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🔴 **Rare 1,600-Year-Old Pendant Discovered in Turkey Depicts King Solomon Defeating the Devil**
Margherita Bassi
_“The “King Solomon” pendant likely belonged to a cavalry soldier stationed at the ancient Byzantine city of Hadrianopolis.”_
🔴 **Video is AI’s new frontier – and it is so persuasive, we should all be worried**
Victoria Turk
_“In the past couple of years, we’ve witnessed the proliferation of generative AI text and image generators, but video feels even more high-stakes. Historically, moving pictures have been more difficult to falsify than still ones, but generative AI is about to change all that. There are many potential abuses of such technology. Scammers are already using AI to impersonate people’s friends or family members’ voices, in order to trick them out of money.”_
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/dec/10/ai-openai-sora-video-new-frontier
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Thanks to Dan Samorodnitsky, Kevin Bird, Jedidiah Carlson, James Lingford, Jon Phillips, Cathryn Townsend and STAT news https://www.statnews.com/2024/06/20/richard-lynn-racist-research-articles-journals-retractions/
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Elsevier is (finally): "reviewing its decision to publish research papers by the late Richard Lynn, an influential figure in the discredited field of “race science” who argued western civilisation was threatened by genetically inferior ethnic groups" https://www.theguardian.com/science/2024/dec/10/elsevier-reviews-national-iq-research-by-british-race-scientist-richard-lynn
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Duke University Press sets itself apart in many ways, including its end-of-year sale. Yes, it's a Fall 🍁 Sale!
40% off most books (super new and forthcoming excluded) with code FALL24 through December 13. (Which according to the solar year, is still Fall, I guess.)
Duke University has extensive lists in #LatinAmerican and European Studies (many interesting titles on #French #history and #CulturalStudies, plus #migration).
My choice is Jennifer Morgan's _Reckoning with Slavery: Gender, Kinship, and Capitalism in the Early Black Atlantic_. Winner of the Frederick Douglass Book Prize and the Prize in Women's/Gender History from the Organization of American Historians.
Documenting how #slavery in the #AtlanticWorld required both the recognition and the denial of the human-ness of the enslaved, Morgan shows how #capitalism emerged in this "unholy alliance" of quantifying value with classifying difference.
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Datum is Latin for "given". In Medieval letters you wrote "Datum/Given in Paris 1st Sunday after Ascension" before affixing your wax seal. This led to the English words date and dating.
The plural of datum is data. Givens, given facts. This is why the French word for database is base des données. A base of givens.
🔴 🇵🇹 🇬🇧 **An Unknown History Of Portugal (c 1570) In William Cecil's Library: Commissioning And Writing History During the Elizabethan Era**
_“The manuscript is in a mid-sixteenth-century hand and has personal annotations by William Cecil (1520–98), better known as Lord Burghley. It recounts the history of Portugal by reigns and belonged to Cecil’s personal library. Until now, no other extant example of a history of Portugal written in English in the sixteenth century was known.”_
Lowe, K. and Vila-Santa, N. (2024) ‘AN UNKNOWN HISTORY OF PORTUGAL (c 1570) IN WILLIAM CECIL’S LIBRARY: COMMISSIONING AND WRITING HISTORY DURING THE ELIZABETHAN ERA’, The Antiquaries Journal, pp. 1–29. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0003581524000167.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #C16th #16thCentury #Culture #History #UK #UnitedKingdom #Portugal #Histodon #Histodons #Academia #Academics @histodon @histodons
🔴 🇺🇸 **Newly Discovered Massachusetts Silver Threepence from 1652 Brings $2.52 Million**
Stack's Bowers Galleries
_"Struck within weeks of the establishment of the first mint to be opened in the future United States, the New England threepence is the only example known outside of a museum."_
#Numismatics #Massachusetts #NewEngland #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Coins #History
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In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, "blackbirders" lured, coerced and kidnapped thousands of Pacific Islanders for forced labor in Australia and Fiji.
@Smithsonianmag explains why.
#History @histodons #PacificIslands #Australia #Fiji #BritishEmpire
🔴 📖 🎥 **Antique Book Rescue - Saving a 130-Year-Old Book - Part 2**
#Video length: twenty-one minutes and forty-eight seconds.
🔴 💻 **Is doom scrolling really rotting our brains? The evidence is getting harder to ignore**
Siân Boyle
_What will happen if we don’t get a handle on our declining cognitive health? The former Google design ethicist Tristan Harris told US Congress in 2019 that billions of people – “a psychological footprint about the size of Christianity” – now receive their information from platforms whose business model “links their profit to how much attention they capture, creating a ‘race to the bottom of the brain stem’ to extract attention by hacking lower into our lizard brains – into dopamine, fear, outrage – to win”._
#Internet #Cognition #Brain #BrainRot #Scrolling #DoomScrolling #SocialMedia #Opinion
Image attribution: Markus Spiske markusspiske, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Code_on_computer_monitor_(Unsplash).jpg.
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Flemish, cosmographer, astronomer, cartographer, mathematician, Gemma Frisius was born 9 December 1508 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/mapping-the-history-of-triangulation/
Are there any benefits from climate change that one can preach about?
Trump’s Energy Secretary Pick Preaches the Benefits of Climate Change https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/who-is-chris-wright-trump-energy-secretar...
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This Mysterious Gold Pendant Featuring a Misspelled Inscription Is an Early Medieval Imitation of a Roman Coin
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/this-mysterious-gold-pendant-featuring-misspelled-inscriptions-is-an-early-medieval-imitation-of-a-roman-coin-180985566/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Archeology Today @archeology-today-science
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What's the matter with #Germany's eastern states? This article summarises a lot of the ideas discussed in the literature and presents them in an accessible way 👍
https://bit.ly/4fDGWC9
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Gawd! It's come to this, has it? "The FBI now recommends choosing a secret password to thwart AI voice clones from tricking people": Your AI clone could target your family, but there’s a simple defense https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/12/your-ai-clone-could-target-your-family-but-theres-a-simple-defense/
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hīw, n.n: form, figure, appearance, likeness. (HEE-ew / ˈhiːw)
#OldEnglish #WOTD
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DAY LIGHTS. Eyes. To darken his day lights, or sow up his sees; to close up a man's eyes in boxing.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @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 containing #videos may also find their way into the timeline.
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Expect numerous typing errors and copious amounts of nonsensical commentary from my personal formulations.
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