Jadon Nisly-Goretzki
@jnisly-goretzki.bsky.social
Postdoc Agrarian History Uni Kassel. Interested in early modern Germany, cattle breeding, race, gender and rural inequality & the Oeconomic Enlightenment. Also Brown Swiss cows, Baroque choirs & prairies. He/him.
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The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
Are you citing things you have not read?
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
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Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:23 AM
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
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If you're looking for some holiday reading/listening, check out my latest list of environmental history worth reading.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
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#envhist
#EnvHist Worth Reading: November 2025
Find marmots, sewage infrastructure, and animism in the latest list of environmental history worth reading from Jessica DeWitt.
niche-canada.org
December 19, 2025 at 6:32 PM
If you're looking for some holiday reading/listening, check out my latest list of environmental history worth reading.
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
niche-canada.org/2025/12/04/e...
#envhist
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It is also unambiguously true that the White House is a symbol of oppression and suffering for a massive percentage of the world
December 18, 2025 at 10:00 PM
It is also unambiguously true that the White House is a symbol of oppression and suffering for a massive percentage of the world
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my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
December 15, 2025 at 2:24 AM
my name is cow
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
and wen its nite
and when a star
is shiyning brite
and three wise men
give me the nod
i walk up close
I lik the God
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Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
December 15, 2025 at 4:01 PM
Animals with misleading names. I'm seeing this go around as part of a viral tumblr thread so I thought I'd reshare it.
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Check out our latest article (and part of an upcoming special issue): 'Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–1918' by Mona Rudolph: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–1918
This article examines labour recruitment and work regimes in two distinct yet structurally comparable sectors of the German colonial economy: coffee cultivation in German East Africa and diamond mi...
doi.org
November 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Check out our latest article (and part of an upcoming special issue): 'Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–1918' by Mona Rudolph: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
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We are very happy to see the first article of our upcoming Special Issue published. It is Part of our work in the scientific Network (Post-)Colonial Business history
Stay tuned!
@pocobusiness.bsky.social
@mariehuber.bsky.social
@aengel.bsky.social
@kim-todzi.de
@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
Stay tuned!
@pocobusiness.bsky.social
@mariehuber.bsky.social
@aengel.bsky.social
@kim-todzi.de
@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
Check out our latest article (and part of an upcoming special issue): 'Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–1918' by Mona Rudolph: doi.org/10.1080/0308...
Coffee and Diamonds: Labour Recruitment, Colonial Labour Regimes and Agency in German East Africa and German South West Africa, 1908–1918
This article examines labour recruitment and work regimes in two distinct yet structurally comparable sectors of the German colonial economy: coffee cultivation in German East Africa and diamond mi...
doi.org
December 11, 2025 at 5:28 PM
We are very happy to see the first article of our upcoming Special Issue published. It is Part of our work in the scientific Network (Post-)Colonial Business history
Stay tuned!
@pocobusiness.bsky.social
@mariehuber.bsky.social
@aengel.bsky.social
@kim-todzi.de
@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
Stay tuned!
@pocobusiness.bsky.social
@mariehuber.bsky.social
@aengel.bsky.social
@kim-todzi.de
@samuelcoghe.bsky.social
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In UK muss man das mit einem aus dubiosen Quellen finanzierten Unternehmen (History Reclaimed) machen, in Deutschland übernimmt die CDU-eigene Stiftung die Aufgabe ganz offiziell, kolonialrevisionistischen Mist zu verbreiten und einen dummen Strohmann aufzubauen.
Ich will das schon ernst nehmen aber norbert lammerts Vorwort zum kas reader ist ein wenig beyond parody
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
In UK muss man das mit einem aus dubiosen Quellen finanzierten Unternehmen (History Reclaimed) machen, in Deutschland übernimmt die CDU-eigene Stiftung die Aufgabe ganz offiziell, kolonialrevisionistischen Mist zu verbreiten und einen dummen Strohmann aufzubauen.
Good thread on one conservative German effort to defame and discredit postcolonial theory as antisemitic, extremist and unscientific. Nothing entirely new in the abstracts, but unsettling to see how concentrated and extreme this is from a supposedly center right institution.
Kurzer Grind zur VÖ der Konrad Adenauer Stiftung "Angriff auf den Westen"
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
Ich gehe mal die Abstracts einzeln durch, weil das ist die neue Grammatik.
December 10, 2025 at 12:38 PM
Good thread on one conservative German effort to defame and discredit postcolonial theory as antisemitic, extremist and unscientific. Nothing entirely new in the abstracts, but unsettling to see how concentrated and extreme this is from a supposedly center right institution.
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Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
December 10, 2025 at 11:23 AM
Tiny reindeer from a map of Norway in vol.1 of Joan Blaeu's 11 volume Atlas Major, 1662 #Christmas #Maps
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“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
AI Slop Is Spurring Record Requests for Imaginary Journals
The International Committee of the Red Cross warned that artificial intelligence models are making up research papers, journals and archives
www.scientificamerican.com
December 8, 2025 at 10:30 PM
“AI models not only point some users to false sources but also cause problems for researchers and librarians, who end up wasting their time looking for requested nonexistent records…”
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Man sollte immer wieder an die Erkenntnisse der NS-Täterforschung erinnern, weil es vielen allzu leicht fällt, den Nationalsozialismus als Problem der "anderen" zu sehen, während man sich selbst im Widerstand wähnt.
„Es waren keine ‚gescheiterten Existenzen’, keine ‚Mitläufer‘, keine ‚ordinary men’, sondern in der Mehrheit akademisch gebildete junge Männer, die ihre politische Weltanschauung schreckliche Wirklichkeit werden ließen.“
December 3, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Man sollte immer wieder an die Erkenntnisse der NS-Täterforschung erinnern, weil es vielen allzu leicht fällt, den Nationalsozialismus als Problem der "anderen" zu sehen, während man sich selbst im Widerstand wähnt.
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“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
‘Doing the Readings’
Dr Will Pooley (Associate Professor in Modern History), University of Bristol The students, we often grumble, don’t read the secondary readings we set for class. Every year, we find ourselves press…
www.history-uk.ac.uk
November 28, 2025 at 6:13 PM
“Scholarly effort is in decline everywhere as never before. Indeed, cleverness is shunned at home and abroad. What does reading offer to pupils except tears?”
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
this guy has his finger on the pulse amirite
www.history-uk.ac.uk/history-in-p... 🗃️
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It‘s that time of year again when students ask for extensions. When they do, consider this: do you think academics always submit book manuscripts, chapters for edited collections, reviews or corrections for articles, books and chapters to editors on time? Do you?
a woman in a blue and white striped shirt says please pretend to be nice
ALT: a woman in a blue and white striped shirt says please pretend to be nice
media.tenor.com
November 28, 2025 at 5:56 PM
It‘s that time of year again when students ask for extensions. When they do, consider this: do you think academics always submit book manuscripts, chapters for edited collections, reviews or corrections for articles, books and chapters to editors on time? Do you?
Obviously if Hegseth is ordering double taps to kill survivors of extra-judicial murders in the Gulf the Israeli police minister can openly approve of extra-judicial executions of prisoners. taz.de/Von-Israel-b...
Von Israel besetztes Westjordanland: Hinrichtung mit Augenzeugen
Bei einem Einsatz im Westjordanland erschießen israelische Soldaten zwei unbewaffnete Männer. Aufnahmen von diesem Vorfall sorgen für Empörung.
taz.de
November 29, 2025 at 1:05 PM
Obviously if Hegseth is ordering double taps to kill survivors of extra-judicial murders in the Gulf the Israeli police minister can openly approve of extra-judicial executions of prisoners. taz.de/Von-Israel-b...
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Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
November 22, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Lumping them together as “AI” gives readers the impression that a single class of tool is discerning novel protein structures, teasing subtle patterns out of mountains of LHC data, writing a student’s History 101 paper, and arguing a ketamine-addled billionaire could post up Shaq in his prime. No.
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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. 🧪
November 22, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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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Der eigentliche Skandal bei Weimer ist doch, dass alle das wussten. Es war bekannt, was von seinem ,Medienimperium‘ zu halten war, woher das Geld dafür kam und dass seine Schriften im besten Fall noch per Googlesuche zusammengesammelte Zitatlisten sind, aus denen fragwürdige Schlüsse gezogen 1/15
November 18, 2025 at 11:24 PM
Der eigentliche Skandal bei Weimer ist doch, dass alle das wussten. Es war bekannt, was von seinem ,Medienimperium‘ zu halten war, woher das Geld dafür kam und dass seine Schriften im besten Fall noch per Googlesuche zusammengesammelte Zitatlisten sind, aus denen fragwürdige Schlüsse gezogen 1/15
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A little too apt for a lot of shit going on in 2025.
Discworld QOTD, from Men at Arms
November 17, 2025 at 10:05 PM
A little too apt for a lot of shit going on in 2025.
Just had pretty much exactly this conversation with my dad, except Germany. Coming from the much colder Midwest it can be hard to wrap your head around, but the length of summer days here is the most noticeable for me.
For those who don't realise how dark it gets in winter in the UK... It's more northerly than you think. I'm not even in the real north of the country and I'm approximately at the same latitude as Edmonton in Canada. The days are short. And the skies are almost always covered in a sheet of grey cloud
November 18, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Just had pretty much exactly this conversation with my dad, except Germany. Coming from the much colder Midwest it can be hard to wrap your head around, but the length of summer days here is the most noticeable for me.
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Meet the new "Clean Coal."
There is a big push at Cop30 to reframe AI as a way to cut, rather than add to, planet-heating emissions.
But is 'AI for good' really a force that will help confront the climate crisis? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
But is 'AI for good' really a force that will help confront the climate crisis? www.theguardian.com/environment/...
AI is guzzling energy for slop content – could it be reimagined to help the climate?
Some experts think AI could be used to lower, rather than raise, planet-heating emissions – others aren’t so convinced
www.theguardian.com
November 18, 2025 at 9:00 AM
Meet the new "Clean Coal."
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Liest man das Gedenkstättenkonzept aufmerksam, springt die Leerstelle der vollständigen Ausblendung des Kolonialismus sofort ins Auge. Gemessen an den eigenen formulierten Ansprüchen ist diese Auslassung ein Akt bemerkenswerter Ignoranz.
November 13, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Liest man das Gedenkstättenkonzept aufmerksam, springt die Leerstelle der vollständigen Ausblendung des Kolonialismus sofort ins Auge. Gemessen an den eigenen formulierten Ansprüchen ist diese Auslassung ein Akt bemerkenswerter Ignoranz.
We knew that leaving colonialism out was coming, but this argument about the singularity of the Shoa doesn't hold much weight as long as the victims of the SED are given prominent place alongside NS (symbolically at the press conference as well) taz.de/Neues-Gedenk...
November 13, 2025 at 5:32 AM
We knew that leaving colonialism out was coming, but this argument about the singularity of the Shoa doesn't hold much weight as long as the victims of the SED are given prominent place alongside NS (symbolically at the press conference as well) taz.de/Neues-Gedenk...
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#snailposting
Alt text: A wee little fellow with a two-toned gold and brown shell chills on a dried length of native golden rod.
Alt text: A wee little fellow with a two-toned gold and brown shell chills on a dried length of native golden rod.
November 9, 2025 at 6:59 AM
#snailposting
Alt text: A wee little fellow with a two-toned gold and brown shell chills on a dried length of native golden rod.
Alt text: A wee little fellow with a two-toned gold and brown shell chills on a dried length of native golden rod.