Post a perfect album from the 90s.

I’ve realized one life goal: playing the NPR Weekend Edition Sunday puzzle on air. www.npr.org/2025/11/16/g...

You’ve probably seen that xAI launched Grokipedia, its LLM-created alternative to Wikipedia. I looked at its article on the Know Nothings, and it didn’t take long to find a problem. It made an unconventional claim, and the provided citation failed to support it. 1/ 🗃️ grokipedia.com/page/Know_No...

I’ve suspected that right-wing fascination with René Girard might come from reading his theory of mimetic desire through the lens of Carl Schmitt. In the specific case of Peter Thiel, that seems to be the case. www.wired.com/story/the-re...

If destruction be our lot, we must ourselves be its author and finisher. 🗃️

I’m in Lancaster, PA, for the weekend, and I discovered that our Airbnb has a famous neighbor. #skystorians

"This Bill Will Return Us to an Era of Economic Chaos" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/17/o...

Historians have been discussing the NYT piece about AI and history writing, and I largely agree with what they’ve written about it. However, there’s one part to it that I haven’t seen discussed: the way that academic historian Mark Humphries uses AI. 1/ #skystorians

This thread provides smart analysis of the civic symbolism encoded into previous military parades through DC and the one planned for today. #skystorians

UNC Press notes two recent events that it worries may signal attempts to silence its authors’ voices. Most recently, a scheduled talk to U. S. Attorneys about lawyers’ role in Nazi Germany was abruptly canceled before an outcry led to its reinstatement. uncpressblog.com/2025/01/31/a... #skystorians