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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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🔴 📖 The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ Visualizing Human Relatedness in the History of Physical, Evolutionary, and Genetic Anthropology, ca. 1770-2020
“The Diagrammatics of ‘Race’ concentrates on Western projects from the late 1700s into the present to diagrammatically define humanity, subdividing and ordering it, including the concomitant endeavors to acquire representative samples―bones, blood, or DNA―from all over the world.”
https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0396
#OpenAccess #OA #DOI #History #Anthropology #Race #HistSci #Science #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @anthropology @bookstodon @science (89)
🔴 Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement
“We contend that the spread of misinformation—and in particular willful disinformation—is demonstrably harmful to public health, evidence-informed policymaking, and democratic processes. We also show that disinformation and outright lies can often be identified and differ from good-faith political contestation.”
Lewandowsky, S., Ecker, U.K.H., Cook, J. et al. Liars know they are lying: differentiating disinformation from disagreement. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 986 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-03503-6
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Politics #Psychology #Lying #Liars #Misinformation #Disinformation #Academia #Academic #Academics @politicalscience @psychology
🔴 🎥 This State’s Flag is Illegal
#Video length: fifty nine seconds.
🔴 🎙 On Wittgenstein’s ‘Tractatus’
“Adrian Moore joins Malin Hay to discuss what Wittgenstein hoped to achieve with the only work he published in his lifetime and to consider how much we should trust his assertion that everything it contains is nonsensical.”
https://shows.acast.com/f8abe2f0-7415-4247-bc89-e5f3f6eff6b1/66aa3a8cdcc0b601b37a2176
#LRB #Audio #Podcast #Wittgenstein #Book #Philosophy #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon
If I have a choice I would prefer not to “chat” with the bot.
🔴 🇩🇪 🎥 Why an AfD Politician Is Accused of ‘Whitewashing’ Nazi Crimes ¦ Germany’s Enemy Within ¦ FRONTLINE
“Björn Höcke, of Germany’s far-right Alternative für Deutschland (AfD) party, is on the brink of a potential state election victory. He has criticized how Germany remembers the Holocaust and been fined for using a Nazi slogan.”
#Video length: four minutes and fifty seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=brvgCMPPfkg
#AfD #Germany #Europe #Nazi #Politics #History #PBS #Frontline
🔴 🇺🇸 Analyzing Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls
“To enhance our understanding of social polls, we examine nearly two thousand Twitter polls gauging support for U.S. presidential candidates during the 2016 and 2020 election campaigns.”
Scarano, S. (2024) “Analyzing Support for U.S. Presidential Candidates in Twitter Polls”, Journal of Quantitative Description: Digital Media , 4. doi: https://doi.org/10.51685/jqd.2024.icwsm.4.
#SocialMedia #Twitter #Elections #Digital #Media #Poll #Polls #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Academia #Academic #Academics
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@bibliolater @philosophy @bookstodon 👆anyone here interested in debate about LLMs, AI, and sentience might find chapters 15, 16, and 17 of interest #LLM #AI
🔴 🎥 Which Experts should we trust?
“Socrates sought to test the expertise of everyone around him: the bombastic know-it-alls, the bashful youths, the confident generals, those (including the enslaved) with unsuspected mathematical competence, the workaday artisans. Aristotle later explored the ways in which expert claims can be made credible to popular judgement.”
#Video length: one minute.
🔴 📖 ‘The Edge of Sentience’ now available online!
“LSE Philosophy Professor Jonathan Birch has published his new book ‘The Edge of Sentience: Risk and Precaution in Humans, Other Animals, and AI’ with Oxford University Press. The online version is available for free now!”
https://www.lse.ac.uk/philosophy/blog/2024/07/29/the-edge-of-sentience-now-available-online/
#OpenAccess #Online #OA #Philosophy #Read #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Ebook #Ebooks #Bookstodon @philosophy @bookstodon (88)
🔴 🇫🇷 🇩🇪 🎥 Did A German General ‘Save’ Paris? The True Story of the 1944 Liberation
“What is the true story of the liberation of Paris in August 1944. Did a German general really save the city from destruction that was ordered by Hitler? In this video, we try and separate truth from historical fiction.”
#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty two seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=poqVkVK9C7Y
#WW2 #WWII #Paris #France #Germany #Europe #History #Histodon #HIstodons @histodon @histodons
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Delighted that our co-edited volume, Power & Authority in Internet Governance Return of the State?, is open access! For a free copy, see https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/oa-edit/10.4324/9781003008309/power-authority-internet-governance-blayne-haggart-natasha-tusikov-jan-aart-scholte?_gl=1*1y6ikgw*_gcl_au*MTQ1NTc4MzkxNC4xNzE3MzU4NDYy*_ga*MTk5NjIwNjMxNy4xNzE3MzU4NDYz*_ga_0HYE8YG0M6*MTcyMjI3NzE2NC44LjEuMTcyMjI3NzIxNy43LjAuMA.. #data #internet #internetgovernance #power
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Mark Rosenfelder's 'Syntax Construction Kit' is an accessible introduction to some pretty difficult linguistics. If you want to get started with conlanging you should get his other books, but if you've been wondering what Noam Chomsky is famous for, this is the one!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/6691284708
#linguistics #syntax #conlanging #conlangs #languageconstruction #languageinvention #worldbuilding #markrosenfelder #thesyntaxconstructionkit #books #bookstodon @bookstodon
🔴 🇳🇴 🎥 “Norway” 1950 Scandinavia People & Industry Travelogue Film Oslo, Bergen
“Dudley Pictures Corporation presents, “This World of Ours: Norway” (1950) which is a black-and-white made for television short travelog film about the country of Norway. Captured by cinematographer Edwin E. Olsen, the film features footage of Norway’s rugged beauty from the fjords to valleys as well as scenes from the bustling cities of Oslo and Bergen.”
#Video length: nine minutes and three seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiTs4h5DTso
#Europe #Scandinavia #Nordic #Norway #Oslo #Bergen #Travel #Travelogue #Travelog #History #Histodon #Histodons @histodon @histodons
🔴 🎥 The Full History Of How The Vikings Dominated Europe ¦ The Last Journey Of The Vikings ¦ Timeline
“Nearly 1,000 years ago, the Vikings left Scandinavia and settled across Europe - giving their name to Normandy along the way - before their Norman descendants seized the English throne at the Battle of Hastings in 1066. But what do we really know about them? By combining expert analysis with compelling drama, ‘The Last Journey of the Vikings’ tells a new and often surprising story about this complex people.”
#Video length: three hours and thirteen minutes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr3I-f7npAA
#Viking #Vikings #Europe #Scandinavia #History #Histodon #Histodons #Timeline #Documentary @histodon @histodons
🔴 Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A Revised Scenario for the Solar Cycles in the Early 17th Century
“Here, we make use of Kepler’s sunspot drawings and descriptive texts to identify his observational sites and time stamps. We have deprojected his sunspot drawings and compared the reported positions with our calculations of the inclination of the solar equator as seen from these sites at that time.”
Hayakawa, H. et al. (2024) ‘Analyses of Johannes Kepler’s Sunspot Drawings in 1607: A revised scenario for the solar cycles in the early 17th century,’ The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 970(2), p. L31. https://doi.org/10.3847/2041-8213/ad57c9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #DOI #Science #Astronomy #Sun #History #HistSci #Kepler #C17th #17thcentury #Academia #Academic #Academics @science @astronomy
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Simulated reconstruction of July #Arctic sea ice thickness since 1901. Watch for the last 10 years or so...
Information about this data set is available at http://psc.apl.uw.edu/research/projects/piomas-20c/. Note that it is only updated through 2010 due to ERA-20C forcing.
🔴 What is ‘nature’? Dictionaries urged to include humans in definition
“Currently, all English dictionaries define nature as an entity separate from and opposed to humans and human creations – a perspective campaigners say perpetuates humanity’s troubled relationship with the natural world.”
#Language #Lexicon #Dictionary #Biodiversity #Philosophy @philosophy
🔴 🎥 “The Book” 1950’s Bookmaking, Printing And Publishing. Educational Film
“The film portrays an author, who narrates the film, explaining the research of writing a book, and the process and responsibilities of publishing a book.”
#Video length: seventeen minutes and forty one seconds.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdHDOrgZiBE
#History #Film #Writing #Publishing #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Education @bookstodon
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
