Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot, just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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💻 **Firing people for AI is not going so well**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/05/26/firing-people-for-ai-not-going-so-well/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Jobs #Employment @ai
**Adverse reactions to the use of large language models in social interactions**
“_Here, we report the results of a large-scale, preregistered online experiment (n= 3,552) showing that human players’ fairness, trust, trustworthiness, cooperation, and coordination in economic two-player games decrease when the decision of the interaction partner is taken over by ChatGPT. On the contrary, we observe no adverse reactions when individuals are uncertain whether they are interacting with a human or a LLM._”
Fabian Dvorak, Regina Stumpf, Sebastian Fehrler, Urs Fischbacher, Adverse reactions to the use of large language models in social interactions, PNAS Nexus, Volume 4, Issue 4, April 2025, pgaf112, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf112.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Economics #LLMS #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ChatGPT #Technology #Tech #Academia #Academics @ai @economics
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Unlocking Google's Hidden Maps - mapShare is a new platform to help you search and discover the millions of Google My Maps created by people around the world.
https://googlemapsmania.blogspot.com/2025/05/unlocking-googles-hidden-maps.html
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Giant datacenters are taking over the U.S. - & angering local residents · "They're noisy. They take a lot of power & water, & some communities do not want them."
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18th century, Huguenot mathematician, Abraham de Moivre, was born 26 May 1667 #histsci
https://thonyc.wordpress.com/2018/10/24/a-newtonian-refuge/
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What is it about the radical right Alternative for Germany and Germany's East? Glad you asked, b/c I have a bootlegged preprint for you.
https://www.kai-arzheimer.com/paper/afd-east-west-cleavage-breakthrough/
**Minting Power: Phoenician Coins and the Politics of Identity**
🔗 https://aub.edu.lb/articles/Pages/Minting-Power-Phoenician-Coins-and-the-Politics-of-Identity.aspx.
#Numismatics #Identity #Politics #Phoenicia #History #Histodons @histodons
**Martin Pelletier: The next phase of financial instability may be driven by weakness in sovereign debt markets**
“_Bond markets are applying increasing pressure on governments to confront their fiscal realities, but policymakers seem unwilling to rein in spending._”
🔗 https://financialpost.com/investing/investors-unaware-scale-bond-crisis.
#Debt #SovereignDebt #BondMarket #Finance #Economy #Economics @finance @economics
📖 **Peak Human: What We Can Learn from the Rise and Fall of Golden Ages**
“_In Peak Human, acclaimed historian Johan Norberg examines seven of humanity’s greatest civilizations – ancient Athens, the Roman Republic, Abbasid Baghdad, Song China, Renaissance Italy, the Dutch Republic and the Anglosphere – and asks: how do we ensure that our current golden age doesn’t end?_”
🔗 https://atlantic-books.co.uk/book/peak-human/.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #History #Histodons @bookstodon @histodons
Morning all.
🇺🇸 🇨🇦 **Flirtation under difficulties**
Pughe, J. S. , Artist. Flirtation under difficulties / J.S. Pughe. Canada United States, 1904. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg., March 2. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2011645511/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #USA #US #UnitedStates #Canada #UncleSam #Tariffs #C20th #20thCentury
🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**
Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.
#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury
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Eew. This is a great example of why I ditched Audible years ago and now get audiobooks from Chirp.
Even Audiobooks Aren't Safe From AI Slop
... And as an added incentive, it's offering better royalty rates to authors who use Audible's AI to create an audiobook exclusively for the platform, Bloomberg reported.
#Books #AI #Audiobooks #Audible #Amazon #AmReading
https://futurism.com/audible-announces-ai-narrators
🇦🇪 🌡️ **UAE hits record May temperature of 51.6C**
“_Scientists have shown that recurring heatwaves are a clear marker of global warming and that these heatwaves are set to become more frequent, longer and more intense._”
🔗 https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20250524-uae-hits-record-may-temperature-of-51-6c.
#Environment #Climate #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #UAE @climatechange
🇺🇸 “Private-managers now influence the U.S. economy and politics in ways few Americans understand”
#Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon #Economy #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @bookstodon
Four Books Sound the Alarm About the Power of Private Equity https://www.wsj.com/finance/investing/four-books-sound-the-alarm-about-the-power-of-pr...
🇺🇸 **15 Times U.S. Presidents Defied the Constitution (and Got Away With It)**
🔗 https://historycollection.com/15-times-u-s-presidents-defied-the-constitution-and-got-away-with-it/.
#History #Histodons #USA #US #UnitedStates #Politics #USPol #Constitution @histodons
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#SundayReads — Katherine Harvey investigates the story of Old Tom Parr (died 1635), who claimed to have lived to 152, and the fraudulent longevity business that became his namesake in the 19th century: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/the-old-old-very-old-man/
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Posting a social media disclaimer won't stop AI from using your data. This will | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/science/social-media-disclaimer-stop-ai-using-data-copypasta?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
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Are you interested in populism? → L. Jacobs, C. Close, and J. Pilet. “The Angry Voter? The Role of Emotions in Voting for the Radical Left and Right at the 2019 Belgian Elections”. In: International Political Science Review (Feb. 2024), p. 01925121231224524.
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Brilliant essay -- "The Copilot Delusion" -- on how "AI" is ruining so much, programming in this case.
https://deplet.ing/the-copilot-delusion/
"We’re building a world where that curiosity gets lobotomized at the door."
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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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