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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**New research dispels myth of conspiracy theorists as isolated outsiders**
_Co-author Professor Robin Canniford, also from Bath’s School of Management, said: “The participatory aspect of conspiracy theories encourages people to become involved. It can feel very positive and supportive. It’s a thriving and welcoming social scene where people feel they are better informed about the workings of the world and are ready to take action.”
**Help Required**
I have changed my very old and slow desktop to #LinuxMint a few weeks ago, but still I am not able to set the system to an acceptable screen resolution. Either the desktop, icons and pages are too large or too small. I cannot find a happy medium. This is after watching many online tutorials. If anyone has suggestions, I would be most grateful to read them.
**Edinburgh University had major role in racist theories - review finds**
_The review points out that although the Enlightenment is often celebrated for its influence on modern liberal democracy, its thinkers were also responsible for nurturing "some of the most damaging ideas in human history"._
🇺🇸 🌡️ **As much of the US braces for extreme heat, statistics show 2,000 die from it annually**
🔗 https://abcnews.go.com/Health/us-braces-extreme-heat-statistics-show-2000-die/story?id=124136576
#Data #Statistics #Heat #Heatwave #Weather #Climate #Health #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Almost 50% of Microplastic Pollution Comes From Cars. Here's Why.
https://www.sciencealert.com/almost-50-of-microplastic-pollution-comes-from-cars-heres-why?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Environment @environment-ScienceAlert
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Sam Altman Says OpenAI Is Poised to Wipe Out Entire Categories of Human Jobs
https://futurism.com/sam-altman-openai-wipe-out-categories-human-jobs?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All About Artificial Intelligence @all-about-artificial-intelligence-Futurism
🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Public Divided On Use Of AI In Schools**
"_Approximately two thirds (62%) of UK adults oppose teachers using AI to mark coursework, 27% support it._
_89% of those polled are against students using AI to entirely complete their school coursework, 5% think it’s acceptable._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/news-and-insights/public-divided-on-AI-in-schools.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Education #Schools #Learning #UK #UnitedKingdom #Poll #Data
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The present is a foreign country; we do things differently here.
**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.
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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:
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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...
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LLMs GENERATE STATISTICALLY PROBABLE RESPONSES TO PROMPTS, NOT FACTUAL ANSWERS TO QUESTIONS.
PASS IT ON.
via @Dhmspector
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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.
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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