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2026-01-08 20:36:31 UTC

📖 🖋️ **Philosophy of Writing**
"_In this pathbreaking work, David Arndt argues that our views of writing have been distorted by common concepts of truth, goodness, and beauty, and that we have to critically rethink these concepts in order to better understand in what senses writing can be beautiful, good, and true.
🔗 https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/philosophy-of-writing-9781350473898/
#Writing #Philosophy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

2025-12-25 19:22:37 UTC

**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**
🔗 https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/storage/pi-calculating-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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2025-12-06 16:17:28 UTC

🇺🇸 **More than 1,800 congressmen once enslaved Black people. This is who they were, and how they shaped the nation.**
"_The Washington Post has compiled the first database of slaveholding members of Congress by examining thousands of pages of census records and historical documents_"
🔗 https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2022/congress-slaveowners-names-list/.
#History #Histodons #Slavery #Archives #Database #USA #UnitedStates

2025-12-06 01:20:57 UTC

🖥️ **Expert Comment: What should we do about chatbots?**
"_He argues that we must educate users to see these systems not as new members of the human community, but as tools that risk reducing both therapy and relationships to one-dimensional, instrumental exchanges."_
🔗 https://www.ox.ac.uk/news/2025-12-05-expert-comment-what-should-we-do-about-chatbots.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Chatbots #Technology Tech #Ethics
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2025-12-04 21:55:38 UTC

🖥️ **Does AI make us more dishonest?**
"_When participants could cheat without explicitly lying, either by training the agent with dishonest data or setting profit-maximizing goals, cheating rates soared._"
🔗 https://www.oxfordstudent.com/2025/12/04/dishonest/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Ethics #Honesty

2025-12-01 18:39:59 UTC

:iphonex: 🇬🇧 **New analysis: 800,000 under-5s using social media**
"_Data from Ofcom found that 37 per cent of parents of three to five-year-olds say their child uses at least one social media app or site, up from to 29 per cent in 2023._"
🔗 https://www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/newsroom/under-5s-using-social-media.
#SocialMedia #Technology #Tech #UK #UnitedKingdom

2025-11-24 20:39:47 UTC

🖥️ 🇬🇧 **Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories**
"_In addition to showing how algorithms increased the visibility of posts featuring images (particularly those created with AI) and videos representing racist conspiracy theories, this article explores how these posts likely fuelled the riots by appealing to a crusading mentality that projected White/European men as morally entitled to defend Britain, animating racist fantasies deeply entrenched in the Western collective unconscious._"
Lopes Buarque, B., & Lewis, N. (2025). Algorithms at your service: Understanding how X’s systems of recommendation likely fuelled the far-right riots in the United Kingdom by amplifying visual representations of racist conspiracy theories. The British Journal of Politics and International Relations, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/13691481251391636.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Politics #UKPol #Algorithms #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Racism #UK #UnitedKingdom #Academia

2025-11-23 15:35:22 UTC

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This argument lies at the heart of the discussions in the US concerning H-1B visas for migrants. Corporations are able to maximise profits and keep a permanently unsecure workforce that can be removed easily if they are found to be not sufficiently obsequious.

2025-11-18 21:45:37 UTC

**Research integrity conference hit with AI-generated abstracts**
_“We believe many applicants probably used GAI for language and grammar polishing, and we believe that to be acceptable,” Bouter said by email. “But among the submissions there are a proportion that are clearly off-topic and low quality that look like they were generated by GAI.”_
🔗 https://retractionwatch.com/2025/11/18/research-integrity-conference-hit-with-ai-generated-abstracts/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Research #Academia #Ethics

2025-11-11 21:42:57 UTC

🎙️ 📖 **What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought**
"_The book promotes an inclusive vision of Europe that reflects its long history of multiethnic cities, offers a cultural home to a wider range of people across the continent, and extends attention and respect to other continents, thus laying a more respectful foundation for shaping the future together._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/what-is-european.
#Audio #Podcast #Europe #Politics #Philosophy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

2025-11-11 21:42:26 UTC

🎙️ 📖 **What Is European? On Overcoming Colonial and Romantic Modes of Thought**
"_The book promotes an inclusive vision of Europe that reflects its long history of multiethnic cities, offers a cultural home to a wider range of people across the continent, and extends attention and respect to other continents, thus laying a more respectful foundation for shaping the future together._"
🔗 https://newbooksnetwork.com/what-is-european.
#Audio #Podcast #Politics #Philosophy #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon

2025-11-02 17:05:15 UTC

**In Defense of Polymathia: Recovering an Ancient Intellectual Practice**
🔗 https://antigonejournal.com/2025/11/in-defense-of-polymathia/
#Ancient #Philosophy

2025-10-30 18:36:38 UTC

📚 :louisiana: **How Louisiana Managed to Boost Reading Scores**
"_Louisiana began requiring K-3 teachers and school administrators to get professional development in the science of reading, an evidence-based early literacy approach. The state also required more interventions for young kids not performing at grade level_"
🔗 https://www.governing.com/policy/how-louisiana-managed-to-boost-reading-scores.
#Reading #Literacy #Education #Learning #Schools #Louisiana

2025-10-25 13:53:45 UTC

**A defense of philosophical intuitions**
🔗 https://hilariusbookbinder.substack.com/p/a-defense-of-philosophical-intuitions
#Philosophy

2025-10-22 21:44:39 UTC

**The Game Theory of How Algorithms Can Drive Up Prices**
"_Recent findings reveal that even simple pricing algorithms can make things more expensive._"
🔗 https://www.quantamagazine.org/the-game-theory-of-how-algorithms-can-drive-up-prices-20251022/.
#Algorithms #ComputerScience #MachineLearning

2025-10-16 19:09:16 UTC

**Kant on language, culture and politics**
"_Indeed, he seems not to have anticipated the role that the concept of language was to play in twentieth century Anglo-American analytical philosophy, nor does he foresee the sometimes-devastating role that linguistic and ethnic national divisions were to play in nineteenth and twentieth century European politics._"
🔗 https://www.cambridge.org/core/blog/2025/10/16/kant-on-language-culture-and-politics/.
#ImmanuelKant #Philosophy #Language #Culture #Politics

2025-10-15 19:15:39 UTC

**Ambitious parents should aspire for their children to be philosophers**
"_In a world where robots can do almost everything better than us, philosophy may be the last redoubt of the human._"
🔗 https://news.yahoo.com/ambitious-parents-aspire-children-philosophers-181621131.html.
#Philosophy

2025-10-11 12:31:25 UTC

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Tunnel vision in the end hurts the person in the tunnel the most.

2025-10-04 14:09:37 UTC

🖥️ **AI systems are the perfect companions for cheaters and liars finds groundbreaking research on dishonesty**
🔗 https://www.techradar.com/pro/ai-systems-are-the-perfect-companions-for-cheaters-and-liars-finds-groundbreaking-research-on-dishonesty.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Ethics

2025-09-28 19:31:29 UTC

**What makes a map ‘good’? On the ethics of cartography**
🔗 https://psyche.co/ideas/what-makes-a-map-good-on-the-ethics-of-cartography.
#Maps #Cartography #Ethics

2025-09-28 09:32:03 UTC

🇬🇧 **Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation**
"_Our observations are interpreted in the context of delexicalization and related long-term diachronic processes, whereby contemporary usage of fuck among teenagers is characterised in terms of semi-delexicalized, pragmatically strengthened usage with weakened taboo status._"
Love, R. and Stenstrom, A.-B. (2023) 'Corpus-pragmatic perspectives on the contemporary weakening of fuck: The case of teenage British English conversation,' Journal of Pragmatics, 216, pp. 167–181. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pragma.2023.08.008.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #English #Language #Linguistics #Swearing #Conversation #Youth #Academia #Academics

2025-09-21 19:01:09 UTC

🇺🇸 ☕ **Bad news for coffee drinkers: The record-high prices you’re paying will go even higher when tariffs take their toll**
🔗 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/bad-news-for-coffee-drinkers-the-record-high-prices-youre-paying-will-go-even-higher-when-tariffs-take-their-toll-1c26981a
#Coffee #Tariffs #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates

2025-09-21 15:03:12 UTC

📚 **The best books on The Presocraticsc**
🔗 https://mastodon.social/@fivebooks/115242881912360484.
#Ancient #Philosophy #Books #Bookstodon

2025-09-20 15:47:47 UTC

📚 **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.
#Poll #TBR #Books #Bookstodon

2025-09-18 18:01:42 UTC

**David Hume vs literature**
"_Hume distrusted literature and worked to discredit character sketches as legitimate forms of philosophy_"
🔗 https://aeon.co/essays/how-david-hume-split-literature-from-philosophy.
#DavidHume #Philosophy #Ethics #Literature

2025-09-17 16:29:43 UTC

🇺🇸 **Defining “White Trash”**
"_Taylor writes that the term “white trash” emerged after the Civil War, used by white elites to disparage poor whites who worked alongside Black laborers as sharecroppers and tenant farmers._"
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/defining-white-trash/.
#History #Histodons #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates

2025-09-14 00:58:17 UTC

🧬 :youtube: **DNA tests: Who is getting rich with the data from our genes?**
"_50 million people worldwide have already had their genes tested, providing private providers with valuable data. The data sets are already being used and monetized by pharmaceutical companies. Critics fear that insurance companies or banks will also access the genetic data of potential customers in the future._"
#Video length: fifty-one minutes and fifty-five seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X6KV2oaa6pw.
#Genetics #DNA #Science #Data

2025-09-09 20:22:11 UTC

🖥️ 🖋️ **This Stanford computer science professor went to written exams 2 years ago because of AI. He says his students insisted on it**
🔗 https://fortune.com/2025/09/07/stanford-professor-jure-leskovec-hand-written-graded-tests-ai/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Writing #Exams #Education #Learning #Stanford #ComputerScience

2025-09-06 11:28:36 UTC

🔬 **We risk a deluge of AI-written ‘science’ pushing corporate interests – here’s what to do about it**
🔗 https://theconversation.com/we-risk-a-deluge-of-ai-written-science-pushing-corporate-interests-heres-what-to-do-about-it-264606.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #PeerReview #Academia #Research #AcademicChatter @npub1vuz…esa4

2025-09-03 15:15:14 UTC

📖 **A Short History of Stupidity by Stuart Jeffries review – comfortably dumb?**
"_It’s not all straight philosophy. Jeffries gives us affectionate readings of Don Quixote and Flaubert’s Bouvard and Pécuchet, dips into Shakespeare’s fools and the rich menu of stupidities available in King Lear, as well as making the odd excursus into cognitive science._"
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/sep/02/a-short-history-of-stupidity-by-stuart-jeffries-review-comfortably-dumb.
#Philosophy #History #Stupidity #Review #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @npub1uqy…kvhk @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-09-01 20:43:20 UTC

📚 :youtube: **find a book you actually like in under 3 minutes**
#Video length: two minutes and forty-nine seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GjickmuG0vU.
#Advice #Tips #Reading #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-30 00:08:08 UTC

**Ancient 5,500 year old factory 'confirms key part of the Bible'**
_The Canaanites were described in the Bible as people who lived in the area before the Israelites. The discovery is believed to be linked to the “Canaanite blade industry”._
🔗 https://www.indy100.com/science-tech/israel-ancient-blade-factory-bible-canaan-people.
#Archaeology #Archaeodons #Bible #Canaanites @npub10j6…qxcq

2025-08-19 00:07:31 UTC

🖥️ **Cognitive Bias In Generative AI Influences Religious Education**
"_ For example, AI-generated texts on Islam contained 1.5 times more references to “conflict,” while Christian texts featured more positive terms like “love” and “forgiveness.” These findings support the hypothesis that generative AI in religious content creation can induce cognitive biases, influencing users’ attitudes._"
Zhang, J., Song, W. & Liu, Y. Cognitive bias in generative AI influences religious education. Sci Rep 15, 15720 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-025-99121-6.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Religion #Education #Bias #Ethics #Academia

2025-08-18 11:02:49 UTC

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That is a pessimistic future. I hope we can avoid such an end.

2025-08-18 09:09:59 UTC

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These last few weeks I was also feeling despair at the state of the world. I do not know what the answer is.

2025-08-18 09:04:06 UTC

Morning all.

2025-08-18 09:03:51 UTC

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Easier said than done.

2025-08-17 17:08:35 UTC

📚 **Amazon is still struggling to stem the flood of AI-generated fake books**
"_CEO Dan Conway says it's nearly impossible for readers to tell a well-researched book from one cranked out by AI, warning of "information saturation" as thousands of AI books crowd out genuine titles._"
🔗 https://the-decoder.com/amazon-is-still-struggling-to-stem-the-flood-of-ai-generated-fake-books/.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Fake #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-16 18:59:49 UTC

📖 **When The Solution Is Worse Than The Initial Problem**
I was advised by a friend to intersperse fiction books in between my reading of non-fiction material. He said that it would help with concentration and removing boredom. Taking his advice to heart, I have started doing exactly as advised. This has led me into a quandary. The latest fiction book that I chose is over one thousand pages of historical fiction. The choice of book came from an online recommendation. I am currently on page two hundred and eighty-eight and it has been a struggle getting this far. Ostensibly a 'palate cleaner' my current choice is boring and can in no way be described as a page turner. The easiest solution would be to stop reading and move on; however, I find that really difficult. I know it is a personal flaw and something that I need to address and change. In the meantime, I will continue to struggle and hope the thousand-page mark comes quickly.
#DNF #Reading #Fiction #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-15 14:12:47 UTC

🖥️ **Why AI Chatbots Lie To Us**
_When asked why it had made up the data, the chatbot apologized profusely, noting that the website in question didn’t provide the requested data, so instead the chatbot generated “fictional participant data” with “fake names...and results,” admitting “I should never present fabricated data as if it were scraped from actual sources.”_
Melanie Mitchell, Why AI chatbots lie to us. Science389, eaea3922 (2025). DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aea3922.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Chatbots #Lying #Ethics

2025-08-13 10:54:08 UTC

🖥️ **AI-Induced Dehumanization**
"_Our research reveals that the socio-emotional capabilities of autonomous agents lead individuals to attribute a humanlike mind to these nonhuman entities. Perceiving a high level of humanlike mind in the nonhuman, autonomous agents affects perceptions of actual people through an assimilation process._"
Kim, H.-y., & McGill, A. L. (2025). AI-induced dehumanization. Journal of Consumer Psychology, 35, 363–381. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcpy.1441.
#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Dehumanization #Academia @npub1wde…dg4n

2025-08-09 12:59:21 UTC

🖥️ **OpenArt AI Evolves to One-Click Brain Rot Videos, Sparking Ethics Debate**
🔗 https://www.webpronews.com/openart-ai-evolves-to-one-click-brain-rot-videos-sparking-ethics-debate/.
#Art #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #OpenArt #BrainRot #Videos #Spam #Ethics

2025-08-08 23:22:49 UTC

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A question that can only answered by watching the video.

2025-08-08 22:49:48 UTC

📖 :youtube: **The ONE Thing All Great Authors Share (It's Not What You Think**
#Video length: thirty-eight minutes and thirty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TDYqyhILfsE.
#Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-08-08 22:37:20 UTC

📖 **Robin Hood Math: Take Control of the Algorithms That Run Your Life**
"_Giansiracusa, associate professor of mathematics at Bentley University, describes his newest work as an educational book about math, but those who freeze at the mention of mathematics can take heart—this reads like a good yarn. Full of engaging stories about how ideas about calculation took shape, it reveals how algorithms intersect with our everyday lives._"
🔗 https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/noah-giansiracusa/robin-hood-math/.
#Algorithms #Maths #Mathematics #Math #Nonfiction #BookReview #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-07-21 17:11:26 UTC

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 📚 **10+ Best Bookshops in Edinburgh You Must Visit (Local Guide for Book Lovers)**
>>If you are ever in Edinburgh and in need of visiting a bookshop this is for you.
🔗 https://www.solosophie.com/best-bookshops-edinburgh/.
#Books #Bookstodon #Edinburgh #Scotland @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-07-20 14:26:14 UTC

**Sick of AI Slop? DuckDuckGo Now Lets You Block AI-Generated Images**
_DuckDuckGo admits the tool 'isn't perfect,' but claims it will 'greatly reduce the number of AI-generated images you see.'_
🔗 https://www.pcmag.com/news/sick-of-ai-slop-duckduckgo-now-lets-you-block-ai-generated-images.
#DuckDuckGo #AI #AISlop #ArtificialIntelligence #Images #Technology #Tech

2025-07-20 12:19:31 UTC

🖋️ **The 10 Most Expensive Fountain Pens in the World**
🔗 https://www.aol.com/10-most-expensive-fountain-pens-150234017.html.
#FountainPens #Pens

2025-07-20 11:18:51 UTC

📚 **This robot scans rare library books at 2,500 pages per hour**
"_Built in Austria, the bot does exactly what its name implies—it autonomously scans and digitizes manuscripts. But whereas it might take a single librarian days or weeks to scan a single book, the ScanRobot 2.0 can handle up to 2,500 per hour._"
🔗 https://www.popsci.com/technology/book-scanning-robot/.
#Books #Bookstodon #Library #Archive @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-07-17 17:54:35 UTC

🖥️ :youtube: **Karen Hao, "Empire of AI: Dreams and Nightmares in Sam Altman's OpenAI"
#Video length: fifty-seven minutes and twenty-six seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bSdBg6AhOw.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #ChatGPT #OpenAI

2025-07-14 22:01:28 UTC

🇬🇧 🌡️ :youtube: **Why the UK's extreme weather is 'new normal'**
"_Climate change means there will be longer, hotter summers as well as more powerful storms and floods across the continent, so can anything be done to stop it?_"
#Video length: nine minutes and twenty-three seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hffmQ5UoDU0.
#Climate #ClimateChange #Environment #Weather @npub10z8…h8vl

2025-07-12 17:26:24 UTC

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Thank you for commenting and giving me an incentive to get off a hobbyhorse.

2025-07-12 17:11:46 UTC

📖 📻 **Does listening to an audiobook count as reading?**
🔗 https://www.npr.org/2025/07/12/nx-s1-5454723-e1/does-listening-to-an-audiobook-count-as-reading.
_What do you think?_
#NPR #Reading #Audiobooks #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
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2025-07-12 01:32:36 UTC

**Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers**
"_Results indicate that students with stronger verbal abilities, and who are more curious, open-minded, and intellectually rigorous, are more likely to study philosophy. Nonetheless, after accounting for such baseline differences, philosophy majors outperform all other majors on tests of verbal and logical reasoning and on a measure of valuable habits of mind._"
PRINZING, M. and VAZQUEZ, M. (2025) ‘Studying Philosophy Does Make People Better Thinkers’, Journal of the American Philosophical Association, pp. 1–19. doi: https://doi.org/10.1017/apa.2025.10007.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #Philosophy #Education #Learning @npub1uqy…kvhk

2025-07-01 23:57:47 UTC

🏠 **Even billionaires are having trouble finding homes to rent now, thanks to a ‘mansion deficit’**
"_Demand for rentals has gotten a lot hotter among the very rich. More millionaires are renting these days. Between 2019 and 2023, the latest year for which there is publicly available data, the number of households that make $1 million or more in income who also rent skyrocketed by 204%, according to an analysis by RentCafe._"
🔗 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/even-billionaires-are-having-trouble-finding-homes-to-rent-now-thanks-to-a-mansion-deficit-d712df79.
#Billionaires #Property #RealEstate #Rentals

2025-06-14 07:21:43 UTC

💻 **Rates Of Hallucination In AI Models From Google, OpenAI On The Rise**
"_In a recent study, it was found that two recent OpenAI models, o3 and 04-mini, hallucinated in 33% and 48% of answers, respectively, according to The Times of London. These percentages are more than double those of previous models._"
🔗 https://finance.yahoo.com/news/rates-hallucination-ai-models-google-173138158.html.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Hallucinations #Technology #Tech @npub1wdg…c0ph

2025-04-14 16:45:15 UTC

🔴 📚 **The 30 Best Nonfiction Books Of The Last 30 years**
“_Below, you’ll find our list of essential works of nonfiction published in the U.S. from 1996 to the present, culled from a survey of authors, editors, critics, scholars and other experts in the field._”
🔗 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/books/story/2025-04-14/the-30-best-nonfiction-books-of-the-last-30-years.
#Read #Nonfiction #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57

2025-04-13 12:42:25 UTC

🔴 📚 **Sunday Reads**
I am making my way through the weekend edition of the Financial Times and also through the Nathaniel Hawthorn's Scarlet Letter (Norton Critical Edition), what are you reading this Sunday?
#Read #Book #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
#Image attribution: Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Man_Leaning_Against_a_Tree_With_a_Book_MET_DP849001.jpg.
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2025-04-10 19:18:52 UTC

🔴 **Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition**
“_We find that evidence-based language has continued to decline since the mid-1970s, together with a decline in legislative productivity. The decline was accompanied by increasing partisan polarization in Congress and rising income inequality in society._”
Aroyehun, S.T., Simchon, A., Carrella, F. et al. Computational analysis of US congressional speeches reveals a shift from evidence to intuition. Nat Hum Behav (2025). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41562-025-02136-2.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Language #Linguistics #Psychology #Politics #USPol #USA #US #UnitedStates @npub1wde…dg4n

2025-04-06 14:53:48 UTC

🔴 🇩🇪 🖋 **Schönschreibmeister – A Calligraphy Master’s Album from the 16th Century**
“The manuscript appears to be a compilation of calligraphic examples by one of the originators of early fraktur scripts, Johann Neudörffer the Elder (1497-1563), to whom this album is dedicated._”
🔗 https://flashbak.com/schonschreibmeister-a-calligraphy-masters-album-from-the-16th-century-461471/.
#History #Books #Calligraphy #Germany #Typography #Fonts #Fraktur #Handwriting #Writing

2025-04-04 12:12:07 UTC

@npub17x4…u7yh I did not realise that there is a Wikipedia page in your name and that also today is your birthday. Best wishes.

2025-04-03 12:49:10 UTC

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Was the food any good?

2025-03-28 20:27:51 UTC

🔴 💻 **“Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models**
“_Our findings reveal that while newer versions of ChatGPT consistently maintain values within the libertarian-left quadrant, there is a statistically significant rightward shift in political values over time, a phenomenon we term a ‘value shift’ in large language models._”
Liu, Y., Panwang, Y. & Gu, C. “Turning right”? An experimental study on the political value shift in large language models. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 12, 179 (2025). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-025-04465-z.
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #Rightwing #Politics #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #Academia #Academics @npub1wdg…c0ph

2025-03-17 21:31:00 UTC

🔴 :youtube: **Most academic writing advice is rubbish**
James Hayton PhD
#Video length: nine minutes and twenty seconds.
🔗 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VOJu7IMp4d8
#Academia #Academic #Writing #Advice #AcademicChatter

2025-03-17 19:16:11 UTC

🔴 📈 **Which countries have contributed the most to historical CO₂ emissions?**
Hannah Ritchie
_“The chart shows the ten countries with the largest share of the world’s historical emissions, based on cumulative emissions from fossil fuels and industry since 1750.”_
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/which-countries-have-contributed-the-most-to-historical-co-emissions
#Data #DataViz #Climate #ClimateChange #GreenHouseGases #CO2 #FossilFuels @npub10z8…h8vl
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2025-01-31 23:21:16 UTC

🔴 💻 **Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development**
_“We analyze how even incremental improvements in AI capabilities can undermine human influence over large-scale systems that society depends on, including the economy, culture, and nation-states.”_
Kulveit, J. et al. (2025) Gradual Disempowerment: Systemic Existential Risks from Incremental AI Development. https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.16946.
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #ComputerScience #Society @npub1wdg…c0ph

2025-01-21 21:14:44 UTC

🔴 **Takers not Makers: The unjust poverty and unearned wealth from colonialism**
_“Most billionaire wealth is taken, not earned - 60% comes from either inheritance, cronyism and corruption or monopoly power. Our deeply unequal world has a long history of colonial domination which has largely benefited the richest people. The poorest, racialized people, women and marginalized groups have and continue to be systematically exploited at huge human cost.”_
🔗 https://www.oxfam.org/en/research/takers-not-makers-unjust-poverty-and-unearned-wealth-colonialism
#Research #Inequality #Billionaires #Trillionaires #Colonialism #Poverty #Debt #Wealth

2025-01-05 01:42:28 UTC

🔴 ❓ **Question**
Do you use Obsidian regularly for note-taking?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Obsidian #Tech #Technology #NoteTaking #Notes #Software #Poll #Polls

2024-12-31 02:13:39 UTC

🔴 **491 BC - 1902 AD - A Long Time Between Drinks**
_“ In 499 BC, the Persian Achaemenid Empire tried unsuccessfully to conquer various ancient Greek city-states. Finally in 449 BC a de facto peace was concluded and the Greco-Persian Wars effectively ended. In 1902, Mozaffar ad-Din Shah of Persia and George I of Greece agreed to de jure recognition and after 2393 years established diplomatic relations. This of course ignores a long history of Greco-Persian interactions thereafter throughout Antiquity, not least the Peace of Antalcidas, the conquests of Alexander the Great and the Seleucid Empire, or even the long history of the Byzantine-Persian wars.”_
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Greece #Europe #Persia #Asia #Cartoon @npub1gaf…3trh @npub1uc0…cpgf
#Image attribution: Samuel D. Ehrhart, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:491_BC_-_1902_AD_-_A_Long_Time_Between_Drinks.jpg.
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2024-12-24 16:18:27 UTC

An immense amount of wealth can be generated by war and the misery of others. If you want to know one of the primary reasons why the world is the way it is, just follow the money trail.

2024-12-17 21:14:56 UTC

🔴 **The 8 worst technology failures of 2024**
By Antonio Regalado
_“They say you learn more from failure than success. If so, this is the story for you: MIT Technology Review’s annual roll call of the biggest flops, flimflams, and fiascos in all domains of technology.”_
🔗 https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/12/17/1108883/the-8-worst-technology-failures-of-2024/
#Fails #Tech #Technology

2024-11-19 22:32:22 UTC

🔴 🌊 Global mean sea levels have increased by around 25 centimeters since 1880
Hannah Ritchie
"There are two key drivers of sea level rise. First, water expands as it gets warmer. Second, ice on land — in the form of ice sheets and glaciers — melts and adds water to ocean basins.
Both of these processes have accelerated due to climate change."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/global-mean-sea-levels-have-increased-by-around-25-centimeters-since-1880
#Data #DataViz #Ocean #Sea #Climate #ClimateChange #Environment @npub10z8…h8vl @npub1t87…aft9
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2024-10-31 21:17:36 UTC

🔴 Many people overestimate the percentage of immigrants in their country
"In Japan, people guess that 10% of the population are immigrants, but the accurate figure is around 2%. For every 5 immigrants people think exist, there is only one in reality."
🔗 https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/many-people-overestimate-the-percentage-of-immigrants-in-their-country
#Data #DataViz #Migration #Immigration

2024-10-21 19:40:47 UTC

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Thank you for the information.

2024-10-21 19:33:04 UTC

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Thank you for commenting. Apart from the Wordpress hosting price are there any other associated costs?

2024-10-21 19:15:30 UTC

🔴 ❓ 📚 I am considering starting a blog where I will post reviews of books that I have read. Do you think the endeavour is advisable? If the answer to that question is yes, what platform do you think is the best to use?
#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #Read #Reading #AmReading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @npub1ny7…uv57
#Image attribution: Thad Zajdowicz from Altadena, California, USA, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Book_review_(12213308404).jpg
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2024-10-12 15:20:01 UTC

🔴 🇪🇸 DNA study confirms Christopher Columbus’s remains are entombed in Seville
"On Thursday, after two decades of DNA testing and research, the forensic medical expert José Antonio Lorente said the incomplete set of remains in Seville Cathedral were indeed those of Columbus."
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/oct/11/dna-study-christopher-columbus-remains-seville-cathedral
#History #Histodon #Histodons #DNA #Genetics #Science #Seville #Spain #Europe #Colonialism @npub1lgn…qeqv @npub1gaf…3trh @npub1uc0…cpgf

2024-09-13 22:29:33 UTC

🔴 💻 **What Computers Can’t Do**
“*Computers can of course write poems; they can associate, and construct images gleaned from all the world’s literature, but they will never act like a little boy who began reading books when he was very young and imagined himself growing up to become an explorer.*”
🔗 **https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2024/september/what-computers-can-t-do**
#ArtificialIntelligence #AI #Computers @npub1wdg…c0ph

2024-08-30 23:35:48 UTC

🔴 🇪🇸 **Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain**
“*The exact reasons behind the construction of these structures in Genovesa Cave remain elusive. Nevertheless, the chronological constraints posed by the depth of the bridge, coupled with the similar depth at which POS and the coloration mark occur, support the idea of an early human presence on the island by 5600 years B.P. and potentially dating back as far as 6000 years ago.*”
Onac, B.P., Polyak, V.J., Mitrovica, J.X. et al. Submerged bridge constructed at least 5600 years ago indicates early human arrival in Mallorca, Spain. Commun Earth Environ 5, 457 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-024-01584-4
#OpenAccess #OA #Article #DOI #ClimateChange #Environment #Palaeoceanography #Mallorca #Spain #Academia #Academic #Academics

2024-08-19 19:57:06 UTC

🔴 **Phoenician Trade Associations in Ancient Greece**
“*Such associations were a Phoenician invention of the 4th century BCE that emerged in migrant communities in Athens to represent their interests and provide them a social and physical space for maintaining religious and other cultural ties to their home state.*”
🔗 https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2024/08/phoenician-trade-associations
#History #Histodon #Histodons #Ancient #Greece #Phoenicia #Trade @npub1gaf…3trh @npub1uc0…cpgf

2024-08-18 21:21:46 UTC

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I agree, used to follow him on Twitter.