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People keep calling LLMs "automation" but automation is necessarily consistent. Automation can fail, obviously, and often it produces crap, but while in operation they must be consistent
Otherwise it isn't automation
LLMs are not automation. At their very best they're assistive tech and they usually aren't at their best
🇺🇸 💵 **America’s billionaires are now worth $5.7 trillion—and just three people represent $1 trillion of that wealth**
🚽 **Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids**
"_The study suggests that prolonged engagement with smartphones while using the toilet may be associated with an increased prevalence of hemorrhoids._"
Ramprasad C, Wu C, Chang J, Rangan V, Iturrino J, et al. (2025) Smartphone use on the toilet and the risk of hemorrhoids. PLOS ONE 20(9): e0329983. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329983.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Science #Gastroenterology #Medicine #Health #Phones #Hemorrhoids #Toilet #Academia @science
📚 **Longlist: The £50,000 Baillie Gifford Prize for Nonfiction**
🔗 https://publishingperspectives.com/2025/09/longlist-the-50000-baillie-gifford-prize-for-nonfiction/.
Good afternoon all.
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Ranked: U.S. Crude Oil Imports by Country**
"_In 2024, 61.7% of America’s crude oil imports were from Canada._"
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/u-s-crude-oil-imports-by-country/.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Oil #FossilFuels #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #Trade #Business
🧬 **Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs**
"_Our data demonstrate large-scale population movement from Eastern Europe during the sixth to eighth centuries, replacing more than 80% of the local gene pool in Eastern Germany, Poland and Croatia. Yet, we also show substantial regional heterogeneity as well as a lack of sex-biased admixture, indicating varying degrees of cultural assimilation of the autochthonous populations._"
Gretzinger, J., Biermann, F., Mager, H. et al. Ancient DNA connects large-scale migration with the spread of Slavs. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-09437-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Archaeogenetics #Science #Genetics #Ancient #DNA #Academia @archaeodons @science
🇪🇸 🔥 **Spain is having its largest wildfire year in well over a decade**
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See Thomas Jefferson’s Handwritten Copy of the Declaration of Independence
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/see-thomas-jeffersons-handwritten-copy-of-the-declaration-of-independence-180987277/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Smartnews @smartnews-Smithsonianmag
🇫🇷 💶 **Debt of the general government according to the Maastricht definition - first quarter 2025**
"_At the end of the first quarter 2025, the Maastricht debt accounted for €3,345.4 billion ; it increased by €40.2 billion, after +€3.8 billion in the previous quarter. Expressed as percentage of Gross Domestic Product (GDP), it stood at 113.9 %, after 113.2 % in Q4 2024._"
🔗 https://www.insee.fr/en/statistiques/8599494.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Debt #France #GDP #Economy #Economics @economics
🇬🇧 🇪🇸 🇵🇹 📖 **No Country for Travellers British visitors to Spain and Portugal, 1760–1820**
"_The travellers’ memoirs reflect changing perceptions of Spain and Portugal as modernisation raised new hopes that vied with pessimism and ancient prejudice, and also the persistence of cultural stereotypes, while the counterintuitive relationship between civilian travel and armed conflict emerges through a case study of the Peninsular War._"
🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/book/no-country-for-travellers/.
#OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #Travel #UK #UnitedKingdom #Spain #Portugal #Ebooks #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodons
📖 **A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?**
"_It’s not all straight philosophy. Jeffries gives us affectionate readings of Don Quixote and Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet, dips into Shakespeare’s fools and the rich menu of stupidities available in King Lear, as well as making the odd excursus into cognitive science._"
#Philosophy #History #Stupidity #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
**‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC)**
"_The Southern Levant saw significant use of silver during the final stages of the Middle Bronze Age, with the first silver-currency hoards appearing at Shiloh and Gezer (~ 1650/1600–1600/1550 BC), predating other regions. Although silver was temporarily replaced by gold in the Late Bronze Age, it re-emerged as the dominant form of money by the Late Bronze Age IIB, ~ 1300 BC, a status it retained until the end of the Iron Age (~ 600 BC), despite occasional shortages._"
Eshel, T. ‘Keseph’: The Use of Silver Money in the Southern Levant from the Middle Bronze Age to the End of the Iron Age (~ 2000–600 BC). J World Prehist 38, 5 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09191-7.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #BronzeAge #IronAge #Sliver #Money #Levant #NearEast #Academia @archaeodons
**Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer**
"_We propose that tidal irrigation offers a plausible jumpstarting mechanism for high-yield, diversified agriculture providing an impetus for urbanization. As access to sea was restricted by delta build-up and tides shifted with the advancing deltaic coast, intensified reliance on mercurial river regimes eventually led to the expansive fluvial irrigation network of Early Dynastic city-states._"
Giosan L, Goodman R (2025) Morphodynamic Foundations of Sumer. PLOS ONE 20(8): e0329084. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0329084.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Sumer #Morphodynamic #Rivers #Irrigation #Paleooceanography #Agriculture #Academia
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Today is a good day to read. #books #booklovers #amreading
**The Politics of Small Business Owners**
"_...we find consistent evidence that small business owners are more likely to identify with and vote for right-wing parties. We find that this tendency cannot be fully explained by factors that cause people to select into being small business owners. Rather, we identify a key operational channel: the experience of being a small business owner leads people to adopt conservative views on government regulation._"
Malhotra, N., Margalit, Y. and Shi, S. (2025) ‘The Politics of Small Business Owners’, British Journal of Political Science, 55, p. e94. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007123425000274.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #RightWing #Conservative #Politics #PoliticalScience #Business #Economics #Sociology #Academia @politicalscience
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**Gold prices hit all-time high on rising uncertainty, while U.S. stock futures little changed**
"_Continuous gold futures GC00 +0.99% on the New York Mercantile Exchange rose about 1% to a high of $3,552.40 an ounce on Monday. Gold was most recently trading around $3,551. The precious metal has seen its price soar about 34% year to date._"
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