Jennifer Sarha
@necverbum.bsky.social
Independent scholar, sort of writing a novel. Interests: translation, historiography, revolutions. She/they.
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Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
Middlesbrough-born musician had hits with Driving Home for Christmas, On the Beach and The Road to Hell
Chris Rea, the British singer-songwriter whose hits included Driving Home For Christmas, has died at the age of 74, a spokesperson for his family said.
The statement said that he died “peacefully in hospital … following a short illness”. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 22, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Chris Rea, rock and blues singer-songwriter, dies aged 74
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Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
December 17, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!
go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT
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Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
December 22, 2025 at 3:09 AM
Don’t forget. Biden’s DoJ was investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files up until the last minute. Trump shut down the investigation, sent the files to DC, & fired the prosecutors. They went through them, redacted Trump’s name, then elected not to release them and closed the matter.
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1/3. Netanyahu has far more in common with the Bondi Beach attackers than Albanese.
Netanyahu and the terrorists both dehumanise innocent people who “represent”, but who are not, their enemy. Furthermore…
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Netanyahu and the terrorists both dehumanise innocent people who “represent”, but who are not, their enemy. Furthermore…
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Israel's Netanyahu accuses Australian PM of fuelling antisemitism
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu condemned Sunday's deadly shooting at a Jewish holiday celebration in Sydney and said he had warned his Australian counterpart that the country's support for ...
www.reuters.com
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
1/3. Netanyahu has far more in common with the Bondi Beach attackers than Albanese.
Netanyahu and the terrorists both dehumanise innocent people who “represent”, but who are not, their enemy. Furthermore…
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Netanyahu and the terrorists both dehumanise innocent people who “represent”, but who are not, their enemy. Furthermore…
www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
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You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
December 21, 2025 at 1:23 PM
You absolutely will not convince a bunch of historians and sociologists and whoever else is in this thread that you know more than we do about this and we should use it. I wish you AI enthusiasts would stop wading into our conversations. You have nothing helpful to contribute and are snarky.
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The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
Michael Sheen spent his own money to write off $1.3 million of neighbors’ debts | CNN
Actor Michael Sheen has bought $1.3 million of his neighbors’ debts and written them off using $129,000 of his own money.
www.cnn.com
December 21, 2025 at 3:07 PM
The actor Michael Sheen used all his money to start a fake debt collecting business, buy 900 people in Wales's debt, and excused it. If Musk bought ALL $194 billion in medical debt in the U.S. and excused it in the same way, he'd still be the world's riches man by hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Because LLMs routinely hallucinates information, including entire journal articles.
Because LLMs damage your critical thinking.
Because it’s built on plagiarized material.
This tech is the antithesis of education, curiosity, and inquiry
Because LLMs damage your critical thinking.
Because it’s built on plagiarized material.
This tech is the antithesis of education, curiosity, and inquiry
What about this is controversial? Beginning an inquiry by using AI to survey material is a very normal and appropriate use.
December 21, 2025 at 2:20 PM
Because LLMs routinely hallucinates information, including entire journal articles.
Because LLMs damage your critical thinking.
Because it’s built on plagiarized material.
This tech is the antithesis of education, curiosity, and inquiry
Because LLMs damage your critical thinking.
Because it’s built on plagiarized material.
This tech is the antithesis of education, curiosity, and inquiry
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Wishing everyone a blessed Winter Solstice.
Kercado chambered tomb, near Carnac, Brittany. Built c. 5,200 BCE, its entrance was oriented toward the rising sun on the Winter Solstice.
📷 June, 2023
Kercado chambered tomb, near Carnac, Brittany. Built c. 5,200 BCE, its entrance was oriented toward the rising sun on the Winter Solstice.
📷 June, 2023
December 21, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Wishing everyone a blessed Winter Solstice.
Kercado chambered tomb, near Carnac, Brittany. Built c. 5,200 BCE, its entrance was oriented toward the rising sun on the Winter Solstice.
📷 June, 2023
Kercado chambered tomb, near Carnac, Brittany. Built c. 5,200 BCE, its entrance was oriented toward the rising sun on the Winter Solstice.
📷 June, 2023
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Sunrise at Stonehenge today (20th December) was at 8.07am, sunset is at 4.00pm
December 20, 2025 at 12:31 PM
Sunrise at Stonehenge today (20th December) was at 8.07am, sunset is at 4.00pm
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Seasons greetings from the Blairs. 🌲🎅
December 21, 2025 at 9:03 AM
Seasons greetings from the Blairs. 🌲🎅
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Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
Call for Applications: Early Career Rescue Fellowship – Freiburg Institute for Advanced Studies
uni-freiburg.de
December 19, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Post-doc positions:
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
"Academic freedom is under pressure today. This requires rescue havens of free research. ... [we] invite early career researchers, whose work is restricted due to political pressure in the USA..."
uni-freiburg.de/frias/call-f...
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Yeah, the whole ”inevitability” narrative as well the sole vilification of the tools deflect responsibility: people made choices, including choices to delegitimate those who tried to defend a knowledge system built on trust and verification.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Yeah, the whole ”inevitability” narrative as well the sole vilification of the tools deflect responsibility: people made choices, including choices to delegitimate those who tried to defend a knowledge system built on trust and verification.
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Look, everybody, Christmas came early!!!!
Someone punched Andrew Tate, repeatedly.
Someone punched Andrew Tate, repeatedly.
First Jake Paul now Andrew Tate? Blessed with a double early Christmas
December 21, 2025 at 5:38 AM
Look, everybody, Christmas came early!!!!
Someone punched Andrew Tate, repeatedly.
Someone punched Andrew Tate, repeatedly.
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First Jake Paul now Andrew Tate? Blessed with a double early Christmas
December 21, 2025 at 12:17 AM
First Jake Paul now Andrew Tate? Blessed with a double early Christmas
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The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
December 21, 2025 at 6:05 AM
The shorteste daye
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
The longest nighte
Welcome, sun
Welcome, lighte
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The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
Are you citing things you have not read?
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
Knowing that LLMs are text-generation machines, not text-analysis machines, that's more than a bit irresponsible and suspect.
December 21, 2025 at 4:17 AM
The google AI summary of my most famous piece of writing--a thousand word blog post--misunderstands it on a fundamental level. In doing so, it reproduces the way critical yet lazy scholars misunderstood it, by reading the title and filling in what they thought was the most likely meaning.
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Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.
When I say that it's grim that Jewish people on the right are about to find themselves unwelcome, I am referring to rising antisemitism, which is dangerous and bad
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens aren't just against Israel. They are actively promoting antisemitic tropes. This is a problem!
Tucker Carlson and Candace Owens aren't just against Israel. They are actively promoting antisemitic tropes. This is a problem!
December 21, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Ben Shapiro is used to being around conservatives who make tasteless jokes about Jews, & assuming that’s as deep as the antisemitism goes. These deep cut tropes coming into wider circulation on the right now are the sorts of things people say who have had conversations about murdering lots of Jews.
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As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
December 17, 2025 at 10:23 PM
As we approach the Winter Solstice, here's what Stonehenge looked like in the 16th century.
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
#WinterSolstice
BL Add MS 28330; Lucas De Heere, Corte Beschryvinghe van Engheland, Schotland, ende Irland; 1573 CE-1575 CE; England (London); f.36r
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If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
When viewing the fake article in Google scholar on my university network, there is a link to access the article via my uni's library. That link sends me to a library page that makes fake article appear real... Turns out library page is made programmatically from info on Google scholar 🤦
December 21, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If this is already the normal procedure everywhere, i.e. a google scholar import, universities’ library catalogues will be useless tomorrow.
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"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy
Professional societies keep beclowning themselves buying into a lie about what an LLM "summary" is. They are inherently counterfeit: not an epistemic product of the ideas in the source, but summary-shaped text linguistically based on *other* works (in the training corpus) that use related language.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 21, 2025 at 3:30 AM
"I only use it for summaries" is the new six word tragedy
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Consumer-facing “A.i.” is a fascist project of right wing billionaires to replace actual knowledge and human interaction with lies, disinformation, slop, and propaganda.
Academics and technologists are sounding the alarm about a growing crisis in scholarship as we know it: AI-generated citations of nonexistent papers that have infested real journals. Despite being fake, the sources are widely assumed to be authentic the more they appear in published literature.
AI Is Inventing Academic Papers That Don't Exist -- And They're Being Cited in Real Journals
Academic articles from authors using large language model are creating an ecosystem of fake research that threatens human knowledge itself.
www.rollingstone.com
December 20, 2025 at 1:15 PM
Consumer-facing “A.i.” is a fascist project of right wing billionaires to replace actual knowledge and human interaction with lies, disinformation, slop, and propaganda.
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I just don't get why AI bros explode so messily when they're confronted with people who are critical of their products, or don't see the value of their products in their own work/daily lives.
Is it a Silicon Valley thing?
Because Ive had variations of this exchange so often on twitter...
Is it a Silicon Valley thing?
Because Ive had variations of this exchange so often on twitter...
One reason why I don't trust industry research is that the people in charge of products fundamentally cannot handle any criticism of those products
anyway, since I've been blocked, Im sharing this because I might as well be the toxic "mean-spirited" troll he says I am
December 20, 2025 at 6:16 PM
I just don't get why AI bros explode so messily when they're confronted with people who are critical of their products, or don't see the value of their products in their own work/daily lives.
Is it a Silicon Valley thing?
Because Ive had variations of this exchange so often on twitter...
Is it a Silicon Valley thing?
Because Ive had variations of this exchange so often on twitter...
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I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 1:45 PM
I am not sorry. This is simply true. Academics should be able to write fluently and express themselves clearly and academics should do their own work. It’s literally our job. It’s what we trained until 22nd grade to do. This is a simple observation that should require no explanation or defense.
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Wow, 100% tumor elimination is an incredible result! It still in mice but extremely promising compared to current treatments!
December 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
Wow, 100% tumor elimination is an incredible result! It still in mice but extremely promising compared to current treatments!
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This would be about as useful as simply reading the summary on the back of the book.
AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.
AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.
This is one of the reasons I remain horrified by seeing @historians.org suggest "ways to use gAI" that included this:
December 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
This would be about as useful as simply reading the summary on the back of the book.
AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.
AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.