Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Jane Austen as a writer about law
Some notes on Sense and Sensibility and Pride and Prejudice, by me
(And also why there is only one good adaptation of her works.)
Substack
https://emptycity.substack.com/p/jane-austen-as-a-writer-about-law
Personal blog
https://davidallengreen.com/2025/12/jane-austen-as-a-writer-about-law/
🖥️ **‘Artificial stupidity’ made AI trading bots spontaneously form cartels when left unsupervised, Wharton study reveals**
"_A study from University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology found that when placed in simulated markets, AI trading bots did not compete with one another, but rather began colluding in price-fixing behaviors._"
🔗 https://fortune.com/article/what-is-artificial-stupidity-ai-pricing-collusion-study/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Markets
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**Pi calculation world record shattered at 314 trillion digits with a four-month run on a single server — StorageReview retakes the crown, thanks to storage bandwidth**
#Pi #Maths #Mathematics #Computer
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📚 **I started reading for two hours a day - now I'm happier and drink less**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyle/reading-challenge-feel-happier-drink-less-4100890.
#Reading #Books #Health #Wellbeing
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📚 **The Best Books Of 2025**
According to #SteveDonoghue from #BookTube.
Non-fiction: https://substack.com/@stevedonoghue/note/p-181464998
Fiction: https://substack.com/@stevedonoghue/note/p-181382279
#Reading #Nonfiction #Fiction #Books #List #Recommendations
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Nice to see a positive argument for the scruffy, difficult, inefficient process of teaching as an essential part of student learning.
We need more of this to fend off the technifacist tech-solutionism that is trying to justify pushing skilled teachers out of the education process.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #BSMachines #Technology #Tech #Education #Learning
🖥️ **Homebuilders have new competition for lots. Data centers**
"_Billions in AI infrastructure are driving up land prices and squeezing out residential development in Texas._"
🔗 https://www.housingwire.com/articles/ai-data-center-land-impact/.
#Texas #USA #UnitedStates #Housing #DataCentres #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech
📚 🎥 **How to Start Reading Again in 2026**
🇺🇸 📖 **Civil War Settlers: Scandinavians, Citizenship, and American Empire, 1848–1870**
"_Associating American citizenship with liberty and equality, Scandinavian immigrants openly opposed slavery and were among the most enthusiastic foreign-born supporters of the early Republican Party. However, the malleable concept of citizenship was used by immigrants to resist draft service, and support a white man's republic through territorial expansion on American Indian land and into the Caribbean. Consequently, Scandinavian immigrants after emancipation proved to be reactionary Republicans, not abolitionists._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/civil-war-settlers/FA57A6A7FAFBB55A40482369AEA61330.
#OpenAccess #OA #Academia #Nonfiction #Books #History #USA #UnitedStates #Scandinavia #Immigration #Migration
🇺🇸 📖 **The Pursuit of Liberty: How Hamilton vs. Jefferson Ignited the Lasting Battle Over Power in America**
"_Proving once again what a miracle it is we’ve made it this far._"
📚 **The 5 best science books of 2025**
🗺️ 🎥 **SECRET MAPS – Exhibition Private View**
"_Curators Tom Harper, Nick Dykes and Magdalena Peszko lead us into the hidden landscapes of history, where maps don’t just show the world — they shape it, conceal it and reveal its silent truths._"
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FfrsaX7lABk.
#Video #History #Maps #Cartography #Library #UK #UnitedKingdom
📚 **Want to read more in 2026? Here’s how to revive your love of books**
🇺🇸 📖 ** The Unruly Facts of Race: The Politics of Knowledge Production in the Early Twentieth Century Immigration Debate**
"_Kim’s analysis shows that throughout US history, the opportunity for belonging for some immigrants was predicated on the exclusion of others._"
🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/U/bo257660942.html.
#USA #UnitedStates #History #Sociology #Race #Ethnicity #Immigration #Migration #Nonfiction #Books #Academia
**The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking**
"_The depictions of flower petals in the geometric sequence of the numbers 4, 8, 16 and 32, as well as 64 flowers in another type of arrangement, point to arithmetical knowledge._"
Garfinkel, Y., Krulwich, S. The Earliest Vegetal Motifs in Prehistoric Art: Painted Halafian Pottery of Mesopotamia and Prehistoric Mathematical Thinking. J World Prehist 38, 14 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10963-025-09200-9.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Archaeology #History #Maths #Mathematics #Mesopotamia #Pottery #Art #Culture #Academia #Research
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In Pennsylvania, data center construction is threatening environmental degradation in the southeast, while oil and gas development extracts from and exploits the environment in the southwest
https://www.briefecology.com/p/data-centers-development-and-dispossession
#ai #environment #fossilfuels #climateChange #pennsylvania #ecology
🇨🇭 **Volunteers find two of the oldest gold coins in Switzerland**
#Gold #Coins #Numismatics #History #Switzerland #Archaeology
🎥 **I’m begging you to write essays**
📚 **Books by Princeton professors make year-end ‘best-of’ lists**
🔗 https://www.princeton.edu/news/2025/12/19/books-princeton-professors-make-year-end-best-lists.
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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