Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
🖥️ **Emotional Manipulation by AI Companions**
"_ Analyzing 1,200 real farewells across the most-downloaded companion apps, we find that they deploy one of six recurring tactics in 37% of farewells (e.g., guilt appeals, fear-of-missing-out hooks, metaphorical restraint)._"
Julian, D.F., Oguz-Uguralp, Z. and Kaan-Uguralp, A. (2025) Emotional manipulation by AI companions. https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.19258.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ComputerScience #Emotions #Manipulation
🖥️ 🖍️ **Turn off AI. Pick up a crayon**
"_Don’t believe the tech hype. Close the generative AI window. And turn to the book that has sparked creativity for decades: Crockett Johnson’s Harold and the Purple Crayon. Published 70 years ago this fall, it is a manifesto for human creativity disguised as a children’s picture book—a message that’s even more relevant today than it was in 1955._"
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/10/turn-off-ai-pick-up-a-crayon/.
Sorry for the late start tonight.
**Mississippi farmers drowning in tariff debt as China buys soybeans from Brazil. 'A blood bath'**
_"For us, every soybean we grow goes down the river and gets on a big boat and hits the export market. And 50% of the beans for the United States go to the export market. You don't want to make it political, but it is what is. The tariff policies have driven the largest buyer of soybeans away. We are trying to grow a crop with a negative margin. We have to have our trading partners trading with us at higher prices for our products."_
#Farming #Tariffs #Debt #Mississippi #China #Business #Economy #Economics
🇺🇸 **Two major fault lines on the West Coast are in ‘sync’ and signal possible massive quake on horizon, scientists warn**
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US buys Argentine pesos, finalizes $20 billion currency swap
https://apnews.com/article/trump-bessent-argentina-milei-currency-swap-7432a188e57264f0e5f6c753ddc40879?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business and Finance @business-and-finance-AssociatedPress
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A graph of Euclid's Elements, book I. The propositions in blue. The Postulates in yellow. An edge means that a statement has been used in the proof of the proposition above. This was one of the slides in my public lecture for the "Tag der Mathematik" at Heidelberg University.
Data from: https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/09/the-empirical-metamathematics-of-euclid-and-beyond/
#Euklid, #WolframMathematica #Postulates #Elements #Geometry
**Why You Don’t Feel Rich**
🔗 https://awealthofcommonsense.com/2025/10/why-you-dont-feel-rich/.
🇯🇵 **Japan bankruptcies hit 12-yr-high in 1st half of FY2025 amid labor scarcity**
🔗 https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20251008/p2g/00m/0bu/026000c.
🇺🇸 **Study Analyzed 38 Million Obituaries and Discovered What Americans Really Value in Life**
"_Two values dominate the modern obituary: tradition and benevolence. Tradition appeared in roughly 80 percent of obituaries; benevolence in about 76 percent. In other words, we tend to remember people for caring for others and belonging to something larger than themselves._"
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Why gold is having its best year since 1979
https://www.kpbs.org/news/economy/2025/10/08/why-gold-is-having-its-best-year-since-1979?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-KPBSPublicMedia
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Publishing 17 peer-reviewed articles as a student: 😮
Having 𝘰𝘯𝘭𝘺 11 of them retracted: 😮😮😮
https://retractionwatch.com/2025/10/01/former-student-who-ran-paper-mill-up-to-11-retractions/
🌍 **Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity**
"_Solar power delivered the lion's share of growth, meeting 83% of the increase in electricity demand. It has now been the largest source of new electricity globally for three years in a row._"
**Why Fears of a Trillion-Dollar AI Bubble Are Growing**
"_Investors have spent a lot of money to help AI fulfill its lofty promise. But no one really knows how it will all pay off._"
**In Defense of Incredulity**
"_Thousands of years ago, Homer’s Odyssey commended incredulity as vital for human survival and success. Long before social media, digital algorithms, and artificial intelligence began to dominate public discourse, imperil diversity of opinion, and diminish our capacity for free, creative, independent thought, the Odyssey cultivated incredulity._"
🔗 https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2025/10/07/in-defense-of-incredulity/.
🇺🇸 **U.S. Latinos hit new population and labor force records**
"_The total U.S. Latino population in the United States is estimated to be over 68 million, with one out of every five people being Latino for the first time in history._"
🔗 https://newsroom.ucla.edu/releases/u-s-latinos-population-labor-force-growth.
🇺🇸 **15,000 churches could close this year amid religious shift in U.S.**
"_The decline of traditional brick-and-mortar churches comes as a record number of Americans (29%) are identifying as religiously unaffiliated, and as 62% identify as Christians — down from 78% in 2007, according to the Pew Research Center._"
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/10/03/us-churches-close-religious-shift-christians.
**A fragment of Aristotle’s lost Eudemus in Tertullian’s De Anima**
**Why did Endurance sink?**
"_Endurance was not designed for compressive conditions in the Antarctic pack ice, but for easier conditions at the ice edge in the Arctic. The weakest part of its hull was the engine room area, which was not only larger than in other early Antarctic ships but also lacked beams to give strength against compression by ice._"
Tuhkuri, J. (2025) ‘Why did endurance sink?’, Polar Record, 61, p. e23. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0032247425100090.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #History #Histodons #Endurance #Shackleton #Antarctic #Ships #Academia
**“They Can’t Even Copy and Paste”: One Month Into School, Teachers Are Dumbfounded by How Badly Students Struggle With Basic Tech**
"_According to data from France’s National Digital Council (Conseil national du numérique), over 13 million people in France are affected by illectronisme—a term referring to a lack of digital skills. While traditionally associated with older populations, the phenomenon is increasingly visible among youth._"
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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