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Ron Coleman @arecoleman.bsky.social · 14h

I once helped a researcher confirm that Igor Stravinsky was an avid "Mad Magazine" reader.

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derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 2d

😭

IG newberlinlibrary

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Rebecca Erbelding (she/her) @rerbelding.bsky.social · 10d

Merry Wives @shakespeareindc.bsky.social was so much fun. If you need a break from scrolling and the doom of DC, go see this show. 10/10, just a room of joy.

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Ron Coleman @arecoleman.bsky.social · Jul 14

Er, thats not 100% correct, what i just said, but it's close. Somehow Tab is involved, too.

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Ron Coleman @arecoleman.bsky.social · Jul 14

No, Diet Coke is modeled on New Coke, which is why it tastes different. Coke Zero is based on Coca Cola Classic, hence the same (or similar) taste.

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Alex Brown 🇵🇸 (they/them) @bookjockeyalex.bsky.social · Jun 16

I refuse to give the NYT my eyeballs, so I can't speak to the specifics of this article. But any historians attempting to use AI for either writing or research should be run out of the field. AI is inherently unable to do anything we need it to do to understand and communicate history.

Megan Kate Nelson 📚 @mkn.bsky.social · Jun 16

Lots of commentary on this piece already, all of which I agree with.

For historians, research is a fundamental part of writing.

To farm it out to AI changes the nature of this intellectual process in fundamental ways.

And as Stacy Schiff points out, it also takes all the fun out of it.

A.I. Is Poised to Rewrite History. Literally.

www.nytimes.com

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Ron Coleman @arecoleman.bsky.social · Jun 15

Photo of a Virginia license plate with two child handprints in red. The plate reads "Eat The" and the Virginia plate text at the bottom reads "Kids First."

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The Believer @thebeliever.net · May 17

"You look at the past as a historian, and you look at it for so [long] that the thought occurs to you, 'These poor dead fuckers thought they were living in the present.'"

—Michael Lesy, interviewed by Jim Knipfel

www.thebeliever.net/logger/an-in...

www.thebeliever.net

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Michael W. Kraus @mwkraus.bsky.social · Apr 23

I am teaching my phd writing workshop course this quarter, question: are there any words/phrases said to you by an advisor/mentor that stuck with you, were memorable, or particularly helpful? If so please reply below!

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Satan’s Niece @krissychula.bsky.social · Apr 6

This is high art

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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com · Feb 18

So one of the things that I think is lost on AI proponents is what I call the card catalog effect, a thing I shouldn’t call it because a lot of people probably have no experience with a card catalog.

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Kevin Buist @kevinbuist.com · Jan 20

This poem still hits. Especially today. www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/89897/...

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Contingent Magazine @contingent-mag.bsky.social · Jan 19

"There is a crucial lesson for our times in Perkins’s career: even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference, not only in what she was able to accomplish but also in what she was able to thwart."

@adinayoffie.bsky.social on @theotherrbg.bsky.social's new book!

Madam Secretary

Even within an uncaring government bureaucracy, one person could make a difference.

contingentmagazine.org

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Caitlin G. DeAngelis @caitlindeangelis.bsky.social · Jan 3

Going through some old photos from the archives today. I am grateful to Past Me who developed a system of hand signals to mark photos during research trips.

thumbs up means "this is important"

pointing finger means "notable/quotable detail"

palm up means "WTF"

photo of my palm hovering over an archival document

photo of my hand giving a thumbs up to an archival document

my index finger pointing to a detail about the unionization of the war graves gardeners

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Ann Leckie @annleckie.com · Dec 27

Seen a few folks astonished by my lack of support for ChatGPT and similar. Because AI, right?

Yeah, no. What we have right now is glorified autocorrect. Glorified autocorrect that takes the energy of an entire city to do what it does, plus half of Lake Erie to cool down while it's doing it.