If you happen to be Muslim, you are reminded every day that you are not the model anything and you should get out.

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It doesn't matter to them, because they think they're so much better than everyone else that they can enrich themselves off the US racists without getting burned. Remember, Conservatives are all the same. They all think they're super special and will come out on top no matter what.

*laughs in archivist* anyone who thinks it's all been digitized is out of their goddamn mind. We don't have the staff, resources, or digital infrastructure to digitize, store, check, and maintain at preservations standards a digital copy of every single item in our collections.

Americans need to be more aware of the deep rooted conservatism, racism, classism, casteism and model minority complexes of the Indian diaspora, especially the Hindu Indian diaspora. An uncle once told me "count yourself lucky we count as White"

May the light be invincible.

Actually, Democrats DO NOT FUCKING TEXT ME SWASTIKAS EVER BUT ESPECIALLY NOT DURING CHANUKAH Fuck you Christian Urrutia

When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.

When I was working on never-printed manuscript fiction, I WAS the digitizer of dozens of manuscripts, by standing & photographing them page by page. The one exception? In one memorable case, I raised funds to match with the NYPL to pay the $7500 digitization costs for this single manuscript.

Skylar Baker-Jordan is, beyond being a chucklehead, a bad person.

This entire article, which to my knowledge he's never withdrawn or rescinded: www.feministcurrent.com/2018/08/22/i...

oh the CBS bosses went to dylan byers? then they are definitely lying.

Since SOME of you on here seem to believe I was taking the AHA's guidelines for gAI use in history education, here I am ranting about it in its entirety--having read the whole thing, obviously. But no, Im not "taking it out of context" bsky.app/profile/disa...

Because they're a cult. They believe AI will bring us to a kind of of technological eschaton (at least one SF writer uses that specific word), which makes the rest of us heretics. You know how believers treat heretics.

I love it. Bring back the discussion about Slow Research too! I love that book, The Slow Professor

Anyway, just returning to editing a chapter for which I read 16 books, even more chapters and articles, and around 400 files from archives in London, Birmingham, Mumbai, New Delhi, and Trivandrum. I think people sometimes really do not know or understand what we do in the field.

Just so you are aware, the average historian -- will have done comprehensive exams for their PhD where they are expected to have read *all* the research in their area. -- they will then write a dissertation where they add to this by visiting archives and painstakingly amassing new sources. 1/2

She would stack the cards into tall piles, use binder clips or rubber bands to hold them together, and draw on the sides of the piles with colored pencils so they could more easily be put back together in order if necessary—sometimes the piles got dropped or came undone, which was a catastrophe! 2/

I’m followed by a lot of tech people, so here’s a little story about what tech history has looked liked in my lifetime: My late mother began her programming career at an oil company in Houston writing binary code on punch cards. Occasionally, she had to bring me to work, and this is what I saw. 1/

Sorry guys. If you had actually been “our own” instead of getting friendly with our enemies trying to kill our neighbors and our families, maybe you wouldn’t be getting attacked now, food for thought. www.cnn.com/2025/12/21/p...

God I think less and less of Usha Vance every day; hope the proximity to power and whiteness is worth procreating with this monster, girl

Because this is *not allowed*, the device *must* have utility, clearly you have failed the device by not finding its utility for you...

I think because they hate humanity and all the people in it, and no I'm not being hyperbolic

Congratulations again to every major media editor who tried to sell Peter Thiel’s fake Appalachian messenger boy as a Reasonable Empathetic Conservative www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2025/12/jd-v...

The most annoying thing about genAI is that eventually the genAI proponents are going to get to the end of the novelty of it, realize its limitations, and then claim to be the innovators of doing things the long way without genAI. Call it "slow productivity" or something.

Ice cream doesn't need to be sold this way. Nobody is saying, try ice cream losers, because it's the only dessert you should ever have and you suck if you don't have some. Why? Ice cream is fucking delicious.

One small way I know they are hostile is that being neutral and telling them “LLMs don’t have any utility for me” almost never goes over well.

They believe that the purpose of the written word is just to convey information (rather than offer depth, nuance, and, dare I say, art). We are implicitly and explicitly saying they are wrong, and they can’t handle that.

GenAI has been marking my job, especially the teaching part, shittier for the last eighteen months. But go ahead and dismiss that as a “hot topic.” I’m also tired of people who don’t know thing one about my discipline telling me that I’m wrong about it.

they seem smart enough to realize the best year to clear out the centrist dead weight is during a midterm wave. that's why you can smell the stink of their sweat

Every accusation is a confession...

I’m a Pratchett specialist. 'Nuff said.

When really, the only argument they're having is the one in their own head, cause the people who did make their own choices have already reckoned with that and aren't bothered. That's what they can't stand.

You know how there are people who are angry at other people (usually in a younger generation) for making their own life choices because they didn't realize it was an option for them? So now they have to grapple with the fact that other people have made choices and that makes them confront their own.

Bari Weiss is really bad at her job, until you realize it's her job to be really bad at her job, in which case she is excellent at her job

why are the AI pushers so ANGRY and hostile, though? At the same time they heap abuse on other people for not wanting to use their pet technology??

Alright that's enough. You waded in with insults so here it is. You have not read the thread correctly. Go back to the top. The original post was about how humanities professional organizations have tried to convince us to use AI for some reason.

Ritchie Torres lol, ludicrous to see his social media performances, and still expect people not to be put off by him, but sure

Year's Longest Night, this side of the world. Wrap up inside the welcoming dark & bring it in to carry with you, in the light. The light will come tomorrow & we'll welcome that too, & the clarity & warmth it brings— but for now, esp in this era of weaponized surveillance, appreciate the dark, too

Third Way Terrified to Learn of Fourth Way

Indeed, as an argument against the point below. Oh the irony 🫠 bsky.app/profile/iris...

So they put your paper into an LLM and asked it for its opinion?

Just had a "lovely" exchange with someone who provided me with 4 beautiful examples of how AI slop can look convincing to non-experts, right before they said "your paper is shit" and then blocking me. Will use these examples for teaching or a blogpost. 😌

The Garry Tans of the world really do not seem to understand play or joy. I still remember the AI bro who gave his child an "AI toy" that talked to her, and was surprised and upset that the child gave up on it after a while and posted a long screed to Twitter about it

Just a week ago, 60 Minutes reporter Scott Pelley said the new owners had not meddled in content decisions. That clearly changed today. The only question is why and given the folks involved (ellison, Weiss), we’ll probably learn the road leads straight to trump.

Autonomous vehicles, drones, and humanoid robots are coming for us all.

Don't tempt me with a super fun time because I will definitely do this 😂😂😂

I’m around for allllll the footnotes

i to am a nerd