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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Well, I'd say there were different kinds of typewriters, and the last iterations of them were pretty close to computers. I often start writing with pen and paper, though when things really start moving it's back to the PC, usually with some kind of full screen "focus" mode that resembles paper ...
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Time for some Rebirth Brass Band on the stereo
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✅ The Netherlands. Strikes are coming in spring 2025 🌷🌷🌷 🏴
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P.S. And, yes, I know the world's on fire but sometimes a view of the wider cosmos helps to get us through the day
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Very cool! And thanks for all the documentation
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Precies
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Hahaha
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Dude got 1.4k likes for saying something that's pretty dumb
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haha -- and perhaps one day this very conversation will be reproduced as an artifact of some future data training set to complete the circle
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I was a big fan of the short-lived TV series back in the late '80s. I'm sure it's worth re-watching
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My advice (fwiw) is cite it & let it go unless there's a serious problem with the scholarship itself. Let readers make of it what they will. Or fold it into a longer list of references
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Max Headroom, basically
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If we're living in a simulation, it's a pretty twisted one
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The good old days of 2012
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Truth, intelligence, understanding but it turns out it's just capitalism & it bites
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For some reason I feel like we're on the Pequod, not the Titanic
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Interesting, but often exploring how we became "toxified" is the point of historical research ... ! These LLM's often shut down discussions of anything deemed inappropriate, even if the point is to understand the phenomenon. But perhaps I should read it first .. ! 😉
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Many thanks to @marinelives.bsky.social, who helped me realize that with a little help from some high-powered GPTs I could do it on my own. Now I'm going to have to think hard about what kinds of fun things I'm going to do with it ... Or maybe ask those GPTs what could be done with it ... !
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These networks are actually better when they're smaller. Once the algorithm hits, it's all over
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This particular bubble might be about to burst. New followers, yes, engagement, no. Y'all follow too many people.
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I always turn it off & hope for the best
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Sounds fascinating -- thanks!
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Can vouch for the sh-ttiness of New England roads but not Hawaii, unfortunately. But clearly Louisiana should be #1/#50
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RETIRED: Cav
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Do you happen to talk about land surveyors? Very curious to see this book!
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I love his version of that poem!
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I'm guessing the game doesn't have a setting like in SimCity where Godzilla suddenly appears & rampages through your carefully constructed & thought-out town? www.pcgamer.com/great-moment...
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Ik ook.
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For the purposes of an essay I'm writing, I wanted to reconstruct when exactly I had the idea to so something, which required going through the sent mail folder in my main work email account from 2013. Unthreaded, it was just short of 1,500 messages. What on earth are we doing
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Go ahead & add me as an aspirational member ... !
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Sign me up!
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That's awesome ... It's going to take me a while to figure out how I might apply it myself ....
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Whoa
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Where the cover illustrates and elicits its title ... ! (The first half of it, at least)
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Marianne Moore: "the sea is a collector, quick to return a rapacious look" www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/51566/...
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All true, though it also depends who's (re)generating the text & what their intentions may be. Consider this little experiment -- a (mostly) open-source LLM chatbot trained on 5,000 early American printed texts from EvansTCP: bsky.app/profile/mark...
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