Jess Carson
@redpenowl.bsky.social
Historian of the 20th century American landscape & cultural geography #envhist Hater of data centers. Friend of St. Teresa of Avila.
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Jess Carson
@redpenowl.bsky.social
· Nov 23
Vol. 21 (2024): History Matters - Spring 2024
| History Matters: An Undergraduate Journal of Historical Research
journals.library.appstate.edu
Pleased to have been published this summer in the undergrad history journal History Matters run by Appalachia State University #envhist "Buffering Battlefields" is a short article on preserving the Civil War site #manassasbattlefield
journals.library.appstate.edu/index.php/hi...
journals.library.appstate.edu/index.php/hi...
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NEW: Abp. Timothy P. Broglio, former USCCB head who oversees Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, issues statement on "Caribbean Interceptions."
"…Abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people." files.milarch.org/archbishop/a...
"…Abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people." files.milarch.org/archbishop/a...
December 3, 2025 at 8:31 PM
NEW: Abp. Timothy P. Broglio, former USCCB head who oversees Catholic Archdiocese for the Military Services, issues statement on "Caribbean Interceptions."
"…Abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people." files.milarch.org/archbishop/a...
"…Abandoning due process undermines human rights, erodes public trust, and risks harming innocent people." files.milarch.org/archbishop/a...
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To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
December 6, 2025 at 8:59 PM
To propose that GenAI can compensate for "archival silences" perverts Trouillot's work. It's is a contradiction to say that a product whose logic exacerbates power imbalances--creating a most-likely guess based on the existing record--can restore absences that are the product of those imbalances.
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In the Library, 1928 by Józef Rapacki
December 2, 2025 at 3:58 PM
In the Library, 1928 by Józef Rapacki
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Imagine thinking yourself a Christian and posting this on the 1st Sunday of Advent - when the reading in church was:
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
December 1, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Imagine thinking yourself a Christian and posting this on the 1st Sunday of Advent - when the reading in church was:
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
they shall beat their swords into ploughshares,
and their spears into pruning-hooks;
nation shall not lift up sword against nation,
neither shall they learn war any more.
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Trump on climate change: "The world was gonna burn up, but it actually got much cooler. It's a little conspiracy. We have to investigate them immediately. They probably are being investigated."
November 19, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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they're too lazy to do a ground invasion so we're gonna get bombings and special ops that we are told are "low risk" and "low cost"
and a bunch of the dumbest people you know will clap like seals bc they've been talking up a full ground invasion and want to give credit for not occupying carcacas
and a bunch of the dumbest people you know will clap like seals bc they've been talking up a full ground invasion and want to give credit for not occupying carcacas
November 13, 2025 at 10:59 PM
they're too lazy to do a ground invasion so we're gonna get bombings and special ops that we are told are "low risk" and "low cost"
and a bunch of the dumbest people you know will clap like seals bc they've been talking up a full ground invasion and want to give credit for not occupying carcacas
and a bunch of the dumbest people you know will clap like seals bc they've been talking up a full ground invasion and want to give credit for not occupying carcacas
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In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
November 9, 2025 at 2:04 AM
In another era, ICE raids would be described as persecution of Catholics.
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It's Friday night baby
July 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
It's Friday night baby
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Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow, 1565
August 13, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The Hunters in the Snow, 1565
Evil
SCOOP
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
The admin is making it harder for male vets w/ breast cancer to get their care covered
The admin cites Trump order: “Defending Women from Gender Ideology Extremism and Restoring Biological Truth to the Federal Government”
I got the memo laying it all out
www.propublica.org/article/vete...
Citing Trump Order on “Biological Truth,” VA Makes It Harder for Male Veterans With Breast Cancer to Get Coverage
A Department of Veterans Affairs memo obtained by ProPublica erects new roadblocks to care for veterans with the rare but deadly cancer. The agency cites no new science but relies on an executive orde...
www.propublica.org
October 29, 2025 at 10:11 PM
Evil
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Has anyone actually written something on the apparently inability of the reactionary mind to grasp the basic themes and even overt text of Tolkien?
Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”
Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”
this is an overtly fascist narrative - even the misreading of myth & literature is on brand
October 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Has anyone actually written something on the apparently inability of the reactionary mind to grasp the basic themes and even overt text of Tolkien?
Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”
Like at some point Gandalf turns directly to camera and says “the Men of Gondor sure are insufficient to this task, we need the hobbits to do it”
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It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
Cheating with an LLM is the easiest thing in the world for a student to do, but it creates a massive, laborious headache for a prof, if you intend to take it seriously. There’s meetings, emails, discussions, moral dilemmas. It’s just incredibly burdensome, on top of everything else right now.
I had 9 meetings about students using Chat GPT/LLMs on their papers today.
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
If you want to know why professors burn out, ask anyone trying to teach critical thinking and writing skills to Freshmen....
October 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
It is hard to overstate the stress produced by the incoherence of academic institutions pumping generative AI when they want to play business and then leaving instructors to deal with the results when they want to play school
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Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
Rescue crews airlift hundreds out of rural Alaskan villages after powerful storm
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
m.youtube.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Last week, western Alaska was hit by the powerful remnants of a typhoon. Recovery is just beginning for communities an airplane away building materials & other support. PBS has a good overview of this social-climate disaster. Ways to support linked below. m.youtube.com/watch?v=t5kz...
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October 9, 2025 at 1:25 PM
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Beloved in the Lord:
October 3, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Beloved in the Lord:
This hits the nail on the head.
In addition to the other obvious harms, if this guidance is followed, it will cause extensive moral injury and PTSD among our own troops. As someone who genuinely cares about the wellbeing of our military service members, I’m horrified and incredibly demoralized. Restraint is honor, not weakness.
Hegseth: "We unleash overwhelming and punishing violence on the enemy. We also don't fight with stupid rules of engagement. We untie the hands of our warfighters to intimidate, demoralize, hunt, and kill the enemies of our country. No more politically correct and overbearing rules of engagement."
September 30, 2025 at 9:40 PM
This hits the nail on the head.
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Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
September 30, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com
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lmfao
TRUMP: IF YOU DON'T LIKE MY SPEECH LEAVE THE ROOM, OF COURSE YOU WILL LOSE YOUR RANK AND FUTURE
September 30, 2025 at 1:28 PM
lmfao
Deeply unchristian framing.
Hegseth: "As history teaches us, the only people who actually deserve peace and those who are willing to wage war to defend it. That's why pacifism is so naive and dangerous."
September 30, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Deeply unchristian framing.
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My analysis in @justsecurity.org on Trump's asserted license to kill. 2/n
www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...
www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...
Asserting a License to Kill: Why the Caribbean Strike is a Dangerous Departure from the “War on Terror”
An absence of credible legal basis for the Caribbean strike suggests the Trump admin is asserting a prerogative to kill outside the law.
www.justsecurity.org
September 19, 2025 at 11:46 PM
My analysis in @justsecurity.org on Trump's asserted license to kill. 2/n
www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...
www.justsecurity.org/120568/carib...
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Morning on Mount Tsurugi, 1926 (woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi, Art Gallery of NSW)
September 12, 2025 at 7:29 AM
Morning on Mount Tsurugi, 1926 (woodblock print by Yoshida Hiroshi, Art Gallery of NSW)
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I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.
September 11, 2025 at 12:22 AM
I have lots to say and I am convincing myself to say as little as possible, but I don't think a society that has been absolutely saturated in unavoidable looping videos of snuff films for a decade is one that can hold. Power will and has coalesced around those who best weaponize the snuff films.