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Jason Heppler
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Historian of the North American West | Writes from a farmstead on the tall grass prairies of central Nebraska | Books and more: jasonheppler.org | Views own | ⚓

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Sep 18
I’m joining the starter pack train: here’s a bunch of historians of the American West here on Bluesky!

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Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
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Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 17h
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...

#Thanksgiving
Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for corn bread dressing with crossed-out words, ingredient adjustments, and cooking notes in pen, including instructions to cook onion, broth, and celery together. Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for hot cakes with handwritten ingredient adjustments in pen.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · 19h
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · 20h
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 20h
Good morning.
Two loaves of crusty, golden-brown sourdough bread rest on a cooling rack.

Reposted by Claire Connolly, Jason A. Heppler

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 1d
The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
If you want to know more, I wrote a whole book about it: jasonheppler.org/publications...
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism | Jason A. Heppler
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
A jazz band hears Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box for the first time, then covers it.
Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot (Ft. Ulysses Owens Jr.)
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
I mentioned recently how much the current AI infrastructure push reminds me of Silicon Valley in its heyday of tech manufacturing, and every day there’s another example of how it’s remarkably similar.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
I don’t see the problem here.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 3d
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · 3d
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.

The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).

www.trenvista.net/en/news/flas...

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d
Evergreen.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
How about them Huskers?

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
Dang that’s phenomenal. (Mine is way lame: I was way into Tom Clancy at one point of my life and wanted to work in national security, which at least set me on the path of history).

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
Our ladies are still producing around ten eggs a day right now.

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Robert “The Baste God” McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · 4d
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
Good morning.
Two loaves of artisanal bread with crusty golden tops are cooling on a wire rack.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
Seems as though that's enough internet for the day.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d
I raise my coffee cup towards you, good luck!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
Can't wait to see how posters sharing racist 9/11 memes after Mamdani's election I'd seen in other pockets of the internet will react.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d
A rainy, dreary day calls for soup. Trying my hand at making pozole verde tonight.

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Robbie Richardson @londonmikmaq.bsky.social · 5d
A cribbage board made from walrus ivory by an Inuit artist around c.1900.
A walrus tusk made into a cribbage board in a museum display case

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Dr. Vaughn Joy @gvaughnjoy.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 ATTENTION PUBLIC SCHOLARS 🚨

As an end of year special #ScholarSunday thread, @americanstudier.bsky.social and I would like to share your favorite pieces from the year, especially if they're yours!

Did an essay or podcast episode blow you away with pride or brilliance? Please email us!
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If you have a talk coming up, a book on its way, a podcast trailer to drop, or an accomplishment to celebrate, we want to help you share it!
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 6d
Western historians: consider this CFP for the digital history lightning round at the 2026 WHA conference in Portland! Great format for discussing work in progress with a supportive audience. Happy to answer any questions. Respond by Wed., Dec. 3. #AmWest 🗃️
WHA 2026 Digital Scholarship Lightning Round - Expression of Interest
Please complete the form below. Someone from the Digital Scholarship Committee will contact you to confirm your acceptance to the lightning round. Contact Sean Fraga, [email protected], with questions.
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Prof Peter Hotez MD PhD DSc(hon) @peterhotezmdphd.bsky.social · 7d
How awful. This is outright health disinformation, lying to the American people. Not only is there massive evidence showing no link between vaccines & autism, there’s not even a plausible mechanism based on what we’ve learned about the genetics of autism, some environmental exposures in pregnancy
sherylnyt.bsky.social Sheryl Gay Stolberg @sherylnyt.bsky.social · 7d
HEADS UP: CDC website now officially asserts that vaccines may cause autism.“Studies supporting a link have been ignored by health authorities.” Also says the “vaccines do not cause autism” header remains b/c of an agreement with Cassidy.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d
Did I ever tell you my 9yo is obsessed with Lafayette (mostly thanks to the Nathan Hale‘s Hazardous Tales graphic novels).

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d
Finished reading: Harvesting Labour by Edward Dunsworth 📚

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Eliot Higgins @eliothiggins.bsky.social · 7d
Bellingcat’s contact email has always been a magnet for people with fairly unusual views; paranoid delusions, sprawling conspiracies, the works. But recently, the pattern has shifted, we’re seeing more and more emails clearly written with ChatGPT.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d
Nice fall morning.

Reposted by John Palfrey, Dolly Jørgensen, Jason A. Heppler

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Terrence Peterson @tgpeterson.bsky.social · 8d
Hey historians 🗃️: Do you know of presses that publish short books (around 30K words / 90 pages plus notes)? I have been working on an article project that could easily turn into an great micro-history of that length, but I'm not sure it would make it to the usual full 60-90K words...