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.
Toots or follows or boosts or mentions ≠ endorsements of any particular notion or notions.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
**Security Verification Link**
Looks like these chaps are back, the second such toot I have received in two days with the same link to click. They do not take no for an answer.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
What Is America, and for Whom?
A white Christian ethno-state with strict hierarchies or a pluralistic democracy with egalitarian aspirations? American society has always been divided over what this country should strive to be.
Some thoughts from my new piece:
🧵
https://thomaszimmer.substack.com/p/what-is-america-and-for-whom
🇺🇸 **1964: "Throw It Away" Culture in the USA. BBC Archive**
"_It's no longer a fight to survive in a world in which there's too little, but a fight to survive in a world in which there is too much. We can now make more of practically everything than we can ever possibly hope to use. And to prosper, we must become a race of massive consumers wasting to live._"
#Video length: forty-nine minutes and forty-nine seconds
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXGlybglr28.
#Documentary #History #USA #US #UnitedStates #Culture #Consumerism #Consumption
🐴 📖 **A Veterinary Text Between Mongols, Mamluks And Armenians**
"_This text, elaborately entitled The Matching Pearls Concerning the Knowledge of Precedents (al-Durr al-muṭābiq fī ʻilm al-sawābiq) in Or. 9823 and Formulary of equine medical science (Aqrābādhīn fī ʻilm ṭibb al-khayl) in Or. 3133, is a manual on the characteristics of horses and the treatment of equine diseases and injuries, in 182 or 183 short chapters._"
🔗 https://blogs.bl.uk/asian-and-african/2025/07/veterinary-text.html.
🇮🇳 **A Colonial Hangover Or A Linguistic Leg-Up? India Grapples With The Enduring Appeal Of English**
_“Those who speak English will soon feel ashamed,” Home Minister Amit Shah said last month, igniting a heated debate about national identity and social mobility in the polyglot nation of 1.4 billion._
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/25/india/india-bjp-english-language-tensions-intl-hnk-dst.
#History #Colonialism #English #Language #Society #Identity #Culture #India #Asia
**Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!**
#Video length: seventeen minutes.
**Parts of speech English doesn't have, but these languages do!**
#Video length: seventeen minutes.
Irresponsible use of #technology has consequences.
Sailors looking at smartphones blamed for surge in ship collisions https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2025/07/26/seafarers-looking-smartphones-bl...
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
LLMs GENERATE STATISTICALLY PROBABLE RESPONSES TO PROMPTS, NOT FACTUAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
PASS IT ON.
via @Dhmspector
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is STARE/TORPOR/START #wotd #stare #torpor #torpid #start #GenZStare
Morning to all on #Mastodon and across the #Fediverse.
🇯🇵 **YouTube Generation Propels Japan's Anti-Foreigner Politics Into The Mainstream**
"_Kato said he believes the Chinese, the biggest cohort of foreign residents in Japan and among the largest visitor groups, are quietly taking over the country. Chinese are also often the focal point for anti-immigrant rhetoric propagated online._"
🖥️ 🌍 **AI Slop Is Eating The World**
"_In 2025, fully AI-generated content is growing fast and reshaping how we get information and entertainment. Entire articles, blog posts, product descriptions, and video scripts come straight from AI models like ChatGPT, Jasper, and Gemini, producing polished text in dozens of languages within seconds._"
🔗 https://www.computerworld.com/article/4028292/ai-slop-is-flooding-the-world.html.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
@bibliolater Afternoon, insightful posts this week thank you.
📚 **Summer Reading List: Road Tripping Across the West**
A summer reading list from the Nebraska University Press.
🔗 https://unpblog.com/2025/07/25/summer-reading-list-road-tripping-across-the-west/
#Summer #Travel #Reading #List #UniversityPress #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
**Lying increases trust in science**
Hyde, B.V. Lying increases trust in science. Theor Soc (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11186-025-09635-1.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Ethics #Science #Experts #Trust #Misinformation #Lying #Society #Academia @science
Afternoon all.
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
Is ChatGPT making us stupid?
In 2008, we asked the same about Google. Now #AI isn’t just finding info, it’s “thinking” and analyzing for us.
“The difference lies in how we use it,” writes professor of information systems Aaron French. https://theconversation.com/is-chatgpt-making-us-stupid-255370
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
Well-timed for #ishpssb2025 👇 these authors are among the few academics actively trying to tackle the scourge of scientific racism. Would be great to see more historians and philosophers of science engage with this problem
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:hhs6eirikabtdfx3ougekmkq/post/3lupiyvnlcs2b
Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋
boosted
In Denmark we have one of highest proportions of renewables AND some of highest electricity prices in Europe.*
But funnily it's correlation not causality. We also pay a lot of tax on energy.
Good deep dive by @andrewdessler.com
* & Sometimes price is negative
https://open.substack.com/pub/theclimatebrink/p/have-renewables-decreased-electricity-da4
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.
Finis
Joined Nov 2022
