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Michael Neiberg

@michaelneiberg.bsky.social

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Writer, Teacher, and Historian at US Army War College. Also a Dog Walker, Coffee Drinker, Traveler, Yinzer For All Seasons, and Family Man. Posts are personal and do NOT represent my employer or Army policy.

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Michael Scott Neiberg is an American historian who specializes in 20th-century military history, with a focus on France and, more broadly, Western Europe during the 1914–1945 era.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · 27d

New Substack is up about how to use AI to solve research problems. I can't prove it, but I hope it's the first #AI Substack post to feature an indirect Sheena Easton reference. I hope it sparks some thought. open.substack.com/pub/michaeln...

So How Do I Actually USE AI?

Or, how to pursue détente with AI

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

Latest Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. What do we REALLY have to worry about?

michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/lets-talk-...

Let's Talk About That Microsoft Study

What I'm worried about and what I'm not (yet) worried about

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Aug 26

New #Substack about that Microsoft study suggesting that #AI can replace much of what #historians do. What am I worried about? Not what the people reacting to the study seem to be worried about: michaelneiberg.substack.com/publish/post...

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Aug 19

I started a #Substack on #AI and #HigherEd. This is #4, on how we grade in an era of AI. Happy back to school!: michaelneiberg.substack.com/p/a-return-o... Are there #AI starter packs out there? Thanks.

A Return of the Blue Book?

Grading and Shifting Skills in an Era of AI

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Jan 5

(3, sorry): that estate is now a theme park that attracts 100,000 visitors a year to see the animals he collected and the cars he owned (the most valuable of which his enemies torched, so just remains are there now). Crazy.

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Jan 5

In addition, Colombia has a hippo problem in parts of the country because Escobar bred them in his mountain estate.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Jan 5

Weird facts you run across: at the height of Escobar's cocaine empire in Colombia, his cartel was buying $1,000 (USD) of rubber bands just to wrap all the cash EVERY WEEK. They also accepted a 10% loss of cash to rats and other animals in the warehouses where they stored all the $$$. (1/2)

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Jan 1

Not exactly Slow Horses is it?

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Jan 1

Just finished Black Doves on Netflix. Dumbest thing I’ve watched in ages despite a great cast and scenery. Has anyone ever seen London that empty, especially at Christmas?

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 23

After 9/11 Denmark invoked article 5 (an attack on one NATO ally is an attack on all) and sent fighters to patrol US airspace. dk.usembassy.gov/open-letter-...

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 18

Assassination of Anwar Sadat. Talked about with real fear and trepidation by my family.

🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · Dec 17

First space shuttle launch.

Still Sober @whoisdose.bsky.social · Dec 16

What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?

Mine is OJ Simpson

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🎃 Really Spooky Smith @reallyseansmith.bsky.social · Dec 17

First space shuttle launch.

Still Sober @whoisdose.bsky.social · Dec 16

What’s the first major news story your remember as a child?

Mine is OJ Simpson

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 6

Gracias

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 5

For those #gluten free and #celiac I am very happy to report that Spain has gone from one of the worst places to eat to one of the best. ¡Viva España!

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 4

Ha! What would you select as your favorite?

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 4

I don’t like to get controversial on social media and I’m sure others will have different opinions but this is my third trip here and there is no easier city to fall in love with in Europe (maybe the world) than Seville - when the weather is not obnoxiously hot.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Dec 4

Me 25 years ago: Madrid to Seville by high speed train in 2.5 hours. Amazing!

Me today: No WiFi? What is this horror?

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Reasonable Doubt @reasonabledoubt.bsky.social · Dec 1

If you live in a city named Columbus, you don't get to complain if someone plants a flag in land that doesn't belong to them.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 29

Well, we know for sure Duolingo is not Reviewer Two….

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 25

@maartjeabb.bsky.social terrific article in the new First World War Studies Journal. Really creative. Hope all is well there!

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Shashank Joshi @shashj.bsky.social · Nov 25

“It’s ‘boring war’ — stuff like ammunition stockpiles, transport and logistics — that really matters,” says Stringer, who has written about a possible post-US Nato. “It’s also what almost nobody does properly at scale, except for the US.” www.ft.com/content/6bea...

Can Europe defend itself without America?

The continent will have to spend more as Trump refocuses policy elsewhere. But replacing US military heft will not be easy

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 24

Taco Bell opens a 'restaurant' (I use the word loosely) in Sarajevo. Kinda feels like the 20th century is officially over. www.media-marketing.com/en/news/taco...

Taco Bell opens its first restaurant in Bosnia and Herzegovina, expanding its business into the Balkans region

Taco Bell has opened the doors of its first restaurant in Ilidža, Sarajevo, marking a major milestone in Taco Bell’s

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 24

It also has global reach and a history of jealously guarding its sovereignty.

Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 24

France has at least two assets no other EU state has: an independent nuclear deterrent and a UNSC veto. Copying won’t be easy.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 24

Vive la France Libre: www.nytimes.com/2024/11/23/w...

Madeleine Riffaud, ‘the Girl Who Saved Paris,’ Dies at 100

Humiliated by a Nazi officer as a teenager, she joined the French Resistance. By the time she was 20, she had killed a German soldier, survived torture and captured a supply train.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 24

Great post from E Mollick on how to start using #AI. Tips include: treat like a forgetful coworker; start in areas you know well; do NOT treat it like Google. AI is best for processing info quickly, not web searching. I'm using Mistral and Google Notebook LM. www.oneusefulthing.org/p/getting-st...

Getting started with AI: Good enough prompting

Don't make this hard

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 23

I'm not sure how far he got in the process. It would interesting to run it down and see where he got stopped - in France or in DC.

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 23

Bloch was WWI vet & pathbreaking historian. He fought at Dunkirk, got to the UK, and was refused admission to USA. He returned to France, wrote one of most important WWII memoirs then joined FR Resistance. Nazis murdered him in 1944 bc he was Jewish. He will now rightly enter the Panthéon.

Karine Varley @karinevarley.bsky.social · Nov 23

Marc Bloch to enter the Panthéon.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant, va entrer au Panthéon, annonce Emmanuel Macron

Le président de la République, qui s’exprimait au palais universitaire à Strasbourg, a également appelé à reconnaître et enseigner la tragédie des « malgré-nous », ces Alsaciens et Mosellans incorporé...

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Karine Varley @karinevarley.bsky.social · Nov 23

Marc Bloch to enter the Panthéon.

www.lemonde.fr/politique/ar...

Marc Bloch, historien et résistant, va entrer au Panthéon, annonce Emmanuel Macron

www.lemonde.fr

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Michael Neiberg @michaelneiberg.bsky.social · Nov 21

This video should win every Academy Award ever. www.youtube.com/shorts/e21At...

All service members boo this man

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