Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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**Secret Maps at the British Library reconsiders the lines that shape our world**
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The #ConnectedAtBirth #etymology of the week is NUCLEAR/TEST/NUT/TESTICLES #wotd #nuclear #test #nut #testicle #NuclearTesting
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Burlesquing the Augustan era’s fixation on classical tradition, John Gay's Trivia: or, the Art of Walking the Streets of London (1716) renders practical advice for perambulating the capital into oftentimes absurd, hexametric verse: https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/gay-trivia
📊 **Visualized: The Most Common Master’s Degrees in 43 Countries**
"_Business & law are the most common master’s fields across 43 OECD countries._"
🔗 https://www.visualcapitalist.com/visualized-the-most-common-masters-degrees-in-43-countries/.
**The cartographers who found the shape of Ireland**
"_A breakthrough came in 1792, when Daniel Beaufort, a Church of Ireland clergyman and scientist, produced the most geometrically accurate map of Ireland to date._"
🔗 https://www.rte.ie/culture/2025/1101/1535882-the-cartographers-who-found-the-shape-of-ireland/.
#History #Histodons #Culture #Maps #Cartography #Ireland #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice**
🔗 https://antigonejournal.com/2025/11/in-defense-of-polymathia/
📚 **The Book Report: New fiction and non-fiction (Nov. 2)**
Book highlights from Washington Post book reviewer Ron Charles on CBS News.
🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/video/the-book-report-new-fiction-and-non-fiction-nov-2/.
🖥️ **Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote Work**
"_To measure this, we introduce the Remote Labor Index (RLI), a broadly multi-sector benchmark comprising real-world, economically valuable projects designed to evaluate end-to-end agent performance in practical settings. AI agents perform near the floor on RLI, with the highest-performing agent achieving an automation rate of 2.5%._"
Mazeika, M. et al. (2025) Remote Labor Index: Measuring AI Automation of Remote work. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.26787.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Automation #Work
🖥️ **LLMs Can Get "Brain Rot"!**
"_Together, the results provide significant, multi-perspective evidence that data quality is a causal driver of LLM capability decay, reframing curation for continual pretraining as a \textit{training-time safety} problem and motivating routine "cognitive health checks" for deployed LLMs._"
Xing, S. et al. (2025) LLMs can get 'Brain rot'! https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.13928.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #BrainRot
🇺🇸 **The Cornerstone of Robert E. Lee’s Army: Confederate Slaves at Gettysburg**
"_Notice that Fremantle was never confused about the legal status of these men. He never classified them as soldiers nor does he ever mention anyone else in the army who did so. What he does do is capture why the Confederacy never approved the recruiting of Black men as soldiers until defeat was staring them in the face._"
🔗 https://kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/the-cornerstone-of-robert-e-lees-fa3.
📚 ** The best new books to read in November 2025**
According to 'The I Paper'
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/best-new-books-read-november-2025-4001767.
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The unexplained disappearance of the previously-#OpenAccess Digital Einstein Papers is the subject of a question on the History of Science and Mathematics StackExchange [https://hsm.stackexchange.com/questions/18948/why-have-princeton-universitys-free-online-einstein-archives-disappeared], on which a bounty is now being offered for a definitive answer.
The comments on the question contain some speculations about the reason for the site being taken down. No answer has been offered yet, presumably because Princeton University Press, for all its publicity about the new paid-for database of the Einstein papers, seems to be quietly ignoring the 10+ years of open access that came before.
📖 **Mathematical Recreations in the Middle Ages by Jacques Sesiano**
🔗 https://www.epflpress.org/produit/1423/9782889155125/mathematical-recreations-in-the-middle-ages.
#History #Histodon #Science #HistSci #Maths #Mathematics #Medieval #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🇺🇸 📖 🎥 **Jeffrey Rosen on The Pursuit of Liberty**
"_Jeffrey Rosen talked about his book, The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America._"
#Video length: forty-seven minutes and two seconds.
🔗 https://www.c-span.org/program/washington-journal/jeffrey-rosen-on-the-pursuit-of-liberty/668129.
#History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
**Oldest coin ever found in Saxony: 2,200-year-old Celtic gold “Rainbow Cup” unearthed near Leipzig**
"_It is classified as a Celtic quarter stater, dated to the 3rd century BCE, and was likely minted in northern Bohemia, one of the main Celtic centers at that time._"
🔗 https://archaeologymag.com/2025/10/oldest-coin-ever-found-in-saxony/.
#History #Celtic #Gold #Coin #Saxony #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics
📖 **Horrific massacre that fueled drive to end slave trade**
"_New history traces nightmare voyage, high-profile British trial over insurance claim to collect for jettisoned ‘cargo’_"
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This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”" www.prb.org/resources/se...
**Earliest Chinese writing possibly unearthed in Hubei**
"_The Hubei Daily reported that the forms of these characters are nearly identical to those found in oracle bone inscriptions, demonstrating that 7,000 years ago, early inhabitants of the region already possessed a relatively sophisticated concept of civilization._"
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**How Louisiana Managed to Boost Reading Scores**
"_Louisiana began requiring K-3 teachers and school administrators to get professional development in the science of reading, an evidence-based early literacy approach. The state also required more interventions for young kids not performing at grade level_"
🔗 https://www.governing.com/policy/how-louisiana-managed-to-boost-reading-scores.
📚 📰 🇺🇸 **We Used to Read Things in This Country**
"_For it is AI that has given the American ruling class the final impetus to more or less abolish education. As primary and secondary schools prepare to push AI on students, higher-education funding is basically being eliminated._"
🔗 https://thebaffler.com/salvos/we-used-to-read-things-in-this-country-mccormack.
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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