**Pivotal Week for Global Debt Markets: Pressure Mounts on Japan**
**Opinion: Here’s how much higher gold prices can still go — even after doubling the past two years**
Law clerk fired over ChatGPT use after firm’s filing used AI hallucinations
Law school grad’s firing is a bad omen for college kids overly reliant on ChatGPT.
https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2025/06/law-clerk-fired-over-chatgpt-use-after-firms-filing-used-ai-hallucinations/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
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Please consider following @mapasmilhaud, he has great content.
A Cartographer's Tale
After so many years writing only in Spanish, it is time for a new adventure, this time in English.
Please share it with all your English-speaking friends. It will be worthy.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/welcome-to-a-cartographers-tale
PS: I know Mapstodon instance is mainly English-speaking, so this is your chance!
@mapasmilhaud Thank you for following. It is great to see that you have an account on the Fediverse.
🇨🇭 **Hebrew Manuscripts and Fragments in Switzerland**
**Alabama still celebrates Jefferson Davis' birthday. Will there be closures on June 2?**
**South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change**
“_By decentering analysis from a single era or type of monument, we show how monument classes are proxies for social behavior of mobile, persistent pastoralists. Our model highlights a reliance on monuments as touchstones of social belonging and as flexible technologies of social resilience in a changing world._”
McCorriston J, Ball L, Harrower MJ, Hamilton IM, Ivory SJ, et al. (2025) South Arabia’s prehistoric monument landscape shows social resilience to climate change. PLOS ONE 20(5): e0323544. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0323544.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Anthropology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Histori #Culture #Arabia #NearEast #Academia #Academic @anthropology @archaeodons
Etymologies of US States
https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/posts/etymology/etymologies-of-us-states
Climate scientists: the climate has always changed, over very long timescales, due to many different natural factors
Everyone: yes, please tell me more…
Climate scientists: also, the recent rapid warming is primarily due to burning fossil fuels
Most people: thanks, perhaps we ought to do something about that?
Small minority and fossil fuel companies: it’s all a hoax… except the bit when you said the climate changed before
Graphic: https://ed-hawkins.github.io/climate-visuals/indicators.html
🇸🇪 **Viking silver treasure uncovered in Täby in Stockholm**
“_Several coins are of European origin, representing countries as England, Bohemia and Bavaria. In addition, the treasure consisted of five Arabic coins, so called dirhams. One of the European coins is extremely rare and was minted in the city of Rouen, in Normandy, France. It dates to approximately the 10th Century AD._”
🔗 https://arkeologerna.com/viking-silver-treasure-uncovered-in-taby-stockholm/.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #History #Coins #Vikings #Sweden #Europe @archaeodons
**Exclusive: 'Turk-Kagan' coin discovery reshapes early Turkic history, says Uzbek professor**
“_Perhaps most significantly, the “Turk-Kagan” coins predate the famed Orkhon inscriptions—those of Tonyukuk, Kultegin, and Bilge Kagan—by more than 150 years. This pushes back the earliest known written usage of “Turk” and “Turk-Kagan” to the late sixth or early seventh century A.D._”
#Coins #Culture #Numismatism #Turk #History #Archaeology #Archaeodons @archaeodons
**Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?**
“_Fichte was not a proto-fascist, though certain aspects of his writing and his style had a strong appeal to fascists._”
Phillips, R. L. (2025) ‘Was Fichte a Proto-Fascist?’, The European Legacy, pp. 1–20. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/10848770.2025.2500229.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Philosophy #Fichte #Fascism #Fascist #NationalSocialism #Germany #Europe #Academia #Academic @philosophy
💻 “_Tactics used to make AI tools more engaging can drive chatbots to monopolize users’ time or reinforce harmful ideas._”
For those that do not work on Sunday: its great when you finish a book on Saturday evening, and then start a new book on Sunday morning. There exists the possibility that you could be immersed in the thoughts of the author for the rest of the day.
🇬🇧 🖋️ **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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#Video length: twenty-five minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hlqyNaBi1gI.
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Auctions @histodons @bookstodon
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