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How 'banking the unbanked' drew millions of Africans into the thrall of vulture capitalism. Unregulated FinTech loans is a new form of digital exploitation: "a ticking time bomb" of chronic indebtedness. https://techcabal.com/2025/05/16/bnpl-startups-debt-crisis-kenya/
🇬🇧 “Cheap imports and poor returns from farming mean our self-sufficiency is in peril. Some even think we’re on the road to rationing”
From chicken to potatoes, Britain’s never grown less of its own food https://www.thetimes.com/article/7a9c9bc3-1444-4561-9426-acbd180c6e37?shareTok...
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“Despite all our accomplishments, we owe our existence to a six-inch layer of topsoil and the fact it rains.”
Paul Harvey (1978)
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AI Chatbots Are Becoming Even Worse At Summarizing Data
https://futurism.com/ai-chatbots-summarizing-research?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
📸 📖 🇷🇺 🇯🇵 **A photographic record of the Russo-Japanese war by James H. Hare**
“Read or download for free”
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76109.
#History #Histodon #Russia #Japan #ProjectGutenberg #Read #Book #Ebook #Books #Bookstodon #Images #Photography #Photos @histodons @bookstodon
Morning all.
💻 🕑 🗓️ **Most AI struggles to read clocks and calendars**
“_Unlike simply recognising shapes, understanding analogue clocks and calendars requires a combination of spatial awareness, context and basic maths – something that remains challenging for AI, the team says._”
🔗 https://www.ed.ac.uk/news/most-ai-struggles-to-read-clocks-and-calendars.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #Time #Clocks #Calenders @ai
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MIT disavows doctoral student paper on AI’s productivity benefits
https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/17/mit-disavows-doctoral-students-paper-on-ai-productivity-benefits/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Technology (UK Edition) @technology-uk-edition-FlipboardUK
📚 **English Book-Plates, Ancient and Modern (1893)**
“_Although the earliest known marks of ownership of books or documents dates from the latter years of Ancient Egypt, and people would mark ownership in the Middle Ages with simple inscriptions, it wasn't until the advent of printing in 15th-century Germany that we see the development of bookplates in their more modern decorative form._”
🔗 https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/english-book-plates-ancient-and-modern-1893/.
💻 **How to make a splash in AI economics: fake your data**
David Gerard
“_The big money in AI wants stuff it can call “science” to back up its claims of AI magic right now, and it doesn’t want to wait around for the peer review process._”
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/17/how-to-make-a-splash-in-ai-economics-fake-your-data/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #PeerReview @ai
📖 **Author offers warnings after interviewing former Nazis for decades**
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/17/author-laurence-rees-nazi-mind-warning-holocaust.
**The mystery of the ‘real’ Milady de Winter of The Three Musketeers**
🔗 https://www.historyextra.com/period/stuart/real-milady-de-winter/.
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RSS, the best way to keep up with both things that update frequently and also hardly ever:
In the end it is always the gravitational pull of the bond market that brings a politician back down to earth with a thud.
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On a remote Australian island, the birds are so full of plastic they crunch
https://wapo.st/4mmNgSw
💻 **‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn?’**
_Students use AI to prepare for class, answer questions, and build their own companies. “People are very positive about these tools, but it made it so easy for them to cheat. A lot of students came to me and said, ‘I can just copy-paste things, so do I really need to learn these things?’ This is something we’re thinking really hard about.”_
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning @ai
🇺🇸 **The U.S. just lost its last pristine credit rating. What that means for markets.**
_“On Friday, Moody’s said successive U.S. administrations and Congress have failed to agree on measures to reverse a trend of large annual fiscal deficits and growing interest costs, adding that it doesn’t believe that current fiscal proposals under consideration will result in significant multiyear reductions in mandatory spending and deficits.”_
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Credit #Debt #Markets #Economics @economics
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Capsicum annuum or sweet pepper comes from the Greek peperi, from the Sanskrit pippalī, which originally referred to black pepper. After chili peppers were introduced to Europe, the name was extended to include them.
Paprika comes from Serbian papar, meaning “pepper,” from the Latin piper.
The Spanish word pimiento traces to Latin pigmentum, meaning “coloring,” reflecting the vibrant hues of the peppers.
**The Nazi past that parents never wanted to talk to their children about**
Almudena de Cabo
_“I learned then that he had been a member of the Nazi Party,” he says, referring to what he found in one of his father’s desk drawers. “I knew he was in Riga [Latvia]. Also that he was a judge at the Regional Court. But my father didn’t tell me what he did in Riga during World War II. That’s what they always say; that fathers didn’t talk to their children.”_
📖 **The algebra of Jackson Pollock**
“_If you thought that maths and art don’t mix, Marcus du Sautoy’s invigorating study will convince you otherwise_”
🔗 https://observer.co.uk/culture/books/article/the-algebra-of-jackson-pollock.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Arts #Culture @bookstodon
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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