Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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Joined Nov 2022
Morning all.
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**How Apple trained China to be a world power - Patrick McGee interview**
“_In his new book Apple in China: The Capture of The World's Greatest Company, he contends that China allowed Apple to exploit them so they could in turn exploit Apple, making it impossible for the tech giant to extract itself from the country._”
#Video length: eight minutes and twelve seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43PtL0XQeA8.
#C4News #interview #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Apple #China
**It's not just US bonds. Governments around the world are facing spiraling debt costs.**
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/bond-yields-rising-japan-us-deficit-spending-debt-carry-trade-2025-5.
💻 **Anthropic’s new AI model (Claude) will scheme and even blackmail to avoid getting shut down**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIEthics #Ethics @ai
📖 **Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ**
“_Despite this being the oldest description of Jesus written by a non-Christian, scholars have long doubted its authenticity due to the alleged pro-Christian claims it contains. The present book, however, authenticates Josephus’ authorship and then reveals a startling discovery._”
Schmidt, T C, Josephus and Jesus: New Evidence for the One Called Christ (Oxford, 2025; online edn, Oxford Academic, 5 May 2025), https://doi.org/10.1093/9780191957697.001.0001, accessed 22 May 2025.
#OpenAccess #OA #Book #Bookstodon #Christianity #Religion #Jesus #JesusChrist #Christ #Theology #Academic @bookstodon @religion
🗺️ 🧲 **Mapping Magnetism**
Abraham Parrish
“_Flemish cartographer Gerhard Mercator depicted magnetic mountains on what was to be the first published map of the Arctic and North Pole, which was an inset on his world map published in 1569._”
🔭 **Astronomy Picture of the Day**
🇺🇸 💵 **The dollar is struggling to rebound since ‘liberation day.’ Why it may keep falling.**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Dollar #Forex #Currencies #Economy #Economics @economics
🇺🇸 **3 reasons bond investors are panicking about the US budget deficit**
🔗 https://www.businessinsider.com/trump-tax-bill-gop-budget-deficit-bond-market-yields-selloff-2025-5.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Deficit #Debt #BondMarket #Economy #Economics @economics
🧬 **Largest-ever ancient DNA study on a medieval cemetery reveals 1,000 years of genetic history in the Low Countries**
“_Remarkably, it also uncovered the first direct evidence of the plague in medieval Flanders, at a time when no written sources from the town make mention of the disease._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Research #News #Ancient #DNA #Palaeogenomics #LowCountries #Medieval #Migration #Plague #Flanders @archaeodons
🇮🇹 **Italian irredentism and propaganda**
“_The history of Italian unification, the emergence of the sentiment of irredentism, and how it was used by fascism during the 20th century._”
🔗 https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/italian-irredentism-and-propaganda.
#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartogrpahy #Italy #Europe @histodons
**Archaeologists Found Someone They Never Expected in an Ancient Chinese Tomb: a Blonde Man**
“_The discovery reveals an unexpected connection to the ancient Silk Road._”
🇺🇸 **Immigration and Citizenship: Why the 1898 Wong Kim Ark Case is Relevant Today by Carol Nackenoff**
🔗 https://kansaspress.ku.edu/blog/2025/05/22/immigration-and-citizenship-by-carol-nackenoff/.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #PoliticalScience #Immigration #Citizenship #History #Histodons @histodons @politicalscience
🇺🇸 **Twenty Facts About Japanese Internment Camps In The United States**
🇺🇸 Did inflation lead to the demise of the US penny?
#Question #Treasury #Coins #Inflation #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
Goodbye to the Penny! Treasury Department announces plan to phase out the coin https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/penny-...
Evening all.
💻 **Most AI chatbots easily tricked into giving dangerous responses, study finds**
_In a report on the threat, the researchers conclude that it is easy to trick most AI-driven chatbots into generating harmful and illegal information, showing that the risk is “immediate, tangible and deeply concerning”._
📚 **Help! I Think I’m a Reading Snob.**
“_At the core of my snobbishness was an insatiable desire to be perceived as ‘cool’, whatever that means._”
🔗 https://theoxfordblue.co.uk/help-i-think-im-a-reading-snob/.
#Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Literature @bookstodon @literature
🇮🇪 **Medieval manuscript the Book of Leinster goes on public display in Trinity College**
#Ireland #Irish #Medieval #Medievodons #Manuscript #Literature @medievodons @literature
**The four-letter word lust**
🔗 https://blog.oup.com/2025/05/the-four-letter-word-lust/.
#Words #Etymology #English #Language #Linguistics @linguistics
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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Joined Nov 2022
