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Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥
"Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show"
"Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates that its platforms show users 15 billion scam ads a day. Among its responses to suspected rogue marketers: charging them a premium for ads – and issuing reports on ’Scammiest Scammers.’
🇺🇸 **As Tariff Case Heads to the Supreme Court, Trump's Strongest Argument Has a Fatal Flaw**
"_The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs. Even if it did, these tariffs would still be unconstitutional._"
🇺🇸 **As Tariff Case Heads to the Supreme Court, Trump's Strongest Argument Has a Fatal Flaw**
"_The International Emergency Economic Powers Act doesn't grant the president the power to regulate imports with tariffs. Even if it did, these tariffs would still be unconstitutional._"
📚 **History Day 2025 reading list**
"_To celebrate History Day 2025 at London’s Senate House this week, we’ve put together a reading list of essential open access books in history._"
🔗 https://uclpress.co.uk/history-day-2025-reading-list/.
#UCL #OpenAccess #OA #History #Histodons #ReadingList #Books #Bookstodon
**“Ideas about Vikings today can often not be verified scientifically”**
_“They are based essentially on reports written by Christian scholars in the High Middle Ages well over a century later, since, besides brief runic inscriptions, no written texts from the original period have been preserved”_
🔗 https://www.uni-muenster.de/Religion-und-Politik/en/aktuelles/2025/PM_Scheel_Wikinger.shtml.
📚 **Mark Twain's adventures at Yale**
"_The literary giant never went to college, but his ties to Yale were many._"
🔗 https://yalealumnimagazine.org/articles/6142-mark-twain-s-adventures-at-yale.
🇬🇧 🔬 **Bleeding to death: the science and technology growth emergency**
"_The UK has an internationally competitive research base, especially in its universities, albeit this is now under financial threat. There is a healthy and growing scene of start-ups and spin-outs; great progress has been made at their early stages. But the UK has been less effective both in scaling up companies that start in the UK and in diffusing new science and technologies across the economy. The result is a country with four of the top ten global universities, but only three of the top 100 industrial R&D spenders globally and none in the top ten._"
🔗 https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/ld5901/ldselect/ldsctech/192/19202.htm.
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Science #Technology #Tech #STEM #Research #Report
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Money can't buy happiness, a neuroscientist explains why
https://www.sciencefocus.com/news/why-money-cant-buy-you-happiness
The neuroscientist in question is, in this case, me.
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Coke’s New AI-Generated Ad Required 100 Staff and 70,000 AI-Generated Clips, and It Still Looks Like Garbage
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/coke-ai-holiday-ad?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Futurism @futurism-Futurism
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Goldman Sachs’ CEO debunks AI job replacement hysteria because he says humans will adapt like they always do: ‘Our economy is very nimble’
https://fortune.com/2025/11/04/goldman-sachs-ceo-debunks-ai-job-replacement-hysteria-humans-will-adapt/?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Business @business-thenewsdesk
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **Trash talk: why are UK kids using so many Americanisms?**
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 **How Britain lost America**
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/how-britain-lost-america.
🌍 **International Migration Outlook 2025**
"_In most OECD countries, permanent migration declined in 2024 compared to 2023, namely in EU countries. New Zealand and the United Kingdom also experienced sharp declines after record levels post-pandemic. In contrast, permanent migration to the United States continued to rise (+20%)._"
🔗 https://www.oecd.org/en/publications/international-migration-outlook-2025_ae26c893-en.html.
🇺🇸 **October 2025 ISM® Manufacturing PMI® Report**
"_Economic activity in the manufacturing sector contracted in October for the eighth consecutive month, following a two-month expansion preceded by 26 straight months of contraction, say the nation's supply executives in the latest ISM® Manufacturing PMI® Report_"
🔗 https://www.ismworld.org/supply-management-news-and-reports/reports/ism-pmi-reports/pmi/october/
🇺🇸 **UNEQUAL: The rise of a new American oligarchy and the agenda we need**
"_The 10 richest U.S. billionaires got $698 billion wealthier, and the arrival of the world’s first trillionaire grew more imminent._"
🖥️ 📖 **The Return of the Luddites**
"_Erik J. Larson considers “The AI Con: How to Fight Big Tech’s Hype and Create the Future We Want” by Emily M. Bender and Alex Hanna._"
🔗 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/the-return-of-the-luddites/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon
🖥️ **arXiv Changes Rules After Getting Spammed With AI-Generated 'Research' Papers**
🔗 https://www.404media.co/arxiv-changes-rules-after-getting-spammed-with-ai-generated-research-papers/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #arXiv #Spam
🇺🇸 **Expert Comment: Is the dollar’s dominance crumbling?**
"_A realignment away from the dollar is unlikely to happen smoothly. It would erupt like a financial tsunami. Investors would dump US Treasuries, yields would soar, and the dollar would plunge. Central banks would scramble into euros, yuan, or gold._"
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-11-03-expert-comment-dollar-s-dominance-crumbling.
#USA #US #UnitedStates #USD #USDollar #Dollar #Economy #Economics
🇯🇵 📖 **The Samurai Detectives by Shōtarō Ikenami: a tale of honour, desire and mystery in Edo Japan**
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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