Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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🔴 💻 **The Gizmodo Guide to Stopping Algorithms From Ruining Your Life**
“_To be free, learn to embrace RSS feeds._”
🔗 https://gizmodo.com/the-gizmodo-guide-to-stopping-algorithms-from-ruining-your-life-2000584899.
#Internet #Algorithms #Technology #Tech #Online #BrainRot #DoomScroll #RSS #Feeds
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62 million tons of e-waste were generated in 2022, with projections to reach 82 million tons by 2030.
The growing e-waste challenge is attributed to increased consumption, limited repair options, and inadequate recycling infrastructure.
Global North dumps its e-waste in Global South
“Every year it rains and water flows and attracts all these elements that are deposited into the environment. You have water getting contaminated.”
— George Masila, e-waste expert
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A new measure of oil supply uncertainty https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S014098832500249X @energyecon
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These lists are a perk for paid subscribers, but I also maintain a free list of recommended reads anyone can find here: https://www.disconnect.blog/p/reading
🔴 **Descartes’ Mathematics**
“_In La Géométrie, Descartes details a groundbreaking program for geometrical problem-solving—what he refers to as a “geometrical calculus” (calcul géométrique)—that rests on a distinctive approach to the relationship between algebra and geometry._”
Domski, Mary, “Descartes’ Mathematics”, The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy (Summer 2025 Edition), Edward N. Zalta & Uri Nodelman (eds.), forthcoming URL = <https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/sum2025/entries/descartes-mathematics/>.
#Descartes #History #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Algebra #Geometry
🔴 💻 **Artificial Intelligence And The Death Of Academia**
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**Can Apple Really Make the iPhone in America?**
“_ WSJ’s Joanna Stern breaks down exactly how tough it would be to build iPhones here, and how tariffs could affect the price of your next phone._”
#Video length: two minutes and sixteen seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bVHjryvnfoQ.
#Apple #Iphone #USA #US #UnitedStates #Manufacturing #Industry
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Rich people live longer than poor people in the US and Europe – but rich Americans have far shorter lifespans than rich people in northern, western and southern Europe.
A groundbreaking new study shows that the wealth-mortality gap is far wider in the U.S. than in Europe. European countries have reduced health disparities through policies that focus on equality without increasing healthcare spending.
🔴 **Year of the Five Emperors**
193 AD: Septimius Severus, Pertinax, Clodius Albinus, Didius Julianus, and Pescennius Niger all claimed the title of Roman emperor.
🔴 **The Arctic is the world’s region that has warmed the most, followed by Europe**
Veronika Samborska
“_The Arctic warmed more than any other region — by the 2010s, it was 2.8°C hotter than in the 1940s._”
🔴 📚 **Mystery ‘hairy’ material used to make handcrafted medieval book covers finally revealed**
Vishwam Sankaran
_DNA analysis revealed that eight of the skins were from harbor, harp, and bearded seal species likely sourced from their populations in Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, Greenland, and “perhaps Barents-White Sea region”._
🔴 🌍 **Global Electricity Review 2025**
“_Record renewables growth led by solar helped push clean power past 40% of global electricity in 2024, but heatwave-related demand spikes led to a small increase in fossil generation._”
🔗 https://ember-energy.org/latest-insights/global-electricity-review-2025/.
🔴 **Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria's Path to Empire, 935-745 BC**
“_This book re-examines the historical question of Assyria’s expansion, presenting a novel reconstruction of the early Neo-Assyrian period with the latest data (including new Assyrian kings), detailed regional studies synthesising the newest historical and archaeological findings, and interpretative essays outlining new historical factors._”
Edmonds, A. 2025. Triumph and Betrayal: Assyria’s Path to Empire, 935–745 BC. Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783111593715.
#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #Academia #Academic #History #NeoAssyrian #Assyria #Empire @bookstodon
🔴 **Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years**
“_Wetter conditions likely facilitated mammalian dispersals between Africa and Eurasia, with Arabia acting as a key crossroads for continental-scale biogeographic exchanges._”
Markowska, M., Vonhof, H.B., Groucutt, H.S. et al. Recurrent humid phases in Arabia over the past 8 million years. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08859-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Geography #Arabia #Climate #Academia #Academic @geography
🔴 📖 **Some Jewish Women in Antiquity**
“_This book sets out to characterize different types of Jewish women in Eretz-Israel over an extended period of more than a thousand years, from the biblical period to the time of the Mishnah and Talmud._”
Bar-Ilan, Meir. Some Jewish Women in Antiquity. Brown Judaic Studies, 2020. Project MUSE, https://dx.doi.org/10.1353/book.73598.
#NonFiction #Book #Ebook #Bookstodon #JudaicStudies #Women @bookstodon
🔴 🎙️ 📖 **Podcast: After 1177 B.C.**
“_...in After 1177 B.C., Eric Cline tells the compelling story of what happened next, over four centuries, across the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean world. It is a story of resilience, transformation, and success, as well as failures, in an age of chaos and reconfiguration._”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/ideas-podcast-after-1177-bc.
#Audio #Podcast #Ancient #History #Histodon #Histodons #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon @histodon @histodons @bookstodon
🔴 **Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands**
“_Here we describe chronological, archaeological, faunal and botanical data that support the presence of Holocene hunter-gatherers on the Maltese islands. At this time, Malta’s geographical configuration and sea levels approximated those of the present day, necessitating seafaring distances of around 100 km from Sicily, the closest landmass._”
Scerri, E.M.L., Blinkhorn, J., Groucutt, H.S. et al. Hunter-gatherer sea voyages extended to remotest Mediterranean islands. Nature (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-025-08780-y.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #Palaeoecology #Migration #Academia #Academics @archaeodons
🔴 🚗 **Please, for the love of God, stop buying supersized cars**
Arwa Mahdawi
“_A lot of the tanks I see on the road appear to serve no other purpose than making their owner feel better about their insecurities._”
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I kid you not, the 500-page book on English spelling/sounds looks really interesting: https://archive.org/details/a-modern-english-grammar-on-historical-principles.-jespersen-otto-1860-1943-hais/page/n5/mode/2up
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.
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