Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS
@waitmanwbeorn.com
Holocaust & Genocide Studies/ History prof/ veteran/single dad/ former goalkeeper/ current fiddler/ Grad West Point and UNC/ he/him
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-18
Host of The Holocaust History Podcast
TV/Film Rep: Past Preservers
Psalm 109: 7-18
For the same reason you pay your doctor/auto mechanic/electrtician/lawyer to advise you on things that you don't know you don't know anything about.
If I’m not a customer then why do I pay so much? I’m definitely a customer and as a customer I have certain expectations for the service rendered.
YOUR STUDENTS ARE NOT YOUR CUSTOMERS.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
Get the fuck out of education if that's the way you're talking about them.
December 9, 2025 at 9:23 PM
For the same reason you pay your doctor/auto mechanic/electrtician/lawyer to advise you on things that you don't know you don't know anything about.
Oh dear god. SPare me from the AI-explainers.
a man is holding a microphone and saying please shut up .
ALT: a man is holding a microphone and saying please shut up .
media.tenor.com
December 9, 2025 at 8:57 PM
Oh dear god. SPare me from the AI-explainers.
God, this Liverpool match is...not exciting.
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 PM
God, this Liverpool match is...not exciting.
I have never meant this any more than now
WHAT THE FUCK?!
WHAT THE FUCK?!
I can’t emphasize enough how much you need to watch this until the end
December 9, 2025 at 6:10 PM
I have never meant this any more than now
WHAT THE FUCK?!
WHAT THE FUCK?!
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But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.
Government has now - belatedly -published the impact assessment for the changes to skilled worker and care worker visas announced in May.
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
Impact is estimated between -£2 billion and £-10 billion (central - £10 billion).
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6937e6...
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk
December 9, 2025 at 1:01 PM
But the good news is, by doing this, we defeated racism in the UK.
When going to the airport, I’ve never thought “Man, I wish I could do strenuous physical exercise here before getting on an airplane with lots of other people.”
Duffy on what he's doing to improve the airport experience for travelers: "Maybe I want a workout area where people might get some blood flowing doing some pull ups or step ups in the airport."
December 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
When going to the airport, I’ve never thought “Man, I wish I could do strenuous physical exercise here before getting on an airplane with lots of other people.”
Maybe...don't use Claude to do your work for you and this stuff won't happen?
December 9, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Maybe...don't use Claude to do your work for you and this stuff won't happen?
The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
December 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
The university bought Claude AI for students to use.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Here it is at work, denying that the East Wing of the White House has been demolished.
Great stuff, academia.
Murdered the English language, too, apparently.
MI5 impeded inquiry into Stakeknife agent who murdered for IRA, says official report
MI5 impeded inquiry into Stakeknife agent who murdered for IRA, says official report
Nine-year investigation paints highly critical picture of MI5’s handling of double agent
Britain’s security services allowed a top agent inside the IRA to commit murders and then impeded a police investigation into the affair, according to a damning official report.
MI5 helped the double agent known as Stakeknife to evade justice from a perverse sense of loyalty that outlasted Northern Ireland’s Troubles, the police investigation known as Operation Kenova said on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Murdered the English language, too, apparently.
I give the Marines all kinds of crap, but this guy's pull-up demo is 🔥.
A flex (figuratively and literally) by an absolute beast.
A flex (figuratively and literally) by an absolute beast.
December 9, 2025 at 11:03 AM
I give the Marines all kinds of crap, but this guy's pull-up demo is 🔥.
A flex (figuratively and literally) by an absolute beast.
A flex (figuratively and literally) by an absolute beast.
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Artist: Bill Sanders. Milwaukee Journal, 1972
December 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Artist: Bill Sanders. Milwaukee Journal, 1972
Here's a fun little thing from Facebook. This Austrian guy's dad volunteered for the Wehrmacht and he is writing voluminously about how "proud" he is of him.
December 9, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Here's a fun little thing from Facebook. This Austrian guy's dad volunteered for the Wehrmacht and he is writing voluminously about how "proud" he is of him.
Literally laughed out loud.
December 9, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Literally laughed out loud.
If you are "concerned" about cis women's safety in bathrooms vis a vis trans women, it's almost guaranteed that you are transphobic. Literally.
December 9, 2025 at 9:11 AM
If you are "concerned" about cis women's safety in bathrooms vis a vis trans women, it's almost guaranteed that you are transphobic. Literally.
Very punchable face.
🇺🇸🇺🇦🇷🇺"Now Putin has started making incursions into the NATO borders. The one thing I can tell you is the US is not going to get involved with troops or any of that. We will sell the Europeans weapons."
- Scott Bessent
United States Secretary of the Treasury
- Scott Bessent
United States Secretary of the Treasury
December 8, 2025 at 7:32 PM
Very punchable face.
The levels of stupid here are weapons-grade.
(Also, I've always thought George Washington would have had something like a British accent, but definitely not a Movie Announcer Guy accent.)
(Also, I've always thought George Washington would have had something like a British accent, but definitely not a Movie Announcer Guy accent.)
Oh good, Glenn Beck has created an AI George Washington. You will be shocked to learn that the AI George Washington created by Glenn Beck sounds exactly like what would happen if Glenn Beck built an AI George Washington to sound exactly like Glenn Beck.
December 8, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The levels of stupid here are weapons-grade.
(Also, I've always thought George Washington would have had something like a British accent, but definitely not a Movie Announcer Guy accent.)
(Also, I've always thought George Washington would have had something like a British accent, but definitely not a Movie Announcer Guy accent.)
Has anyone tried turning the Louvre off and back on again?
A water leak at the Louvre has damaged hundreds of texts, a museum official said, less than two months after thieves quickly made off with French royal jewels, exposing the vulnerabilities of the world’s most visited museum.
First a heist, now a leak. Water damages antique books at the Louvre.
Following a brazen heist of French royal jewels in October, the latest setback has exposed the museum’s creaking infrastructure and the pressing need for upgrades.
wapo.st
December 8, 2025 at 7:01 PM
Has anyone tried turning the Louvre off and back on again?
Today, I taught 100 ten year-olds that race is a social construct and I'm taking the rest of the day off.
a man in a tuxedo shouts i am the king of the jungle snl
ALT: a man in a tuxedo shouts i am the king of the jungle snl
media.tenor.com
December 8, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Today, I taught 100 ten year-olds that race is a social construct and I'm taking the rest of the day off.
D-Day, H-Hour.
100 ten year olds inbound.
“Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace.”
100 ten year olds inbound.
“Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace.”
December 8, 2025 at 2:26 PM
D-Day, H-Hour.
100 ten year olds inbound.
“Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace.”
100 ten year olds inbound.
“Hail Mary, full of grace. Hail Mary, full of grace.”
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Check out the latest episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social with Jack El-Hai who wrote the book behind the new movie Nuremberg!
December 1, 2025 at 8:18 PM
Check out the latest episode of the @holocaustpod.bsky.social with Jack El-Hai who wrote the book behind the new movie Nuremberg!
Hello, friends!
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
December 8, 2025 at 12:55 PM
Hello, friends!
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
I'm preparing a warning document about gen AI for my students next semester.
If you have any SPECIFIC examples here of AI lying, making up sources, etc, drop them so I can include them as evidence of why students shouldn't use AI.
Bonus if they come from Claude.
All these people faking disability to get that sweet, sweet super fast and efficient airport wheelchair service.
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
December 8, 2025 at 12:53 PM
All these people faking disability to get that sweet, sweet super fast and efficient airport wheelchair service.
If your enemy is the Center For Countering Digital Hate...what does that make you, exactly?
December 8, 2025 at 12:48 PM
If your enemy is the Center For Countering Digital Hate...what does that make you, exactly?
In which an actual US Army officer writes that..."'Post-liberal' is not a synonym for authoritarianism" and then speculates on what a post-democracy military would look like in the US.
Are you ok, man?
JFC.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
Are you ok, man?
JFC.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
The American Military Officer After Liberalism
Across academia, government, and Silicon Valley, on social media, and in leading journals, intellectuals and political leaders are openly debating what
warontherocks.com
December 8, 2025 at 12:38 PM
In which an actual US Army officer writes that..."'Post-liberal' is not a synonym for authoritarianism" and then speculates on what a post-democracy military would look like in the US.
Are you ok, man?
JFC.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
Are you ok, man?
JFC.
warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...
Tank gunnery.
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
Archival research feels like it’s full of these, but then there’s always one throwback archive with a microfiche machine or a paper catalogue (or, indeed: NARA)
What skill did you master that you will never, ever use again?
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
Summer of '95 I had a job assembling single-use film cameras, which I did enough that I can still perform the actions. I don't think they even sell them anymore, but even if they do I'm certainly never going to be making them again!
December 8, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Tank gunnery.