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Count Per Brahe the Younger had a quirk. He raised memorial stones on his land holdings in the 1600s, when nobody else did. Here's the one at Bogesund Manor. Count Per was the patron of Sweden's first major travel writer, an illegitimate relative of his named Nils Mattsson Kiöping. In 2021 I published Nils's big book in an annotated English translation. It's a great read!
Afternoon all.
🇯🇵 📸 **Night cityscape in Nagasaki - view from near the mouth of Urakami River**
#Image attribution: Eiji Kikuta (AG2016) from Sendai, Japan, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Night_cityscape_in_Nagasaki_-_view_from_near_the_mouth_of_Urakami_River_(2016-04-09_by_Eiji_Kikuta_@Pixabay_1342591).jpg.
🇩🇪 📸 **Frankfurt Skyline At Night**
#Image attribution: Mathias Konrath konni, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Frankfurt_Skyline_at_night_(Unsplash).jpg.
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Cartographic projections: deforming the Earth to represent it
The history of a compromise that was created to resolve an unsolvable geometry problem. The virtues and shortcomings of some of the most iconic map projections.
https://www.cartographerstale.com/p/cartographic-projections
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🇬🇧 **University jobs at risk amid lower student numbers**
"_University staff who teach language and communication skills to international students say their jobs are at risk under "devastating" new redundancy plans._"
🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c8e416n65lpo.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #University #Bristol #Redundancy #Education
📚 **Pretty Privilege in Publishing: The Book Deal Everyone’s Talking About**
"_For Luke Bateman, it took less than thirty days, a smart phone, and a few well-timed TikToks. Seemingly overnight, he built a massive following on BookTok and secured a book deal, before even starting his manuscript._"
**The Most Common Public Speaking Fails - and How to Fix Them**
"_They include a boring beginning, an ineffectual ending, trying to be too clever, overwhelming your audience and sloppy slides._"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-seven seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GK3hnL4DAqI.
#Webinar #Speech #PublicSpeaking #Fails #Failure #Advice #Tips
🎵 I do not know why, but I am listening to Bellini's _Samba De Janeiro_.
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Neil deGrasse Tyson Lists 8 (Free) Books Every Intelligent Person Should Read
Many of these are at PG.
Illustration from Gulliver Travels at PG
https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/17157/pg17157-images.html
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🇺🇸 🖋️ **A generation of Americans never learned cursive. So Philly historians are teaching AI to transcribe it.**
_“Within a generation, we will be teaching handwriting and legibility the way we teach a foreign language,” said Bayard Miller, associate director of digital initiatives and technology at APS._
🔗 https://www.inquirer.com/arts/cursive-ai-american-philosophical-society-20250704.html.
#Handwriting #Writing #Cursive #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Philadephia #Pennsylvania #Arts #Culture
🖥️ _“We see a future of a zero-click internet where consumers only interact with interfaces like ChatGPT, and agents or bots will become the primary visitors to websites,” said co-founder James Cadwallader._
#Google #Internet #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
The Companies Betting They Can Profit From Google Search’s Demise https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-optimization-startups-google-search-ee4c561a?st=o3...
🏠 **House prices up by 5.4% in the euro area**
"_....the highest increases were recorded in Portugal (+16.3%), Bulgaria (+15.1%) and Croatia (+13.1%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-euro-indicators/w/2-04072025-bp.
#RealEstate #Housing #Property #Statistics #Eurozone #Europe
🏴 🏴 **Healthy life expectancy by national area deprivation, England and Wales: between 2013 to 2015 and 2020 to 2022**
"_In 2020 to 2022, at birth, males in the most deprived areas of England were expected to spend 70.4% of life in "good" health, compared with 84.5% in the least deprived areas; during the same period, for females, these figures were the lowest since our time series began (2013 to 2015), at 65.1% and 81.5%, respectively._"
Office for National Statistics (ONS), released 4 July 2025, ONS website, statistical bulletin, https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthinequalities/bulletins/healthylifeexpectancybynationalareadeprivationenglandandwales/between2013to2015and2020to2022.
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As the World Warms, Extreme Rain Is Becoming Even More Extreme
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/climate/texas-flood-climate-change.html?unlocked_article_code=1.UE8.d7Wa.54kAvNlzVUrB&smid=nytcore-android-share
🇺🇸 🖥️ **Only 3%* of US AI users are willing to pay a penny for it**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/07/04/only-3-of-us-ai-users-are-willing-to-pay-a-penny-for-it/.
📖 **Why my book isn't on Amazon**
🖥️ **Botshit Gone Wild**
"_The downsides of generative AI are spreading like wildfire_"
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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