Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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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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🧬 **Genetic history of Scythia**
"_Using high-quality genomic data generated from 131 ancient individuals from Great Scythia and neighboring regions of the Bronze Age and the Iron Age, we established the genetic structure of the Scythians, revealing their diverse origin with major European Bronze Age ancestral components, and genetic traces of migration and invasions._"
Tatiana V. Andreeva et al., Genetic history of Scythia. Sci. Adv.11, eads8179 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.ads8179.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #History #Genetics #DNA #Scythians #BronzeAge #IronAge #Academia #Academics @science
🎙️ 📖 **Ory Amitay, "Alexander the Great in Jerusalem: Myth and History" (Oxford UP, 2025)**
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🇪🇺 **EU industrial production: 0.6% annual growth since 2000**
"_At country level, the highest average growth rates between 2000 and 2024 were observed in Ireland (5.6%) and Poland (4.9%), while the lowest rates were registered in Italy (-1.1%) and Portugal (-0.9%)._"
🔗 https://ec.europa.eu/eurostat/en/web/products-eurostat-news/w/ddn-20250723-1.
#Data #DataViz #Europe #EuropeanUnion #EU #Industry #Economy #Economics @economics
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AI-Powered Coding Assistant Deletes Company Database, Says Restoring It Is Impossible
https://futurism.com/ai-vibe-code-deletes-company-database?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into The Very Worst of AI @the-very-worst-of-ai-Futurism
📚 **Books for understanding one another**
"_If you’re struggling to navigate conversations that feel increasingly fraught, we’ve gathered a collection of books that provide context to our current moment and provide tools for respectful, productive communication across ideological divides._"
🔗 https://mitpress.mit.edu/books-for-understanding-one-another/.
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USA is currently home to more than 3,600 data centers, but about 80 percent of them are concentrated in 15 states. The market has doubled since 2020, with 21 percent year over year growth.
Current estimates say data centers are responsible for about 2 percent of the U.S.’ energy demand, but Anthony DeOrsey, a research manager at sustainable energy research firm Cleantech group, projects data centers will be about 10 percent of demand by 2027.
https://www.governing.com/infrastructure/ais-power-problem-who-pays-the-price
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Very interesting photos from Danish photographer Malene Thomsen. This sunday, she came across the rare phenomenon of bioluminescent dinoflagellates in the water at the eastern beach on the island of Mors.
Dinoflagellates are marine plankton, so they are single-celled organisms and therefore extremely small. But when you have enough of them, they light up the sea, as the waves come crashing in on the shore.
The article is in Danish, but the pictures are phenomenal.
🚗 ❓ **Questions**
I do not understand the modern phenomenon of inhaling laughing gas whilst driving a motor vehicle. Why would anyone want to do this? For those who partake in such activities, why do they think it is a good idea with no or minimal associated risk?
🇨🇿 **Brno museum unveils unique Bronze Age armour find**
"_Brno City Museum has announced the discovery of a rare Bronze Age armour fragment, dating back over 3,200 years to the time of the legendary Trojan War._"
🔗 https://english.radio.cz/brno-museum-unveils-unique-bronze-age-armour-find-8857572.
**Morning all.**
#Image attribution: BigWhitePelican, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:A_spectacular_morning_sky_in_Helsinki,_Finland,_2023_September.jpg.
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"_The shift in tone marks a shift in power now that companies are shrinking their white-collar staff. With jobs harder to find, many workers are seeing perks disappear and their grievances ignored._"
‘Everybody’s Replaceable’: The New Ways Bosses Talk About Workers https://www.wsj.com/lifestyle/workplace/corporate-bosses-workers-culture-changing...
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@bibliolater @bookstodon I haven't done so yet myself (gasp!), but based on Ulysses: 1. listen to a good audiobook adaptation while reading, esp. a dramatized production with different actors for each character (lots of directorial decisions there, obvs). 2. Read it in community---a book club, a class--so you can discuss each chapter right after reading it. 3. Consult commentaries lightly, but don't let them overwhelm you. 4. When the text seems like sheer nonsense, listen to it as music.
🇺🇸 **Lest We Forget / Davenport**
_"Lest we forget" is the refrain in Rudyard Kipling's poem, Recessional, published in 1897 at the height of the British empire. In the poem, Kipling warns against the perils of pride and the impermanence of power. The United States emerged from the Spanish American war in 1899 as a quasi-imperial power. The cartoonist may be cautioning the nation to remember its humble beginnings._
Davenport, H. (ca. 1899) Lest we forget / Davenport. Pennsylvania United States, ca. 1899. [1893 i.e] [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2003675317/.
#History #Histodons #UncleSam #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #Cartoon #RudyardKipling #Poetry @histodons
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Yet Another Study Finds That Overloading #LLMs With Information Leads to Worse Results (via @TheDecoder https://the-decoder.com/yet-another-study-finds-that-overloading-llms-with-information-leads-to-worse-results/ #AI
🏴 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**
>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.
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**The 3 Hardest Books of all Time & How to Read Them**
>>The list is subjective; however, these are this particular Youtuber's thoughts and tips, they may have utility if you are considering reading the books in the future.
#Video length: shorts.
🖥️ 🧠 **Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it)**
"_Emerging, and rapidly accumulating, evidence indicates that agential AI may mirror, validate or amplify delusional or grandiose content, particularly in users already vulnerable to psychosis, due in part to the models’ design to maximise engagement and affirmation, although notably it is not clear whether these interactions have resulted or can result in the emergence of de novo psychosis in the absence of pre-existing vulnerability._"
Morrin, H., Nicholls, L., Levin, M., Yiend, J., Iyengar, U., DelGuidice, F., … Pollak, T. (2025, July 11). Delusions by design? How everyday AIs might be fuelling psychosis (and what can be done about it). https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/cmy7n_v5
#Preprint #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Psychology #Neuroscience #Psychiatry @psychology
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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