Linsey Hunter
@linseyhunter.bsky.social
Keeper of cats and books and wool. Views own.
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I realized a few years ago that I will never run out of ideas; I will simply run out of time and die. What I don't have is money. I'm disabled, queer, lower income single parent with dozens of unpublished manuscripts, songs, musicals, paintings, hundreds of draft ideas. FUND PEOPLE.
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:53 PM
I realized a few years ago that I will never run out of ideas; I will simply run out of time and die. What I don't have is money. I'm disabled, queer, lower income single parent with dozens of unpublished manuscripts, songs, musicals, paintings, hundreds of draft ideas. FUND PEOPLE.
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This week we also published its latest article in the Society's journal 'Transactions'.
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
December 13, 2025 at 5:01 PM
This week we also published its latest article in the Society's journal 'Transactions'.
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
'The Historian in the Age of AI' by @chriscampbell1.bsky.social
explores what it means to be a historian, and why historical skills and craft need to defended and understood bit.ly/4atErTB #Skystorians 1/2
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As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
December 13, 2025 at 5:08 PM
As an author, I’ve already gotten multiple emails from people asking me for fake articles and books that I’ve supposedly written, because chatbots have told them fake references. I *cannot imagine* the frustration and time waste for librarians and especially ILL library professionals right now.
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This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
We’re running out of good ideas. AI might be how we find new ones.
What if the best use of AI is restarting the world’s idea machine?
www.vox.com
December 13, 2025 at 4:17 PM
This column on Vox is the biggest pile of steaming AI crap I've seen this year. Human's aren't running out of ideas. Instead, those with power and money don't want to listen to ideas that threaten their power and money.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
Ideas are plentiful. Putting those ideas into action is the hard part.
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My friend Eduardo Angel Cruz (KU Leuven) wrote this really cool open access article on diablados ("dances of devils") in 16th-17thC Peru for a really cool special issue on Joy as Resistance for the really cool Journal of Festive Studies.
Really cool!
journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/...
Really cool!
journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/...
The Death of Andean Devils, the Life of Counter-Reformation Saints: Dances of Joy, Resistance, and Adaptation in Colonial Latin America
| Journal of Festive Studies
journals.h-net.org
December 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
My friend Eduardo Angel Cruz (KU Leuven) wrote this really cool open access article on diablados ("dances of devils") in 16th-17thC Peru for a really cool special issue on Joy as Resistance for the really cool Journal of Festive Studies.
Really cool!
journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/...
Really cool!
journals.h-net.org/jfs/article/...
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"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
December 10, 2025 at 9:56 AM
"RemoveWindowsAI" is a script created by zoicware, available on GitHub, that does exactly what it says: it remove every AI feature in Windows 11. Do what you wish to do with this information. I'm sharing this because some folks are forced to use Win11 at work or other places for any reasons.
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We're still being asked to encourage "ethical, responsible use of GenAI" as if that's not the biggest fucking oxymoron of our times.
Like okay let's also encourage eating lead-based paint in moderation. IT CAN'T BE DONE.
Like okay let's also encourage eating lead-based paint in moderation. IT CAN'T BE DONE.
December 11, 2025 at 10:24 PM
We're still being asked to encourage "ethical, responsible use of GenAI" as if that's not the biggest fucking oxymoron of our times.
Like okay let's also encourage eating lead-based paint in moderation. IT CAN'T BE DONE.
Like okay let's also encourage eating lead-based paint in moderation. IT CAN'T BE DONE.
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VC loses confidence vote:
December 9, 2025 at 4:50 PM
VC loses confidence vote:
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Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
December 5, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Attention creative medievalists! Eleanor Barraclough & I are co-editing a special issue of Public Humanities entitled CREATING THE MEDIEVAL NOW! See the cfp for details: essays of 2,000-3,000 words due 1 May 2026. (Amazing artwork by @hellomizk.bsky.social). 1/ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
I wish a notice like this wasn't necessary.
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
www.icrc.org/en/article/i...
Important notice: AI-generated archival references
www.icrc.org
December 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Folks might not know a lot of people are getting *very* upset that the materials they request are not available in the libraries/archives they're requesting from.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
We're getting lots here at the Library of Virginia: requests of documents likely surfaced by large language models that *do not exist*.
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The more you know about LLMs, the worse they get
I need everyone, esp anyone working in education or tech (but really everyone) to WATCH THIS CLIP of @drtanksley.bsky.social discussing the technologies infiltrating our schools & psyches and how she is addressing it with our young people. youtu.be/5mtcSL4S3HQ
Howard University AI Panel
YouTube video by Tiera Tanksley
youtu.be
November 22, 2025 at 3:27 PM
The more you know about LLMs, the worse they get
Until Chat GPT pays my salary, this is not happening.
Every future imagined by a tech company is worse than the previous iteration.
November 19, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Until Chat GPT pays my salary, this is not happening.
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Heads up research nerds; JSTOR is running a survey that includes questions about AI use in research and your perspective about the JSTOR database.
Now would be a good time to let them know what you think about AI inclusion in teaching and research
#academic #history #JSTOR #AI
Now would be a good time to let them know what you think about AI inclusion in teaching and research
#academic #history #JSTOR #AI
November 9, 2025 at 12:22 AM
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Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
November 7, 2025 at 8:58 AM
Edinburgh University is closing the Institute for Academic Development. Download these student resources while you can. Making notes, reading strategies, time management, dissertations and so on.
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
CC licenses. Pdf and text only versions. #HE 🗃️
institute-academic-development.ed.ac.uk/study-hub/le...
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since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
November 7, 2025 at 10:59 AM
since chatgpt has coached another young person in a mental health crisis to their death, I am yet again tapping the sign
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Sign and share to support! STOP THE CUTS!
We had our first strike day yesterday to challenge staff cuts at @thinkuhi.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone who joined our picket line and came to support us 💜
Here are the other ways you can help 👇
➡️ sign & share our #MegaphoneUK petition www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save-uhi-stop-the-cuts
Thanks to everyone who joined our picket line and came to support us 💜
Here are the other ways you can help 👇
➡️ sign & share our #MegaphoneUK petition www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/save-uhi-stop-the-cuts
November 5, 2025 at 10:25 AM
Sign and share to support! STOP THE CUTS!
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(Also @profgabriele.com and I wrote about other aspects of this trend last January and I'm glad Matt pushed me to write this with him as it's proved useful to me as a way to link disparate manifestations)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
Every Era Has Its Own Way of Thinking About the Middle Ages. Here’s 2025’s.
Tapestries, stone walls, chain mail, crossbows. This era’s medieval mashup has it all.
slate.com
November 3, 2025 at 10:07 PM
(Also @profgabriele.com and I wrote about other aspects of this trend last January and I'm glad Matt pushed me to write this with him as it's proved useful to me as a way to link disparate manifestations)
slate.com/news-and-pol...
slate.com/news-and-pol...
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When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Experimental evidence of the effects of large language models versus web search on depth of learning
Abstract. The effects of using large language models (LLMs) versus traditional web search on depth of learning are explored. A theory is proposed that when
academic.oup.com
October 28, 2025 at 3:14 PM
When people learn with ChatGPT instead of following their own searches, they end up knowing less, caring less, and producing worse advice, even when the facts are the same.
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
Friction is an essential ingredient for learning! Convenience makes us shallow.
academic.oup.com/pnasnexus/ar...
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wtf
The tech right is at once obsessed with Tolkien and utterly unable to comprehend what his books are actually about
October 29, 2025 at 2:28 PM
wtf
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There is a LOOOOOOOOONG history of fascism’s love affair with Tolkien!
DHS just posted a Lord of the Rings meme as an appeal to join ICE
October 29, 2025 at 9:27 PM
There is a LOOOOOOOOONG history of fascism’s love affair with Tolkien!
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Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Ghent, JPGM, Ms. Ludwig XIII 5, vol. 1, f. 55
October 22, 2025 at 4:21 AM
Tuesday’s ‘elephant done by a medieval artist that had never seen one’ - 15th century, Ghent, JPGM, Ms. Ludwig XIII 5, vol. 1, f. 55
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It’s not simply this: I think universities will pivot back to valuing the arts and humanities in a way where they’ll be grabbing for painful excuses as to why that infrastructure is currently being destroyed.
In about three years the entire university pivot to AI curricula and schools and programs is going to be so deeply embarrassing. We will all pretend it never happened and I will be standing there, looking at people with a mirror in my eyes. This is all so embarrassing.
October 17, 2025 at 12:55 PM
It’s not simply this: I think universities will pivot back to valuing the arts and humanities in a way where they’ll be grabbing for painful excuses as to why that infrastructure is currently being destroyed.
Medievalismsists well positioned to contribute to scholarly dialogues around this.
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
October 16, 2025 at 2:50 PM
Medievalismsists well positioned to contribute to scholarly dialogues around this.
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Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
I wrote about how MAGA is being shaped by a politics of immortality, how Charlie Kirk’s martyrdom reflects this, and what it could mean for the future of Trumpism. Read at @liberalcurrents.com
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
www.liberalcurrents.com/the-last-ene...
The Last Enemy Is Death: Prophetic Visions, AI Slop, and How the Politics of Immortality Could Shape Our Future
How mystics and transhumanists force the dead to speak on behalf of their politics.
www.liberalcurrents.com
October 16, 2025 at 1:20 PM
Churches showing an AI Charlie Kirk telling congregants, through an artificial voice, not to let evil win is a new level of instrumentalizing the dead.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
When Trump goes, I think we’re going to see the same thing. Visions and AI slop will abound. Prophecies and messages from beyond the grave.
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I'm sorry, but no. You cannot blame the existential threat on international students. The existential threat is because you made your country's public good wholly dependent on international students.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
October 4, 2025 at 6:40 PM
I'm sorry, but no. You cannot blame the existential threat on international students. The existential threat is because you made your country's public good wholly dependent on international students.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.
The venues for all the rankings that reduced higher education to competition not blameless in that.