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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.
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Expect many typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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The virtues of the historical mind
"Being historically minded is about having a certain orientation to history, being alive and alert to the fact that almost everything we take for granted in culture today, especially values, has its own roots and its own complex journey, a history of how it came to be."
https://biblonia.com/2024/04/24/the-virtues-of-the-historical-mind/
Unscheduled gleanings and a few idioms
"Loiter, a fourteenth-century verb, sounds quite unlike the monosyllables mentioned above. It appeared in Middle English in the form lotere and then in a 1440 English-Latin dictionary as loytre. Still later, the spelling leutere ~ leutre turned up. It is not improbable that “loiterers” (vagabonds) from the Low Countries were the originators of the verb (another case of self-characterization?)."
https://blog.oup.com/2024/04/unscheduled-gleanings-and-a-few-idioms/
#Word #Words #Idiom #Idioms #English #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Etymology @linguistics
"Our study has practical implications. We show that narcissistic executives are attracted to each other and the consequences that this may have. Given the limited malleability of a personality trait such as narcissism, the primary practical implication is thus related to executive selection. This means that our research holds advice for boards that are tasked with hiring CEOs, as well as appointing TMT members."
Junge, S., Graf-Vlachy, L., Hagen, M., & Schlichte, F. (2024). Narcissism at the CEO–TMT Interface: Measuring Executive Narcissism and Testing Its Effects on TMT Composition. Journal of Management, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/01492063241226904
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Business #Corporations #CEO #Management #Narcissism #Narcissistic #Personality #Academia #Academic #Academics
On the trail of deepfakes, Drexel researchers identify ‘fingerprints’ of AI-generated video
"The lab’s tools use a sophisticated machine learning program called a constrained neural network. This algorithm can learn, in ways similar to the human brain, what is “normal” and what is “unusual” at the sub-pixel level of images and videos, rather than searching for specific predetermined identifiers of manipulation from the outset."
#News #Deepfake #Video #Science #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #MachineLearning #Analysis #Algorithms #NeuralNetworks #Engineering #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @engineering
#Image attribution: Madhav-Malhotra-003, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Artificial_Intelligence_Word_Cloud.png
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This fascinating #economics paper shows that fighting a war *cause* an increase in religious beliefs: https://osf.io/9se4r
The empirical strategy is clever.
Article about it in my newsletter coming soon. Don't miss it by subscribing: https://o.simardcasanova.net/newsletter/
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#UK is still exporting fewer goods than before #Brexit, as the economy becomes more reliant on selling #services to the rest of the world, acc. to official data, chart @economics https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-04-22/uk-exports-fewer-goods-after-brexit-tilting-economy-to-services
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Huge bets by #Chinese speculators on rising #gold prices have helped super-charge the precious metal’s rally to an all-time high this month, chart @FT
https://www.ft.com/content/caefcd1a-3223-4cf4-bc80-349c5745b7ea?segmentId=114a04fe-353d-37db-f705-204c9a0a157b
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No one buys books
Everything we learned about the publishing industry from Penguin vs. DOJ.
https://www.elysian.press/p/no-one-buys-books
Wow. So many graphs and charts. I'm digesting this.
Wikimedia Commons picture of the day for April 23
"The study room inside Abbotsford House (Melrose, Scotland). Today is World Book Day."
https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FeedItem/potd/20240423000000/en
Decoding Ulysses: How Joyce Published The Novel of the Century + How To Read It
"A brief history of the mess James Joyce had to put up with to publish Ulysses and how to read the text without losing your mind ft. Prof. Rónán McDonald, The Gerry Higgins Chair of Irish Studies."
#Video #History #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon #JamesJoyce #Novel #Fiction @bookstodon
Seeing Dante’s Commedia in Print from the Renaissance to Today
"An intensely envisioned journey through the three realms of the Christian afterlife (Inferno, Purgatory, and Paradise), Dante’s poem, written in the early 1300s, was the subject of vivid illustrations from its earliest circulation and, when book making transitioned into the new medium of print in the late 1400s, Dante’s poem became the source of inspiration for new visual traditions."
https://historyofthebook.mml.ox.ac.uk/seeing-dantes-commedia-in-print-from-the-renaissance-to-today/
#Dante #Poetry #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #History #BookHistory #Renaissance @bookstodon
How 100-Year-Old Books Are Professionally Restored | Restoration
"The delicate and intricate restoration process of a very old book."
#ASMR #Video #Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Renovation #Restoration #Craft @bookstodon
Climate crisis - How oil companies hushed up research results | DW Documentary
"In the 1970s, oil conglomerates commissioned research into climate change. It predicted the global warming that we’re facing today. But US oil companies hushed up these findings rather than accepting responsibility."
#Video #DW #Documentary #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Research #Oil #Corporations @climatechange
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For #WhiteHouse, tackling #Chinese dominance is a strategic priority: #China is home to 70% of #RareEarths mining and 90% of processing capacity, chart @FT https://www.ft.com/content/37966ce4-1dac-41aa-abf4-98f139a8ce32
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'Much as ChatGPT learns to generate language by analyzing Wikipedia articles, books and chat logs, Profluent’s technology creates new gene editors after analyzing enormous amounts of biological data, including microscopic mechanisms that scientists already use to edit human DNA.'
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/22/technology/generative-ai-gene-editing-crispr.html
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When you think #greedflation, the image that comes to mind should be #Amazon.
"Amazon now makes up about 40% of all online retail — the company started raising prices on the products it sells directly."
"Nearly 50% of sellers' revenue goes to Amazon in fees," much of which is passed on as higher prices.
This is a prime example of Monopoly rent as Corey Doctorow, @pluralistic, discussed in a recent piece.
https://www.axios.com/2024/04/22/amazon-price-inflation
https://locusmag.com/2024/03/cory-doctorow-capitalists-hate-capitalism/
The Etymology of “Dude”
"In fact, the word “dude” is thought to have originally been a shortening of “Yankee Doodle.” In the original, British-penned lyrics of the song, which were written to poke fun at Americaan troops during the French and Indian War, you’ll note that Yankee Doodle is described as a dandy who is a fabulous dancer and wears a dashing feather in his cap."
https://uselessetymology.com/2024/04/22/the-etymology-of-dude/
🇪🇬 🇨🇭 Egypt reclaims 3,400-year-old statue of Ramesses II found in Switzerland
"Egypt collaborated with Swiss authorities to establish its rightful ownership. Switzerland handed over the statue to the Egyptian embassy in Bern last year, but it was only recently that Egypt brought the artefact home."
Not a #headline one hopes to #read:
Forced to eat bat feces, chimps could spread deadly viruses to humans
"Tobacco farming is driving apes to seek unusual food source, brimming with pathogens"
https://www.doi.org/10.1126/science.zzx18k8
#News #DOI #Plants #Animals #Tobacco #Farming #Virus #Science #Epidemiology @science
"Despite their seemingly factual nature, Renaissance maps are considered significant art objects. How can we best read them to understand more about this period?"
Romano, Daniella. "How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips)" TheCollector.com, https://www.thecollector.com/how-read-renaissance-map-tips/ (accessed April 22, 2024).
#Map #Maps #Mapstodon #Cartography #History #Histodon #Histodons #Renaissance #Tip #Tips @histodon @histodons
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.
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Joined Nov 2022
