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.
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Joined Nov 2022
**Franks United? The First Treaty of Meerssen (Feb 847)**
🔗 https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/franks-united-the-first-treaty-of-meerssen-feb-847/.
**Noah’s Ark and the Slave Trade**
"_After the Flood, Noah’s sons were repurposed to support a new worldview justifying racial hierarchy and slavery._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/noahs-ark-and-slave-trade.
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **China has not bought a bushel of soybeans from U.S. farmers this year. What happens to the crop now?**
📖 **Imagining the Ark of the Covenant, From Exodus to Indiana Jones**
🇺🇸 📖 **Catholics, the Civil War, and the Problem of the Lost Cause**
"_After the war, white Catholics played decisive roles in creating and promoting the ideology of the Lost Cause, a romantic distortion that the war had been a noble Southern fight for freedom, not caused by secession to preserve slavery._"
🔗 https://press.georgetown.edu/Book/Catholics-the-Civil-War-and-the-Problem-of-the-Lost-Cause.
#History #Histodons #LostCause #USA #US #UnitedStates #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
📚 🇬🇧 **UK Reading Crisis is About Identity, Not Appetite**
"_Millions of UK adults are reading every day, but half still resist calling themselves ‘readers,’ according to new research from national charity The Reading Agency._"
🔗 https://readingagency.org.uk/uk-reading-crisis-is-about-identity-not-appetite/.
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**Weakness persists in U.S. and California economies**
"_UCLA Anderson Forecast: Risk of rising layoffs leading to a recession is a tangible possibility_"
🔗 https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/anderson-forecast-rising-layoffs-recession-risk-october-2025.
#News #UCLA #USA #US #UnitedStates #California #Recession #Ecomony #Economics
🇨🇭 ⛰️ **Swiss glaciers have shrunk by a quarter since 2015, study says**
"_Between 2015 and 2025 alone, the glaciers shed 24 percent of their volume, Wednesday's report said, compared to 10 percent between 1990 and 2000._"
#News #Research #Switzerland #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
**Hindi, Greek and English all come from a single ancient language – here’s how we know**
🎙️ **Economica with Victoria Bateman**
"_The discussion covers various themes, including the impact of women's marriage decisions on population control, the relationship between women's independence and technological advancements, and the historical marginalization of women in economic history._"
🇺🇸 **Tariffs and trade war bring volatility to South Dakota ag industries**
"_The worst hit among South Dakota’s roughly 28,000 farms and ranches are the 5,000 producers who grow soybeans._
_With no China sales, they are left with the untenable situation of having a huge crop of beans ready for harvest and a gap in the traditional marketplace to sell them._"
#SouthDakota #Farming #Tariffs #Trade #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
**Drowning in a sea of fakery**
"_Some instances of this fakery have been met with hilarity as the images were so bad they would fool no one who gave them more than a cursory glance. Unsurprisingly, however, the technology has improved. A couple of years ago there were warnings that AI could produce convincing fake images of cancers and western blots that could fool experts._"
🔗 https://www.chemistryworld.com/opinion/drowning-in-a-sea-of-fakery/4022181.article.
#Academia #PaperMills #Publishing #Fake #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech
🇮🇪 📖 **What Was Behind Jonathan Swift’s Modest Proposal?**
_“A Modest Proposal” is “a distinctively Irish critique of a distinctively Irish process of reconquest and recolonization,”_
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-behind-jonathan-swifts-modest-proposal/.
#History #Ireland #JonathanSwift #Books #Literature #Bookstodon
**Prehistoric camel art pointed to precious water sources in the Arabian Desert**
"_Hunter-gatherers may have used the engravings to find water 12,000 years ago_"
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How to draw to scale in 1698 Germany? You see a page from a book that teaches, among other "Feldmesserey" stuff, the art of reducing or enlarging an image accurately in size. #bookhistory #maths #histodons
Access: digital.slub-dresden.de/ppn274257416
**The most important mathematician you’ve (probably) never heard of**
🇺🇸 **'Could Be Devastating': US Soybean Farmers Warn of Bankruptcies Amid Trade Shift**
_The mood among farmers is bleak. At a recent meeting in Beatrice, Nebraska, John Hansen, president of the Nebraska Farmers Union, told attendees: 'We're in the middle of the worst economic downturn that I've seen in my 50 years.'_
🖥️ **How AI and Wikipedia have sent vulnerable languages into a doom spiral**
"_Machine translators have made it easier than ever to create error-plagued Wikipedia articles in obscure languages. What happens when AI models get trained on junk pages?_"
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/09/25/1124005/ai-wikipedia-vulnerable-languages-doom-spiral/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Wikipedia #Languages #Linguistics
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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