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The complementary tactic to requiring someone to be “grateful” is “see what you made me do?” They often are used together.

Journalism that fails to infuse a historically informed lens is akin to covering the smoke but never asking who lit the fire. History-centered journalism should be the framework within every newsroom.

I don't know where this revisionism has come from about the suffragettes - people saying "if the suffragettes were around today, they'd be considered terrorists." The suffragettes were arrested and tortured, sexually assaulted and beaten by the state. They *were* considered terrorists!

The mystery of medical diagnosis!

"We're going to create superintelligence" How about making outlook search work first. How about that

I’m sorry, which is it: are boys in an acute crisis that demands that all the nation’s resources and attention be leveraged toward their improved happiness and status? Or is their natural superiority only obscured by affirmative action for women? You have got to pick one because you can’t have both.

Social media has spoiled us because occasionally you were able to get a celebrity to engage with you or perhaps cause the world's richest man to throw a tantrum. Now people think they can have a theological debate with the Pope.

Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Reminder that @theguardian.com has a partnership with OpenAI, and has of late published a spate of asinine articles that are uncritical in framing, and just read as press releases for the company and for "AI" in general. The headline/implicit framing of this article seems consistent with its biases.

As long as the loudest folks on the left insist tone-policing, compromise on human rights, and acquiescence are our only options for a unified country, they will continue to lose the faith of the marginalized. And even when they win, they’ll just be waiting to lose the same way again.

"Look what you made us do" - consistent abuser language

But if you joke about Trump or say something we don't like about Charlie Kirk it's curtains for you. We don't make the rules. Oh wait, we do.

They use the language of abuse so often and so confidently. Almost everything they're saying currently is a variation of 'look what you made me do, I don't want to do hurt you but you forced me'.

the nice thing about being a curmudgeon who hates video content is that you cannot be affected by the horrors of the AI slop revolution the same way oh your algorithm was taken over by weird AI videos of old women exploding bridges? I will stay over here, with my blogs

Just scraped in with my votes for the ABC Top 100 Books of the Last 25 years and good god it was hard to narrow it to 10! Even with the sea of books not on their long list that I also would have liked to add in to a shortlist. There are too many incredible book! 📚💙 #booksky

one of the most important conversations tech companies should have about every new feature and product is "how can this be abused" and in OpenAI's case they apparently decided to make that the selling point for their new app this is a million lawsuits and ruined lives waiting to happen

Man, I'm sorry, but reading all these AI generated essays from students, it just sucks all the joy out of everything. It's exhausting, makes you into a weird paranoid cop, grinds you down, wastes your time, makes you feel like shit about everything. Fuck this shit technology and all its enablers.

*Sees the most Catholic person in the world doing the most Catholic thing there imaginable*: goddamn Pagans!

I'm feeling a new love for a clumsy sentence or a misspelled word. I imagine a human on the other end. Doing their own typing, like the old days. I'm thinking about styles of writing that might emerge from this-- analogues to a guacamole I once saw advertised as "hand hacked" at a fancy restaurant.

In food history, we notice how super-refined foods--gelatin, vienna sausage, white bread--lose class and become horrifying once they become industrialized. Suddenly, fingermarks in bread dough demonstrate skill, not clumsiness. Post-chatGPT, I'm feeling this about writing. Smoothness feels gross.

The basic infrastructures that allow women to be participants in public life—birth control & abortion access, no fault divorce, childcare access & affordability, civil rights law in employment and public accommodations, the minimal efforts to mitigate sexual and domestic violence—are all crumbling.

Just wait until people start citing case law that relies on hallucinated precedents

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

Sure. Left wing terrorism is at an all time high, going from 3% of domestic terror fatalities to 4%. Right wing terrorism on the other hand has dipped to an all time low of 95% So technically, yeah.

I will say if that whole military meeting had been an email it would have been a pretty weird email

Spent the last decade reading conservative blogs use the word "Orwellian" more than they used the word "the" and now they're literally just saying "War is Peace" out loud in front of everybody.

So...Hegseth called up all of the top brass to a high risk in-person meeting, just so he could tell them they're all fat to their face?

That feeling as a writer when you see a line that just has you going "Damn, I wish I had written that" "AI is the asbestos we are shoveling into the walls of our society and our descendants will be digging it out for generations"

Yes, I’m sure if this 35-year-old Brown and Oxford grad who has starred in more than a dozen feature films just had a little experience in the world, she too would be inexplicably obsessed with ruining the lives of trans folks

Remake Face Off, starring Daniel Radcliffe and Elijah Wood, you cowards.

If you're in the mood to be emotionally destroyed, I invite you to read this thread 😭

First time this guy has ever made me laugh

IMO, the most revealing part is Klein wrestling with the question of where "the line" is (between acceptable and unacceptable politics). Realizing that what he considered past the line is now the GOP mainstream doesn't make him commit harder to fighting it. He wonders if he needs to move the line.

"I don't get to draw the line" — you are a wildly influential journalist with an audience of millions, you absolutely do get to draw the line!

“The problem in our country isn’t with books being banned, but with people no longer reading. Look at the magazines, the newspapers around us – it’s all junk, all trash, tidbits of news. … You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.” — Ray Bradbury

I will take any excuse to pull up my favorite Phil Vischer tweet:

Ta-Nehisi Coates comes away with the stronger, moral position. Klein takes the position that the ends justify the means, and that is simply not true for people living on the margins.

Coates says Black Americans have stories about relatives who were lynched or had to flee and that a life free of political violence is not in reach in his time Klein: "Sometimes I think that having a historical scope that wide can make the present too deterministic." They lynched a kid last week.

#PhD research callout! I am seeking History teachers in NSW for a short interview about NSW History 7-10 syllabuses. If you have taught History in NSW and are interested, please enter your details into this form. forms.office.com/r/cvf5QfLrLb Ethics approval: H16788 Please share!

I found this a really worthwhile read. I always enjoy Coates and the way he articulates his thinking, and grounds it in history in a way many current commentators seem to try to avoid. Gift link for anyone interested in reading. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/28/o...

Feels like an easy win would be to stop paying billions for submarines we're never going to get

One thing I've learned from the Internet is that a lie needs 0% proof to be believed, but the truth requires thousands of pages of proof and still won't be believed.

ME ON A TRAIN: Oh no, I accidentally clicked a video with sound! Oh god, people heard a second of loud sound from my phone. I have torn the social contract. EVERYBODY ELSE ON TRAIN: Shit yeah, train time, time to watch the loudest TikToks

We worry about Very Online Kids much more than their Very Online Parents, and I'm not sure that's wise

Think this is absolutely true - so much is written about boys and Andrew Tate - Tate is more popular with grown men than boys!

i wrote about the loss of randomness from music-listening and TV-watching www.patreon.com/posts/139812...

I need you to read this thread to understand why so many historians are revolted by this regime's crimes against the past