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

🔴 **The Average College Student Is Illiterate**

Hilarius Bookbinder

“_I’m not saying our students just prefer genre books or graphic novels or whatever. No, our average graduate literally could not read a serious adult novel cover-to-cover and understand what they read. They just couldn’t do it. They don’t have the desire to try, the vocabulary to grasp what they read, and most certainly not the attention span to finish._”

🔗 https://www.persuasion.community/p/the-average-college-student-is-illiterate

#Reading #Books #Bookstodon #College #University #Student #Education #Illiteracy @bookstodon

🔴 **The Origin And Extinction Of Humanity**

A palaeontologist answers questions concerning the origin and extinction of humans.

🔗 https://occamstypewriter.org/cromercrox/2025/02/15/the-origin-and-extinction-of-humanity-faq/.

#Science #FAQ @science

🔴 🇺🇸 **Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis**

“Nationally, in all years there was a clear educational gradient in life expectancy at age 25 years where those with higher levels of education had higher life expectancy: individuals who had completed a college degree had higher life expectancy compared with those who had completed some college education (by 0·3 to 2·0 years over the study period), those who had completed some college had higher life expectancy than the high-school graduate population (by 4·1 to 4·9 years over the study period), and those who had graduated high school had higher life expectancy than those with less than a high-school education (by 3·4 to 5·1 years over the study period).”

Sylte, D.O. et al. (2025). Life expectancy by county and educational attainment in the USA, 2000–19: an observational analysis. The Lancet Public Health, [online] 0(0). doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/S2468-2667(24)00303-7.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #DOI #Health #PublicHealth #Education #USA #US #UnitedStates #TheLancet #Medicine #Academia #Academics

🔴 **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

@freemo That is correct, I thought the feature may not have been activated as yet.

@undefined @freemo Thank you for replying. It is in the Qoto preferences. I had enabled it over 2 weeks ago; but, nothing has happened as yet. I have taken a screenshot of it.

Has the automatic toot deletion feature been activated on #QOTO?

cc: @freemo

#QOTO users: are you receiving notifications when a toot you have boosted in the past has been edited? Also, are the toots in your timeline being displayed in a chronological order or being repeated multiple times?

🔴 **Losing our voice? Fears AI tone-shifting tech could flatten communication**

Robert Booth

_Prof Rob Drummond, a sociolinguist at Manchester Metropolitan University, said: “We are giving control of forming our identity to a machine. It is creating an extra layer of inauthenticity to this identity creation. I do wonder if longer term people are going to react against that.” He described automatic tone changing as “the ultimate superficiality”._

🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/dec/11/ai-tone-shifting-tech-could-flatten-communication-apple-intelligence.

#Linguistics #Language #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @linguistics @ai

@libroraptor @linguistics @ai What would you advise by way of reforming the situation?

🔴 📖 **The Timeless Value of Hardback Books**

_"Printed books last. A well-made hardcover book on acid-free paper can last for a thousand years with minimal care."_

🔗 https://www.bookandsword.com/2024/12/04/the-timeless-value-of-hardback-books/

#Read #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon @bookstodon

🔴 🎥 **The rise of deepfakes: How can you know what's real online?**

60 Minutes Australia

_"Seeing used to be believing, but the rise of ‘deepfakes’ and AI technology is making it harder than ever to know what’s real online."_

#Video length: fifteen minutes and thirty-nine seconds.

🔗 https://youtu.be/p4E-tVzwvsQ

#Internet #Online #Deepfakes
#60MinutesAustralia #AI #ArtificialIntelligence @ai

🔴 **Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland**

_“If Iceland and the Faroe Islands are indeed genetically divergent, as found in the present study, two scenarios may explain their differentiation and Iceland’s relative isolation on the networks: (1) the populations were settled by different regional groups; or, (2) another historically contingent process of evolution between the two groups has resulted in the divergence.”_

Mann AE, Magnussen E and Tillquist CR (2024) Genetic evidence points to distinct paternal settlers of the Faroe Islands and Iceland. Front. Genet. 15:1462736. doi: https://doi.org/10.3389/fgene.2024.1462736.

#OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #Science #Genetics #FaroeIslands #NorthAtlantic #Academia #Academics @science

Will we ever witness a #Bluesky #migration wave to #Mastodon?

#Question #AskFedi #AskMastodon #TwitterMigration

@undefined @freemo Thank you for the clarification.

#QOTO: I have followed a number of accounts recently. Some of them are through flipboard and others are private accounts. The toots from the flipboard account such as Flipboard UK (see image) are showing in my home timeline but still have the 'egg timer' sign and I am being asked if I want to cancel follow request. The other set of accounts (private) just have the cancel request with the "egg timer" and none of their toots appear in my home timeline. I was wondering if there is anything I can do to resolve this situation?

@zleap @science @climatechange

Predictions are difficult but what is certain is that the future holds uncertainty.

@zleap @science @climatechange

You are welcome.

@zleap @science @climatechange

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-03667-w

@zleap @science @climatechange

I do not know how this this story will play out in the end. From past experience I do not know whether to be optimistic or pessimistic, humans do not always do what is in their or their families best interests.