#encyclopedias — Public Fediverse posts
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SUGGESTED READS FOR JULY 14, 2026
24 HRS IN PHOTOS by Kessel Kramer Asking AI for personal advice is a bad idea, Stanford study shows Personal Encyclopedias — this has blown up my mind, really. When Marketing meets HRhttps://nicolalosito.it/2026/07/14/suggested-reads-for-july-14-2026/
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Photos of pages of the Indonesian Encyclopedia geography series featuring the entry about Yugoslavia. This book was published by PT Ichtiar Baru van Hoeve in 1989. This company is known as a producer of encyclopaedias and other reference books.
#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #encyclopedia #encyclopedias #encyclopaedia #encyclopaedias #yugoslavia #jugoslavija #jugoslavia #југославија #югославия #yougoslavie #book #books #mybook #mybooks #booklover #booklovers #bookish #bookworm #bookish
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Elon Musk Challenges Wikipedia With His Own A.I. Encyclopedia - The billionaire launched his A.I.-powered version, Grokipedia, on Monday. - https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/technology/grokipedia-launch-elon-musk.html #conservatism(uspolitics) #computersandtheinternet #artificialintelligence #wikimediafoundation #x(formerlytwitter) #encyclopedias #walesjimmy #grokipedia #wikipedia #muskelon #x.aiinc
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The #Encarta Contents page, as shown with the Moon.
(1/5 - 1993-1996)
#tech #technology #microsoft #encyclopedias #ui #design #nostalgia #random #comparison #history
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Oof. #Britannica renamed its article about *that* gulf into “Gulf of Mexico / Gulf of America”.
https://www.britannica.com/place/Gulf-of-Mexico-Gulf-of-America
Meanwhile, #Wikipedia still uses the prevailing name.
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With #AI and #bots taking over, more and more, when I research for my #webcasts, #podcast, and family history, I think I need to invest in a complete set of (physical books) #Encyclopedias.
2010 is the last "version" of 32 books.
BTW, on the #Encyclopedia Britannica's homepage, they, prominently, have a "Ask the Chat Bot" link 🙄
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Gizmodo: Encyclopedia Britannica Is Now an AI Company. “While it still offers an online edition of its encyclopedia, as well as the Merriam-Webster dictionary, Britannica’s biggest business today is selling online education software to schools and libraries, the software it hopes to supercharge with AI. That could mean using AI to customize learning plans for individual students. The idea […]
https://rbfirehose.com/2024/12/24/gizmodo-encyclopedia-britannica-is-now-an-ai-company/
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#Encyclopedias, the #InformationApocalypse on the verge of the #CulturalSingularity
(2/3)
...citing "Wikipedia " as a source for a paper is a methodological error.
For high-school students, I had initially thought that to be exaggerated.
Through my work as a blogger and commentator, I frequently need rapid information on new, unfamiliar topics, often even as a side note or just to have an illustration for a paragraph.
@Wikipedia is the natural go-to place...
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#Encyclopedias, the #InformationApocalypse on the verge of the #CulturalSingularity
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Very refreshing article about the world"s seemingly last EN #encyclopedia.
There are a couple of noteworthy things, but I'll pick out just one:
"Although the term "encyclopedia" is now almost synonymous with Wikipedia, it's refreshing to see such a sizable reference printed on paper. So I bought one, and I'll tell you why."
Even in many schools,...
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The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, by Douglas Adams.
Quite improbably, you are rescued from Earth minutes before its destruction, only to find the galaxy poorly mismanaged and under the influence of intradimensional rodents, and everyone looking for meaning where there is none, which rather gets in the way of having a good time.
4 of 5 library cats 🐁 🐁 🐁 🐁.#bookstodon @bookstodon #books #reading #humor #mice #SciFi #humor #towels #life #dontpanic #encyclopedias
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Imperialism and Expansionism in American History by Chris J. Magoc & David Bernstein
This groundbreaking four-volume encyclopedia offers sweeping coverage of a subject central to American history and of urgent importance today as the nation wrestles with a global imperial posture and the long-term viability of the largest military establishment in human history.
@bookstodon
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#Florida #banned #dictionaries. And #encyclopedias and #thesauruses.
This is not a #TheOnion headline. It’s reality.
Because kids have access to things like the definition of sex, description of sex related topics, and terms surrounding sex.
What the actual fuck.
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Useless Facts, Badly Drawn #333: Nowe Ateny.
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#noweateny #history #books #encyclopedias #poland #newathens #strangebuttrue #wtf #facts #funfacts #webcomic #comics #uselessfacts #uselessfactsbadlydrawn -
SF: The Japanese Science Fiction Film Encyclopedia
Informed by its disaster-prone history, Japan's science fiction cinema is distinctive. SF covers a wide variety of these films across six decades; from the aftermath of Hiroshima to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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ChatGPT-Based Search Function Goes Live on Blockchain Encyclopedia IQ.wiki - IQ GPT will help fight misinformation in the crypto space and onboard new users. - https://www.coindesk.com/tech/2023/08/09/chatgpt-based-search-function-goes-live-on-blockchain-encyclopedia-iqwiki/?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=rss&utm_campaign=headlines #encyclopedias #galaxydigital #technology #chatgpt #openai #news
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Wikipedia’s Moment of Truth - Can the online encyclopedia help teach A.I. chatbots to get their facts right — without d... - https://www.nytimes.com/2023/07/18/magazine/wikipedia-ai-chatgpt.html #encyclopaediabritannicainc #artificialintelligence #searchengines #encyclopedias #gettyimages #openailabs #wikipedia #googleinc #redditinc #chatgpt
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My late father had a set of #WorldBook #encyclopedias in his office when I was 11 or 12. I never saw him look at them. They just sat there on a shelf. One day, bored, I pulled out a volume and sat on the ground, reading. I lost days, weeks, and months after that, poring over the entries.
A couple of weeks ago, two heavy boxes arrived at our doorstep. I put the books on a shelf. Last night, we saw our 13-yo head to bed, a World Book volume tucked under his arm.
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Me: “If I may ask, what is the birth year range of Millennials?”
GenX: “1980 to 2000”
Boomer: “1980 to 2010”Me: “Oh! I'm a Millennial then.
But, you see:
1. I know how to use a rotary dial phone.
2. Our first TV set was a black-and-white dial TV with VHF antenna that you can attach to it, and later we upgraded to an antenna you place on the roof.3. I used to play with the kids in our neighbourhood, on the streets, until our parents starts shouting “DINNER! COME HOME!”
4. I've played Atari games.5. I've played table-top arcade machine games. You know, like #Galaga and #PacMan.
6. In school, we used cartolinas and manila papers for our reports.7. My favourite place is the #Library in our school and read as many books as I was able to, and borrowed those I can not finish in one sitting. Yes, I know what a Library Card is! I consumed 2 to 4 Library Cards annually. (And we have to pay for the penalty fee if we failed to return it on or before the deadline.)
8. Did you know my grandparents owned two sets of #encyclopedias? I've read each volume from cover to cover. It was my past time.9. Not to mention, we had a huge and very thick English dictionary, with small font. So imagine how many words there were there. I used to read it, too. Just randomly, not cover to cover (otherwise I would go insane).
10. When me and friends/classmates set an appointment, we meant it. We even come early. And when we are late, we had to apologise endlessly, sometimes everyone else agrees the late should pay for our food as a penalty.“Oh, by the way, Gen X is up to 1985. ;P ”
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Oh wow! I didn’t know that the World Book encyclopedia was still in print! This is the exact brand of encyclopedia that I grew up with and exactly why I started contributing to @wikipedia in 2002.
(The World Book was such an influence on me that I emulated their infobox style in Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Makati&oldid=1704277)
(I also adored their companion Childcraft set; the Mathemagic volume was the very reason I grew up to love #math
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This week's #FollowFriday list -- #Libraries / #Librarians / #Books / #DigitalLibraries / #Encyclopedias! Here are some of my #FavoriteFollows (suggestions welcome).
@internetarchive
#InternetArchive is a non-profit #library offering millions of free books, movies & audio files, plus billions of saved web pages in the #WaybackMachine.@wikipedia
#Wikipedia is a multilingual free online #encyclopedia written and maintained by a community of volunteers, known as Wikipedians, through open collaboration and using a wiki-based editing system called #MediaWiki. Wikipedia is the largest and most-read reference work in history.@OpenBookPublish
We're #OpenBook Publishers: a non-profit, scholar-led, open access press publishing award-winning #OpenAccess books. All our books are open access, and we don't charge authors a Book Processing Charge to publish with us.@Memere
Digital librarian, technical information specialist and open science evangelist. Content manager for ROSA P, the National Transportation Library's #OpenAccess digital repository. Co-chair of the Science.gov Alliance.@librarianshipwreck
"More than machinery we need humanity." PhD candidate, former librarian, pessimistic utopian. History of tech, disasters, and doom-saying. Writing a dissertation on Y2K.@alittleroad
Open access academic book publishing • Editor at Open Book Publishers • ScholarLed • COPIM Project • Open Access Books Network • Studying 19thC theatre & adaptation@copim
An international partnership building open, community-governed systems and infrastructures to support Open Access book publishing. #OAbooks@alaeditionsns
ALA Editions | Neal-Schuman publishes resources used by #library and information professionals, scholars, students, and educators to improve programs and services, build on best practices, enhance pedagogy, share research, develop leadership, and promote advocacy.@infodocket
News and New Resources For #Librarians, #Educators, #Journalists, and Others@inventaire
inventaire.io is a #libre webapp to share physical #books with your friends, groups, and neighbors. To do that, we run a #Wikidata-federated open bibliographic database, learn more: https://data.inventaire.io
#BookSharing #LinkedOpenData #NonProfit #books #library -
Review of "All the Knowledge in the World" (5 stars): Fascinating history of encyclopedias, from the print versions over Encarta to Wikipedia