Auckland looking fine this evening. #auckland #tamakimakaurau

FINALLY.

“Winter may be beautiful, but bed is much better.”

Please do not try to clock “balanced list of threes” as an AI tell because that’s been classic rhetorical structure for going on three millennia and it’s baked into all our writing now, I‘m begging people to read more old things

interesting rationale from a prospective juror in the Elon Musk Twitter stock manipulation case

Brb putting "brain-only writer" in my email sig.

Recently, FamilySearch digitized and uploaded tons of microfilmed records, including many from 18th-century Massachsuetts. They're using some sort of AI to transcribe/summarize the handwritten documents. I've noticed that the AI strips out references to race and enslavement in 18thc documents.

Historical research does not need to be done faster or in greater volume for any social or intellectual purpose whatever; if anything, it needs to be done more slowly and deliberately than at present, by people allowed the training, time, space, and resources to do it that way.

Lines on holding your mother close

“I feel that if I have to answer for the deeds done in my body just as much as a man, I have a right to have as much as a man.” #OnThisDay, 9 May 1867, Sojourner Truth addresses the American Equal Rights Association, arguing for equal rights for black women. #WomenInHistory #OTD #History 🗃️ 1/2

This is obvious and has been so for some time now, but then I'm a historian so I would say that. A working world of low-quality derivative slop places a premium on genuine, original, articulate, and critically conscious employees. That is the literal type of graduate the humanities produce.

Sir David Attenborough has a soft spot for #kakapo. We named a kākāpō after him (Attenborough the bird is now ten years old, living on Te Kākahu) and he kindly narrated a short video for us about them, which you can see here: youtu.be/5eZVjQowNvw?.... #attenborough #conservation

I get a lot of AI slop book marketing emails, but this is the first time I have ever been . . . mistaken for Jane Austen.

A message from Mary, a 72-year-old Amazon worker from North Carolina projected onto Jeff Bezos’s $120 million penthouse before tonight’s #MetGala, chaired by Bezos.

I think there's a perpetual and unresolvable tension between 'this man talks a constant stream of nonsense and lies' and 'this is the most powerful man in the world'

#MayThe4th Happy Star Wars Day – May the Force be with you! ✨ Looking for a real-life galaxy far, far away? The Zweibrücken Observatory has you covered! 🔭 #StarWarsDay 📷 www.zeit.de/zett/2019-03...

We have an *extremely* important announcement to make. From Wednesday, we will be launching our puffin live cam, coming to you from the Farne Islands. So you can watch puffins all day long. In celebration, please enjoy this clip of puffins being really busy for 39 seconds straight.

Comet visible in NZ skies for the next week, then gone for 170,000 years

Here we go again. Every so often tech makes an incursion into history, completely ignores that history is a rigorous discipline with a methodology, and then claims that a mystery or issue that historians have grappled with can be solved with an algorithm. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Man who has spent his whole career mocking people for ostensibly being credulous because they do not agree with him turns out to be very credulous when a (feminised) bot agrees with him

Wellington, Hamilton, Auckland

Jupiter - Juno Perijove 8 - September 1 2017 - From Kevin M. Gill (kevinmgill.bsky.social) - https://flic.kr/p/21KNafR

Very early #OnThisDay, 30 April 1944, New Zealander Nancy Wake parachutes into occupied France to be a courier for the Special Operations Executive. Nick-named 'the white mouse' by the Gestapo, she's never captured. She died in 2011. #WomenInHistory 🗃️ #History #WomensHistory #WorldWar2 1/2

46 years ago today Joy Division filmed "Love Will Tear Us Apart" music video in Manchester, England, April 28, 1980. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart, 1995 Remastered Version (Official Video) #punk #punkrock #postpunk #joydivision #history #postpunkhistory #otd

graffiti at Sandycove, Dublin. 'Your phone makes the real world less satisfactory. It's designed to do that.'

u never see this on a tradlife mood board

This might be me favourite thing on the internet ever

Clarity is essential…

So the people who oppose wind farms because they’re detrimental to bird life will go all in on solar, right? Right?

Tyne Cot cemetery, Belgium, 2024. #AnzacDay

Being human. It's worth holding onto.

ANALYSIS: US President Donald Trump is a longtime climate denier and oil industry ally. Yet he is doing more than almost anyone to speed up the global shift from fossil fuels to clean energy and electric vehicles.

make sure you choose a password that contains capital letters, numbers, and special symbols so that someday the data broker who purchases your info can go "ooh good password" after your login details are inevitably leaked in a data breach you can do nothing to prevent

Not what the fossil fuel oligarchs had in mind, exactly. But very, very nice.

"A spokesperson for Reform added: "Too often some public spaces are presenting divisive views of history that are designed to make people feel guilty." On this point, too: The past doesn't owe you comfort, and it doesn't owe you a life without reflection. The past doesn't owe you anything.

WG Grace played his 870th and final first-class match in the season opener between Surrey and Gentlemen of England at The Oval starting on April 20th 1908. Grace, three months shy of his 60th birthday, captained the Gentlemen, scoring 15 and 25

67 years old Happy Birthday Robert Smith, lead guitarist of Siouxsie and the Banshees from 1982 to 1984 and continuous member of post-punk band The Cure since 1978, born on this day in 1959 in Black Pool, UK 📸 Tom Sheehan #robertsmith #postpunk #history #otd

I've been working as a freelance professional academic editor for over 15 years and have finally got around to creating a website. If you're an academic writer seeking experienced editorial help on a writing project (e.g. book, chapter, journal article), get in touch! And please spread the word ✏️📖

You young people don't know, but when we Gen X were kids there were TV presenters who looked like this.

Maya Angelou on the joys of being edited

20 years of pickup truck design progress in one photo

So the PM is Chris and he succeeded Chris. Now Chris is Opposition Leader and he wants to have another crack at Chris in November. The only problem is that Chris wants to replace Chris before then if he can get the numbers, so he can face Chris at the election.

Friction makes things stick. Cultural experiences. Music. Learning. A book you have to work through rather than skate over. Not like inconvenience for its own sake is a virtue, but the friction imposed by it can be genuinely meaningful in a lot of contexts.

The Sun and the Moon Earth and all its neighbors too Awe, never-ending Happy #HaikuDay! (📸 NASA)

On the winds and waves Microplastics everywhere We should track that stuff eos.org/science-upda... #HaikuDay

imagine trying to kill bluesky with a DoS attack when it was already dying of the woke mind virus