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🇯🇵 **YouTube Generation Propels Japan's Anti-Foreigner Politics Into The Mainstream**
"_Kato said he believes the Chinese, the biggest cohort of foreign residents in Japan and among the largest visitor groups, are quietly taking over the country. Chinese are also often the focal point for anti-immigrant rhetoric propagated online._"
🖥️ 🌍 **AI Slop Is Eating The World**
"_In 2025, fully AI-generated content is growing fast and reshaping how we get information and entertainment. Entire articles, blog posts, product descriptions, and video scripts come straight from AI models like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Gemini, producing polished text in dozens of languages within seconds._"
🔗 https://www.computerworld.com/article/4028292/ai-slop-is-flooding-the-world.html.
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@bibliolater Afternoon, insightful posts this week thank you.
📚 **Summer Reading List: Road Tripping Across the West**
A summer reading list from the Nebraska University Press.
🔗 https://unpblog.com/2025/07/25/summer-reading-list-road-tripping-across-the-west/
#Summer #Travel #Reading #List #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Lying increases trust in science**
Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science
Afternoon all.
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Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us.
“The difference lies in how we use it,” writes professor of information systems Aaron French. https://theconversation.com/is-chatgpt-making-us-stupid-255370
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Well-timed for #ishpssb2025 👇 these authors are among the few academics actively trying to tackle the scourge of scientific racism. Would be great to see more historians and philosophers of science engage with this problem
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hhs6eirikabtdfx3ougekmkq/post/3lupiyvnlcs2b
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In Denmark we have one of highest proportions of renewables AND some of highest electricity prices in Europe.*
But funnily it's correlation not causality. We also pay a lot of tax on energy.
Good deep dive by @andrewdessler.com
* & Sometimes price is negative
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/have-renewables-decreased-electricity-da4
🇪🇺 🏭 **Decrease in industrial production in 2024**
"_In nominal terms, the EU’s value of sold production went down from €5 975 billion in 2023 to €5 860 billion in 2024, indicating a 1.9% decrease._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250724-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #Industry
**Math Is Erotic**
"_The purely mental activity of doing mathematics can be a mode of access to something that transcends the human mind. That this should be the case would seem to indicate that there is a deep resonance between mind and cosmos—almost as if cosmos participates in mind._"
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📖 **The Colonialist: The Vision of Cecil Rhodes**
_The Anglo-Saxons were the finest race in the world, he declared, and ‘the more of the world we inhabit the better it is for the human race.’_
🔗 https://literaryreview.co.uk/diamonds-bust.
#History #Histodons #Biography #CecilRhodes #Colonialism #Imperialism #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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**Indo-Europeans Rediscovered (mini book review)**
#Video length: short.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/Lvdm3IMgpTc.
#IndoEuropeans #Linguistics #Nonfiction #BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon @linguistics @bookstodon
🇺🇸 **Who Won the Battle of Baton Rouge?**
🇺🇸 📖 **The Book That All Americans Should Be Reading Now**
"_A nation’s prosperity is not a given. It is constantly shaped by the strength and character of its institutions. If you want to see how a country will do economically in the long run, look at its institutions.
🔗 https://www.zmescience.com/other/economics/the-book-that-all-americans-should-be-reading-now/.
#Economy #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @economics @bookstodon
🖥️ **AI Is Getting Smarter—and Less Reliable**
"_The chatbots’ vulnerability to manipulation, along with their susceptibility to groupthink and their inability to recognize basic facts, should alarm all of us about the growing reliance on these research tools in industry, education, and the media._"
🔗 https://insights.som.yale.edu/insights/ai-is-getting-smarter-and-less-reliable.
🖥️ **DeepMind and OpenAI achieve IMO Gold. What does it all mean?**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/deepmind-and-openai-achieve-imo-gold.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Maths #Mathematics #Math
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
📖 **The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires: Central Eurasian International Relations during the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries**
Noda, J. (07 Apr. 2016). The Kazakh Khanates between the Russian and Qing Empires, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill. Available From: Brill https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004314474 [Accessed 23 July 2025] .
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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