Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🖥️ 🇬🇧 **How many Britons know AI lies?**
"_One in nine Britons who use AI for factfinding on a daily basis say they have "never" encountered it hallucinating_"
🔗 https://yougov.co.uk/technology/articles/52617-how-many-britons-know-ai-lies.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #UK #UnitedKingdom #Britain #Poll #Data #DataViz
🌍 💵 **Global inequality is the result of two centuries of uneven economic growth**
"_Two hundred years ago, people in all regions were similarly poor. Today, the average incomes of people in Australia, the US, or Denmark are more than 15 times higher than those in Sub-Saharan Africa._"
#Economics #Inequality #Graph #Chart #Data #DataViz @economic
**What did the Vikings really think about pregnant women?**
"_Archaeologist Marianne Hem Eriksen has been searching for traces of pregnant women in the Viking Age. The fact that she found almost none tells its own story._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Vikings #Women @archaeodons
📖 **Why exploring "equality" in a new maths book may help the real world**
_“If you think maths is all about equations, and you think equations are rigid black-and-white facts, then you probably think maths is all rigid and black-and-white,” says Cheng. This book is a wonderful refutation of that misconception._
#BookReview #Review #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics #Math @bookstodon
📖 🇺🇸 **After Failing Math Twice, a Young Benjamin Franklin Turned to This Popular 17th-Century Textbook**
_By age 16, “being on some occasion made ashamed of my ignorance in figures, which I had twice failed in learning when at school,” Franklin continued, “I took Cocker’s book of arithmetic and went through the whole by myself with great ease.”_
#History #Histodons #BenFranklin #Books #Bookstodon #Maths #Mathematics @histodons @bookstodon
Afternoon all.
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Interesting article about taking notes by hand impacting on learning and memory: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-writing-by-hand-is-better-for-memory-and-learning/ #handwriting #learning #memory
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@bibliolater @bookstodon
Years ago I built a scanner something like this one, but the mechanism is my hands, not any automation. I can do a 400 page book in an evening (but it gets super boring, I admit). "Days or weeks" is nonsense.
Done by hand, errors can be spotted and corrections made on the spot. I've seen many many scans on archive dot org where a page or three is totally botched or missed right in the middle of a book.
High speed has its place, but not at the price of quality.
**Sick of AI Slop? DuckDuckGo Now Lets You Block AI-Generated Images**
_DuckDuckGo admits the tool 'isn't perfect,' but claims it will 'greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.'_
🔗 https://www.pcmag.com/news/sick-of-ai-slop-duckduckgo-now-lets-you-block-ai-generated-images.
#DuckDuckGo #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech
📖 **The Harvard-Educated Linguist Breaking Down ‘Skibidi’ and ‘Rizz’**
"_Adam Aleksic, who posts as Etymology Nerd on social media, argues in a new book that algorithms are reshaping the English language._"
🔗 https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/12/style/algospeak-etymology-nerd-adam-aleksic-slang.html.
#English #Language #Slang #Etymology #Linguistics #Algorithms #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @linguistics
🇳🇴 🚗 **One-third of cars on the road in Norway are now electric**
"_Almost every new car sold in Norway is electric. Hardly anyone buys a combustion engine car anymore._"
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/one-third-of-cars-on-the-road-in-norway-are-now-electric.
🇭🇺 **Ancient Horse Bones Shatter Myths About Medieval Christian Diets**
_“The assumption has always been that Christianity made eating horse taboo,” says Professor László Bartosiewicz of Stockholm University, one of the study’s lead authors. “But our findings show that horsemeat remained on the menu long after conversion. History is rarely as simple as it seems.”_
🔗 https://www.sciencenewstoday.org/ancient-horse-bones-shatter-myths-about-medieval-christian-diets.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Hungary #Europe #Medieval #Christianity @medievodons @archaeodons
📚 🖥️ **Books on BookTok: Character.AI 'crosses a line'**
"_Once you have created an account on the website, Character.AI gives the user the ability to "talk" to book characters such as Violet Sorrengail, the protagonist of Rebecca Yarros’ Empyrean series, or Cal Calore, a character from Victoria Aveyard’s Red Queen series._"
>>> Why not try talking to someone who is sentient and alive, rather than an algorithm that converts text into numbers, regurgitates them back to you in order that it's owners can give the impression that it can converse with you?
🔗 https://www.thebookseller.com/news/books-on-booktok-characterai-crosses-a-line.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🖋️ **The 10 Most Expensive Fountain Pens in the World**
A fountain pen, the mark of a true gentleman and at these prices one would need to be part of the landed gentry to be able to afford one.
🔗 https://www.aol.com/10-most-expensive-fountain-pens-150234017.html.
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🤔 So, who's going to tell the authoritative New York Times that a #medieval scribe, writing by hand, cannot make a "typo"?
🖥️ 🇺🇸 **White House Partners With PragerU to Make AI-Slopified Founding Fathers**
"_In one, an AI-generated John Adams says “facts do not care about our feelings,” a phrase commonly attributed to conservative commentator and PragerU contributor Ben Shapiro._"
🔗 https://www.404media.co/white-house-partners-with-prageru-to-make-ai-slopified-founding-fathers/.
#PagerU #History #Histodons #FoundingFathers #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @histodons
📚 🐲 **Dragons in the Astronomicum Caesareum**
"_In 1540, humanist polymath, mathematician, astronomer, cartographer, professor, and printer, Peter Apian (1495-1552) published one of the most lavishly illustrated scientific books ever printed. Dedicated to the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V and his brother, Ferdinand I, the Astronomicum Caesareum (Imperial Astronomy) contains 21 volvelles and 58 hand-colored woodcuts that involve some of the most spectacular computational dragons in the Rare Book and Special Collections Division._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/bibliomania/2025/07/18/dragons-in-the-astronomicum-caesareum/.
#Dragons #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
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🇫🇮 **Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland**
"_Using ancient genomic data, contemporary Finnish Biobank data, and identity-by-descent (IBD) analyses, we identified strong regional continuity between the medieval and modern Finnish populations, and evidence for mobility within Finland and between Finland and Scandinavia._"
Nordfors, U., Peltola, S., O’Sullivan, R.J., Valtueña, A.A., Lamnidis, T.C., Majander, K., Traverso, L., Krause, J., Salmela, E., Onkamo, P., Archaeogenetics reveals fine-scale genetic continuity and patterns of kinship and health in medieval Finland, iScience (2025), doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2025.113086.
#Ancient #DNA #Bioarchaeology #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Genetics #Science #Medieval #Finland #Scandinavia @science @archaeodons@a.gup.pe
🇺🇸 🖥️ **Americans are increasingly likely to say AI will negatively affect society**
"_The share of Americans who believe that the effects of artificial intelligence on society will be negative has steadily increased, from 34% in December 2024 to 40% in March 2025 to 41% in April and to 47% in June._"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #USA #US #UnitedStates #Poll #Data #DataViz #Statistics
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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