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

📖 **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

🔴 **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

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🔴 **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