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Why Do Historians Still Have To Go To Archives?
Why do historians go to archives? Hasn’t everything already been digitized?
contingentmagazine.org
December 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
Seems like it's worth posting this one again.
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in general (not just in this area) there is a pattern online where someone has this complaint about their life, and then a crowd comes up to savage them (“another mediocre guy looking for sympathy”). i am usually left cold by the entire thing
But when an angry fellow screams that the person who got hired wasn't the best scholar, he's lying. He can't know.
And when the response is that the angry fellow was mediocre, those folks are lying too. They can't know either.
We've designed the system to avoid knowing. Knowing would be painful.
And when the response is that the angry fellow was mediocre, those folks are lying too. They can't know either.
We've designed the system to avoid knowing. Knowing would be painful.
December 17, 2025 at 11:27 AM
in general (not just in this area) there is a pattern online where someone has this complaint about their life, and then a crowd comes up to savage them (“another mediocre guy looking for sympathy”). i am usually left cold by the entire thing
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The speed and sincerity of people who chime in to let you know that /no speed/ is the correct speed in the left lane, everyone has to move right so people can treat it like the Autobahn.
They feel so certain they are right that if you're being tailgated in the left lane, you're at fault. Crazy.
They feel so certain they are right that if you're being tailgated in the left lane, you're at fault. Crazy.
December 17, 2025 at 3:38 AM
The speed and sincerity of people who chime in to let you know that /no speed/ is the correct speed in the left lane, everyone has to move right so people can treat it like the Autobahn.
They feel so certain they are right that if you're being tailgated in the left lane, you're at fault. Crazy.
They feel so certain they are right that if you're being tailgated in the left lane, you're at fault. Crazy.
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As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
December 16, 2025 at 1:03 PM
As a person who has been studying extreme far right ideologies for the last decade (and did a PhD on immigration) I find the entrance of “remigration” into the mainstream American political lexicon so profoundly disturbing
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Team Cherry Holiday Sign-off! Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow revealed, the original Hollow Knight refreshed, and more!
Read the blog post here: www.teamcherry.com.au/blog/holiday...
Read the blog post here: www.teamcherry.com.au/blog/holiday...
December 16, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Team Cherry Holiday Sign-off! Hollow Knight: Silksong - Sea of Sorrow revealed, the original Hollow Knight refreshed, and more!
Read the blog post here: www.teamcherry.com.au/blog/holiday...
Read the blog post here: www.teamcherry.com.au/blog/holiday...
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12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
December 14, 2025 at 3:05 PM
12 dead at a mass shooting at a Hanukkah celebration at Bondi Beach.💔
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
A 43-year-old father of two, Ahmed al Ahmed, snuck up & tackled a gunman to disarm him. Ahmed was shot twice.
Both Jewish & Muslim faiths teach that “to save one life is to save all humanity.” Let us hold fast to our humanity.❤️
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"'The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government,' George Washington wrote to the first attorney general, and only 'the fittest characters' should be entrusted with it." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-recl...
We Must Reclaim a Government That Belongs to All of Us
From the White House rubble to the bottomless pit of Epstein, we are in the midst of a nationwide struggle over whose government this really is.
www.liberalcurrents.com
December 15, 2025 at 4:06 AM
"'The due administration of justice is the firmest pillar of good government,' George Washington wrote to the first attorney general, and only 'the fittest characters' should be entrusted with it." www.liberalcurrents.com/we-must-recl...
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Okay, I'll make a thread of 50 indie games which I'll add to over the week, staring with.
1. Carimara
Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.
1. Carimara
Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.
December 10, 2025 at 5:34 AM
Okay, I'll make a thread of 50 indie games which I'll add to over the week, staring with.
1. Carimara
Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.
1. Carimara
Play as a little goblin creature summoned by a witch to investigate what's haunting her cottage, it's a creepy bite-size mystery akin to the Frog Detective games, and has gorgeous visuals.
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Andrew Bird - "O Holy Night"
December 11, 2025 at 5:07 AM
Andrew Bird - "O Holy Night"
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Frederick Douglass’s speech given a week after the Civil Rights Case (1882) struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875:
“[The Supreme Court] has construed the Constitution in defiant disregard what was the object and intention of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
www.loc.gov/item/mss1187...
“[The Supreme Court] has construed the Constitution in defiant disregard what was the object and intention of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
www.loc.gov/item/mss1187...
December 7, 2025 at 9:35 PM
Frederick Douglass’s speech given a week after the Civil Rights Case (1882) struck down the Civil Rights Act of 1875:
“[The Supreme Court] has construed the Constitution in defiant disregard what was the object and intention of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
www.loc.gov/item/mss1187...
“[The Supreme Court] has construed the Constitution in defiant disregard what was the object and intention of the adoption of the Fourteenth Amendment.”
www.loc.gov/item/mss1187...
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Still reading through the bizarre and unhinged new NSS- I remember when the rumours about early drafts started circulating, some commentators rushed to claim that it would probably just contain boilerplate business-as-usual fare, thanks to an apolitical natsec community.
December 5, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Still reading through the bizarre and unhinged new NSS- I remember when the rumours about early drafts started circulating, some commentators rushed to claim that it would probably just contain boilerplate business-as-usual fare, thanks to an apolitical natsec community.
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I think what helped me immensely was that I was in an environment where I felt comfortable asking my classmates to help me understand things I didn't quite get, and was happy to help them in turn when they needed it.
A note on learning physics ⚛️ for starting PhD students:
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
At the risk of saying something completely useless because everyone has it worked out
There is no magic trick, your classmates *may* be faster than you, but they are still studying as long as they need to and you are quite capable of the same
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 PM
I think what helped me immensely was that I was in an environment where I felt comfortable asking my classmates to help me understand things I didn't quite get, and was happy to help them in turn when they needed it.
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Do you think it's possible to have the benefits of economic development without losing magic? What I mean is, when people talk about science vs beauty, economics vs. community, I believe what's fundamentally being identified is that for humans, scarcity is bad and rarity is good.
November 30, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Do you think it's possible to have the benefits of economic development without losing magic? What I mean is, when people talk about science vs beauty, economics vs. community, I believe what's fundamentally being identified is that for humans, scarcity is bad and rarity is good.
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You give money to liberal currents because they support liberalism
I give money to liberal currents because they talk about civil-military relations, we are not the same
I give money to liberal currents because they talk about civil-military relations, we are not the same
Neon Liberalism #54: Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of "The State and the Soldier," as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking point. www.liberalcurrents.com/neon-liberal...
Neon Liberalism #54: An Army Is a Dangerous Thing to Play With
Join Samantha and guest Kori Schake, author of The State and the Soldier, as they discuss the history of civil-military relations in America—and how that relationship is being pushed to the breaking p...
www.liberalcurrents.com
November 30, 2025 at 4:21 AM
You give money to liberal currents because they support liberalism
I give money to liberal currents because they talk about civil-military relations, we are not the same
I give money to liberal currents because they talk about civil-military relations, we are not the same
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Essentially everyone is damned to oblivion almost as soon as they're dead and in the ground
The few flickering moments I've seen someone come back to life, as if they were sitting right next to me, has been when I heard their voice in their writing
Don't give that up
The few flickering moments I've seen someone come back to life, as if they were sitting right next to me, has been when I heard their voice in their writing
Don't give that up
Saw a post today that advised writers to stop writing as if a human will read it and start writing for an LLM that will be summarising.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
As someone who really enjoyed trying to develop a peculiar but readable authorial voice, I find this incredibly depressing.
November 20, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Essentially everyone is damned to oblivion almost as soon as they're dead and in the ground
The few flickering moments I've seen someone come back to life, as if they were sitting right next to me, has been when I heard their voice in their writing
Don't give that up
The few flickering moments I've seen someone come back to life, as if they were sitting right next to me, has been when I heard their voice in their writing
Don't give that up
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The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
November 20, 2025 at 12:32 AM
The actual secret to why I know stuff is that I ask a question any time I don’t understand literally anything. I don’t care how simple it is. Anybody who makes fun of you for asking a simple question likely doesn’t know the answer either
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It was an absolute pleasure to get to sit down with @xriskology.bsky.social and chat about the eugenic cult ideologies driving the "AI" race in Silicon Valley.
Listen in to find out how these ideas evolved directly out of Western Christianity /1
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...
Listen in to find out how these ideas evolved directly out of Western Christianity /1
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...
Episode 3: Silicon Valley's TESCREAL eugenics cult with Dr. Émile Torres | Unwell to Begin With
“Many people find these ideologies to be so risible and silly that they wonder why anyone would spend time talking about them. And… the best response I have is that the reason we should talk about the...
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com
October 26, 2025 at 4:29 PM
It was an absolute pleasure to get to sit down with @xriskology.bsky.social and chat about the eugenic cult ideologies driving the "AI" race in Silicon Valley.
Listen in to find out how these ideas evolved directly out of Western Christianity /1
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...
Listen in to find out how these ideas evolved directly out of Western Christianity /1
unwell-to-begin-with.podbean.com/e/episode-3-...
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Sam Altman has a long history of lying to, manipulating, and abusing people--from his own sister (@anniealtman108.bsky.social) to his employees at OpenAI. Here's a short thread with some rather shocking examples. The evidence is in, and it shows a clear pattern of bad behavior.
November 13, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Sam Altman has a long history of lying to, manipulating, and abusing people--from his own sister (@anniealtman108.bsky.social) to his employees at OpenAI. Here's a short thread with some rather shocking examples. The evidence is in, and it shows a clear pattern of bad behavior.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
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Maximizing visibility by blinding other drivers is such an elegant metaphor for America
November 19, 2025 at 7:12 AM
Maximizing visibility by blinding other drivers is such an elegant metaphor for America
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Samantha just sent me amazing news. Anime Herald Magazine just hit 400 copies sold! 💖 Thank you so much to all of you. Every sale helps us make an even better Issue #2
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November 14, 2025 at 11:40 PM
Samantha just sent me amazing news. Anime Herald Magazine just hit 400 copies sold! 💖 Thank you so much to all of you. Every sale helps us make an even better Issue #2
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
Digital copy ($15.75 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1dig 💻
Physical copy ($17.95 USD): hera.fyi/buyahmag1 📔
Bundle: hera.fyi/buyahmag1bun 📦
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Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Blow for OpenAI in Germany as court rules song lyrics used illegally
A German court ruled on Tuesday that OpenAI violated copyright on nine popular songs in a lawsuit that marked another attempt to prevent the free use of artists' content online. The Munich Regional Co...
www.yahoo.com
November 14, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Open AI loses copyright case in Germany.
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
Judge Elke Schwager summarized the case saying that if you want to build something and need components, "then you purchase them and do not use the property of others."
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i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
November 16, 2025 at 11:51 AM
i just read something about grief from C.S. Lewis and his book, “A Grief Observed”
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
basically, when someone you love dies, it isn’t just them that you miss, but the parts of yourself that person brought out of you that can never be brought out again.
i feel that with my dad.
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Every few months some agitated weirdo gets upset at me over the Atlantic post I did about how the prison system ROUTINELY engages in unimaginable abuse and lets people kill themselves, because they read it as “THERE’S NO WAY EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED”
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November 17, 2025 at 1:21 AM
Every few months some agitated weirdo gets upset at me over the Atlantic post I did about how the prison system ROUTINELY engages in unimaginable abuse and lets people kill themselves, because they read it as “THERE’S NO WAY EPSTEIN WAS MURDERED”
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