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Rebecca Brückmann

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Nov 12

Hi and thanks, new followers! I can't keep up at the moment, so not following you back is just me being slightly overwhelmed. Welcome to posts about Black and gender history, the history of white supremacy, these histories' political implications, light sarcasm, elephant GIFs, and love of pastries.

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Joshua R Greenberg @joshrgreenberg.bsky.social · 32m

Women don't like the vehicle

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 44m

Oh honey... The vehicle is atrocious, for sure. But the reasons you can't get a date are the ones that made you buy this vehicle (and keep it, and then use AI as your "therapist") in the first place.

Reyhan Harmanci @harmancipants.bsky.social · 9h

We wanted to know what it was like to own a Cybertruck. So @zoeschiffer.bsky.social went to the desert got this absolutely amazing quotes (and Michelle Groskopf took the pictures!) www.wired.com/story/owning...

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 47m

Plus, they'll fell the last leg of the Voting Rights Act just in time for the midterms.

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Lindsay John Bell @lindsayjbell.bsky.social · 17h

I am still waiting for a detailed, pedagogically-backed argument for how AI improves learning. I have only been told it’s a helpful tool that will help students learn and teachers prep faster, but still waiting for what it’s supposed to do that human educators with more funding can’t do.

Erin Grievances @erinbartram.bsky.social · 18h

It felt like an extremely radical thing to say "you can just not teach them how to use this. i don't even know what it means to teach them AI skills but you can also just not. it might make your students more hireable, honestly."

But this idea that it's a tool whose existence justifies its use?

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 7h

Absolutely. Many of Walz’s remarks they cite is about his demand for Emmer to work together constructively or criticizing the latter’s outright discriminatory statements. The “both sides” approach has been moot for quite a while.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 8h

Oh. 🤯

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 8h

Are you seriously equating their rhetoric and politics?

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 8h

Greece is the best! Have a wonderful time 🙂

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Well, given the uncovered text/chat messages, I hope we can finally lay the tired trope of "racism will soon die out" to rest. White supremacy has always been a multi-generational affair.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Jan 12

I periodically need this reminder. Thank you, John Lewis, and rest well.

Screenshot of a Tweet from th late John Lewis, June 27, 2018: "Do not get lost in a sea of despair. Be hopeful, be optimistic. Our struggle is not the struggle of a day, a month, or a year, it is the struggle of a lifetime. Never, ever be afraid to make some noise and get in good trouble, necessary trouble. #goodtrouble"

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · Feb 14

This is going to sound weird, but I miss John Lewis. I am also glad, in a way, that John Lewis does not have to witness all of this after a whole life of civil and human rights activism. #GoodTrouble civilrightstrail.com/experience/r...

Explore the legacy of Rep. John Lewis – US Civil Rights Trail

Learn more about one of the most courageous activists of the Civil Rights Movement. Rep. John Lewis was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011.

civilrightstrail.com

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 1d

Dreary day, nonstop rain, and the temperatures really dipping now = jambalaya for dinner.

a close up of a person stirring a pot of food with a fork .

Alt: a close up of a person stirring a pot of food with a fork .

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

And his and Angie’s poor kid. Just terrible 😞

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

Immediately thought about Angie Stone and their kid. Ugh! Just awful.

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KEW @kidadaewilliams.com · 2d

www.cbsnews.com/news/dangelo...

D'Angelo, Grammy-winning R&B singer, dies of cancer at 51

D'Angelo's family said he died Tuesday after a "prolonged and courageous battle with cancer."

www.cbsnews.com

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 2d

OMG! 😳

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Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Most of rural Alaska is Alaska Native. Bonus donating to support Alaska Native people on Indigenous Peoples Day.

Dr. Kat Napaaqtuk❄️ @napaaqtuk.bsky.social · 3d

Western Alaska was hit hard by the recent storms. Houses floated away in Kipnuk, houses flipped over, people lost everything from the flooding that came with the storms. Please donate if you can. This group has a long history of supporting AK communities.

alaskacf.fcsuite.com/erp/donate/c...

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Batty ⭐ [NTVTN] @battystar.bsky.social · 3d

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day!

As an Inupiaq vtuber I included cultural tattoos into my design including a chin tattoo called tavlugun.

This practice was banned in the US with the arrival of Christian missionaries, and that ban held until the passing of Indian Religious Freedom Act of 1978

close up of 3D vtuber model's face showing traditional inupiaq/inuit tattoos

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Wow: finance.yahoo.com/news/gofundm...

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 3d

Until today, I didn't know that Thiel studied sociology at the JWG University of Frankfurt, and he was quite literally a student of Habermas. How grim.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

More humanities classes that teach critical reading and analytical skills would have helped, man.

Sharon @sharonk.bsky.social · 4d

thiel, man, what the fuck are you talking about

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Lydia Polgreen @polgreen.bsky.social · 4d

I don't understand why no one has started a fast-casual baked potato chain. Choice of white or sweet; many different topping possibilities. Affordable, tasty, nutritious, filling.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

💀. Quite literally.

Claire Zagorski, MSc, EMT-P @clairezagorski.bsky.social · 5d

A student on TikTok has been documenting her journey with a professor who “wrote” the anatomy textbook and it’s all a bunch of AI hallucinations.

She’s saying that, understandably, the students are doing super poorly!

Behold what we’re teaching the healthcare professionals of tomorrow:

A diagram of the bones and (some) deep muscles of the hand and forearm. AI says that we only have four digits. It’s also identified a tendon as the median nerve, another tendon as the ulnar nerve, among other issues.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the neck. It hallucinated the “ennocleidomasid” muscle, and the “anterior scalpalin muscle”.

An AI generated diagram of the muscles of the lateral thigh. It says that the gluteus Maximus (the big juicy butt muscle) is on the anterior side. It also points to the quadriceps muscle and says “attattment”. It also says that the same structure is the tibia AND the deep fascia of the leg.

An AI generated diagram of the bones of the hand and forearm. This time AI says we have 6 digits. It also says that the radius is the ulnar artery. Among other many issues.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

Man, someone should tell my grocery or utilities bills that inflation has been "defeated." But my economic anxiety isn't white supremacist, so it doesn't count.

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Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

Just... absolutely clueless but confidently unhinged. Perfect combo.

Rebecca Brückmann @historleans.bsky.social · 4d

A cup of French roast, an English muffin with butter and strawberry jam, rain outside, and some good reading. Happy Sunday 🍁🍂🍃!

Photograph of a book on a brown wooden table with a beige place set next to it. The book has a white, blue, gold, and black cover. Tia McNair et al., “From Equity Talk to Equity Walk: Expansing Practitioner Knowledge for Racial Justice in Higher Education.”

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