Mark L. Thompson
@mark-l-thompson.bsky.social
Early American historian in Groningen
Ellisonian thinker-tinker
Early American HistoriChat: https://eahc.mhvdr.nl/
H-GEAR: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/american-revolution/
Ellisonian thinker-tinker
Early American HistoriChat: https://eahc.mhvdr.nl/
H-GEAR: https://www.esciencecenter.nl/news/american-revolution/
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You can read about H-GEAR here: www.esciencecenter.nl/news/america...
& here: research-software-directory.org/projects/h-g...
& here: github.com/h-gear
& here, if you're really nice: sites.google.com/rug.nl/mark-...
& here: research-software-directory.org/projects/h-g...
& here: github.com/h-gear
& here, if you're really nice: sites.google.com/rug.nl/mark-...
Hard to believe it, but next week is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It became a named storm on the 24th and hit Louisiana on the morning of the 29th. It was really quick. www.weather.gov/lix/katrina_....
August 19, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Hard to believe it, but next week is the 20th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina. It became a named storm on the 24th and hit Louisiana on the morning of the 29th. It was really quick. www.weather.gov/lix/katrina_....
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When unis say “we won’t fire you humanities professors, we’ll just take your majors away and merge your department with two others and rename it all,” what they’re doing is they’re making humanities expertise increasingly invisible and inaccessible…
August 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
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A great accompaniment to Robin Blackburn's "An Unfinished Revolution," too ... !
On the occasion of Karl Marx's birthday, I will send a free, signed copy of my new book, "Karl Marx in America," to a randomly selected person. To be entered in the drawing, simply repost. press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/bo...
Karl Marx in America
The vital and untold story of Karl Marx’s stamp on American life. To read Karl Marx is to contemplate a world created by capitalism. People have long viewed the United States as the quintessential a...
press.uchicago.edu
May 6, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A great accompaniment to Robin Blackburn's "An Unfinished Revolution," too ... !
Made it into the reference room collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I guess my job is done
April 30, 2025 at 10:32 AM
Made it into the reference room collection at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. I guess my job is done
James Osterberg aka Iggy Pop = 78 🎂
April 21, 2025 at 8:03 PM
James Osterberg aka Iggy Pop = 78 🎂
In three years you could get a BA (or one for an MA) from a top-rated American Studies program at a four-century-old Dutch university in the compact, safe international city of Groningen.
(Just saying) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
(Just saying) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
Leaving the U.S. for College or Grad School? Tell Us More.
The New York Times is looking to hear from students who are considering attending schools abroad because of Trump administration policies.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:11 PM
In three years you could get a BA (or one for an MA) from a top-rated American Studies program at a four-century-old Dutch university in the compact, safe international city of Groningen.
(Just saying) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
(Just saying) www.nytimes.com/2025/04/17/u...
Reposted by Mark L. Thompson
Hello BlueSky! The #ITPS has been a quiet on social media for a while as we focused our efforts on our newsletter, Page of Reason, and other projects. We’re excited to reconnect here, so please look out for some updates over the next few weeks, and we’d be grateful if you’d share the word too!
April 3, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Hello BlueSky! The #ITPS has been a quiet on social media for a while as we focused our efforts on our newsletter, Page of Reason, and other projects. We’re excited to reconnect here, so please look out for some updates over the next few weeks, and we’d be grateful if you’d share the word too!
In 2004 I wrote a review of the late geographer Carville Earle's "The American Way." According to his cyclical theory of US history, we're now in the depths of an era of "Bad Times." But that also means that the age of "Third Democracy" & "Good Times" are on their way! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
H-Net Reviews
www.h-net.org
April 4, 2025 at 3:28 PM
In 2004 I wrote a review of the late geographer Carville Earle's "The American Way." According to his cyclical theory of US history, we're now in the depths of an era of "Bad Times." But that also means that the age of "Third Democracy" & "Good Times" are on their way! www.h-net.org/reviews/show...
@theslowridepod.bsky.social Little Guy's doppelgänger from the New Zealand republic of Whangamōmona www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
March 26, 2025 at 4:08 PM
@theslowridepod.bsky.social Little Guy's doppelgänger from the New Zealand republic of Whangamōmona www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
Hey y'all @lsupress.bsky.social -- Mark Zuckerberg owes us some $ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Hey y'all @lsupress.bsky.social -- Mark Zuckerberg owes us some $ www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Can't wait to see my new royalty checks come in after this score. I can stop grading papers forever💰💰💰
where do I sign up to be part of the class action suit against Meta on behalf of authors whose work has been ripped off to train their AI?
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
www.theatlantic.com
March 20, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Can't wait to see my new royalty checks come in after this score. I can stop grading papers forever💰💰💰
is on strike in Groningen.🚩
No insightful historical analyses will be forthcoming today
No insightful historical analyses will be forthcoming today
March 18, 2025 at 10:08 AM
is on strike in Groningen.🚩
No insightful historical analyses will be forthcoming today
No insightful historical analyses will be forthcoming today
Following this account is like picking up a penny off the sidewalk
March 6, 2025 at 10:10 AM
Following this account is like picking up a penny off the sidewalk
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
- MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in Tim Jelfs, _The Argument about Things in the 1980s_
- MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in Tim Jelfs, _The Argument about Things in the 1980s_
February 27, 2025 at 10:30 PM
"When machines and computers, profit motives and property rights, are considered more important than people, the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism, and militarism are incapable of being conquered.”
- MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in Tim Jelfs, _The Argument about Things in the 1980s_
- MLK, "Beyond Vietnam," quoted in Tim Jelfs, _The Argument about Things in the 1980s_
News from the Starry Messenger - 415 years after Galileo peered through his telescope on a January night & realized the pinpricks of light near Jupiter were moons, not stars, MT aimed his telescope thru his bedroom window and observed Io, Europa, Callisto & Jupiter's twin orange stripes! So rad.
January 28, 2025 at 2:25 PM
News from the Starry Messenger - 415 years after Galileo peered through his telescope on a January night & realized the pinpricks of light near Jupiter were moons, not stars, MT aimed his telescope thru his bedroom window and observed Io, Europa, Callisto & Jupiter's twin orange stripes! So rad.
is proud to say that in a day and a half he was able to figure out how to use the consoles in Claude & Gemini & Google Colab to write a Python script that could download all of Benjamin Franklin's writings from Founders Online and then save them as a nice, fat 12.6 MB CSV file in his Google Drive.
December 4, 2024 at 8:44 PM
is proud to say that in a day and a half he was able to figure out how to use the consoles in Claude & Gemini & Google Colab to write a Python script that could download all of Benjamin Franklin's writings from Founders Online and then save them as a nice, fat 12.6 MB CSV file in his Google Drive.
This is a cool journal - check it out
ICYMI, our third issue was published this fall! Download the full issue or individual articles here: naajournal.org/issues/
November 19, 2024 at 10:13 PM
This is a cool journal - check it out
Introducing Early American HistoriChat, a chatbot trained on the EvansTCP corpus, ~5,000 American printed texts from 1640 to 1800: eahc.mhvdr.nl
Inspired by the work of @dorialexander.bsky.social; designed & built by @michielree.bsky.social in collaboration with MLT & the H-GEAR project
Inspired by the work of @dorialexander.bsky.social; designed & built by @michielree.bsky.social in collaboration with MLT & the H-GEAR project
October 30, 2024 at 1:36 PM
Introducing Early American HistoriChat, a chatbot trained on the EvansTCP corpus, ~5,000 American printed texts from 1640 to 1800: eahc.mhvdr.nl
Inspired by the work of @dorialexander.bsky.social; designed & built by @michielree.bsky.social in collaboration with MLT & the H-GEAR project
Inspired by the work of @dorialexander.bsky.social; designed & built by @michielree.bsky.social in collaboration with MLT & the H-GEAR project
Edmund Callis Berkeley, GIANT BRAINS OR MACHINES THAT THINK (1949).
October 29, 2024 at 3:42 PM
Edmund Callis Berkeley, GIANT BRAINS OR MACHINES THAT THINK (1949).