Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Joined Nov 2022
Morning all.
Thank you both (@elaterite and @jgg) very much for the kind words of advice.
I was really struggling with Windows 10 on my desktop. It is an old machine and I found increasingly the simplest tasks like having more than one window open at a time would crash it. The final straw came when I just could not get it to keep WiFi connection for more than a second if it worked at all. I am unable to connect with a cable due to the desktop being on a completely different floor and area of the house. With the fact that Microsoft kept sending me messages that they finishing support for Windows 10 in October and 'encouraging' to buy a new computer I decided to move to Linux Mint XFCE. I have used Linux Mint before over ten years ago and feel comfortable with it.
Finally made the migration over to Linux.
I am trying to change my very old, cheap, and decrepit desktop over from Windows to Linux. I am not tech-savvy and this is taking an inordinate amount of time. Especially as I cannot keep the desktop from loosing internet connection every second.
💻 **AI Hallucinations in Medicine and Mental Health**
“_Whatever we call them, AI hallucinations are just a new form of misinformation._”
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Misinformation #Psychology #MentalHealth @ai @psychology
🗺️ **How Long Each Territory Was Part of The Roman Empire (Western and/or Eastern)**
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CEOs Are Creating Copies of Themselves That Are Spouting Braindead Hallucinations to Their Confused Underlings
https://futurism.com/ceos-ai-clones-hallucinations?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Advanced Transportation @advanced-transportation-Futurism
🇬🇧 📚 **Children’s reading enjoyment falls to lowest recorded level in UK**
_“This year’s data is once again stark,” said NLT CEO Jonathan Douglas. “We are witnessing the lowest levels of reading enjoyment and daily reading in a generation – a critical challenge for literacy, wellbeing and life chances. Children’s futures are being put at risk and joining forces across sectors to address the reading for pleasure crisis is essential”._
#Reading #Literacy #Books #Bookstodon #UK #UnitedKingdom @bookstodon
☀️ **Sun’s south pole revealed for first time, in images from Solar Orbiter spacecraft**
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See this recent post of mine: https://c.im/@jemmesedi/114633183371986447
Sorry for the delay in replying to comments; sometimes, one's physical health takes precedence even over #Mastodon and #socialmedia.
🇬🇧 **Imperfect Memories of British Slavery**
“_British abolition in 1833 was accompanied by £20 million paid in compensation to slaveholders, many of whom subsequently “forgot” slavery ever existed._”
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/imperfect-memories-of-british-slavery/.
#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Slavery @histodons
📚 **How to read and why**
“_Some of the best advice I have had is that if you really want to get your head around a topic, read two different books about it simultaneously._”
💻 **AI Makes Workers More Anti-Social, Unmotivated, and Lonely, New Research Warns**
**7 Fun Facts About New England’s Colonial Rangers**
🔗 https://newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/7-fun-facts-about-new-englands-colonial-rangers/.
**Born On This Day: Sarah Rapelje**
Sarah Rapelje was born on this day in Albany on 9th June 1625. She was the first child of European descent to be born in the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
💻 **The Illusion of Thinking: Understanding the Strengths and Limitations of Reasoning Models via the Lens of Problem Complexity**
“_We found that LRMs have limitations in exact computation: they fail to use explicit algorithms and reason inconsistently across puzzles._”
🔗 https://machinelearning.apple.com/research/illusion-of-thinking
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LRMS #Technology #Tech #Thinking #Reasoning @ai
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**how to remember your best ideas (in under 3 minutes)**
#Video length: two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How the use of a word in the Guardian has gotten some readers upset**
_Getting back to “gotten”, which has been described by the linguist David Crystal in his Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language as “probably the most distinctive of all the [American English/British English] grammatical differences”._
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jun/04/use-word-gotten-some-readers-upset.
📖 **Fascism: The History of a Word**
_Exploring the writings and deeds of political leaders, activists, artists, authors, and philosophers, Federico Marcon traces the history of the term’s use (and usefulness) in relation to Mussolini’s political regime, antifascist resistance, and the quest of postwar historians to develop a definition of a “fascist minimum.”_
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/F/bo247752701.html.
#Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon #Fascism #Fascist #History #Histodons @histodons @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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
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Joined Nov 2022
