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Joined Nov 2022
Evening all.
🇰🇿 **Kazakhstan Releases Ancient Manuscript of Historic National Epic**
"_The epic stands out for its archaic expressions and unusual linguistic features not commonly found in Turkic languages, highlighting its ancient origins – an aspect emphasized by prominent turkologist Platon Melioransky._"
🔗 https://astanatimes.com/2025/10/kazakhstan-releases-ancient-manuscript-of-historic-national-epic/.
📚 **The Collected Papers Of Albert Einstein**
Volume One: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-l/.
Volume Two: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol-2-1900-1909.
Volume Three: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einsten-volume-3-the-swiss-year-1909-1911.
Volume Six: https://archive.org/details/the-collected-papers-of-albert-einstein-vol.-6-the-berlin-years-writings-1914-1917.
📚 **How To Read 6 Books In A Month**
"_Lessons from a month of quitting social media._"
🔗 https://www.amugofinsights.org/how-to-read-6-books-in-a-month/.
📖 **1929: Inside the Greatest Crash in Wall Street History--and How It Shattered a Nation**
"_This is not just a story about money. 1929 is a tale of power, psychology, and the seductive illusion that “this time is different.” It’s about disregarded alarm bells, financiers who fell from grace, and skeptics who saw the crash coming—only to be dismissed until it was too late._"
🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/321010/1929-by-sorkin-andrew-ross/9780241479414.
#History #Histodons #Economics #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
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Microblogging is terrible. It's all context collapse and unbridled id: notifications as conversation. We need more long-form, considered discussion. The internet needs more nuance and structured thought.
🖥️ **AI systems are the perfect companions for cheaters and liars finds groundbreaking research on dishonesty**
**Mapping disease: John Snow and Cholera**
"_By talking to local residents (with the help of the Reverend Henry Whitehead), Snow identified the source of the outbreak as the contaminated public water pump on Broad Street (now Broadwick Street). He did this by mapping the deaths from cholera, and noted that they were mostly people whose nearest access to water was the Broad Street pump...._"
#History #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Medicine #Cholera #Maps #Cartography
🇺🇸 **1 in 5 Americans now regularly get news on TikTok, up sharply from 2020**
"_More than half of TikTok users (55%) now say they regularly get news on the platform, up from 22% in 2020. TikTok is now on par with several other social media sites – including X (formerly Twitter), Facebook and Truth Social – in the share of its adult users who regularly get news there._"
#Data #DataViz #Poll #PewResearch #News #TikTok #SocialMedia #USA #US #UnitedStates
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The financial press is starting to ask fifth grade level questions. It’s a miracle!
🇺🇸 **Map of the American Civil War, 1861-1865**
🔗 https://www.worldhistory.org/image/21119/map-of-the-american-civil-war-1861-1865/.
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The AI bubble is 17 times the size of the dot-com frenzy, and four times the subprime bubble, analyst says. It's not just a bubble but an epically sized one, an analyst argues. When it will burst it is going to hit harder for tech sectors especially AI and related compaines and stocks. https://www.marketwatch.com/story/the-ai-bubble-is-17-times-the-size-of-the-dot-com-frenzy-this-analyst-argues-046e7c5c (paywall free link https://archive.is/mVUfw )
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Kiss reality goodbye: AI-generated social media has arrived
https://www.npr.org/2025/10/03/nx-s1-5560200/openai-sora-social-media?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into All Things Considered @all-things-considered-npr
🇺🇸 **The wealth of the top 1% reaches a record $52 trillion**
"_The total wealth of the top 10% — or those with a net worth of more than $2 million — reached a record $113 trillion in the second quarter, up from $108 trillion in the first quarter, according to the Fed. The increase follows three years of continued growth for those at the top, with the top 10% adding over $40 trillion to their wealth since 2020._"
🔗 https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/03/the-wealth-of-the-top-1percent-reaches-a-record-52-trillion.html.
Evening all, sorry for the late start in tonight's instalment of #microblogging.
**The Getty Center’s ‘Going Places: Travel in the Middle Ages’ Is a Visual Feast of Medieval Movement**
🔗 https://observer.com/2025/10/exhibition-review-getty-center-going-places-travel-in-the-middle-ages/.
#History #Histodons #Medieval #Art #Culture #Museum #Archives
🇮🇪 🏴 📖 **Book of Kells: exploring the evidence that points to Pictish origins in north-east Scotland**
"_While at present it is impossible to prove beyond doubt, Whitworth’s book highlights an important new potential provenance for the Book of Kells. However, it also serves as a timely reminder that our preoccupation with the “nationality” of the manuscript is based on a 19th-century construct, which can distract from other considerations._"
#History #Histodons #Books #Bookstodon #Ireland #Scotland #Picts #Manuscript
🇮🇹 🇪🇹 🎥 **Second Italo-Ethiopian War - 1935**
"_On this day in 1935, Italy invaded Ethiopia, marking the beginning of the Second Italo-Ethiopian War._"
#Video length: three minutes and eleven seconds.
🇺🇸 **Real GDP growth by state: Second quarter 2025**
"_Arkansas had the steepest contraction, at –1.1% annualized._"
🔗 https://fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2025/10/real-gdp-growth-by-state-second-quarter-2025/.
#Data #DataViz #GDP #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
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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