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Dan Howlett @dhowlett1692.bsky.social · 2h

We have an AMA with @renatakeller.bsky.social over on @askhistorians.bsky.social today! Come check it out and learn about the Cuban Missile Crisis and her new book from @uncpress.bsky.social ! www.reddit.com/r/AskHistori...

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amy brown (spooky edition) @amybrown.xyz · 2h

now with chat gpt, anyone is a copywriter

screenshot of a blue apron ad featuring an AI slop image that reads

"WHAT IS [GIBBERISH LETTER] LE & BAKE"

"One-pan meals with minimal mrup: Just minutes, hand bak and ooot 5."

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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 2h

vampires

Sammy Roth @sammyroth.bsky.social · 2h

First sentence says it all: "Gov. Gavin Newsom has vetoed legislation that would have required data centers to report how much water they use." Read the rest of the story though. from @ianjames.bsky.social: www.latimes.com/environment/...

California cracks down on water theft but spares data centers from disclosing how much they use

Gov. Newsom vetoed a bill that would have required data centers to report their projected water use when applying for a business license.

www.latimes.com

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2h

Man Sapiens is such hot garbage. I remember hearing an interview with Harari when it first came out and from the way he was talking, it sure sounded like he thought that he had invented cultural history c. 2015 or something

Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 10h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Kendra "Gloom is My Beat" Pierre-Louis @kendrawrites.com · 4h

Do the NYT next

karl rove knausgård @uhactually.bsky.social · 20h

Lmao WaPo has fewer than 100K circulation now. It turns out “alienate your liberal subscriber base” is not a good strategy when the Republicans also hate you. www.forbes.com/sites/andyme...

The Washington Post Is Running Out Of Readers Willing To Pay

Once a titan of American journalism, The Washington Post now struggles to reach even 100,000 print subscribers most days.

www.forbes.com

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Manchester University Press @manchesterup.bsky.social · 8h

It's Electric Wind publication day!💨

Join @dudleymarianna.bsky.social for the launch of her new book, online and at @bookhaus.bsky.social.

Details on the MUP Events page🎟️👇

A cutting-edge history of wind power in Britain from the industrial revolution to the present.

Electric Wind is out now💡

Promotional image for Electric wind. Purple background with an image of rolling hills and a blue sky, wind turbines dot the hills. Book cover sits in centre of image. Text reads: How has energy shaped a nation? Electric Wind Out Now.

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Vanessa is the name of the Doctor! @hpsvanessa.bsky.social · 10h

Q for the sci-fi fans - what would say are the biggest Malthusian-themed mid-20thc works (e.g. on overpopulation). As non-fan I’d default to Logan’s Run & Soylent Green but sure I’m missing good stuff. Pref film but books OK (both =perfect). 1945-1980. #HistSTM

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Dave Andress @davidandress.bsky.social · 12h

What level of “not understanding anything” is prompting an AI with “and don’t you DARE make anything up!”?

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Working Class History @workingclasshistory.com · 1d

#OtD which most likely translates to 13 Oct c1157 BC, the first recorded strike in history was first reported. In ancient Egypt, gangs of construction workers building for Ramses III launched sit-down strikes in protest at insufficient food rations shop.workingclasshistory.com/search

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alison says reinstate Link! @alisonborealis.bsky.social · 1d

Today is a great day to block and rid your life of Lakota Man.

Not only is he a grifter, raising funds for nonexistent things, but he ALSO scrapes other peoples' and tribes stories and wisdom and pretends they are his own.

He is an example of extractive whiteness, and represents no one.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 1d

I am seeing a lot of people reposting Lakota Man today bc it's Indigenous Peoples Day. A reminder that he is not well liked amongst many (most?) Natives on social media. Many of us blocked him a long time ago. Some of the reasons why are in this article.

www.dailydot.com/irl/lakotama...

Who is LakotaMan, the user behind one of the most popular Native American accounts on X?

John Martin is adored by white X users—but infamous among Native and Indigenous communities.

www.dailydot.com

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 1d

yearly reminder to people insisting that we view Christopher Columbus as "a man of his time" that *the people responsible for the Spanish Inquisition* thought Columbus was out of pocket

Thomas Lecaque @tlecaque.bsky.social · 1d

Christopher Columbus was dragged back to Spain in chains by a crusading knight, convicted of tyranny and immeasurable cruelty, pardoned by Isabella but banned from returning to Hispaniola.

Fuck Columbus.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 1d

Porco Rosso

Katelyn Boo-urns @katelynburns.com · 1d

name an italian more worthy of an american holiday than columbus

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Jacqueline Antonovich @jackiantonovich.bsky.social · 1d

We had a term for them in grad school: "theory boys." You know, the guy who sat next to you in seminar and could spout off Habermas quotes all semester but couldn't (or wouldn't) acknowledge that theory detached from the texture of real lives is little more than abstraction pretending to be meaning

Tressie McMillan Cottom @tressiemcphd.bsky.social · 1d

Most of these people are deeply trained, or at least highly educated, in humanities. Knowing isn’t being.

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 2d

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 2d

They should make a game that is woke.

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Lori Emerson @loriemerson.net · 6d

if you were to teach a class on the pre/history of AI in terms of key concepts ideas, what would they be? the mind/body problem? abstraction vs materialism? history of the database? automation?

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 2d

Today was really good #cork #corkcity #spiergorm

An anti-racist and Palestine solidarity march in Cork City, Ireland. Palestinian and Irish flags wave over a crowd gathered in an open square; autumnal trees and a national monument make up the background

A banner held by two people reads "Siamo Tutti Antifascisti, frith faisisteach go deo". Irish and Palestinian flags fly in the background.

A sign read "Hot People Oppose Fascism!!"

A sign reads "Ireland Isn't Full, You're Full of Shit"

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Greg Pak @gregpak.net · 3d

Racist, fascist billionaires control consumer-facing "A.i." Do not use this propaganda tech.

Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 3d

The administration “is currently pressuring OpenAI and other AI companies to make their models more conservative-friendly.”

OpenAI is trying to clamp down on ‘bias’ in ChatGPT

GPT-5 is better at resisting liberal ‘pressure,’ the company says.

www.theverge.com

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anticiv anarchist hellfire and brimstone preacher @freeprincessluigi.bsky.social · 3d

Fact: Chatgpt has killed more people than Luigi Mangione

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 3d

If they invested hundreds of billions of dollars into it, as they have done with genAI, I bet they could develop robots that would do at least some household tasks. But I guess they just assume that housework is already done for free

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 3d

Yes, I’m aware building robots that can do your chores is insanely hard, as compared to making a genAI tool that can make pictures of five-boobed-ladies - which is why all those techbros who constantly masturbate to their own genius should stop fucking around and do something actually impressive

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Ryan "Spirit Halloween of '76" Randall @ryanpatrickrandall.com · 4d

Not only are the highly addictive, truth-agnostic output generators polluting our information ecosystems and degrading our knowledge practices, they're also materially exacerbating the ongoing effects of climate change in order to accomplish the above at scale.

Heck of a job.

Mél Hogan / The Data Fix @melhogan.bsky.social · 4d

theconversation.com/openais-newl...

OpenAI’s newly launched Sora 2 makes AI’s environmental impact impossible to ignore

As AI shifts from text to video, its appetite for power and water soars, presenting a climate-policy issue.

theconversation.com

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 3d

Knowing who to be mad at truly is praxis.

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 4d

It would rule so hard if Democrats did the stuff Republicans say they want to do

Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 4d

Thune: "If the Democrats had won the majority, they probably would've tried to nuke the filibuster. And then you'd have four new senators from Puerto Rico and DC, you'd have a packed Supreme Court, you'd have abortion on demand ... "

Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 4d

Good day for marching tomorrow in Cork #speirgorm

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Lori Lou Freshwater @lorifreshwater.bsky.social · 4d

Activists have been warning this was exactly where it was going to go but it’s a sad day to see come home.

Justin @sitkaworldsfair.bsky.social · 4d

The regime is actually saying a bunch of Jews are funding and orchestrating violence from behind the scenes.

Not just Jewish Voice for Peace and IfNotNow. Indivisible, founded and led by Ezra Levin and Leah Greenberg. George Soros’s Open Society Foundation. Reid Hoffman.

Ben Lorber @benlorber8.bsky.social · 5d

JVP and IfNotNow are included in a list of only 9 progressive groups being investigated by the Trump admin, alongside major donors like Ford and Open Society Foundation and the amorphous 'antifa'/ www.reuters.com/legal/govern...

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Davey @historicaloracle.bsky.social · 4d

AI is only for bullshit work bsky.app/profile/brke...

Brendan Keogh @brkeogh.bsky.social · 4d

I still think the most accurate and consistent way to think about generative AI is that, in every instance, people exclusively use it for tasks that they don't have any respect for or give a shit about.