Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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.
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📖 **Racializing Objectivity: How the White Southern Press used Journalism Standards to Defend Jim Crow.**
"_Namely, that even as journalists might claim a sense of professional detachment, something like objectivity can be weaponized and used to defend racial and regional identities, and by extension, any element of power differentials or the status quo._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine**
"_Nominal group analysis reveals that while individual creativity may be enhanced by internet access, groups articulate fewer novel solutions when provided internet access, suggesting that internet access may constrain collective creative fluency._"
Oppenheimer, D.M., Patterson, M.T. Thinking outside the box means thinking outside the search engine. Mem Cogn (2025). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-025-01732-x.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Creativity #Internet #Digital #Academia #Academics
**Author of William the Conqueror’s ‘Medieval Big Data’ project revealed**
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-07-02-author-william-conqueror-s-medieval-big-data-project-revealed.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Medievodons @histodons @medievodons
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“A.I. is a technology of averages: LLMs are trained to spot patterns across vast tracts of data; the answers they produce tend toward consensus, both in the quality of the writing, which is often riddled with clichés and banalities, and in…ideas. Other, older technologies have aided and perhaps enfeebled writers, of course—one could say the same about, say, SparkNotes. But with A.I. we’re so thoroughly able to outsource our thinking that it makes us more average, too”
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/infinite-scroll/ai-is-homogenizing-our-thoughts
**Confederacy Group Sues Georgia Park for Planning an Exhibit on Slavery and Segregation**
**Who were the Galatians? How did they get where they were?**
"_Only much later did I learn that the Galatians were a type of Gauls, i.e., Celts, who had migrated from what is now France to what is now Türkiye._"
**Google’s electricity demand is skyrocketing**
"_Google also released its latest environmental report, which shows that its energy use from data centers has doubled since 2020._"
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2025/07/03/1119627/google-electricity-fusion-ai/.
**Christiaan Huygens and the Scientific Secrets of Saturn**
"_Seventeenth-century science was so competitive that Christiaan Huygens used a cipher to conceal his Saturn observations when sharing them with interlocutors._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/christiaan-huygens-and-the-scientific-secrets-of-saturn/.
🇨🇦 📈 **Manipulated chart misleads on migration rate in Canada**
🔗 https://news.yahoo.com/manipulated-chart-misleads-migration-rate-155207901.html.
🇺🇸 **A Summer Reading List for America’s 250th Anniversary**
🔗 https://ash.harvard.edu/articles/a-summer-reading-list-for-americas-250th-anniversary/.
#Reading #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon #USA #US #UnitedStates #History @bookstodon
🇪🇸 **Scientists find microplastics in semen and ovaries**
"_Spanish researchers have identified different types of plastics in seminal plasma and ovarian follicular fluid_"
🖥️ **Can AI Chatbots Worsen Psychosis and Cause Delusions?**
"_Chatbots may lead to psychosis through confirmation bias, sycophancy, and "bullshit" receptivity._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Technology #Tech #Psychology @psychology
Depends on how and what one spends their time at university doing.
How much are tuition fees in the UK and is university worth it? https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cwyegp0dnq9o?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=...
I am surprised that the two could be separated.
Pupils give up smartphones in behaviour experiment https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c36xxrrrjjko?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub ...
🏠 **Even billionaires are having trouble finding homes to rent now, thanks to a ‘mansion deficit’**
"_Demand for rentals has gotten a lot hotter among the very rich. More millionaires are renting these days. Between 2019 and 2023, the latest year for which there is publicly available data, the number of households that make $1 million or more in income who also rent skyrocketed by 204%, according to an analysis by RentCafe._"
📚 **Literary Studies at Manchester University Press**
🖥️ **No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That**
"_Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place._"
**A 17-year-old teen refutes a mathematical conjecture proposed 40 years ago**
"_Hannah Cairo has solved the so-called Mizohata-Takeuchi conjecture, a problem in harmonic analysis closely linked to other central results in the field._"
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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