Michael Neiberg
@michaelneiberg.bsky.social
Writer, Teacher, and Historian at US Army War College. Also a Dog Walker, Coffee Drinker, Traveler, Yinzer For All Seasons, and Family Man. Posts are personal and do NOT represent my employer or Army policy.
New Substack is up about how to use AI to solve research problems. I can't prove it, but I hope it's the first #AI Substack post to feature an indirect Sheena Easton reference. I hope it sparks some thought. open.substack.com/pub/michaeln...
So How Do I Actually USE AI?
Or, how to pursue détente with AI
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September 14, 2025 at 11:36 AM
New Substack is up about how to use AI to solve research problems. I can't prove it, but I hope it's the first #AI Substack post to feature an indirect Sheena Easton reference. I hope it sparks some thought. open.substack.com/pub/michaeln...
Latest Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. What do we REALLY have to worry about?
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Let's Talk About That Microsoft Study
What I'm worried about and what I'm not (yet) worried about
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August 26, 2025 at 8:09 PM
Latest Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. What do we REALLY have to worry about?
michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...
michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...
New #Substack about that Microsoft study suggesting that #AI can replace much of what #historians do. What am I worried about? Not what the people reacting to the study seem to be worried about: michaelneiberg.substack.com/publish/post...
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August 26, 2025 at 3:18 PM
New #Substack about that Microsoft study suggesting that #AI can replace much of what #historians do. What am I worried about? Not what the people reacting to the study seem to be worried about: michaelneiberg.substack.com/publish/post...
I started a #Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. This is #4, on how we grade in an era of AI. Happy back to school!: michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/a-return-o... Are there #AI starter packs out there? Thanks.
A Return of the Blue Book?
Grading and Shifting Skills in an Era of AI
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August 19, 2025 at 10:38 AM
I started a #Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. This is #4, on how we grade in an era of AI. Happy back to school!: michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/a-return-o... Are there #AI starter packs out there? Thanks.
Weird facts you run across: at the height of Escobar's cocaine empire in Colombia, his cartel was buying $1,000 (USD) of rubber bands just to wrap all the cash EVERY WEEK. They also accepted a 10% loss of cash to rats and other animals in the warehouses where they stored all the $$$. (1/2)
January 5, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Weird facts you run across: at the height of Escobar's cocaine empire in Colombia, his cartel was buying $1,000 (USD) of rubber bands just to wrap all the cash EVERY WEEK. They also accepted a 10% loss of cash to rats and other animals in the warehouses where they stored all the $$$. (1/2)
Just finished Black Doves on Netflix. Dumbest thing I’ve watched in ages despite a great cast and scenery. Has anyone ever seen London that empty, especially at Christmas?
January 1, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Just finished Black Doves on Netflix. Dumbest thing I’ve watched in ages despite a great cast and scenery. Has anyone ever seen London that empty, especially at Christmas?
After 9/11 Denmark invoked article 5 (an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all) and sent fighters to patrol US airspace. dk.usembassy.gov/open-letter-...
December 23, 2024 at 12:34 PM
After 9/11 Denmark invoked article 5 (an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all) and sent fighters to patrol US airspace. dk.usembassy.gov/open-letter-...
Assassination of Anwar Sadat. Talked about with real fear and trepidation by my family.
First space shuttle launch.
What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?
Mine is OJ Simpson
Mine is OJ Simpson
December 18, 2024 at 3:57 PM
Assassination of Anwar Sadat. Talked about with real fear and trepidation by my family.
I don’t like to get controversial on social media and I’m sure others will have different opinions but this is my third trip here and there is no easier city to fall in love with in Europe (maybe the world) than Seville - when the weather is not obnoxiously hot.
December 4, 2024 at 12:30 PM
I don’t like to get controversial on social media and I’m sure others will have different opinions but this is my third trip here and there is no easier city to fall in love with in Europe (maybe the world) than Seville - when the weather is not obnoxiously hot.
Me 25 years ago: Madrid to Seville by high speed train in 2.5 hours. Amazing!
Me today: No WiFi? What is this horror?
Me today: No WiFi? What is this horror?
December 4, 2024 at 8:54 AM
Me 25 years ago: Madrid to Seville by high speed train in 2.5 hours. Amazing!
Me today: No WiFi? What is this horror?
Me today: No WiFi? What is this horror?
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If you live in a city named Columbus, you don't get to complain if someone plants a flag in land that doesn't belong to them.
December 1, 2024 at 10:11 AM
If you live in a city named Columbus, you don't get to complain if someone plants a flag in land that doesn't belong to them.
Well, we know for sure Duolingo is not Reviewer Two….
November 29, 2024 at 2:28 PM
Well, we know for sure Duolingo is not Reviewer Two….
@maartjeabb.bsky.social terrific article in the new First World War Studies Journal. Really creative. Hope all is well there!
November 25, 2024 at 9:55 PM
@maartjeabb.bsky.social terrific article in the new First World War Studies Journal. Really creative. Hope all is well there!
Reposted by Michael Neiberg
“It’s ‘boring war’ — stuff like ammunition stockpiles, transport and logistics — that really matters,” says Stringer, who has written about a possible post-US Nato. “It’s also what almost nobody does properly at scale, except for the US.” www.ft.com/content/6bea...
Can Europe defend itself without America?
The continent will have to spend more as Trump refocuses policy elsewhere. But replacing US military heft will not be easy
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November 25, 2024 at 3:36 PM
“It’s ‘boring war’ — stuff like ammunition stockpiles, transport and logistics — that really matters,” says Stringer, who has written about a possible post-US Nato. “It’s also what almost nobody does properly at scale, except for the US.” www.ft.com/content/6bea...
Taco Bell opens a 'restaurant' (I use the word loosely) in Sarajevo. Kinda feels like the 20th century is officially over. www.media-marketing.com/en/news/taco...
Taco Bell opens its first restaurant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, expanding its business into the Balkans region
Taco Bell has opened the doors of its first restaurant in Ilidža, Sarajevo, marking a major milestone in Taco Bell’s
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November 24, 2024 at 3:45 PM
Taco Bell opens a 'restaurant' (I use the word loosely) in Sarajevo. Kinda feels like the 20th century is officially over. www.media-marketing.com/en/news/taco...
France has at least two assets no other EU state has: an independent nuclear deterrent and a UNSC veto. Copying won’t be easy.
November 24, 2024 at 3:02 PM
France has at least two assets no other EU state has: an independent nuclear deterrent and a UNSC veto. Copying won’t be easy.
Vive la France Libre: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/w...
Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100
Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.
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November 24, 2024 at 2:58 PM
Vive la France Libre: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/w...
Great post from E Mollick on how to start using #AI. Tips include: treat like a forgetful coworker; start in areas you know well; do NOT treat it like Google. AI is best for processing info quickly, not web searching. I'm using Mistral and Google Notebook LM. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...
Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting
Don't make this hard
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November 24, 2024 at 1:09 PM
Great post from E Mollick on how to start using #AI. Tips include: treat like a forgetful coworker; start in areas you know well; do NOT treat it like Google. AI is best for processing info quickly, not web searching. I'm using Mistral and Google Notebook LM. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...
Bloch was WWI vet & pathbreaking historian. He fought at Dunkirk, got to the UK, and was refused admission to USA. He returned to France, wrote one of most important WWII memoirs then joined FR Resistance. Nazis murdered him in 1944 bc he was Jewish. He will now rightly enter the Panthéon.
November 23, 2024 at 1:17 PM
Bloch was WWI vet & pathbreaking historian. He fought at Dunkirk, got to the UK, and was refused admission to USA. He returned to France, wrote one of most important WWII memoirs then joined FR Resistance. Nazis murdered him in 1944 bc he was Jewish. He will now rightly enter the Panthéon.
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I don't mean to brag but I am now on FOUR Defense Travel System trips in a row with no amendments or corrections needed (IYKYK). I am not sure this has ever happened before where I work. I guess it's support for the truth in the 10,000 hour rule :)
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November 21, 2024 at 12:22 AM
I don't mean to brag but I am now on FOUR Defense Travel System trips in a row with no amendments or corrections needed (IYKYK). I am not sure this has ever happened before where I work. I guess it's support for the truth in the 10,000 hour rule :)
I'm personally Ok with an Alf picture repository, but in case you want more, here is some stuff one can do with BlueSky
November 18, 2024 at 1:00 PM
I'm personally Ok with an Alf picture repository, but in case you want more, here is some stuff one can do with BlueSky
People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What’s your favorite movie?
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November 18, 2024 at 12:57 AM
People of Bluesky! Let’s get to know each other better. What’s your favorite movie?
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Has anyone done a starter pack on scholars who study Latin America? #Colombia #Peru especially? Thanks/Gracias.
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November 17, 2024 at 2:06 PM