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🇺🇸 **The Former Capital of the Confederacy is Leaving the Lost Cause Behind**
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-former-capital-of-the-confederacy-289.
#History #Histodons #Virginia #Confederacy #LostCause @histodons
**A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos**
"_Biber Deresi is identified as a key site, facilitating hominin movement and communication between Asia and Europe, and providing a novel contribution to the Palaeolithic map of the Aegean._"
Karahan, G. and Arslan, N. (2025) ‘A Key Palaeolithic Site Bridging Anatolia and the Aegean: Biber Deresi, Assos’, European Journal of Archaeology, 28(3), pp. 281–303. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/eaa.2025.10.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Academia #AcademicChatter @archaeodons @academicchatter
**Across cultures and centuries, Aristotle and Confucius agree: virtue is good in moderation**
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‘Deeply concerning’: reading for fun in the US has fallen by 40%, new study says
"Over the last 20 years, the number of Americans who read daily for pleasure has seen a considerable decline"
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/aug/20/reading-for-pleasure-study
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The strange reason space won't let liquids exist | BBC Science Focus Magazine
https://www.sciencefocus.com/space/strange-reason-space-wont-let-liquids-exist?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into SCIENCEFOCUS.COM @sciencefocus-com-sciencefocus
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How Did Eleanor of Aquitaine Become One of the Most Powerful Women of the Middle Ages?
Eleanor of Aquitaine carved her way into the English court through a series of cunning and tactical maneuvers.
by Erin Wrigh
https://www.thecollector.com/eleanor-of-aquitaine-most-powerful-woman-middle-ages/
Eleanor of Aquitaine at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/search/?query=Eleanor+of+Aquitaine
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**The Brothers Grimm: The Unknown Political Story**
"_They were preserving the past to reshape the future._"
#Video length: fifty-two minutes and fifty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n3L3v7M2aw4.
#Documentary #History #Histodons #Germany #Politics #Literature @literature
**Roman Emperor: Philip**
#Image attribution: Heritage centre Rozet, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:M._Julius_Philippus_Arabs_Erfgoedcentrum_Rozet_300_191_d_6_a-d.jpg.
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Given the spectacular failure of Open AIs new ChatGPT version (ChatGPT 5) it's easy to ridicule it. Brian Merchant however has a good and sadly sobering point:
"If we wake up to millions of addicted and deluded AI chatbot users, students incapable of finishing their homework without help from an app, and automation software that surveils and immiserates workers, each hurriedly installed on the top layer of our society, well, the joke will have been on all of us."
https://www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/gpt-5-is-a-joke-will-it-matter
**"Is the decline of writing making journalism dumber?"**
**Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration**
"_In summary, in the current political climate, as invasion discourses about migrants are indeed a global trend from Europe and the US to South Africa, India or Hong Kong, drawing parallels between biological invasion and human migration risks facilitating the misappropriation of invasion science research by political ideologies, potentially criminalising migrant communities and legitimising exclusionary measures of migrants._"
Barbulescu, R. et al. (2025) ‘Raising concerns on the dangers of linking biological invasions to human migration’, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 48(13), pp. 2496–2501. doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2025.2527906.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Science #Biology #Race #Migration #Migrants #Culture #AcademicChatter #Academia @science @academicchatter
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How good is AI.
IKEA order arrived with a damaged box. The return AI booked a replacement drop off and pickup scheduled for Friday. All good zero touch customer rep experience. Status updates telling us it’s on the way etc.
Except it never arrived.
Called IKEA this morning took 45m of waiting and dealing with humans to discover. The AI had hallucinated the whole thing. The schedule was too tight For the warehouse to load the goods. So the AI just faked the rest of the delivery updates.
Cust rep couldn’t fix it so just created two new deliveries, one for the replacement and one for the damaged part pickup.
So much time wasted and inconvenience to our family.
Grr.
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“There’s something very dialectical about the aphorism”
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/aphorisms-andrew-hui/
🇺🇸 📖 **Bookshelf: age of economic warfare challenges US power**
"_While the US may have led the world in economic warfare, China is in a strong position to implement export controls on minerals for which it dominates production and refining._"
https://www.aspistrategist.org.au/bookshelf-age-of-economic-warfare-challenges-us-power/.
#Review #BookReview #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon
🔬 **We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it**
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #PeerReview #Academia #Research #AcademicChatter @academicchatter
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ChatGPT Told a Man His Symptoms Were Fine, But Then He Saw a Real Doctor and Realized He Was Dying
https://futurism.com/chatgpt-symptoms-fine-cancer?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Future Society @future-society-Futurism
**Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media**
"_While extremism is usually perceived to be a matter of extreme ideologies and methods, social media enables and shapes distinct hybridization processes by which conspiracy beliefs, personal grievances, and various ad hoc convictions are combined with ideology fragments, consequently producing new extremist narratives._"
Petersen, L. N., & Johansen, M. B. (2025). Spaces of Hybridized Prefatory Extremism (HYPE) on Social Media. Social Media + Society, 11(2). https://doi.org/10.1177/20563051251340145 (Original work published 2025).
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #SocialMedia #ConspiracyTheories #Academia
**How font psychology is linked to human nature**
🔗 https://www.michigandaily.com/michigan-in-color/how-font-psychology-is-linked-to-human-nature/.
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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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