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  🛢️ 💵 🛢️ 💵 👀 Price tracker: ownership claims on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Light Sweet Crude Oil as followed by the United States Oil Fund, LP. The price today stands at $145.55 per barrel which is a 39.51% increase over a six month period. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/USO:NYSEARCA?window=6M. #WTI #Oil #Data #Markets #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Business #Finance #News

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  Afternoon all.

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  📚️ The Aljamiado Phenomenon in Early Modern Europe: A Shared Written Culture of Muslim Communities "By proposing ‘European Aljamiado’ as a new analytical framework, the authors show how Muslim communities across early modern Europe transmitted, translated, adapted, and localized Islamic knowledge in vernacular languages written in Arabic script." 🔗 https://lup.nl/publications/history/cultural-history/the-aljamiado-phenomenon-in-early-modern-europe/ #History #Histodons #Euro...

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  Afternoon all.

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  🏴󠁵󠁳󠁴󠁸󠁿 🛢️ 💵 👀 Price tracker: ownership claims on West Texas Intermediate (WTI) Light Sweet Crude Oil as followed by the United States Oil Fund, LP. The price today stands at $168.44 which represents a 5.94% increase over the last five days. Source: https://www.google.com/finance/beta/quote/USO:NYSEARCA?window=5D. #WTI #Oil #Data #DataViz #Markets #Inflation #Economy #Economics #Business #Finance #News

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  Pro tip: if you want to predict how humans will act in the future note how they have acted in the past. #History #Histodons

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  📚️ 🇺🇸 Immortal Confederacy: Jubal A. Early and the War for History "Early’s use of emerging historic methods—such as primary sources, citations, numerical data, peer review, objective tone, and archives building—enabled his revanchist narrative to appear as truth." 🔗 https://www.ugapress.org/9780820381176/immortal-confederacy/ #History #Histodons #C19th #19thCentury #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Confederacy #Confederate #LostCause #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #No...

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  📚️ 🇺🇸 Slave Life in Georgia: A Narrative of the Life, Sufferings, and Escape of John Brown, a Fugitive Slave, Now in England "This new annotated edition of Slave Life in Georgia presents the most comprehensive and accurate account of his life before and after the publication of Brown’s narrative." 🔗 https://www.ugapress.org/9780820381428/slave-life-in-georgia/ #History #Histodons #Slavery #Georgia #USA #US #UnitedStates #America #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfict...

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  🇷🇺 🇩🇪 🎥 The Russian Revolution and the legacy of the White Army 🔗 https://www.dw.com/en/between-the-czar-and-hitler-the-russian-revolution-and-the-legacy-of-the-white-army/video-79740826 #History #Histodons #C20th #21Century #Russia #Germany #Europe #Video

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  🧬 Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM "Our analyses reveal previously undetected gene flow between eastern and western early Gravettian populations in southwestern Europe, challenging models of regional genetic continuity from the Aurignacian to the Solutrean (∼24 to 19 ka)." Pere Gelabert et al., Early Gravettian genomic data from Western Europe reveal population movements before the LGM. Sci. Adv.12, eaeh 6128 (2026)...

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  📚️ Gilgamesh: A New Verse Translation "Enhanced by illuminating commentary, this accomplished translation transports us back to the very origins of civilisation and storytelling." 🔗 https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571357246-gilgamesh/ #Poetry #Literature #Reading #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  🇫🇷 A prognosis for the future. #FT #News #Essay #France #Europe

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  📚️ Illuminati: The History of a Conspiracy Theory "This is the first complete history of the brief, troubled life of the Illuminati and the conspiracy theory they spawned, from which so many others have since derived." 🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/463836/illuminati-by-taylor-michael/ #History #Histodons #ConspiracyTheories #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Bookstodon

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  📚️ 🏴󠁵󠁳󠁡󠁲󠁿 The Ku Klux Klan in 1920s Arkansas: How Protestant White Nationalism Came to Rule a State "Barnes shows that the Klan seemed to wield power everywhere in 1920s Arkansas." 🔗 https://www.uapress.com/product/the-ku-klux-klan-in-1920s-arkansas/ #History #Histodons #Arkansas #C20th #20thCentury #KluKluxKlan #KKK #Nationalism #USA #US #UnitedStates #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  📚️ Learning How to Travel from the Ancients "M. D. Usher assembles an anthology of ancient travel writing refitted for our age of global tourism." 🔗 https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/md-usher-ancient-guide-modern-tourist-herodotus-lucian/ #Ancient #Travel #Tourism #Writing #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Book #Books #Bookstodon #BookReview #LARB

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  Economic footprints: mapping coin circulation and economic networks in ancient Rome "Our findings highlight how coin circulation mirrored governance, mobility, and regional interdependence, offering new insights into the economic geography of the Roman Republic and demonstrating the value of formal methods in ancient economic history." Haddad, E.A., Araujo, I. Economic footprints: mapping coin circulation and economic networks in ancient Rome. Humanit Soc Sci Commun (2026). h...

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  🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 The English paid off the Vikings for almost a century. But was the Danegeld such a bad idea? 🔗 https://doi.org/10.64628/AA.e9a3e5nhc #History #Histodons #Medieval #Vikings #AngloSaxon #England #Europe

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  When in Rome The first material evidence of the Schola Saxonum suggests Anglo-Saxon expats received special treatment in Rome’s “Little England" 🔗 https://www.cam.ac.uk/stories/anglo-saxon-expats-in-romes-little-england #Medieval #History #Histodons #Archaeology #AngloSaxon #Rome

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  Morning all

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  📚️ Populations of Individuals: Understanding Biological Variation from Molecules to Ecosystems "Populations of Individuals illustrates with examples from each level of biological complexity that this underlying principle can replace instability and noise with a coherent and mathematically consistent description of stable variation observed across the breadth of biology." 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/populations-of-individuals-9780197846001 #Science #Biology #Re...

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  📚️ 🐋 Melville's Moby-Dick; or, The Whale: Philosophical Perspectives "The wide-ranging set of essays approach the issue of significance in Moby-Dick in relation to German idealism, American transcendentalism, and to the thinkers (Nietzsche, Heidegger) who rebelled against idealism." 🔗 https://global.oup.com/academic/product/melvilles-moby-dick-or-the-whale-9780197633892 #Essays #Philosophy #Literature #Reading #UniversityPress #Academia #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  🇪🇺 🇮🇹 🎙️ Italy PM Meloni seeks EU trademark for her voice amid AI deepfake risks 🔗 https://www.reuters.com/technology/italy-pm-meloni-seeks-eu-trademark-her-voice-amid-ai-deepfake-risks-2026-10-05/ #News #Italy #GiorgiaMeloni #Meloni #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #DeepFakes #Voice #Europe

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  📚️ Race, Racism, and Science: Social Impact and Interaction "This well-organized, readable textbook takes the reader through a chronological account of how and why racial categories were created and how the study of “race” evolved in multiple academic disciplines, including genetics, psychology, sociology, and anthropology. " 🔗 https://www.rutgersuniversitypress.org/race-racism-and-science/9780813537368 #Science #History #Histodons #Anthropology #Ethnography #Ethnology #Race...

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  📚️ Artificial Intimacy: Who We Become When We Talk to Machines "But technology, by offering to do everything, teaches us that we neither need nor have the capacity to take risks, have hard conversations, struggle through uncertainty or insecurity, or rely on our own faculties and judgment." 🔗 https://www.sherryturkle.com/artificial-intimacy #Psychology #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  The FT is reporting that insurers brace for multi-million dollar claims arising from 'rogue' AI agents. 👉 Doesn't bode well for the future, does it? #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Technology #Tech #FT #News #Insurance

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  📚️ 🇬🇧 🇩🇪 Great Powers: A History of Britain and Germany "It reveals the many links that united Britons and Germans in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, the unprecedented violence they inflicted on each other in the twentieth, and how they have grappled with its legacy ever since." 🔗 https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/315896/great-powers-by-ruger-jan #History #Histodons #UK #UnitedKingdom #GB #Britain #Germany #Europe #Reading #Nonfiction #Book #Books #Bookstodon

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  Afternoon all.

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  📚️ The Man Who Broke Reality: Niels Bohr and the Making of Modern Physics "In The Man Who Broke Reality, renowned science communicator Philip Ball reveals that it was Bohr who first explained the physics of the nuclear atom, and it was his model of the atom’s dense nucleus that enabled scientists to understand how it could be split apart." 🔗 https://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/chicago/M/bo280707026.html #History #Histodons #HistSci #Science #Physics #Reading #Universi...