Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 @bibliolater@qoto.org
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🎥 The Physics of Euler's Formula | Laplace Transform Prelude
"_How dynamics explain Euler's formula, and vice versa._"
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Column | I tracked Amazon’s Prime Day prices. We’ve been played.
https://wapo.st/474Gp9w
🎥 **The Month Of October In History**
"_In 1929, New York Stock Exchange Slump_
_In 1946, Nuremberg - The Verdicts
In 1962, President John F Kennedy Speech - Sound_
_In 1962, Crisis Over Cuba
In 1967, Vietnam Protest_"
🇦🇺 **The World’s Largest Gold Nugget Was So Heavy, It Had To Be Broken To Be Weighed**
"_Just beneath the surface of the Australian outback, a chance strike in 1869 revealed a gold discovery so enormous it left a local town in disbelief._"
🔗 https://dailygalaxy.com/2025/10/world-largest-gold-nugget-was-so-heavy/.
📚 **The Trap of Reading For Nostalgia**
🔗 https://www.amugofinsights.org/the-trap-of-reading-for-nostalgia/.
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# Microsoft is making Word automatically save new documents to OneDrive by default
LibreOffice Writer doesn't.
And it is free.
And really rather good.
**The niceties of German grammar**
"_Dummheit ist ein gefährlicherer Feind des Guten als Bosheit
[Stupidity is a more dangerous enemy of the Good than Malice]_"
📚 **The best new paperbacks to read in October 2025**
🔗 https://inews.co.uk/culture/books/best-new-paperbacks-read-october-2025-3972277.
🇸🇪 **Up to 20,000 coins from Early Middle Ages discovered by man digging for worms near Stockholm**
"_A preliminary analysis showed that most of the silver coins date to the 12th century. Some bear the text "KANUTUS," the Latin name for Knut, meaning they were minted during the reign of Swedish king Knut Eriksson, who ruled from 1173 to about 1195._"
#History #Archaeology #Archaeodons #Numismatics #Medieval #Medievodons #MiddleAges #Sweden
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Definitely the weirdest part of the AI thing has been watching so many smart people blindly run off a cliff when the red flags have been *everywhere*.
Generative AI is, for the most part, porn you can post on LinkedIn.
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Fact check: Trump’s ‘$17 trillion’ investment figure is fiction
https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/11/politics/fact-check-trump-17-trillion-investment?utm_source=flipboard&utm_medium=activitypub
Posted into Politics @politics-CNN
🖥️ **Censored AI Chat Models Hallucinate More, Research Finds**
"_New research finds that the same internal mechanisms used to block ‘unsafe’ responses also suppress factual information, meaning that attempts to align models for safety can backfire by making them hallucinate more_"
🔗 https://www.unite.ai/censored-ai-chat-models-hallucinate-more-research-finds/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Hallucinations #Research #Study
🖥️ **Is AI Quietly Replacing Real Friends? Study Finds 72% of Teens Now Treat Chatbots Like “Besties”**
"_Teens are quietly forming deep bonds with AI companions—and it's already triggering lawsuits, mental health alarms and new laws._"
**Sora 2 Serves up More Slop**
"_The potential for misinformation and the ability to “flood the zone” with videos that throw doubt onto the authenticity of online content is evident. Moreover, shitty video-generation apps like Sora 2 don’t “democratize” art, they degrade human creativity itself._"
🔗 https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/sora-2-serves-up-more-slop/.
#Sora2 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #Videos #Art #Culture
**A white poet and a Sioux doctor fell in love after Wounded Knee – racism and sexism would drive them apart**
"_I came to understand that their marriage failed not only because of interpersonal tensions and a clash of values, but also because of some of the ways in which ideas about gender, race and Indigenous identity were rapidly changing in the U.S._"
#History #Histodons #Nonfiction #Biography #Books #Bookstodon #Romance #SouthDakota #Racism #Sexism #LongReads
🇺🇸 **The Return of America’s Tariff Gamble**
"_Nearly a hundred years after a protectionist policy helped plunge the world into depression, the U.S. flirts with the same economic playbook. History offers a warning._"
🔗 https://open.substack.com/pub/adelinevondrehle/p/the-return-of-americas-tariff-gamble
🖥️ **Today’s AI hype has echoes of a devastating technology boom and bust 100 years ago**
#History #Histodons #ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Technology #Tech #Economy #GreatDepression
🌡️ **The $3.3 trillion climate question: Can data centres take the heat?**
"_Extreme heat, drought and other climate hazards could raise cumulative annual running costs of data centres in operation today by $3.3 trillion by 2055._"
🔗 https://www.weforum.org/stories/2025/10/data-centres-3-3-trillion-question-heat-cooling/.
🇺🇸 **History shows war against immigrants will backfire on all Americans**
"_A newly deported migrant does not yield an employed native. Indeed, the deportation is likely to cause employers to let go of American workers too. What deportations do achieve is to reduce the labor force. The native-born workforce shrank last year. Hiring is slow largely because kicking migrants out means there are fewer workers to hire._"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/business/2025/oct/10/war-against-immigrants-american-workforce.
#History #Histodons #Economy #Economics #Immigration #Migrants
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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