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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 2d

Don't see a way out of this apart from the strict legal regulation of all generative "AI". Everything needs to be labeled, the use of the likeness of real people (alive or dead) without their express consent needs to be libel (even in a labeled video), and the fines need to be ruinous.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 2d

Cuomo keeps embarrassing himself with AI slop ads.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 3d

This is a really excellent analysis of not just the pressures and dilemmas around LLMs in publishing but also the larger political economy of "AI".

Katja Bruisch @kbruisch.bsky.social · 4d

We need a critique of AI in academic publishing. Following my decision not to sign an AI addendum to my contract with Cambridge University Press, I wrote this short essay which is now out in the Dublin Review of Books.
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Move over for AI - DRB

Katja Bruisch writes: I recently completed a scholarly monograph – an environmental, economic and energy history of peat in imperial and Soviet Russia. After years of thinking and writing, I approache...

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 4d

Hmm, my reading pace is very variable and sometimes that's a feature, not a bug. Not sure I'd like to be herded by an audiobook.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 5d

Or even, like, watched the movie adaptations!

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 6d

Whichever country or countries choose to tack against the wind of anti-immigrant sentiment will be huge winners economically, let alone morally.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 6d

What are your favorite long reads from the last few weeks? Any topic, any outlet, as long as they're thoughtful/interesting! (Bonus points if free.)

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Miriam Posner @miriamposner.com · 6d

Whatever strategy you’re about to suggest, we’ve thought about it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments

ChatGPT Harm Reduction for Writing Assignments Because this document has escaped containment, a couple points of explanation. I wrote this for myself and a few colleagues as we work out how to handle...

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 6d

pretty sure he was, actually

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Gregory A. Hargreaves 🍂 @bordergroves.bsky.social · 9d

In what is now the United States people have been speaking Spanish for about 100 years longer than they have been speaking English.

a woman claps her hands in front of a sign that says " claps in spanish "

Alt: a woman claps her hands in front of a sign that says " claps in spanish "

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UCL SSEES @uclssees.bsky.social · 10d

Please join us for this event to hear more about @kbruisch.bsky.social's new book 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' (@universitypress.cambridge.org).

Discussants: Eglė Rindzevičiūtė and @robertsuits.bsky.social.

🗓️ 17 November at 6.15pm
➡️ buff.ly/zYgWn4s

Event poster for 'Burning Swamps: Peat and the Forgotten Margins of Russia’s Fossil Economy' with an image of the book cover. In-person event.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 15d

question answered, incidentally

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 16d

tbh I would deny this claim

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 16d

Did "hand grenades" used to mean something else? Or was this fairly normal mixed used building in 1895 South Side Chicago packing a *lot* of heat?

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Brandon Bishop @brandontbishop.bsky.social · 17d

137 meter to 200 meter tall tastless statues with lots of mass?

Gonna have quite low seismic resonance frequencies.

Consider them "temporary art installations."

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 17d

Conservative-leaning tech investors are racing to build a new American colossus, and they want something much, much bigger than the Statue of Liberty. Meet the new monuments men of the tech right and their plans for statue-maxing:

www.bloomberg.com/news/feature...

America’s Tech Right Is Obsessed With Building Giant Statues

With proposals for a 450-foot statue of Prometheus on Alcatraz and a 650-foot George Washington, MAGA adherents are racing to build America’s largest statue.

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Jessica Ritchey @jmritchey.bsky.social · 17d

If I had explain American history in one sentence, I could do worse than "John Brown was hung for treason, but Robert E. Lee was not."

Jacobin @jacobinmag.bsky.social · 18d

John Brown’s raid on Harpers Ferry began on this day in 1859.

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 19d

I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?

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Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 18d

Repeating this plea for the evening crowd. Don't let me embarrass myself again this year.

Kate Carpenter @katecarp.bsky.social · 19d

I'm determined to be a useful member of the Digital Scholarship committee for the WHA this year, so I need help: what cool new-ish digital humanities projects related to Western US history do you know about?

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Christos Lynteris @visualplague.bsky.social · 20d

So great to see my new book How Plague Got Rats:
Mastering a Zoonotic Pandemic, published OA @hopkinspress.bsky.social next May, has got a cover! www.press.jhu.edu/books/title/...

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 21d

MLF has consistently coached excellent teams. But as I just texted on of my oldest friends, "well, I've certainly had higher hopes for a Packers team."

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 21d

The OL, which is usually a strength, has been a wall-to-wall disaster since the Lions game -- basically no depth. Both big FAs ended up quite bad. Secondary was going to be bad this year, everyone just hoped Parsons would cover for it. I'm hoping for playoffs still, but clearly not a guarantee.

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 21d

I'm confused by anyone who doesn't do this!

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Max Boykoff @maxboykoff.bsky.social · 22d

We're hiring a tenure-track assistant professor in Dept of Environmental Studies at University of Colorado Boulder with expertise in energy & environmental policy, and emphases on sustainability & decarbonization. The job ad is here, apply by the Nov 14 deadline! jobs.colorado.edu/jobs/JobDeta...

Assistant Professor in Environmental Studies

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · 27d

Possibly Malm, even though it's very problematic for this purpose. @fredrikjonsson.bsky.social will eventually have a wonderful book out on this topic that would be very good for exactly this -- not sure of the exact timeline on that.

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Gesellschaft – Wissen – Umwelt (Bielefeld) @gwu-bielefeld.bsky.social · 27d

Energy History People, see this great opportunity: PhD Course in Energy Humanities, 1–5 Dec @greenhouseuis.net. Apply by 24 Oct!
#envhum #envhist #energyhistory #energistories

Melina Antonia Buns @melinabuns.bsky.social · Sep 16

I am really excited to announce the call for the PhD Course in Energy Humanities!

Held at the @greenhouseuis.net from 1-5 December.

Applications are welcome until 24 October.

#envhum #envhist #energyhistory

Poster showing a wind turbine from frog perspective. The picture is in light pink and blue nuances and announces a PhD course in energy humanities. More information can be found in this website. https://www.uis.no/en/research/collaboration/the-greenhouse-centre-for-environmental-humanities/humanities/apply-for-phd

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Robert Suits @robertsuits.bsky.social · Sep 29

An update of our project through 2024. Hopefully will be released... eventually, but a lot of plates in the air at the moment!

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