Courtney E. Thompson
@cethompson.bsky.social
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#histmed #histSTM #emohist #bodyhist | Assoc. prof. at Mississippi State | JHMAS Book Review Ed. | #AnOrganofMurder | #ACalculusofCompassion | Winnie & Gigi #pupdates | extremely online
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Looking to spice up your #histmed classes? Consider two new books coming out just in time for Fall 2025! Full of pithy and provocative essays, Do Less Harm (ed. me & @drkyliesmith.bsky.social) and The Nursing Clio Reader (@nursingclio.bsky.social) offer new perspectives to meet the moment. 1/2
The cover of Do Less Harm. The cover of The Nursing Clio Reader.
cethompson.bsky.social
Cheesequake
merriam-webster.com
What’s the word where you’re from that, when pronounced exactly as it looks, identifies a tourist immediately?
cethompson.bsky.social
"The girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa"
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kairyssdal.bsky.social
This is the lesson of 2025
qjurecic.bsky.social
he's going to come after you either way, so you might as well act with integrity
cethompson.bsky.social
I would love to see some genuinely Weird Shit instead of the writing equivalent of face-tuned bullshit.
alexhanna.bsky.social
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps
monkeyminion.com
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
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alexhanna.bsky.social
As an instructor, I'd rather see your fever dream, No Doze-fueled 4AM essays written at an IHOP rather than anything generated by an LLM.

Hope this helps
monkeyminion.com
I wrote a 15 page report on heraldic symbolism in medieval armor and weapon design for my art history class the night before it was due (8am class). Made up 90% of it (only found one book for reference) and got an A. GenAI could fucking never.
wrote 20 pages on Faulkner's The Bear four hours before final papers were due on trucker pills and coffee and cigarettes and got an A, fuck you.
You people couldn't hang with real slackers.
finn
wokeupchic • 4d
It's fuck Al till your homework due in 25 minutes
cethompson.bsky.social
Sure would be nice to highlight Lost Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences, too.
carlzimmer.com
Today my @nytimes.com colleagues and I are launching a new series called Lost Science. We interview US scientists who can no longer discover something new about our world, thanks to this year‘s cuts. Here is my first interview with a scientist who studied bees and fires. Gift link: nyti.ms/3IWXbiE
nyti.ms
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ajaxsinger.bsky.social
It's interesting seeing the different ways resistance has formed in different cities. Los Angeles Organized, Chicago Radicalized, and Portland Got Weird as Fuck. All 3 have had success unifying their respective cities.

I guess my point is there are multiple paths to ungovernability.
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shamjaff.bsky.social
It’s a "crisis" when immigrants "take jobs away", but "innovation" when machines do. Funny.
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nycsouthpaw.bsky.social
Everyone can set aside partisanship, psychologizing, pathologizing, whatever, and—I would hope—still see that it’s incredibly dangerous for a political leader to be this disconnected from the real conditions in the country.
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Trump: "I don't know what could be worse than Portland. You don't even have stores anymore. They don't even put glass up. They put plywood on their windows."
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partialobserver.bsky.social
“I had to flat out tell [the Microsoft sales team] VP we're not buying any fucking copilot - whereupon she revealed that the only thing she is being measured on for Q4 is sales of copilot, so if that's off the table the conversation is not interesting. LMAO”
cethompson.bsky.social
This is what ended the last shutdown, because it inconveniences the rich. Tick tock.
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CNN @cnn.com · 1d
There will not be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport, the FAA is warning.

Now on the seventh day of the government shutdown, the same scenario is playing out at FAA offices across the country, with ripple effects hitting flights almost everywhere.
Delays spread to major airports across the country, as the seventh day of government shutdown impacts travelers | CNN
There are not going to be enough air traffic controllers in the tower at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport Tuesday night, the Federal Aviation Administratoin is warning. In Nashville, so many are...
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cethompson.bsky.social
thank u Kraft mac & cheese
darthbluesky.bsky.social
thank u potato
strawbbfields4ever.bsky.social
always remember who was there for you at your lowest. thank you cigarettes
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wolvendamien.bsky.social
The current paradigm of "AI" encodes & recapitulates eugenicist, fascist, and generally bigoted tendencies— but previous paradigms did, too, & if these facts had been addressed, then, in the culture of technology specifically and our sociotechnical culture writ large, it might not still be like that
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jenka.bsky.social
I learned this term yesterday and my life will never be the same.
"Solution Aversion": Denying a problem when you do not like the solution.
cethompson.bsky.social
You're only as hot as your last pub, PhD.
cethompson.bsky.social
Apropos of nothing, Utah feels like the least Jazzy state, so why does that team have that name.
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dropsitenews.com
Greta Thunberg: "I could talk for a very, very long time about our mistreatment and abuses in our imprisonment. Trust me. But that is not the story. What happened here was Israel… continuing to worsen and escalate their genocide and mass destruction with genocidal intent, attempting to erase an...
cethompson.bsky.social
Well now I want to know what happened! What do I read?
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