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mark-l-thompson.bsky.social
Early American historian in Groningen Ellisonian thinker-tinker Early American HistoriChat: https://eahc.mhvdr.nl/ H-GEAR: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/american-revolution/
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"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” - MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in Tim Jelfs, _The Argument about Things in the 1980s_

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Notable quote: “Mussolini ended up hanging from a tree,” [University of Houston history professor Sarah] Fishman said. “Whether it’s Vichy or Mussolini, if you play it through to the end, it’s not good for the people who collaborated.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

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News from the Starry Messenger - 415 years after Galileo peered through his telescope on a January night & realized the pinpricks of light near Jupiter were moons, not stars, MT aimed his telescope thru his bedroom window and observed Io, Europa, Callisto & Jupiter's twin orange stripes! So rad.

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@tsimp.bsky.social Yo, T! 😍

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is proud to say that in a day and a half he was able to figure out how to use the consoles in Claude & Gemini & Google Colab to write a Python script that could download all of Benjamin Franklin's writings from Founders Online and then save them as a nice, fat 12.6 MB CSV file in his Google Drive.

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Who can escape the social media bubble?

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On the whole, my MA students in #AmericanStudies think #DH methods are sus

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The current version of the republic that taverns once accommodated may (not?) be diving off a cliff, so we urgently need to keep examining what citizenship has meant, now means, and for whom--and about the places, practices, and people who mold it to their own needs. uncpress.org/book/9781469...

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This is a cool journal - check it out

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Welcome to the Bizarro States of America

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Calling no-coding/very low coding graduate historians. Our marinelives-ai-and-history-collaboratory is made for you. We will be using Google NotebookLM to synthesize the collaboratory collective learnings as we go, & will make the Notebook available to the Commons CCBY4.0. @timhitchcock.bsky.social

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I try all things; I achieve what I can.

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