Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org

🇺🇸 **Harvard hired a researcher to uncover its ties to slavery. He says the results cost him his job: ‘We found too many slaves’**

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2025/jun/21/harvard-slavery-decendants-of-the-enslaved.

#Harvard #Univesity #Slavery #HigherEducation

📸 💻 **Can You Believe Your Own Eyes? Not With A.I. Op-Docs**

The New York Times

"_Some say there are an estimated 45 billion cameras on earth today, giving humankind access to perspectives far beyond our own reach. But the very tool that could help us understand the world is increasingly used to distort it. With A.I., this distortion has reached a new level. When any photo or video can be manufactured, what happens to the camera’s credibility? Can we still trust what we see?_"

#Video length: sixteen minutes and forty-seven seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sf3wEg9tsCY.

#Documentary #Photography #Photos #Images #Cameras #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai

🇬🇧 💻 **The AI hallucination: Why tech will add problems, not solve them**

🔗 https://feweek.co.uk/the-ai-hallucination-why-tech-will-add-problems-not-solve-them/

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIHallucinations #Education #Teaching #UK #UnitedKingdom @ai

**What History Tells and Teaches Us? We Ask Oxford Professor**

🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/06/what-history-tells-and-teaches-us-we-ask-oxford-professor/.

#History #Histodons @histodons

🌍 **Have you ever met a globemaker?**

🔗 https://www.standard.co.uk/going-out/attractions/hidden-london-bellerby-globemaker-b1233800.html.

#Globes #Cartography

💻 **AI hallucinates more frequently as it gets more advanced — is there any way to stop it from happening, and should we even try?**

"_Research conducted by OpenAI found that its latest and most powerful reasoning models, o3 and o4-mini, hallucinated 33% and 48% of the time, respectively, when tested by OpenAI's PersonQA benchmark._"

🔗 https://www.livescience.com/technology/artificial-intelligence/ai-hallucinates-more-frequently-as-it-gets-more-advanced-is-there-any-way-to-stop-it-from-happening-and-should-we-even-try.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #AIHallucinations @ai

Afternoon all.

🧬 **Scientists reconstruct 10,500-year-old woman’s face using DNA**

🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/06/19/science/10500-year-woman-facial-reconstruction-intl-scli.

#Ancient #DNA #Science #Research @science

**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**

"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"

Mitrovic, D. (2025). <i>Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English</i> [University of Chicago]. https://doi.org/10.6082/UCHICAGO.15187.

#Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Linguistics @linguistics

**A century of science history: the Museo Galileo in Florence celebrates its first 100 years with an exhibition**

🔗 https://www.finestresullarte.info/en/exhibitions/a-century-of-science-history-the-museo-galileo-in-florence-celebrates-its-first-100-years-with-an-exhibition.

#History #Histodons #Science #HistSci @histodons @science

**Ancient linguistic clues reveal that the European Huns had Siberian roots**

🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-06-20-ancient-linguistic-clues-reveal-european-huns-had-siberian-roots.

#Ancient #Linguistics @linguistics

**Alaska’s GDP has stagnated, with growth ranking near the U.S. bottom, analysis shows**

Yereth Rosen

"_The state’s GDP – the value of all goods and services – rose by only 0.4% annually on average from 2015 to 2025 when adjusted for inflation, according to the analysis in this month’s Alaska Economic Trends, the magazine published by the department’s research and analysis section. Only North Dakota has slower growth during the period, averaging 0.2% a year._"

🔗 https://alaskabeacon.com/briefs/alaskas-gdp-has-stagnated-with-growth-ranking-near-the-u-s-bottom-analysis-shows/.

#Alaska #Economy #Economics #Analysis @economics

Evening all.

🇬🇧 **Tristan da Cunha: Britain's Most Remote Colony & The Forgotten Garrison**

#Video length: twenty-two minutes and forty-five seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtJ_Mq_Fwq0.

#History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Empire #TristanDaCunha #Colony #Imperialism #Colonisation @histodons

🇺🇸 **The U.S. minted 1,000 new millionaires each day last year, UBS report says**

"_U.S. residents accounted for more than half of all new millionaires created across the globe in 2024. The surge in American millionaires was bolstered by robust stock market returns, with the S&P 500 jumping more than 23% last year._"

🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000-new-millionaires-created-each-day-2024-ubs-report/.

#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy

💻 **How AI is Ruining the Electric Grid**

#Video length: twenty-three minutes and nineteen seconds.

🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3__HO-akNC8.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Electricity @ai

💻 **Energy costs of communicating with AI**

"_Our results reveal strong correlations between LLM size, reasoning behavior, token generation, and emissions. While larger and reasoning-enabled models achieve higher accuracy, up to 84.9%, they also incur substantially higher emissions, driven largely by increased token output._"

Dauner M and Socher G (2025) Energy costs of communicating with AI. Front. Commun. 10:1572947. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2025.1572947.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #LLMS #Technology #Tech #Research #Article #Energy #Science #Academics @ai @science

🇺🇸 **The Slave Who Hijacked a Confederate Warship & Became the First Black Captain in the US Navy**

🔗 https://wheninyourstate.com/south-carolina/the-slave-who-hijacked-a-confederate-warship-became-the-first-black-captain-in-the-us-navy/.

#History #Histodons @histodons