Hello Southern Historical Association annual meeting from St. Pete's Beach! @thesouthernsha.bsky.social

you can convincingly portray this whole financialized AI edifice as a mortgage crisis-style house of cards without even mentioning that the fundamental product is unreliable, based on outright theft, and people don’t like it.

The perfect lemon drop martini in New Orleans.

“I’m so tired of waiting, aren’t you, for the world to become good and beautiful and kind?” — Langston Hughes

Factors Deli in LA - my absolute favorite. Dallas has zero edible delis.

With regard to the Ebook Central platform I have been losing my mind over. ‼️‼️‼️

Librarian here, and Ebook Central (formerly ebrary, longtime ProQuest platform) is moving away from a model where libraries can directly license individual books, alongside full AI integration. It’s led their top competition EBSCO to double down on… NOT doing that. Very happy to use EBSCO.

(Yes, I do include the no-opt-out inclusion of "AI" as a decrease in platform functionality.) and 2) supporting and working with justifiably frustrated academics. 2/2

As mentioned by @dbcii.bsky.social, these issues are making our jobs very, very difficult for many reasons. Here are two: 1) our own frustration with both the increasing costs for individual purchases (due to end) and decreasing functionality of platforms 1/2 www.libraryjournal.com/story/clariv...

Okay this is worse than I thought. A large # of academic press books (incld. a textbook I use in class) have been moved to a platform called Ebook Central. It's like Kindle paired w/ AI. No footnotes. No page #s No facsimile PDFs are available. I just wrote a lengthy complaint to my library. Sigh.

AI rant of the day. My library is using a new ebook platform for Leon Litwack's book "Trouble in Mind." You can no longer see page numbers or footnotes. And there is a running AI summary of the book next to the text. It's USELESS now.

help, this is too cute

Timeline cleanse. Sunshade as hammock.

Google's AI summaries are - killing traffic to legitimate sites - producing summaries that can be wrong - in the long run probably making you a dumbass www.404media.co/googles-ai-i...

Can always use content like this.

Mayonnaise is of the devil and should have no place on the condiment list.

Is anyone else like this?

#OTD 1925, a century ago, with the Scopes Monkey Trial.

stop 👏 anthropomorphizing 👏 the 👏 chatbot 👏

Last night was The Terminator (1984). Tonight is Terminator 2: Judgement Day (1991). Not only do both films hold up, but you have to respect the old school stunt driving involving minimal CGI.

A great thread on the nature of writing history. 🗃️

I was a waitress in Boulder CO. A woman came in, asked for a quiet back table and a stiff drink immediately. She was meeting an old friend she hadn't seen in ages and was nervous. When he arrived I went to the table to ask for his drink and it was JAMES TAYLOR. He wanted club soda and lime.

RIP to my favorite professor & advisor at Amherst since freshman year -- Jan Dizard. At age 6 he participated in a labor strike with Paul Robeson, survived polio, helped Huey Newton's legal team, & spoke out against the Vietnam War. One of the kindest people I knew. www.legacy.com/us/obituarie...

This is so cool. Read the alt description.

i'm reading this charles sumner speech from february 1866 and my dude is cooking

I'm reading this book on how to write exciting narrative nonfiction and so far I am very impressed.

This is the stuff of nightmares. Love the shout out to Katherine Eban's 2019 book "Bottle of Lies" and the watchdog group People's Pharmacy. This is why I pay close attention to the generic manufacturers of the drugs I need to take every day.

The news is awful and depressing. So cats it is.

22 years old and a waitress - serving Neil Diamond breakfast and I didn't know who he was.

Big cat zoomies.

You’ve been kidnapped. The characters from the last TV show you watched are trying to rescue you. Who is coming to save you? *I'm confident but think it will be bloody.

After federal troops forced a fugitive slave named Anthony Burns back into slavery in the 1850s, one Bostonian wrote, “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.” The abuse of power radicalizes people. We are seeing that now.

Ticket to the U.S. Senate Impeachment of the President, April 6, 1868, from the Meserve-Kunhardt Collection at Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

Blue books are back! Although I never left them behind.... In the past year, sales are up 30% at Texas A & M, 50% at U-Florida, and 80% at Cal Berkeley. gizmodo.com/ai-cheating-...

Usernames, passwords, emails, and URLs for a host of applications and websites, including Google, Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, Instagram, and Snapchat, among others, were stored in a file. The database also contained credentials for bank and financial accounts, health platforms, and gov. portals.

As someone who makes a living wholly through drawing things…yeah. Then kill it. Dead. (my kids, who like eating, agree)

Loved the season finale of "The Studio." Bryan Cranston was genius.

The offender is now a surgeon at Cedars Sinai in LA.

Timeline cleanse. 🙂

Show us your writing process in a gif

How are you doing these days @cllyerly.bsky.social ? Tried to direct message you but alas, it doesn't seem to work!

This was the point in the @propublica.org story on pricey cancer drug Revlimid where i got angry. The price has gone up 26 TIMES since 2006. Yet, @davidarmstrongx.bsky.social found a deposition where a top exec admits the drug has ALWAYS cost just $.25 to make. www.propublica.org/article/revl...

Portillo's has now come to Texas! There are 3 locations in the entire state and all 3 are in the DFW area. I have never been to one but I am excited to try it. For Portillo's fans, what must I order?

Celebrating the last day of teaching with the most unhealthy options possible. But this is one of HEB's finer products.

"On one test, the hallucination rates of newer A.I. systems were as high as 79 percent."

The average American has three friends.