Graph #Chart #Data #DataViz @economic
**What did the Vikings really think about pregnant women?**
"_Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @archaeodons
📖 **Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world**
_“If you think maths is all about equations, and you think equations are rigid black-and-white facts, then you probably think maths is all rigid and black-and-white,” says Cheng. This book is a wonderful refutation of that misconception._
#BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math @bookstodon
📖 🇺🇸 **After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook**
_By age 16, “being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school,” Franklin continued, “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.”_
#History #Histodons #BenFranklin #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics @histodons @bookstodon
Afternoon all.
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Interesting article about taking notes by hand impacting on learning and memory: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/ #handwriting #learning #memory
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@bibliolater @bookstodon
Years ago I built a scanner something like this one, but the mechanism is my hands, not any automation. I can do a 400 page book in an evening (but it gets super boring, I admit). "Days or weeks" is nonsense.
Done by hand, errors can be spotted and corrections made on the spot. I've seen many many scans on archive dot org where a page or three is totally botched or missed right in the middle of a book.
High speed has its place, but not at the price of quality.
**Sick of AI Slop? DuckDuckGo Now Lets You Block AI-Generated Images**
_DuckDuckGo admits the tool 'isn't perfect,' but claims it will 'greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.'_
🔗 https://www.pcmag.com/news/sick-of-ai-slop-duckduckgo-now-lets-you-block-ai-generated-images.
#DuckDuckGo #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech
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.
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