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.
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Joined Nov 2022
📚 🏴 **Prominent Scottish mathematician's personal library sells for £800k**
"_Highlights of the sale included Stirling's own exceptionally rare first edition of Sir Isaac Newton's ANALYSIS Per Quantitatum SERIES, FLUXIONES, AC DIFFERENTIAS, which sold for £100,800, and Stirling's own copy of Newton's Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica, generally considered to be the most important scientific book ever published, which sold for £42,840._"
🔗 https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/25568603.scottish-mathematicians-personal-library-sells-800-000/.
#History #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Books #Auction #Edinburgh #Scotland
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **Large US law firm apologizes for AI errors in bankruptcy court filing**
_Hawkins in August had asked the firm and Cassie Preston, the lawyer representing creditor Progressive Perfusion, to explain why they should not be sanctioned after submitting a filing with what the judge called "pervasive inaccurate, misleading, and fabricated citations, quotations, and representations of legal authority."_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Legal #Litigation
**How Christopher Columbus’s Brutal Enslavement of Indigenous Caribbeans Set the Tone For the “New” World**
"_Often romanticized and glorified as a triumphant moment in Western histories, Columbus’s travels wreaked havoc in the Caribbean, which became one of the key areas for European expansion and subsequently violent accumulation._"
Morning all.
🇬🇧 **Why food prices are still rising: butter, beef and milk to blame**
"_Household staples including butter, coffee, milk and chocolate are driving food price inflation, with extreme weather playing a part in pushing up the cost of living._"
#Food #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Climate #ClimateChange
🖥️ **AI Assistants Get News Wrong 45% of the Time, Study Finds**
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/ai-assistants-get-news-wrong-45-of-the-time-study-finds-2000676069.
**The art of note-taking and how to excel academically**
🔗 https://blog.utc.edu/news/2025/10/the-art-of-note-taking-and-how-to-excel-academically/.
Evening all, how has your day been? It has been a cold wet day here in the land of the bibliolater.
Did you do any productive #reading today? Last night I started a new #fiction #book which I hope to continue tonight. I am also thinking about starting a #Pixelfed account to post images of the #books that I am currently reading. Do you think that it is a good idea? Is there any particular server you would recommend?
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 🇩🇪 **China overtakes US as Germany's top trading partner**
🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/china/china-overtakes-us-germanys-top-trading-partner-2025-10-22/.
🇪🇸 **Spanish Public Debt Grows at Rate of 4.7% and Sets Historical Record: €1.699 Trillion**
🇺🇸 **US hits $38 trillion in debt, after the fastest accumulation of $1 trillion outside of the pandemic**
🌍 🎥 **Plastic fantastic — How the world is choking on plastic**
"_Plastic is everywhere, not just in our rivers and oceans. It permeates the air, soil, and even our bodies. The problem is getting worse, and yet the plastics industry is increasing production._"
🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/plastic-fantastic-how-the-world-is-choking-on-plastic/video-74443428.
🖥️ **News Integrity in AI Assistants**
"• Almost half of all AI answers had at least one significant issue.
• A third of responses showed serious sourcing problems.
•A fifth contained major accuracy issues, such as hallucinated and/or outdated information."
🔗 https://www.ebu.ch/research/open/report/news-integrity-in-ai-assistants
#News #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
🎙️ 🖋️ **‘Harvard Thinking’: Is there a right way to write?**
"_In podcast, pros share tips on technique, process — and tapping ‘deepest part of yourself, even if you’re writing something that is set on a spaceship’_"
🔗 https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2025/10/is-there-a-right-way-to-write/.
**Sumerian civilization may have been jump-started by the rise and fall of tides**
"_Millennia before the first cities, early Mesopotamians probably harnessed tides to irrigate crops_"
**Are we living in a golden age of stupidity?**
"_From brain-rotting videos to AI creep, every technological advance seems to make it harder to work, remember, think and function independently …_"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Computing #Technology #Tech #BrainRot
🖥️ **Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/five-signs-that-generative-ai-is.
🖥️ **Five signs that Generative AI is losing traction**
🔗 https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/five-signs-that-generative-ai-is.
**Human Trials Bring Us Closer to Breathing Through Our Butts**
🔗 https://www.sciencealert.com/human-trials-bring-us-closer-to-breathing-through-our-butts.
**The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices**
"_Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive._"
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/.
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
