Notices by Bibliolater 📚 📜 🖋 (bibliolater@qoto.org)

🇺🇸 📖 **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

🇺🇸 🌡️ **New England warming faster than most places on Earth, study finds**

"_Pace of area’s temperature rise, outpaced in US only by Alaskan Arctic, apparently increased in past five years_"

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/03/new-england-warming.

#Climate #ClimateChange #NewEngland #USA #UnitedStates

**Explaining the Tides Before Newton**

"_Astronomical explanations for tides, usually credited to Isaac Newton, can be traced to thinkers like Strabo and Pliny in the Classical era._"

🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/explaining-the-tides-before-newton/.

#History #Science #HistSci #Oceans #Physics

#Image attribution: Jebulon, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Komos_site_baie_Cr%C3%A8te.jpg.

📚 A Personal Answer To The Lack Of Space For Books

Recently I noticed the ever decreasing amount of space in my home for more books. As a result I decided that I may have to obtain an electronic-reader. This was a difficult decision for me to take as an avowed 'Luddite' I had railed against such electronic paraphernalia your years. I decided that I would use the electronic reader for only light fiction books where intensely focused reading and note-taking are not the need of the hour. I searched studiously trying to find an electronic reader that met my needs and budget. During this time I remembered that a close family member had died a number of years ago and had left behind a third generation Kindle. I went looking to find the unit. After finding the reader and trying to bring it back to life I realised that its battery had given up a long time ago. Since then a new battery has been procured and I can report that it is working well. As a side note the reader is so old it cannot purchase books from the Kindle store. I am not intending to buy from the Kindle store so that is not a problem. What I am intending to use the reader for is to read fiction books that are in the public domain. In this manner I hope to reduce some of the space that books take up in my home. If you have the same problem how have you resolved the situation?

#Books #Bookstodon

**Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning**

"_Results from seven online and laboratory experiments (n = 10,462) lend support for these predictions, and confirm, for example, that participants reported developing shallower knowledge from LLM summaries even when the results were augmented by real-time web links._"

Shiri Melumad, Jin Ho Yun, Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning, PNAS Nexus, Volume 4, Issue 10, October 2025, pgaf316, https://doi.org/10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf316.

#OpenAccess #OA #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #LLMS #Learning #Education #Psychology #Academics

**The Strange History of Why North Is Always Up**

"_South-up maps are challenging traditional views of the Earth—and the political and cultural beliefs that go with them._"

🔗 https://www.thecollector.com/south-up-maps/.

#History #Histodons #Maps #Cartography

🇺🇸 **Tariffs and trade war bring volatility to South Dakota ag industries**

"_The worst hit among South Dakota’s roughly 28,000 farms and ranches are the 5,000 producers who grow soybeans._

_With no China sales, they are left with the untenable situation of having a huge crop of beans ready for harvest and a gap in the traditional marketplace to sell them._"

🔗 https://argusleader.com/story/news/2025/09/30/tariffs-and-trade-war-bring-volatility-to-south-dakota-ag-industries/86421730007/.

#SouthDakota #Farming #Tariffs #Trade #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates

🇺🇸 🇦🇷 **Trump-pledged support for Argentina stirs anger among Republicans**

"_President Donald Trump’s potential $20 billion financial backstop for his ally, Argentina’s leader Javier Milei, is running into growing opposition from Democrats, Republicans and farm groups over concerns the deal would hurt farmers and use U.S. taxpayer resources to backstop a flailing foreign economy at U.S. taxpayers’ expense._"

🔗 https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/25/trump-argentina-milei-bessent-republicans-bailout-00581449.

#News #USA #US #UnitedStates #Argentina #Bailout #JavierMilei #Trump #Politics #USPol

🇦🇹 🇺🇸 **Austria hails 'brain gain' in luring 25 academics away from US after cuts**

"_Austria has lured what it calls 25 "top researchers" away from U.S. institutions including Harvard, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Princeton with grants set up in response to the Trump administration's funding cuts targeting universities._"

🔗 https://www.reuters.com/world/austria-hails-brain-gain-luring-25-academics-away-us-after-cuts-2025-09-25/.

#Austria #USA #US #UnitedStates #Research #Academia #BrainDrain #BrainGain #Education

**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.

#History #Histodons #Science #Maths #Mathematics #Math

🇺🇸 **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

🇨🇦 ** Canada is leading the U.K. and France in boycotting American goods due to Trump’s tariffs**

🔗 https://theconversation.com/canada-is-leading-the-u-k-and-france-in-boycotting-american-goods-due-to-trumps-tariffs-263395

#Canada #Tariffs #Trade #Boycott #Economy #Economics @economics

📖 **Newton's Principia: The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy by Newton**

"_Read or download for free_"

🔗 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/76404.

#ProjectGutenberg #Read #IsaacNewton #Newton #Science #Physics #Ebook #Book #Bookstodon @bookstodon @science

#Image attribution: John Vanderbank, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Portrait_of_Sir_Isaac_Newton_(4670220).jpg.

🖥️ **No, AI Isn't Having 'Hallucinations' — Turns Out, It's Worse Than That**

"_Amid claims of "digital dementia," experts explain that AI isn't declining. It's just stupid in the first place._"

🔗 https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ai-hallucinations-whats-really-happening_l_68556bd5e4b0278e54ed3d14.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

💻 **Platform payments fuel AI slop flood across social media**

"_Monetization programs from TikTok, Meta, YouTube and X drive creators to mass-produce low-quality AI content for financial gain._"

🔗 https://ppc.land/platform-payments-fuel-ai-slop-flood-across-social-media/.

#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AISlop #Technology #Tech #SocialMedia @ai

🇺🇸 **The U.S. minted 1,000 new millionaires each day last year, UBS report says**

"_U.S. residents accounted for more than half of all new millionaires created across the globe in 2024. The surge in American millionaires was bolstered by robust stock market returns, with the S&P 500 jumping more than 23% last year._"

🔗 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/1000-new-millionaires-created-each-day-2024-ubs-report/.

#USA #US #UnitedStates #Economy

💻 **AI cheating surge pushes schools into chaos**

“_A survey of college students taken in January 2023, just two months after ChatGPT's launch, found that some 90% had already used it on assignments, New York Magazine reports._”

🔗 https://www.axios.com/2025/05/26/ai-chatgpt-cheating-college-teachers.

#School #Education #Learning #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech @ai

🇺🇸 **The protectors of our industries**

Gillam, Bernhard, Artist. The protectors of our industries / Gillam ; Mayer Merkel & Ottmann lith., N.Y. United States, 1883. N.Y.: Published by Keppler & Schwarzmann, February 7. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/94507245/.

#History #Puck #Cartoon #Capitalists #Financiers #Industry #Manufacturing #USA #US #UnitedStates #C19th #19thCentury

💻 **AI could account for nearly half of datacentre power usage ‘by end of year’**

“_The IEA estimates that all data centres – excluding mining for cryptocurrencies – consumed 415 terawatt hours (TWh) of electricity last year. De Vries-Gao argues in his research that AI could already account for 20% of that total._”

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/22/ai-data-centre-power-consumption.

#AI #Artificialintelligence #Computing #Energy #Technology #Tech @ai

🔴 🇺🇸 ☕ **US coffee shops worried about bitter price hike after tariffs**

“_The prices on the menu have gone up by 25% and people are now buying smaller coffees._”

🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c807kxdp2l0o

#Coffee #Tariffs #Trade #Commerce #Inflation #USA #US #UnitedStates