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🇺🇸 **Trump’s Baseless ‘Manipulated’ Data Claim In Firing BLS Chief Erika McEntarfer Follows Long History**
"_Economists from across the ideological spectrum have consistently told us that the jobs calculations are free from political meddling; civil servants compiled them using the same methods and schedule for decades_"
🔗 https://www.politifact.com/article/2025/aug/01/trump-fire-bls-mcentarfer-jobs-report/.
#Data #Statistics #Jobs #Economy #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates #Facts #FactCheck
✝️ **The Ebionites: Heretics Or Original Followers Of Jesus?**
🔗 https://jamestabor.com/the-ebionites-heretics-or-original-followers-of-jesus/.
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The Astronomy Photographer of the Year competition is coming round again and the shortlist is stunning.
See the whole shortlist here: https://www.rmg.co.uk/whats-on/astronomy-photographer-year/galleries/2025-shortlist and there will be an exhibition of all of them at Royal Museums Greenwich after the winner is announced.
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Women Take Peptide Injections at "Age Reversal" Event, End Up Leaving in Ambulances
https://futurism.com/neoscope/women-injections-age-reversal-event-ambulances?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Neoscope (Health & Medicine) @neoscope-health-medicine-Futurism
**European Overseas Colonies By Colonizer**
_Bastian Becker (2023); Gapminder - Population v7 (2022) – with major processing by Our World in Data. “Number of colonies” [dataset]. Bastian Becker, “Colonial Dates Dataset (COLDAT) 3.0”; Gapminder, “Population v7” [original data]._
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/european-overseas-colonies-by-colonizer.
#Data #DataViz #History #Histodons #Europe #Colonialism #Imperialism @histodons
Afternoon all.
🇺🇸 **Black Friday and Gilded Age Robber Barons: Examining the 1869 Gold Crisis through Political Cartoons**
"_Black Friday involved two robber barons, Jay Gould and Jim Fisk, who worked with Abel Corbin, a brother-in-law of President Ulysses S. Grant, to drive up the price of gold. Their scheme resulted in a dramatic price crash on September 24, 1869, which shuttered many brokerage firms and led to the value of gold and stocks falling by $100 million._"
🔗 https://blogs.loc.gov/inside_adams/2025/08/black-friday-political-cartoons/.
Afternoon all, it is Friday and the start of the weekend is here.
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Developer survey shows trust in AI coding tools is falling as usage rises
"AI solutions that are almost right, but not quite" lead to more debugging work.
https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/developer-survey-shows-trust-in-ai-coding-tools-is-falling-as-usage-rises/?utm_brand=arstechnica&utm_social-type=owned&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
📰 **Curate Your Own Newspaper With RSS**
"_Escape newsletter inbox chaos and algorithmic surveillance by building your own enshittification-proof newspaper from the writers you already read_"
**‘A cipher for crazy self-projection’: why are architects so obsessed with Solomon’s Temple?**
🧠 🖥️ **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.
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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