Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
Morning all
**Gold prices soar ahead of Fed rate cut**
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/markets/commodities/metals/gold-prices-soar-ahead-fed-rate-cut-2025-09-19/.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
One in four university physics departments fear closure in next two years – poll
https://www.itv.com/news/2025-09-19/one-in-four-university-physics-departments-fear-closure-in-next-two-years-poll?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into ITV News @itv-news-ITVNews
🗺️ **How WWI got Nat Geo into the map business**
🔗 https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/cartography-map-making-influence-wwii.
🇬🇧 🇮🇳 **The White Indian Mutiny: When Britain's Own Heroes Rebelled**
"_The White Indian Mutiny 1858._"
#Video length: fourteen minutes and twenty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c1wpDkVMwCE.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #EastIndiaCompany #India #C19th
🎙️ 📖 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **China Is Run by Engineers. America Is Run by Lawyers.**
_In his new book Breakneck, Dan Wang argues that the U.S. has a lot to learn from China. He also says that “no two peoples are more alike.”_
🔗 https://freakonomics.com/podcast/china-is-run-by-engineers-america-is-run-by-lawyers/.
#Audio #Podcast #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #China #USA #US #UnitedStates
🇺🇸 **Trump's $17 Trillion New Investments Claim 'Clearly' Not True, Says Peter Schiff: GDP Growth Would 'Explode by Roughly 50%' If Factual**
"_He added that capital inflows of this scale would lead the U.S. Dollar to “skyrocket,” while concluding that this claim by Trump is “clearly” not true._"
🇺🇸 **Could Trump’s $3.6 Trillion Golden Dome Missile Shield Bankrupt America?**
"_New analysis reveals the true scale of this undertaking could reach $3.6 trillion over two decades._"
📚 **14 books that will make you smarter (without feeling like hard work)**
"_Read yourself cleverer with these excellently readable nonfiction titles_"
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/books-smarter-without-hard-work-3926143.
🖥️ **Yet Another Study Points To AI’s Subpar 5% Success Rate**
"_What’s going on? Is AI dipping into the trough of disillusionment? What about all that money flowing into AI tools and technologies? Corporate AI investment for the year 2024 was estimated at $252.3 billion, according to Stanford University’s Human AI project. At least $33.9 billion of it went to generative AI alone._"
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
Sulfur as a proxy for identifying coast-inland human mobility in Northern Iberia during Late Prehistory
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0330249
Demonstrates that population movement between coastal and inland locations is observable through differences in the δ34S isotope values of individuals linked to their respective environments.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
The AI Bubble Bursting Would Actually Be Incredible for the Economy, Economist Says
https://futurism.com/ai-bubble-economy-boost?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Future Society @future-society-Futurism
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
New Fed governor Stephen Miran is not "concerned" tariffs have raised inflation https://t.co/hn1BTGBfz3
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
Friends don't let friends mindlessly accept advice from "AI": supporting evidence:
Afternoon all.
🌍 **Demography and destiny: the world that awaits us in 2050 with fewer births and longer lifespans**
"_This change in the silhouette reflects a transformation that will require profound changes in a social system based essentially on working generations funding retirees._"
🖥️ **OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws**
_OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems. The company’s o1 reasoning model “hallucinated 16 percent of the time” when summarizing public information, while newer models o3 and o4-mini “hallucinated 33 percent and 48 percent of the time, respectively.”_
☀️ 
**How a 19-year-old accidentally discovered solar power**
#Video length: fifteen minutes and fifty-one seconds.
**Euclid's Elements is easily misunderstood**
#Video length: thirty-three minutes and twenty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-MgQC6z3VU.
#History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Euclid #Geometry
**David Hume vs literature**
"_Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy_"
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/how-david-hume-split-literature-from-philosophy.
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
