Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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Thank you for visiting this humble account. I hope the time you spend here will be informative. If a particular toot brought you here, please do view other toots from different subject areas. You never know what new topics may interest you.
🇺🇸 ☕ **Bad news for coffee drinkers: The record-high prices you’re paying will go even higher when tariffs take their toll**
**Study Finds Kindness Is the Best Response to Online Trolls**
"_Instead of escalating arguments, calm and thoughtful replies often draw support from other users who prefer a respectful environment. This ripple effect can help prevent toxic exchanges from dominating comment sections, turning potential “dumpster fires” into more constructive discussions._"
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A WOMAN WITHOUT HER MAN IS NOTHING
how would YOU punctuate this sentence?
🖥️ **AI Is Scheming, and Stopping It Won’t Be Easy, OpenAI Study Finds**
🔗 https://time.com/7318618/openai-google-gemini-anthropic-claude-scheming/.
🇬🇧 **‘No one listens to us’: the working-class despair fuelling the rise of the far right**
_Why was he supporting the BNP, I asked him. Because – and by now it’s a familiar phrase: “They listen to us. No one else does.” But they are racist, I protested. Many are fascist thugs. “The Labour party take our votes,” he responded, “but won’t do anything for us. No one will. They all just piss on us.”_
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Financial Times: “The dollar is having its worst year in decades” www.ft.com/content/ac9e...
📚 **The best books on The Presocratics**
🇺🇸 **Is a $2.7 trillion stock market crash coming?**
#Video length: eighteen minutes and twenty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/topstocks/2-7-trillion-stock-crash-coming-how-to-invest/vi-AA1MYVwO
#Investment #StockMarket #Markets #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates
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Born #onthisday in 1866, the "father of science fiction" H. G. Wells. Read our essay by Peter J. Bowler on the writer's many musings on the future of humanity: https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/h-g-wells-and-the-uncertainties-of-progress #otd
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“OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws – Computerworld”
> OpenAI’s own advanced reasoning models actually hallucinated more frequently than simpler systems.
An observation I made in my book, even in the first edition two years ago, was that research gave us reason to believe that hallucinations got worse with increasing model size
So, y'know... I literally told you so
🇦🇺 **Geologists Uncover Earth’s Largest Iron Ore Deposit in History, Worth $5.7 Trillion**
"_A vast iron deposit hidden beneath Australia’s ancient crust is forcing scientists to rewrite the planet’s geological history. Newly dated using cutting-edge techniques, this trillion-dollar find links deep Earth processes to global resource shifts._"
📚 **Books And To Be Read Lists**
How many books do you have in your TBR list?
Currently my personal total is twenty-three books. Since I am a slow reader it will take me a very long time to get through the list; however, the urge to buy more books is constant. I wish I knew how my mind squares that circle.
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Does summer seem to be lasting longer? Check out this recent data analysis from Climate Central: https://www.climatecentral.org/climate-matters/lingering-summer-heat-2025
Find your town here (United States) and share the result: https://www.climatecentral.org/graphic/lingering-summer-heat-2025?graphicSet=Lingering+Summer+Heat&location=Atlanta&lang=en
**Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe**
"_....this note focuses on Leonardo Fibonacci’s experience in North Africa that led him to interact with the scientists at the court of Frederick II, Stupor Mundi. This encounter had several important consequences, among which the introduction in the Western world of the Hindo-Arabic numbering system and the beginning of the transition from Arabic to Latin as the language of science and mathematics._"
Struppa, D. (2024) “Leonardo Fibonacci and Frederick II: An encounter of Islamic mathematics with Europe”, Bullettin of the Gioenia Academy of Natural Sciences of Catania, 57(387), pp. FP202–FP221. doi: https://doi.org/10.35352/gioenia.v57i387.122.
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"Yiddish, as I understand it, is a cross between Hebrew and German. It’s an amazing language, from a culture that is rich in literature, journalism and debate."
https://fivebooks.com/best-books/best-jewish-fiction-allegra-goodman/
🇺🇸 **‘These results are sobering’: US high-school seniors’ reading and math scores plummet**
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/education/2025/sep/20/high-school-students-scores.
🇪🇺 **Population projections in the EU - methodology**
#Data #DataViz #Statistics #Population #Demography #EuropeanUnion #EU
🖥️ **Business Insider will publish AI stories — without disclosure**
🔗 https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/09/19/business-insider-will-publish-ai-stories-without-disclosure/.
🖥️ **Almost one-third of organizations admit training GenAI models was harder than expected**
"_Other challenges companies say they faced when deploying GenAI tools include hallucinations and tools unintentionally causing employees to spend more time on tasks._"
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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Joined Nov 2022
