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  📚️ Yiddish: Biography of a Language "He addresses key aspects of Yiddish as the language of a diasporic population, whose speakers have always used more than one language. As the vernacular of a marginalized minority, Yiddish has often been held in low regard compared to other languages, and its legitimacy as a language has been questioned." 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/yiddish-9780190651961 #Yiddish #Language #Biography #Linguistics #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia...

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  📚️ 🇸🇾 A Primer on Ugaritic: Language, Culture and Literature "A Primer on Ugaritic is an introduction to the language of the ancient city of Ugarit, a city that flourished in the second millennium BCE on the Lebanese coast, placed in the context of the culture, literature, and religion of this ancient Semitic culture." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511996962 #AncientNearEast #Syria #Religion #Language #Linguistics #Literature #Culture #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfi...

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  🇨🇳 🇬🇧 🚗 #Automobile #Car #Cars #Business #Economy #Economics #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Europe #China #Asia #FT #News

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  Afternoon all. Let us begin today's offering.

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  📚️ History of International Relations: A Non-European Perspective "This textbook pioneers a new approach by historicizing the material traditionally taught in International Relations courses, and by explicitly focusing on non-European cases, debates and issues." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.11647/OBP.0074 #OpenAccess #OA #Geopolitics #InternationalRelations #History #Histodons #Politics #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  📚️ 🇺🇸 The Rhetoric of White Slavery and the Making of National Identity "At the turn of the twentieth century, the white slavery panic pervaded American politics, influencing the creation of the FBI, the enactment of immigration law, and the content of international treaties. At the core of this controversy was the maintenance of white national space." 🔗 https://msupress.org/9781611864595/the-rhetoric-of-white-slavery-and-the-making-of-national-identity/ #Race #Rhetoric #Identity...

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  🛢️ 🇺🇸 #Oil #Rationing #Inflation #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #FT #News

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  📚️ The F-Word: Pound, Eliot, Lewis, and the Far Right "...it is the first academic study to explore the reception of these Modernist authors by today's far right, seeking to understand in what ways they use strategic readings of Modernist texts to legitimise right-wing ideology." 🔗 https://doi.org/10.18452/20756 #OpenAccess #OA #Politics #Literature #FarRight #Philosophy #Reading #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  Afternoon all

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  RE: https://tomkahe.com/@GiftArticles/117293027064932981 “The people building AI earnestly believe that it could kill us all by the end of the decade.” #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech

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  📚️ 🌊 Oceans Rise Empires Fall: Why Geopolitics Hastens Climate Catastrophe "Why do great powers favor competition and rivalry over transnational policies to address the greatest threat humanity has ever faced?" 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/oceans-rise-empires-fall-9780197693261 #Ocean #Geography #InternationalRelations #Geopolitics #Climate #ClimateChange #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  🇺🇸 💵 👀 Daily watch: yield on 10 year US treasury notes. 🔗 https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/TNX:INDEXCBOE?window=5D #Bonds #BondMarket #Markets #USTreasuryBonds #USTreasuries #Economy #Economics #Finance #Business #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

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  🇺🇸 💵 👀 #Bonds #BondMarket #Markets #USTreasuryBonds #USTreasuries #Economy #Economics #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #FT #News

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  📖 Not Built in a Day: How Slavery Made the Roman Empire "It traces how people entered, experienced, and left slavery, covering the little known story of slave revolts and the complex realities of enslaved people who themselves owned enslaved people." 🔗 https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Not-Built-in-a-Day/Emma-Southon/9781668089552 #Ancient #History #Histodons #Slavery #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon #Booksky

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  🖥️ Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying 🔗 https://www.thenerve.news/p/cory-doctorow-ai-business-incentive-to-lie-useless-chatbots-report-nikhil-suresh #AI #Artificialintelligence #Technology #Tech

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  The 5 people who saved the most human lives in history 🔗 https://www.sciencefocus.com/the-human-body/5-people-saved-most-human-lives #History #Histodons #Science #HistSci

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  Britain's Channel 4 News reports that 'Super' El Niño will make food prices surge: 🔗 https://www.youtube.com/shorts/BhY0p4HFuWc #Video #Climate #ClimateChange #ElNiño #Environment #Farming #Food #Inflation #Economy #Economics

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  🖥️ 🛰️ #FT #News #Google #GoogleEarth #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Fake #Satellite #Image

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  ⚡️ 🚗 🛢️ Oil Price Shock Fuels 35% Surge in Global EV Sales 🔗 https://oilprice.com/Latest-Energy-News/World-News/Oil-Price-Shock-Fuels-35-Surge-in-Global-EV-Sales.html #Oil #FossilFuels #ElectricVehicles #ElectricCars

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  Watch the Throne: Uncovering three new kings of Assyria 🔗 https://news.yale.edu/2026/07/09/watch-throne-uncovering-three-new-kings-assyria #History #Histodons #Assyria #NearEast #YaleUniversity #Research #Academia

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  📚️ 🖥️ AI companies are reportedly shredding millions of books after using them to train AI models — tech giants outsource to middlemen to secretly buy up books for training material 🔗 https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/ai-companies-are-reportedly-shredding-millions-of-books-to-train-models-tech-giants-outsource-to-middlemen-to-secretly-buy-up-books-for-training-material #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Books #Bookstodon

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  🇺🇸 📜 The Declaration of Causes of Seceding States "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world." 🔗 https://www.battlefields.org/learn/primary-sources/declaration-causes-seceding-states #History #Histodons #Slavery #Georgia #Mississippi #SouthCarolina #Texas #Virginia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America

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  Died on this day in 1190: Sibylla, Queen of Jerusalem. #History #Histodons #OTD #OnThisDay #DiedOnThisDay #Jerusalem #Levant #MiddleEast #Asia #Image attribution: Anonymous Unknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Queen_Sibyl_of_Jerusalem.jpg

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  🖥️ The Archive Is Not a Toy: The Hidden Problems of a ‘Vintage’ AI "A new AI model trained on historical archives highlights why historians warn that biased records can distort our understanding of the past." 🔗 https://goodmenproject.com/featured-content/the-archive-is-not-a-toy-the-hidden-problems-of-a-vintage-ai/ #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #History #Histodons #Archive

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  🇬🇧 🇮🇳 Two centuries on, experts unlock secrets of Red Sea and Gulf of Aden sailing chart 🔗 https://news.exeter.ac.uk/faculty-of-humanities-arts-and-social-sciences/two-centuries-on-experts-unlock-secrets-of-red-sea-and-gulf-of-aden-sailing-chart/ #History #Histodons #RedSea #GulfOfAden #Sailing #Sea #Navigation #Geography

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  We Were Here: The Untold History of Black Africans in Renaissance Europe 🔗 https://www.folger.edu/blogs/shakespeare-and-beyond/we-were-here-untold-history-black-africans-renaissance-europe/ #History #Histodons #EarlyModern #Art #Africa #Renaissance

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  🇬🇷 🇬🇷 For 1,000 years, a cult worshipped the hero of the Odyssey "Archaeologists have unearthed evidence of a cult that revered the Homeric hero on his legendary home island of Ithaca." 🔗 https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20260717-the-cult-that-worshipped-odysseus #History #Histodons #Archaeology #Odyssey #Ithaca #Greece

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  📸 📸 Altai man in national suit on horse #History #Histodons #Photo #Photography #Horse #Altai #Mountains #Asia #Image attribution: Sergei Ivanovich Borisov (1867–1931), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Page URL: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Altai_man_in_national_suit_on_horse.png.

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  🇱🇹 🇱🇹 🇱🇹 Multiproxy analysis reveals migration and potential origins of the first Christians in medieval Vilnius "Based on the results, the authors argue that males were more socially mobile than females, with one male possibly having immigrated from south-eastern Europe, supporting historical accounts of a multiethnic founder community including immigrant Orthodox Christians and local converts." Motuzaitė Matuzevičiūtė, G. et al. (2026) ‘Multiproxy analysis reveals migration and p...

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  🖥️ 🖥️ 🖥️ AI agents are sensitive to nudges "These results point to an important and largely neglected safety concern: LLM agents can be behaviorally brittle under subtle changes in choice architecture, even in the absence of adversarial settings." M. Cherep, P. Maes, & N. Singh, AI agents are sensitive to nudges, Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 123 (25) e2537030123, https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.2537030123. #OpenAccess #OA #Research #Article #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology...