Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
Not a bot just a chap in his fifties who occasionally reads things.
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Joined Nov 2022
Morning all.
🇬🇧 🖋️ **What is the state of Britain’s handwriting?**
"_Just one in six Britons (17%) update a personal journal or diary by hand at least a few times a month, while only 7% of the public are handwriting letters that regularly._"
🔗 https://yougov.co.uk/society/articles/52273-what-is-the-state-of-britains-handwriting.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Handwriting #Writing #Poll #Data #Dataviz
**Babylonia and Across the River**
🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2025/05/31/babylonia-and-across-the-river/.
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**TOP 15 Most Expensive Texts on Earth**
#Video length: twenty-five minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqyNaBi1gI.
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Auctions @histodons @bookstodon
**Virginia capital likely has 742 unmarked graves, some of Confederate soldiers, study finds**
**Battle of the Kalka River**
On this day in history in 1223, the Mongol Army led by Jebei and Subutai defeated the combined forces of the Kievan Rus at the Kalka River.
Afternoon all.
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Earth without water, by Thomas Burnet, ca. 1700⠀
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Note California depicted as an island. See more maps depicting California adrift from the mainland here — https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/maps-showing-california-as-an-island
🧬 **Ancient Mediterranean DNA confirms old truths: People contain multitudes**
“_Their analysis revealed something that seems counterintuitive: Despite the fact that Punic people originally came from the eastern Mediterranean, an area called the Levant, those who were living in Punic settlements several centuries later showed almost no trace of Levantine ancestry._”
🔗 https://www.brown.edu/news/2025-05-29/punic-study.
#Research #News #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Anthropology #Ancient #DNA #Levant @archaeodons @anthropology
💻 **The AI Cultural Slop Apocalypse is Here**
Lewis Waller
#Video length:thirty-two minutes and fifty-eight seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2DyZQhzv7Q.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Culture @ai
🇯🇴 **Lost Byzantine city resurfaces in S. Jordan: Ancient settlement of Tharais identified**
“_The town of Tharais, once featured on the renowned Madaba Mosaic Map, has been positively identified near the modern town of El-‘Iraq in the Karak Governorate, providing a new chapter in the archaeological and cultural history of the region._”
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Histodons #Culture #Byzantinum #Jordan @archaeodons @histodons
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@bibliolater You could start with an English/German edition of Mark Twain's "The Awful German Language" and then consider if you really want to learn it. 😉
🇩🇪 🇧🇪 🇦🇹 🇨🇭 🇱🇺 🇱🇮 **Language Question**
I am thinking about learning German. What do you think the best books to use in this endeavour would be?
#German #Language #Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Education #Learning #Books
Afternoon all.
**Tips from a Wisconsin librarian: How can you know if what you’re reading is false?**
“_Librarian Kate Hinnant shares how to spot falsehoods online and how to slow the spread of misinformation_”
🔗 https://www.wpr.org/news/wisconsin-librarian-tips-reading-false-misinformation-online.
#Reading #Misinformation #SocialMedia #Online #Internet #Tips
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#Viking people if you haven’t read this book yet put it next on your list.
I literally closed the first edition of this one back in 2010 and said “Welp, I’m going to get a PhD in archaeology.” #Medieval #Archaeology #histodons
📚 **What books do professors of different subjects read?**
Harriet Breakey
“_I asked these professors whether they found reading to be an escape from their field of study or if reading was yet another way they could remain immersed in their subject. The response I received overwhelmingly favoured reading as a form of wider research._”
🔗 https://cherwell.org/2025/05/28/oxford-professors-read-books/.
#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #Academia #Academics @bookstodon
💻 **AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos**
“_A survey of college students taken in January 2023, just two months after ChatGPT's launch, found that some 90% had already used it on assignments, New York Magazine reports._”
🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/26/ai-chatgpt-cheating-college-teachers.
#School #Education #Learning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai
**It's Not Just Austen – Posh Accents Are Ruining Period Dramas, Historian Says**
🔗 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/not-just-austen-posh-accents-132208449.html.
🔬 **Scientists Warns That AI Images May Cause Havoc in Medical Research**
“_The authors argue that the growing sophistication of AI image-generation tools makes it harder to detect fraudulent data through traditional means._”
#Science #Research #Fake #Images #Data #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @science @ai
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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