Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**For over 500 years, Oxford graduates pledged to hate Henry Symeonis. So, who is he?**
📖 **Hokey Cowboy**
_“Neoliberalism morphed into paleolibertarianism: free markets plus primitive racial, sexual and political hierarchies. Hayek had celebrated dynamic entrepreneurs and free-thinking intellectuals. Hayek’s bastards were into cavemen.”_
🔗 https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v47/n09/david-runciman/hokey-cowboy.
#Neoliberalism #Hayek #LRB #Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Politics #PoliticalScience @bookstodon @politicalscience
Afternoon all.
**Linguistics expert explains why the c-word 'still has the ability to shock'**
_“The sounds are blunt, there are only four sounds in it, it's a very short sharp word. It's normally delivered with quite a lot of emphasis that it's being used as a profanity and for that reason, that still has the ability to shock.”_
#English #StrongLanguage #Words #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
**How much medieval literature was lost to time?**
🔗 https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/lost-medieval-literature-unseen-species.
How long will this last?
UK has fastest growing economy in G7 in boost for Starmer https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/economy-growth-rachel-reeves-business-b27...
🏴 🌡️ **Risk of drought after UK experienced driest start to year for decades**
📈 🇪🇺 **EU economy greenhouse gas emissions up 2.2% in Q4 2024**
“_In the fourth quarter of 2024, the EU economy greenhouse gas emissions were estimated at 897 million tonnes of CO2-equivalents (CO2-eq), a 2.2% increase compared with the same quarter of 2023 (878 million tonnes of CO2-eq)._”
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250515-1.
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #EuropeanUnion #EU #Europe #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment
**Europa Regina**
“_The story of how the myth of the abduction of Europa and the geographical creation of the European continent gave rise to Europa Regina, one of the most iconic maps of the 16th century._”
**Judge slams lawyers for ‘bogus AI-generated research’**
🔗 https://www.theverge.com/news/666443/judge-slams-lawyers-ai-bogus-research.
#Legal #Research #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
**Harvard learned it has an authentic Magna Carta. In 1946, it paid less than $28 for it**
“_It was a remarkable find not only for Carpenter, but for Harvard — especially since the university had paid a London bookseller just $27.50 (about $460 adjusted for inflation) for the document in 1946. An authentic Magna Carta sold in 2007 for $21.3 million._”
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/05/15/nx-s1-5399171/magna-carta-harvard.
**Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia**
“_Large language models (LLMs) respond fluently but often inaccurately, which resembles aphasia in humans. Does this behavioral similarity indicate any resemblance in internal information processing between LLMs and aphasic humans?_”
T. Watanabe, K. Inoue, Y. Kuniyoshi, K. Nakajima, K. Aihara, Comparison of Large Language Model with Aphasia. Adv. Sci. 2025, 2414016. https://doi.org/10.1002/advs.202414016.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Aphasia #Academia #Academic @ai
**From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing**
🔗 https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adk5081.
#Genomics #Demography #Ethnicity #Migration #Academia #Academics
Evening all.
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YouTube continues to push hard into the #podcast space; I wish they fully supported podcast #RSS standards. www.cnbc.com/2025/05/1…
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What do Sudoku, AI, Rubik’s cubes, clocks and molecules have in common? They can all be reimagined as algebraic equations.
From @TheConversationUS: "Algebra is more than alphabet soup – it’s the language of algorithms and relationships."
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Under of a cloud of tariffs, Walmart is the latest retailer to announce price hikes
https://apnews.com/article/tariffs-retail-consumer-trump-economy-ecd398941ba41d9a94145c5d75da6b24?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Top Stories @top-stories-AssociatedPress
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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.
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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