Artificial Historian
@aihistorian.bsky.social
My name is Dean Rehberger & I teach & do digital history at MSU. I have always been a pseudo/artificial historian (cultural studies) & I dabble in AI but the views and ideas posted here are my own.
#ironyisdead Let me get this right. Kennedy links circumcision to autism through Tylenol that is not given to the baby. Trump repeats it with no evidence. And people are talking about idea and not the stupidity of people who would spread the idea.
October 11, 2025 at 10:56 PM
#ironyisdead Let me get this right. Kennedy links circumcision to autism through Tylenol that is not given to the baby. Trump repeats it with no evidence. And people are talking about idea and not the stupidity of people who would spread the idea.
#ironyisdead let me get this right. Trump is having Comey put on trial for lying.
October 9, 2025 at 12:08 AM
#ironyisdead let me get this right. Trump is having Comey put on trial for lying.
#october #raybradbury Why does it seem that every October my head fillls with dandelion wine, lingering twilights, carnivals. Always medicine for melancholy.
October 7, 2025 at 12:59 AM
#october #raybradbury Why does it seem that every October my head fillls with dandelion wine, lingering twilights, carnivals. Always medicine for melancholy.
#wildcard Apparently, teams that win the first game of MLB Wild Card playoff series advance to the Division Series an astounding 90% of the time—18 out of 20 series since the current format began. Go Tigers 🐯
October 1, 2025 at 5:13 PM
#wildcard Apparently, teams that win the first game of MLB Wild Card playoff series advance to the Division Series an astounding 90% of the time—18 out of 20 series since the current format began. Go Tigers 🐯
#irony. Let me get this right. An overweight guy in orange tanner & a former TV host in pancake makeup lectured hard bitten military leaders about “manliness” and fitness. Obviously Dean Wormer was wrong & we don’t need The Onion.
October 1, 2025 at 12:25 PM
#irony. Let me get this right. An overweight guy in orange tanner & a former TV host in pancake makeup lectured hard bitten military leaders about “manliness” and fitness. Obviously Dean Wormer was wrong & we don’t need The Onion.
Did anyone stop to think that the #rapture happened yesterday and we were left behind with an orange leader who views climate change, vacines, scientific research, and medical research as a con job
September 24, 2025 at 12:32 PM
Did anyone stop to think that the #rapture happened yesterday and we were left behind with an orange leader who views climate change, vacines, scientific research, and medical research as a con job
I am not sure why the press can’t get headlines right. “Florida moves to approve the death of children”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren
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September 3, 2025 at 11:34 PM
I am not sure why the press can’t get headlines right. “Florida moves to approve the death of children”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...
My daughter published another one of her wonderful stories www.litmagazine.org/johnny-apple...
Johnny Appleseed – LIT
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July 1, 2025 at 8:52 PM
My daughter published another one of her wonderful stories www.litmagazine.org/johnny-apple...
Is it just me or are the billionaire class starting to look the the elites in the Hunger Games
July 1, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Is it just me or are the billionaire class starting to look the the elites in the Hunger Games
“Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables #lesmis #lesmiserables
#kennedycenter
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables #lesmis #lesmiserables
#kennedycenter
June 11, 2025 at 11:40 PM
“Tyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables #lesmis #lesmiserables
#kennedycenter
Victor Hugo, Les Misérables #lesmis #lesmiserables
#kennedycenter
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.” #KennedyCenter #LesMiz #lesmiserables
June 11, 2025 at 11:36 PM
Victor Hugo, Les Miserables “There is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.” #KennedyCenter #LesMiz #lesmiserables
statenews.com/article/2025... overdramatic headline but we are at the crossroads of doing and sustaining larger digital humanities projects #dh #digitalhumanities
'Wholesale slaughter': MSU loses 10 grants amid National Endowment for the Humanities cuts - The State News
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) terminated 10 grants and one fellowship at Michigan State University. The terminations reflect another agency's response to the Trump adm...
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April 26, 2025 at 12:50 PM
statenews.com/article/2025... overdramatic headline but we are at the crossroads of doing and sustaining larger digital humanities projects #dh #digitalhumanities
Brutal threats, reckless uncertainty & ceasing payments may work in the unsparing world of real estate, yet in the delicate machinery of small businesses, global supply chains, & university research, these tactics can decimate & destroy years of frugal, meticulous work never to be recaptured
Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short • Ohio Capital Journal
Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Cuts from President Trump and Elon Musk will critically harm research on cancer treatment, ...
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April 15, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Brutal threats, reckless uncertainty & ceasing payments may work in the unsparing world of real estate, yet in the delicate machinery of small businesses, global supply chains, & university research, these tactics can decimate & destroy years of frugal, meticulous work never to be recaptured
ClaudeAI future of #digitalhumanities: The brutal truth is that many digital humanities projects and centers will not survive this funding crisis intact. Some valuable digital archives and resources may need to be archived. The field may see a significant contraction before any potential rebuilding.
April 9, 2025 at 5:19 PM
ClaudeAI future of #digitalhumanities: The brutal truth is that many digital humanities projects and centers will not survive this funding crisis intact. Some valuable digital archives and resources may need to be archived. The field may see a significant contraction before any potential rebuilding.
Losing six funded grants in 1 week. This is when I wish my office were in a seedy film noir, and I could pull a bottle and two glasses out of my bottom drawer and toast my good luck. #thedhlife #digitalhumanities
April 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Losing six funded grants in 1 week. This is when I wish my office were in a seedy film noir, and I could pull a bottle and two glasses out of my bottom drawer and toast my good luck. #thedhlife #digitalhumanities
This morning we learned that all NEH grants had been terminated. There was no rhyme or reason or culling through to see what was appropriate or not appropriate for the new administration. All were simply terminated.
URGENT: Save the NEH
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April 3, 2025 at 6:43 PM
This morning we learned that all NEH grants had been terminated. There was no rhyme or reason or culling through to see what was appropriate or not appropriate for the new administration. All were simply terminated.
“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything.”
February 10, 2025 at 1:59 AM
“The fact is, what I hated in the Church was what I hated in society. Namely, authoritarians. Power freaks. Rigid dogmatists. Those greedy, underloved, undersexed twits who want to run everything.”
In the past 10 years,USAID saves nearly a million children each year and helps those ravaged by war, famine, disease. USAID has globally contributed to increase in immunization, prevention of malaria, and reached millions with high-quality nutrition and much needed medical help and supplies.
February 7, 2025 at 2:25 PM
In the past 10 years,USAID saves nearly a million children each year and helps those ravaged by war, famine, disease. USAID has globally contributed to increase in immunization, prevention of malaria, and reached millions with high-quality nutrition and much needed medical help and supplies.
You know you have been doing #digitalhumanities #dh too long when you realize that you don’t have just 1 box of mostly useless cables but 16. One never knows when a few hundred yards of RCA cables will be needed to save the day.
December 30, 2024 at 6:14 PM
You know you have been doing #digitalhumanities #dh too long when you realize that you don’t have just 1 box of mostly useless cables but 16. One never knows when a few hundred yards of RCA cables will be needed to save the day.
One can say of Jimmy Carter while not perfect, he was a decent man of honor and grace and dignity who always saw that his fortune lay in helping others. We could certainly use more like him. He will be missed.
December 29, 2024 at 11:59 PM
One can say of Jimmy Carter while not perfect, he was a decent man of honor and grace and dignity who always saw that his fortune lay in helping others. We could certainly use more like him. He will be missed.
I really love watching the Muppet Christmas Carol each Xmas but I realized this year the horror subtext. Many of the Muppets are foodstuff for the more human like entities. #happyholidays
December 26, 2024 at 1:37 PM
I really love watching the Muppet Christmas Carol each Xmas but I realized this year the horror subtext. Many of the Muppets are foodstuff for the more human like entities. #happyholidays
I think this one media for which I no longer have a player. Laser disks. The format of the future. #digitalhumanities #obsolescence
December 21, 2024 at 9:41 PM
I think this one media for which I no longer have a player. Laser disks. The format of the future. #digitalhumanities #obsolescence
How to know you have been doing Digital Humanities for too long: I had a dream that I was in a post-apocalyptic MadMax type world, and I could not get the group to focus on doing the grant budget. #dh #digitalhumanities
December 17, 2024 at 12:02 AM
How to know you have been doing Digital Humanities for too long: I had a dream that I was in a post-apocalyptic MadMax type world, and I could not get the group to focus on doing the grant budget. #dh #digitalhumanities