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in a crowded field this has to be one of the stupidest things ive read about LLMs and it astonishes me that this quote is from a humanist, a historian! by definition, what these tools cannot do is original novel research of the kind we do in monographs! www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

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Important news for the #envhist crowd: We are hiring an Associate Professor of Environmental History! www.jobbnorge.no/en/available... Application deadline is August 7. Some tips for those interested from abroad in thread 👇

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This Day in Labor History: June 27, 1905. The Industrial Workers of the World was founded in Chicago. The IWW would play a major role in the industrial warfare of the early twentieth century, scare the employer class, and capture the imaginations of late 20th century and early 21st century radicals.

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Still time to register for the DOUBLE book event today, GMT 15:00. Come hear about “Moral Energy” and @parhee.bsky.social wonderful “Natural Attachments”, hosted by @elsadevienne.bsky.social and GreenBASS. Lots of shared themes to discuss. Register here tinyurl.com/22j3t7dz #environhist #energyhist

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This is Thursday next week! Sign up here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

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I suspect that fact that the vast majority of LLM users don’t seem to have received this (really very simple!) message is because the AI companies have a vested interest in us not understanding it. “ChatGPT is smart, it just makes mistakes sometimes” is much more marketable than the truth.

submitted 10 days ago • 142 comments

maybe we should have taken it as a warning when Google normalized having two -- then three -- extra email inboxes (social, promotions, updates) that essentially rebranded spam as advertising

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The website you’ve all been waiting for is here! AMOC Collapse Visualization Tool! See how winters and summers will change with various levels of warming and cooling. You can zoom in to your own town and find out if you le ability to grow food will remain 👍

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news sites be like "this single story is the key to saving the world" and then put the key to saving the world behind the paywall

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hey lovelies, I finally got around to publicly sharing my compilation of big tech energy and emissions data. I'll be using it in articles, posts etc but it's yours too, free to use (w/ attribution is nice) ketanjoshi.co/2025/05/23/d...

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Here's a figure from IPCC AR6 Summary for Policymakers showing the linear relationship between fucking around and finding out. Every tonne of CO₂ we add to the atmosphere makes things worse for us and all other living things.

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Come to our Anthropocene Histories seminar tomorrow, where we'll discuss the moumental recent history by Fredrik Albritton Jonsson and Carl Wennerlind, Scarcity: A History from the Origins of Capitalism to the Climate Crisis. www.ucl.ac.uk/anthropocene...

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Re-posting for the lunch-time Bsky UK university reader crowd. The survey is short. It is not sweet. It raises rather a lot of questions. It answers none of them. 1/2

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Posting Google Trends data for the word "emoluments" since 2012. For no special reason. trends.google.com/trends/explo...

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Worrisome for all of us who rely on EIA data: "More than 100 of the EIA’s 350 staff have left as a result of firings or resignations, in the wake of 'Fork in the Road' buyout offers from Elon Musk’s DOGE." www.propublica.org/article/the-... by @peterelkind.bsky.social 🔌💡

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"try to put the preferment in a part of your home that's not the hottest part, not the coldest part, just right in the middle -- 68 to 72 F" cries in British

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We have a great talk coming up on 14 May for the Anthropocene Histories seminar about the economisation of the ocean with Kristin Asdal, Tone Huse, Tamara Fernando and Sophie Page. It's free and online, all welcome. Sign up below.

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Does this government want votes? www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

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LLM designers seem to think I want to autocomplete my sentences but what I really want is something that'll chat with me for half an hour about whether to use "constantly" or "consistently" in this sentence.

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Someone just say immigration is good actually! Higher Education is good actually! Paying higher tax is good actually!

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Its the ease with which universities have suddenly the money to pay for AI subscriptions, AI professorships, AI workshops, AI everything while they reassure us that "there is no money" to pay grad students and precarious faculty living wages.

submitted 58 days ago • 16 comments

I mentioned I might have someone else do the maps for my book on a call with my friends and they all instantly asked if I was okay/had been replaced by a pod person.

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AI could be the most useful thing in the world with a minimal environmental impact and it'd still be uncool to use. You're stealing from authors. Like, robbing the poor is very useful (money!) and the CO2 impact of a well-planned robbery is negligible. Still not cool.

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With a cover and a listing on Amazon, it's official. ETHANOL: A HEMISPHERIC HISTORY FOR THE FUTURE OF BIOFUELS will be published in October by the University of Oklahoma Press. Pre-orders now available! www.amazon.com/Ethanol-Hemi... 🗃️ 💡🔌🌽🇧🇷

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New episode of Heartland History is out. I talk to Willa Hammitt Brown about her new book, Gentlemen of the Woods: Manhood, Myth, and the American Lumberjack. @uminnpress.bsky.social @midwesternhistory.bsky.social podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/h...

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Flights to the US right now are eerily empty.

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I saw a tiktok recently of a conspiracy theory claiming that they'd asked chatGPT about the pyramids. What followed was super garbled text, clearly from a human. It's both wild that I can recognize that it's human on sight, and wild that AI works as an appeal to authority??

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Some of our student essay coversheet templates have a box that says "check if you do not consent for your work to be used for teaching purposes," and other ones say "check if you consent," which, to me, is giving big website cookies energy.

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The bipartisan belief that America would be a better place if other people worked in a factory. www.ft.com/content/8459...

submitted 77 days ago • 248 comments

grading too nicely, send help

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