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**Linguists Have Discovered An Emerging English Dialect In Miami—And No, It’s Not Spanglish**
🔗 https://secretmiami.com/linguists-discover-emerging-english-dialect-miami/.
🎙️ **They Voted for Trump. His Tariffs Took Down Their Family-Owned Sawmill**
"_On today’s Big Take podcast, Bloomberg economics reporter Shawn Donnan goes to the “Old North State” to understand the ripple effect of tariffs on one of the oldest industries in America and how the mill’s owner feels about Trump and his policies, one year after voting for him in the ballot booth._"
🔗 https://link.podtrac.com/hl0uppl0.
#Audio #Podcast #Trade #Tariffs #Economy #Economics #Politics #USPol
🇨🇳 🇺🇸 **China used its trade juggernaut to withstand US tariffs. Can it keep its edge? **
"_Instead of seeing exports falter on lost US business, the world’s largest manufacturer has driven them deeper into other markets around the world – building on the country’s global economic footprint and hedges companies made during Trump’s first trade war._"
🔗 https://edition.cnn.com/2025/11/14/china/china-us-trade-war-global-exports-intl-hnk-dst.
**What to know about how Florida will teach McCarthyism and the Cold War**
"_McCarthy and the House Committee on Un-American Activities are painted as champions of anti-communism, rather than the more commonly accepted interpretation that they fomented one of the most repressive chapters in modern American history._"
#History #Histodons #McCarthyism #Education #Learning #Florida
#Image attribution: U.S. Government, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Joseph_McCarthy_studio_portrait.jpg.
🖥️ **A.I. Pioneer Yoshua Bengio Becomes 1st Living Scientist With 1M Google Scholar Citations**
🔗 https://observer.com/2025/11/yoshua-bengio-google-scholar-one-million-citations/.
#News #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Science
🇺🇸 **The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep.**
_Illustration shows a resolute Uncle Sam as a soldier with rifle standing on a pile of money bags labeled "Financial Interests in South & Central America"; sleeping on the ground, using the bags as pillows, are men labeled "St. Petersburg, Wall St., Lombard St., Paris Bourse, Berlin, [and] Vienna"._
Keppler, U. J. (1911) The Monroe doctrine - let Sam do it / Kep. United States, 1911. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, Puck Building, April 5. [Photograph] Retrieved from the Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/item/2011648881/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #History #Histodons #UncleSam #MonroeDoctrine #LatinAmerica #USA #US #Archives
Afternoon all
**Are we cooked? Algorithms have rewired our language**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/11/14/nx-s1-5534410/are-we-cooked-algorithms-have-rewired-our-language.
**A Voice for the Voiceless: English’s Lost Consonants**
🔗 https://dannybate.com/2025/11/14/a-voice-for-the-voiceless-englishs-lost-consonants/
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🎙️ **The Dictionary Wars! with Gabe Henry**
"_Fellow word-nerd Gabe Henry, author of Enough Is Enuf: Our Failed Attempts to Make English Easier to Spell, joins Sarah as they chummily pun their way through the story of the 18th century Dictionary Wars, the story of the publishing battles fought between a handful of eccentric word-lovers in The US and England, all vying for the future supremacy of their own spellings._"
🔗 https://www.buzzsprout.com/1112270/episodes/18167694-the-dictionary-wars-with-gabe-henry.
**Wall street bubbles; - always the same**
"_Illustration shows a bull (stock market) blowing bubbles labeled "Inflated Values" with many unwary investors reaching for them._"
Keppler, Udo J., Artist. Wall street bubbles; - always the same / Kep. United States, 1901. N.Y.: J. Ottmann Lith. Co., Puck Bldg. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2010651412/.
#Cartoon #Illustration #Commentary #WallStreet #History #Archives
🇺🇸 **US corporate bankruptcies set to hit 15-year high amid credit jitters, S&P data shows**
"_Large U.S. corporate bankruptcies are on pace to hit their highest level in 15 years, S&P Global data showed on Thursday, underscoring mounting stress across corporate America at a sensitive time for public market investors._"
#USA #US #Data #Economy #Economics
#Image attribution: Billie Grace Ward from New York, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Wall_Street_Sign_Close-up_with_American_Flags_(50849584006).jpg.
🇺🇸 **The End of American Hypergrowth**
"_The hypergrowth that powered American ascendance from colonial backwater to global hegemon is over. The future looks more like Europe or Japan: low growth, aging populations, persistent labour shortages that automation fills, and a slow drift from the centre of global economic gravity._"
🔗 https://news.strategicinsightsreport.com/the-end-of-american-hypergrowth/.
📖 **Family names from the Irish, Anglo-Saxon, Anglo-Norman and Scotch: Considered in relation to their etymology, with brief remarks on the history and languages of the peoples to whom we are indebted for their origin**
"_Read or download for free_"
🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77230.
#ProjectGutenberg #History #Names #Etymology #Linguistics #Books #Bookstodon
🌎 **‘Almost half of the beaches will disappear by the end of the century,’ warns researcher**
#Pollution #Beaches #Environment #Ecology #Science #Research #Academia
Evening all
**Who were the Vascones?**
🔗 https://salutemmundo.wordpress.com/2025/11/13/who-were-the-vascones/.
**Pilgrims and Poverty in Renaissance Rome**
"_Rome welcomed and tended to the vast numbers of pilgrims who arrived in the 16th century, but its attitude to its own poor could be very different._"
🔗 https://www.historytoday.com/archive/history-matters/pilgrims-and-poverty-renaissance-rome.
🇬🇧 📖 **Ruthless: A New History of Britain’s Rise to Wealth and Power, 1660-1800**
"_Acclaimed historian Edmond Smith shows how the world’s first industrial nation was founded on the ruthless exploitation of technology, people and the planet._"
**Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet**
"_What the goblet depicts, we argue, is the creation and maintenance of cosmic order – above all the birth of the sun and its daily journey – rendered in a visual language that traveled widely across the ancient Near East._"
Zangger, E., Sarlo, D. and F. Haas Dantes. 2025. “Lifting the Sky: The Cosmic Program on the ˁAin Samiya Goblet”, The Ancient Near East Today 13.11. Accessed at: https://anetoday.org/ain-samiya-goblet/.
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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