Bibliolater 📚📜🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
Nostalgia: A History of a Dangerous Emotion by Agnes Arnold-Forster review – no place like home
"Quoting Michel Barnier, the EU chief negotiator, she sees the vote to leave Europe as a direct expression of Britain’s “nostalgia for the past”, alerting us to the way that Barnier’s tautologous phrasing suggests a doubling down – Britons really, really want to live in a once-upon-a-time land when foreigners knew their place."
#Reading #Read #History #Histodon #Histodons #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #Psychology #Society #Brexit #EU #Reviews #BookReview @histodon @histodons @psychology @bookstodon
#Image attribution: TeroVesalainen, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Union_jack_and_eu_brexit.jpg
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
The world economy faces a sobering reality. The global growth rate, stripped of cyclical ups & downs, has slowed steadily since the GFC 2008-09 -- without policy intervention, the stronger growth rates of the past are unlikely to return, notes @IMFNews https://www.imf.org/en/Blogs/Articles/2024/04/10/world-must-prioritize-productivity-reforms-to-revive-medium-term-growth?utm_medium=email&utm_source=govdelivery
Swapping 5G for 3G: Motivations, Experiences, and Implications of Contemporary Dumbphone Adoption
"We investigate the phenomenon of designer dumbphones, or newly developed dumbphones redesigned to meet the needs of dumbphone users, despite dumbphone-unfriendly current technical infrastructural."
#Research #Science #Tech #Technology #SmartPhones #Dumbphones #Mobile #MobilePhones #Phones #CellPhone #CellPhones
Who Was Buried in the Royal Tombs of Ur?
"One of the mysteries surrounding the Royal Cemetery of Ur is the identity of the occupants of the tombs, the sequence of their reigns, and their relationships with each other. Dr. Miano provides an overview of the issues involved."
#Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Ur #Mesopotamia #Sumer @histodon @histodons
The silent record
"The historian’s avowed mission is to reduce the layers and broker the optimal relationship with the distant recorded past. But ultimately, history becomes an asymptote, a line approaching but never quite touching the past."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/10/the-silent-record/
#History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
#Image attribution: Ch. Maderthoner, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Old_Books_02.JPG
To understand the risks posed by AI, follow the money
"Focusing on the economic risks from AI is not simply about preventing “monopoly,” “self-preferencing,” or “Big Tech dominance”. It’s about ensuring that the economic environment facilitating innovation is not incentivising hard-to-predict technological risks as companies “move fast and break things” in a race for profit or market dominance."
https://theconversation.com/to-understand-the-risks-posed-by-ai-follow-the-money-225872
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Tech #Technology #Money
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
The genesis of our cellular skeleton, image by image
"This unique approach, which combines the very high resolution of expansion microscopy and kinematic reconstruction, has enabled us to model the first 4D assembly of the human centriole."
https://www.unige.ch/medias/en/2024/la-genese-de-notre-squelette-cellulaire-image-par-image
#Science #STEM #Biology #Images #News #Press @science @biology
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
A surge in prices for the #raw materials that power #manufacturing and #transportation shows investors betting on a prolonged expansion, chart @WSJecon https://www.wsj.com/finance/commodities-futures/commodities-rally-reflects-a-better-economy-but-also-poses-inflation-risks-1e81e723?mod=djemwhatsnews
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
US consumer #inflation expectations, chart @ReutersBiz https://www.reuters.com/markets/us/global-markets-view-usa-2024-04-09/
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
CBs have boosted their physical #gold holdings to 16% of total reserves, chart @GarfieldR1966
The new science of death: ‘There’s something happening in the brain that makes no sense’
"Perhaps the story to be written about near-death experiences is not that they prove consciousness is radically different from what we thought it was. Instead, it is that the process of dying is far stranger than scientists ever suspected."
#LongReads #Death #Consciousness #Biology #Neuroscience #Science #STEM @science @neuroscience @biology
"The Sumerians innovated with the world’s first written language, cuneiform, on clay tablets, facilitating record-keeping for food supplies and trade. This advancement, alongside their development of a numerical system, laid foundational aspects of modern society."
Uggerud, Kristoffer. "How Did Mesopotamia Become the Cradle of Civilization?" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/mesopotamia-cradle-of-civilization/ (accessed April 9, 2024). #Ancient #History #Histodon #HIstodons #Mesopotamia @histodon @histodons
What Is Aramaic?
"In fact, the linguistic situation in the Iron Age Levant is quite complex, reflecting a Canaanite–Aramaic continuum with local dialects falling at various points along this spectrum—some bearing mainly Canaanite traits with little connection to Aramaic, and others leaning more toward the Aramaic end."
Election disinformation: how AI-powered bots work and how you can protect yourself from their influence
"Malicious actors often use networks of bots to amplify false narratives, manipulate trends and swiftly disseminate misinformation. Users should exercise caution when encountering accounts exhibiting suspicious behaviour, such as excessive posting or repetitive messaging."
#SocialMedia #Misinformation #FakeNews #Bots #Disinformation #X #Twitter #Elections #AI #ArtificialIntelligence
Unassuming physicist Professor Peter Higgs ahead of his time
"His concept sparked a 48-year hunt which culminated in July 2012 when a team from the European nuclear research facility at Cern in Geneva announced the detection of a particle that fitted the description of the elusive Higgs."
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
If I understand the mathematics correctly, the sun (☉︎) is a cosimplicial celestial object and this just happened:
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
Totality sweeps across Mexico and the United States #Eclipse2024
"Grok AI Creates Bizarre Fake News About the Solar Eclipse Thanks to Jokes on X".
https://gizmodo.com/grok-ai-creates-bizarre-fake-news-about-the-solar-eclip-1851396186
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Grok #FakeNews #SolarEclipse #Eclipse #X #Jokes #SocialMedia
#Image attribution: Majolobe, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:April_8_2024_eclipse_totality_seen_from_Durango,_Mexico.jpg
Bibliolater 📚📜🖋
boosted
Not a bot just a rather corpulent male fifty years of age; a very very slow ignoramus who reads occasionally.
Toots are #humanities, #science, #nonfiction, #book, #map, #chart and #graph related. Some toots containg #videos may also find their way into the #timeline.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
