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🧠 🖥️ **Brain Rot And The Rise Of AI Slop**
"_Finian Murphy looks at the influence of AI on our feeds, our news and ultimately, our thought processes._"
🔗 https://www.thejournal.ie/readme/ai-slop-6772946-Jul2025/.
#BrainRot #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech
🇺🇸 **Fed’s preferred inflation gauge accelerates in June as tariffs bite**
"_Goods prices increased by 0.4% from the prior month, the fastest pace since January, while services prices held steady at 0.2% for the fourth consecutive month, according to government data released Thursday._"
🔗 https://realeconomy.rsmus.com/feds-preferred-inflation-gauge-accelerates-in-june-as-tariffs-bite/.
#Data #DtaViz #Statistics #Inflation #Tariffs #Economy #Economics @economics
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**Neoconservatism: A Roundtable**
"_Emerging in the 1960s as a critique of the perceived leftward drift in liberal politics, neoconservatism—while broadly characterized by anti-communism, cultural conservatism, and commitment to liberal democracy—exhibited significant internal variations and shifts in focus._"
🔗 https://www.jhiblog.org/2025/07/30/neoconservatism-a-roundtable/.
#Neoconservatism #Politics #PoliticalScience @politicalscience
**Settler Colonization and Language Contact: How they Shaped Old English**
"_This thesis examines the way in which Germanic dialects, which were brought to Britain by settlers in the post-Roman period and which ultimately evolved into Old English, came to predominate in the southern and eastern parts of the island over a stretch of roughly two centuries spanning the fifth to the seventh._"
🔗 https://knowledge.uchicago.edu/record/15187?v=pdf.
#OpenAccess #OA #Thesis #OldEnglish #Language #Migration #Britain #Germanic #AngloSaxons #Linguistics #History @linguistics
**How the riches of its graduates tied Edinburgh University to slavery**
"_Alumni such as Robert Halliday Gunning helped the university raise the equivalent of tens of millions of pounds_"
🍔 **Uber Eats is stuffing AI slop into your meal**
"_AI-enhanced food images are intended to make dishes more appealing by improving photos uploads._"
🔗 https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/uber-eats-is-stuffing-ai-slop-into-your-meal-174413765.html.
Afternoon all.
**"The Holy City" 1951 Jerusalem Travelogue Omar Mosque House Of Caiaphas Gethsemane**
#Video length: ten minutes and nine seconds.
**A Symbol of Immortality: Evidence of Honey in Bronze Jars Found in a Paestum Shrine Dating to 530–510 BCE**
"_Our multianalytical approach detected lipids, saccharide decomposition products, hexose sugars, and major royal jelly proteins supporting the hypothesis that the jars once also contained honey/honeycombs._"
Luciana da Costa Carvalho, Elisabete Pires, Kelly Domoney, Gabriel Zuchtriegel, and James S. O. McCullagh Journal of the American Chemical Society Article ASAP DOI: https://www.doi.org/10.1021/jacs.5c04888
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Chemistry #Honey #Academia @science
🎙️ **The Truth About Bullshit: On Harry Frankfurt**
"_Named for the famous philosophy treatise by the late Harry Frankfurt, The Truth About Bullshit podcast seeks to illuminate our world and the pressing issues therein by calling out ‘bullshit’ – a misrepresentation of truth – in all its forms. We’re excited to introduce a short series of interviews with experts on fields ranging from AI to business, to politics._"
🔗 https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/the-truth-about-bullshit-on-harry-frankfurt.
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For the fans of the eleventh century (there are dozens of us!), here's a 30% pre-order discount from @oxunipress.bsky.social on my book, due out next month.
📱 🇮🇳 🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **India overtakes China in smartphone exports to the U.S. as manufacturing jumps 240%, report shows**
"_Smartphones assembled in India accounted for 44% of U.S. imports of those devices in the second quarter, a significant increase from just 13% in the same period last year. Total volume of smartphones made in India soared 240% from a year earlier, Canalys said._"
🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/29/india-surpasses-chinese-smartphone-shipments-to-us.html.
#Smartphone #Industry #Manufacturing #India #USA #US #UnitedStates #China #Economy #Exports #Technology #Tech
🇮🇹 **Italy's working age population set to shrink by one fifth, statistics agency says**
"_In its latest demographic forecast, Istat predicted that the number of people in the 15-64 age group would fall from 37.4 million in 2024 to 29.7 million in 2050, with their share of the total resident population falling to 54.3% from 63.5%._
_In the same period, the percentage of residents over the age of 65 is projected to rise to 34.6% of the total, from 24.3% currently, and the share of children up to the age of 14 to fall to 11.2% from 12.2%._"
📖 🎙️ **Victoria de Grazia, "The Perfect Fascist: A Story of Love, Power, and Morality in Mussolini’s Italy" (Harvard UP, 2020)**
"_The Perfect Fascist pivots from the intimate story of a tempestuous seduction and inconvenient marriage―brilliantly reconstructed through family letters and court records―to a riveting account of Mussolini’s rise and fall._"
#Audio #Podcast #History #Histodons #Fascism #Italy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @histodons @bookstodon
🎙️ **Summer picks: Where did our attention spans go, and can we get them back?**
🇺🇸 💵 *Americans Are Not Prepared' Says Harvard Economist About China's De-Dollarization - 'Interest Rates Are Going To Be Higher For A Very, Very Long Time'**
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics #InterestRates @economics
🇺🇸 **U.S. Treasury yields jump 6 to 8 bps amid shocking multi-billion outflows**
"_As per the empirical analysis based on daily data during January 2021 to March 2025, BIS says an inflow of $3.5 billion into stablecoins is associated with 3-month T-bill yields falling by up to 2-2.25 basis points (bps) within 10 days._"
🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/u-treasury-yields-jump-6-211151634.html.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #Finance #Economy #Economics @economics@a.gup.pe
📚 **Here are the 13 books that made the Booker Prize longlist**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5482914/2025-booker-prize-longlist-fiction.
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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