Matthew McCleary
@mmccleary.bsky.social
Centrist; North Dakotan; Fmr.Special Ed Student; Have NVLD; History of Special Ed Transition Policy; Mental Health Advocacy is my Profession. Casual Audiophile.
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Matthew McCleary
@mmccleary.bsky.social
· Nov 18
MHAN Podcast Season 1 - YouTube
The Mental Health Advocacy Network (MHAN), which advocates for a consumer/family-driven mental health system of care, has launched a podcast designed to prov...
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Back a couple years ago we at Mental Health Advocacy Network created a podcast to discuss the important issues with ND's mental health system.
The episodes are still pretty relevant today!
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The episodes are still pretty relevant today!
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When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 22, 2025 at 1:40 AM
When we say "no, everything hasn't been digitized," I need you to understand that we really mean is that virtually nothing has been digitized. This is because the realm of primary sources that historians use is incomprehensibly large.
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I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.
No, absolutely not.
Most archival materials have not been digitized, many would be illegible to AI (handwriting etc) even if they were. But the question came out of the research. There’s no way AI can do that.
Most archival materials have not been digitized, many would be illegible to AI (handwriting etc) even if they were. But the question came out of the research. There’s no way AI can do that.
December 21, 2025 at 11:57 PM
I think this is one those things historians understand intuitively and a lot of non-historians struggle with. Research isn’t just about answering a question, it’s about framing a question. This is what we argue about! Wrestle with. Cry over. Drink away. Not how to answer, but what question to ask.
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I mean: “why would i pay a college to submit my essay to chatgpt for me”
December 18, 2025 at 6:43 PM
I mean: “why would i pay a college to submit my essay to chatgpt for me”
TA's are often how people fund going to graduate school. So that's...genius.
If you think I'm going to pay $80k a year in tuition you better believe I want my kid taught by an underpaid human TA who is slowly beating eaten alive by ennui and his marinating feelings of grievance over the impossibility of ever landing a tenure track job.
December 18, 2025 at 7:28 PM
TA's are often how people fund going to graduate school. So that's...genius.
Don’t worry: this time our utopia will work.
Belgian crypto billionaire Olivier Janssens is planning to establish a "libertarian community" with its own legal system in Saint Kitts and Nevis.
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the ‘Dubai of the Caribbean’
Belgian crypto-billionaire wants to build the 'Dubai of the Caribbean'
www.brusselstimes.com
December 18, 2025 at 2:48 PM
Don’t worry: this time our utopia will work.
Why was I expecting an exhortation to rally against AI, as I would have expected from Fukuyama or Leon Kass?
If we are banning cell phones for kids we need to be talking about banning chatbots for boomers
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
www.persuasion.community/p/my-chatgpt...
December 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Why was I expecting an exhortation to rally against AI, as I would have expected from Fukuyama or Leon Kass?
In this, the Ivy Leagues deserve wrath.
Harvard officials are reportedly secretly investigating two students for their roles in drawing scrutiny to the relationship between Jeffrey Epstein and ex-president Larry Summers
Harvard Secretly Investigates Students Over Larry Summers Video on Epstein
www.nytimes.com
December 17, 2025 at 4:36 PM
In this, the Ivy Leagues deserve wrath.
And we're going to be finding a lot of people ditching browsers to find those without AI shoved in.
Mozilla’s new CEO is doubling down on an AI future for Firefox
Anthony Enzor-DeMeo is taking charge of one of the internet’s most important — and most complicated — companies.
www.theverge.com
December 16, 2025 at 9:23 PM
And we're going to be finding a lot of people ditching browsers to find those without AI shoved in.
Statistician, interestingly enough, unhappy that historians have things to say about regimes and politics.
December 16, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Statistician, interestingly enough, unhappy that historians have things to say about regimes and politics.
Sorry Nate Silver. Public opinion polling has a significant limitation in that it's less than a century old, and such analysts largely rely on the field's body of work to make sense of what is going on in a country.
Historians, therefore, are important when considering historical analogies.
Historians, therefore, are important when considering historical analogies.
December 16, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Sorry Nate Silver. Public opinion polling has a significant limitation in that it's less than a century old, and such analysts largely rely on the field's body of work to make sense of what is going on in a country.
Historians, therefore, are important when considering historical analogies.
Historians, therefore, are important when considering historical analogies.
That’s not grandma.
IN DEPTH | If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
If you could speak to your dead grandmother forever, would you?
www.independent.co.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:13 PM
That’s not grandma.
In addition: it’s crap.
That we are making management and programmatic decisions based off this crappy technology is utterly horrifying.
That we are making management and programmatic decisions based off this crappy technology is utterly horrifying.
I continue to have no sympathy left for whinging about how the public are rude about AI and feel threatened by it when the biggest players in the AI space have spent years very vocally and constantly *threatening the public*
December 10, 2025 at 7:31 PM
In addition: it’s crap.
That we are making management and programmatic decisions based off this crappy technology is utterly horrifying.
That we are making management and programmatic decisions based off this crappy technology is utterly horrifying.
What's the point of any of this? Nothing is real.
The Washington Post is launching a personalized AI podcast, saying users will be able to "shape their own briefing, select their topics, set their lengths, pick their hosts and soon even ask questions using our Ask The Post AI technology."
December 10, 2025 at 4:29 PM
What's the point of any of this? Nothing is real.
This reminds me of the documentary “Helvetica,” in which someone claimed that their way to protest the Vietnam War was to refuse to use Helvetica.
December 10, 2025 at 1:33 AM
This reminds me of the documentary “Helvetica,” in which someone claimed that their way to protest the Vietnam War was to refuse to use Helvetica.
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NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)
December 4, 2025 at 12:44 PM
NOW, it's a pseudoscience because it's been debunked & is no longer mainstream scientific thinking. Calling historical eugenics a pseudoscience lets science & scientists of the past off the hook (Also, PS is more of a modern-day term. We had terms like "quackery" but eugenics was not that)
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discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either
1. Historically, eugenics was not a pseudoscience. It was *science* Almost every scientist, social scientist, academic, etc. believed in the validity of eugenics. You would have to search far & wide to find a scientist that didn't believe in some form of it. They taught it in college!
December 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
discussed this in seminar yesterday, albeit with reference to “race science” generally. If you understand science as a historical phenomenon then the question is what was science then, not whether it would count as science now, and the implication is that what science is now is not forever, either
Lauren raises good points. There are also some other issues that are not being discussed in good faith that impact everyone.
In my work, we often see that schools are not well-equipped to help kids with mental health challenges. Stereotypes and bad quick fixes rule the world.
In my work, we often see that schools are not well-equipped to help kids with mental health challenges. Stereotypes and bad quick fixes rule the world.
Sure, Galloway is better than Peterson
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
But he still believes the natural order of things requires men to be supreme. Men must protect, provide and procreate. It's dressed in progressive language, but it's fundamentally a patriarchal box to trap men in
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scott Galloway on the masculinity crisis: ‘I worry we are evolving a new breed of asexual, asocial males’
When his book Notes on Being a Man was released last month, it raced to the top of the bestseller lists. The US author, tech entrepreneur and podcaster explains his theories on dating, crying – and th...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 9:28 PM
Lauren raises good points. There are also some other issues that are not being discussed in good faith that impact everyone.
In my work, we often see that schools are not well-equipped to help kids with mental health challenges. Stereotypes and bad quick fixes rule the world.
In my work, we often see that schools are not well-equipped to help kids with mental health challenges. Stereotypes and bad quick fixes rule the world.
I thought it was an open secret that WWE's Hall of Fame exists only in programming notes and recordings.
I can’t believe the WWE Hall of Fame thing is real. This is like a @davecolon.bsky.social bit.
December 3, 2025 at 7:56 PM
I thought it was an open secret that WWE's Hall of Fame exists only in programming notes and recordings.
A lot of writers need to meet normal people to see how much they are actually coming into contact with these memes.
December 3, 2025 at 6:59 PM
A lot of writers need to meet normal people to see how much they are actually coming into contact with these memes.
The spring semester and the upcoming fall semester will be interesting to watch. State Departments of Education will be tasked with defining their roles and responsibilities more clearly for students with disabilities.
Opportunities for growth are good, but always expect disappointment instead.
Opportunities for growth are good, but always expect disappointment instead.
December 3, 2025 at 6:54 PM
The spring semester and the upcoming fall semester will be interesting to watch. State Departments of Education will be tasked with defining their roles and responsibilities more clearly for students with disabilities.
Opportunities for growth are good, but always expect disappointment instead.
Opportunities for growth are good, but always expect disappointment instead.
No, I want more stuff.
Alas, tariffs.
Alas, tariffs.
My shelves are overflowing with books. My closet can't fit any more clothes, most of which I haven't worn in years. My attic is filled to the brim.
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
All of the Black Friday shopping deals remind me that I'm drowning in stuff. Are you?
Do we really need more stuff?
A proposal for a recycled economy
robertreich.substack.com
November 29, 2025 at 1:38 AM
No, I want more stuff.
Alas, tariffs.
Alas, tariffs.
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Between the "modern school is why kids have anxiety" and "men can only be okay if women give them more babies" discourses of the day, I find myself wishing that Americans could engage with their non-Civil War 19th century history a bit more.
November 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Between the "modern school is why kids have anxiety" and "men can only be okay if women give them more babies" discourses of the day, I find myself wishing that Americans could engage with their non-Civil War 19th century history a bit more.
Grok is North Korean level nonsense.
The AI buildout takes your water, electricity and jobs — but you DO get this. 🤡
@nypost.com
nypost.com/2025/11/21/b...
@nypost.com
nypost.com/2025/11/21/b...
November 21, 2025 at 6:08 PM
Grok is North Korean level nonsense.
Lock ‘em in, and then jack up the prices.
OPENAI LAUNCHES CHATGPT FOR TEACHERS, FREE UNTIL JUNE 2027, WITH PRICING ADJUSTMENTS POSSIBLE AFTERWARD BUT A COMMITMENT TO KEEP IT AFFORDABLE FOR EDUCATORS.
November 19, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Lock ‘em in, and then jack up the prices.