This Jacobean travelling library was commissioned for a gentleman to carry his own collection of miniature vellum-bound books inside a wooden case ~ contents are listed on the inside cover (1617). Possibly, the first of its kind (University of Leeds) https://t.co/Os5GdEBKMi

Synthetic smut will soon be flooding the internet, bringing new opportunities and perils

“Pluribus,” Vince Gilligan’s much anticipated follow-up to “Breaking Bad” and “Better Call Saul,” asks the question: What if everyone else’s paradise is your personal hell?

Indonesia’s Jakarta now the world’s largest city, Tokyo falls to third: UN | Demographics News | Al Jazeera

Quantum Geometry, Matrix Theory, and Gravity ( https://t.co/gfhfBVvSiO) [1003.4134] Emergent Geometry and Gravity from Matrix Models: an Introduction ( https://t.co/rm5m07zb04)

China launches Tianyan-287, a quantum computer with global access 🤯! China rolled out Tianyan-287, a domestically built superconducting quantum computer packing with (the system uses 105 “data qubits” plus 182 “coupling qubits”) total 287 qubits and delivering speeds up to 450

As I hold this book in my hands, I feel Bibek’s presence woven through every page, in each word he shaped with care and each story he rendered with faith. This translation stands as his enduring legacy and his final farewell to his most cherished Purana Project. @PenguinIndia

The advent of AI might just be the latest stage of a biological process that has produced ever more complex, mutually interdependent entities over evolutionary time. Thank you @Nature for publishing my perspective on this: https://t.co/GYmiKmQapi

"In Metamorphosis: A Natural and Human History, historian of science Oren Harman offers a meditation on transformation writ large." Read the #ScienceBooks Review: https://t.co/CWQcmg3Jeq

"'Neurosymbolic A.I." has become the hottest buzzword in town.' Whether this mash-up with LLMs will propel the field forward is controversial @nature https://t.co/xPZQhvKOmc

Now that #AAA2025 is a wrap—time for an award 🏆 thread! Congratulations to Lisa Messeri for winning this year's Gregory Bateson Book Prize!! Awarded for In the Land of the Unreal: Virtual and Other Realities in Los Angeles. More info here from @DukePress: https://t.co/5dZJ0ia5l5

Thea Riofrancos' Extraction is thoughtful, rigorous, engaged, and unafraid to look at the international demands made of us here in the US. It's a model of political logic and solidarity. Buy https://t.co/thxc76Wc2M then listen: https://t.co/Mzu5djSa1e

On AI Infrastructure in Biology https://t.co/3tmaKdkojU Billions of dollars are flowing into AI investments for biotech. A lot of this money is going to new platform companies with aspirations to develop drug pipelines. People debate the magnitude of impact this will have, but

The jobs most at risk are those in occupations such as trades, machine operations and administrative roles.

I just finished ‘The Philosopher in the Valley, Alex Karp, Palantir, and the Rise of the Surveillance State’ by Michael Steinberger. It was a quick, well-written, and fascinating read, in part a biography on Alex Karp as well as a deep dive on @PalantirTech. I found the book to

Nvidia has every reason to try to reassure investors — expectations for the company are sky-high after nearly two years of astronomical growth. And many look to the chipmaker as a bellwether for the overall tech industry.

"Artificial intelligence is not a tool for creativity, it’s a wet nurse who burps little babies and feeds them mashed peas every few hours" I don't know why it's a *wet* nurse (is that an idiom?), but other than that: nails it. https://t.co/HWM5GfeLiF ht @ednewtonrex

Are ChatGPT and other AI tools the most transformative technology in generations, or an overhyped time bomb that could trigger economic disaster? Here are four reasons AI may live up to investors’ soaring expectations — and four reasons it might not:

Michael Goldman's "Hidden Empire of Finance" investigates the dark arts of global finance that muscle into everyday life and city government, profiting from racialized dispossession and undermining the right to the city. Read the intro for free now: https://t.co/5YjLenWKOQ

Preventing Weaponization of CNS-acting Chemicals: A Holistic Arms Control Analysis | Books Gateway | Royal Society of Chemistry