Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Interesting. An early adopter of "AI-instead-of people" [very crudely characterised] has dropped this AI-first approach and has started hiring again.
www.mindtheproduct.com/klarna-goes-...
Klarna goes on recruitment dri...
📚 **Are students reading less than we used to?**
David Wignall
_A few months ago, a professor told me that she had cut another book from her course’s assigned reading list. “When I started teaching at Williams,” she said, “I assigned a book per week. No way I could do that now.”_
🔗 https://williamsrecord.com/469974/opinions/are-students-reading-less-than-we-used-to/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Education #Learning @bookstodon
💻 **AI research takes a backseat to profits as Silicon Valley prioritizes products over safety, experts say**
“_In the race to stay competitive, tech companies are taking an increasing number of shortcuts when it comes to the rigorous safety testing of their AI models before they are released to the public, industry experts told CNBC._”
🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/05/14/meta-google-openai-artificial-intelligence-safety.html.
🇬🇧 **‘Greedflation’ fears rise as Bank official warns firms against price hikes**
“_In a warning to retailers and consumer goods companies to resist pushing up prices by more than the increase in their costs, Mann said she was wary of firms looking to rebuild their profit margins after a squeeze in recent years._”
#Inflation #Economics #Prices #Profits #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain @economics
📖 **Medicine in the Medieval North Atlantic World: Vernacular Texts and Traditions**
“_The chapters in this interdisciplinary collection draw together new research from historians, literary scholars, and linguists working on Norse, English, and Celtic material in order to bring fresh insights into the multilingual and cross-cultural nature of medical learning in northern Europe during the Middle Ages, c. 700–1600._”
🔗 https://www.brepolsonline.net/action/showBook?doi=10.1484%2FM.KSS-EB.5.141319
#OpenAccess #OA #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Science #HistSci #Medicine #Medieval #Medievodons @bookstodon @medievodons
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Clearly headed for the "find out phase".
💻 **Forget chatbots: research suggests reading can help combat loneliness and boost the brain**
"_This actually echoes what the World Health Organization has called a crisis of social isolation and loneliness. They report that around 25% of older adults are socially isolated and 5%-15% of adolescents are lonely. But a variety of research – including our own – suggests reading may be a much better solution than chatbots._"
💻 **College Professors Are Turning to ChatGPT to Generate Course Materials. One Student Noticed — and Asked for a Refund.**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai
**Spectacular Find in the Ancient City of Nineveh**
“_Archeologists from Heidelberg University discover major portions of a large-scale relief with depictions of Assyrian deities_”
🔗 https://www.uni-heidelberg.de/en/newsroom/spectacular-find-in-the-ancient-city-of-nineveh.
#Ancient #History #Archaeology #Arcaheodons #News @archaeodons
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Around 38% of Europe is currently experiencing drought conditions. So it is a good time for the European Environment Agency to launch its new interactive drought map.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/05/europe-in-drought.html
Afternoon all.
💻 **If AI is so good at coding … where are the open source contributions?**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #OpenSource #Coding @ai
🇺🇸 🇨🇳 **US to slash tariff on small China parcels from 120% to 54%**
“_Cut in low-value ‘de minimis’ tariff marks further de-escalation of trade war and will benefit Shein and Temu_”
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Tariffs #China #Trade #Economics #Business #News @economics
**Viking pregnancy was deeply political – new study**
🔗 https://theconversation.com/viking-pregnancy-was-deeply-political-new-study-254738.
#History #Histodons #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @histodons @archaeodons
**The British and Irish Isles Completion**
A hand drawn map.
🔗 https://markesperart.com/blogs/blog-archive/the-british-and-irish-isles-completion.
“_The April inflation reading gives Federal Reserve officials little reason to change their wait-and-see stance, because officials are bracing for cost increases or distortions as tariffs take their full effect._”
Monthly Inflation Ticked Up in Early Hints of Tariff Effects https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/cpi-inflation-april-2025-interest-rate-8febd2d2?st=p...
Afternoon all.
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Slaveholders in the United States frequently claimed that Blacks were 'happy' to be slaves and could, in no way, function as free people as they would find freedom 'burdensome' – a claim fully articulated by slavery apologist T. R. Dew's A Review of the Debate in the Virginia Legislature of 1831 and 1832. #History #Slavery #USHistory #HistoryFact https://whe.to/ci/2-2720-en/
💻 **Chegg to lay off 22% of workforce as AI tools shake up edtech industry**
“_Chegg (CHGG.N), said on Monday it would lay off about 22% of its workforce, or 248 employees, to cut costs and streamline its operations as students increasingly turn to AI-powered tools such as ChatGPT over traditional edtech platforms._”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning #Jobs @ai
📖 **The Measure of Progress: Counting What Really Matters**
“_Coyle argues that to understand the current economy, we need different data collected in a different framework of categories and definitions, and she offers some suggestions about what this would entail_”
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/books/hardcover/9780691179025/the-measure-of-progress.
#Read #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Economics #Statistics #Finace #Economy #Data @bookstodon @economics @finance
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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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