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Florida Man, PhD@casusscribere.bsky.social |
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Kirk M Lundblade, PhD (he/him) Digital Humanities @ UCF History (RICHES) Digital cultures + historical game studies @ UCF T&T Recent work: Crusader Kings & the Crusader Kings community
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Shannon Mattern
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"AI is not a product; it is propaganda meant to degrade labor, steal intellectual property, destabilize facts, discredit government institutions and regulatory agencies, destroy the environment, and corrode democratic society."
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The Intercept
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This story is tailored to Bluesky's interests:
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Florida Man, PhD
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It's not so much the blood and gore--I've seen plenty of that--as the unrelenting tide of negative imagery and emotions which are ostensibly in service to a project/perspective to which I am already a steadfast adherent. It's the same thing that turned me away from Breaking Bad in the end.
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Julia S.
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look, the answer to “crops will rot in the fields” after mass deportation is “chain gangs from for-profit prisons” they’re just not showing that card right now
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Florida Man, PhD
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Every Banana Republic joke is coming home to roost.
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Florida Man, PhD
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This is just straight-up North Korea shit. Are they going to give Dear Leader a sharpie and officialize whatever he draws? The public will get El Presidente's clown garbage whilst actual policymakers will be scrambling to get a hold of whatever forecasts are coming out of some USAF basement.
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Jake Wright
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This from @kevinmkruse.bsky.social. A thousand times, this.
I teach a course on the history, ethics, and politics of abortion in the United States and the abortion example Kruse uses is clear as day and *incredibly* salient now. You gotta vote.
kevinmkruse.substack.com/p/not-voting
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Florida Man, PhD
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There are clearly no depths to which this so-called paper will sink to. Every person who continues to work for (or even subscribe to) the NYT should be ashamed of themselves.
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Florida Man, PhD
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From everything I’ve heard, The Boys sounds like an incredibly poignant and pointed show and also one that I absolutely shouldn’t watch.
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Matt Novak
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I think this is the first time Musk has suggested fellow Americans should be executed.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Pavel
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Remember how the "retail theft crime wave" disappeared as soon as companies had to do their annual reports? That's because it's illegal to lie to shareholders.
AI is booming (if you're a pleb) but if you have money - Goldman Sachs will be honest with you instead web.archive.org/web/20240629...
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Florida Man, PhD
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The Patrick O’Brian Aubrey-Maturin novels capture this dynamic well—enlisted men die left and right, but great pains are taken to preserve the life and dignity of officers (alongside strenuous efforts to preserve war materiel)
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Florida Man, PhD
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It’s definitely rooted in a “great chain of being” sort of hierarchy; I’d place its more recent roots in the wide gulf between the treatment of officers vs enlisted troops (which doesn’t strictly map to nobility) in Western European warfare.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Happy PTSD awareness day (for those who must celebrate)
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Star Trek Minus Context
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Rick Perlstein
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I wrote a thing about a thing. prospect.org/politics/202...
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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)
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So. Google just released an internal paper about the epistemic, ethical, and sociopolitical threats of generative "AI," and golly gee whiz if that doesn't sure as shit sound familiar. 🤔🧐😒🙄
www.404media.co/google-ai-po...
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Florida Man, PhD
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Real “don’t make me hit you” abusive partner energy. We all know somebody’s gonna get hit—they’re just preemptively assigning blame.
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Liam Hogan
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The MAGA movement will not be shamed by pointing out the basic features of a liberal pluralist democracy. They don't believe in any of it. They see it as a weakness, something that merely holds them back or slows their efforts to reshape their world.
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Thomas Zimmer
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I’ve had this discussion many times with students who are active military: They were, across the board, horrified and disgusted by Trump’s desire to use troops against protesters - but also, and rightfully, quick to add that democracy is in great peril if it has to rely on soldiers defying orders.
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Michael Tae Sweeney
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He's right. They're stealing the country from us and ending democracy. "Bloodless if the left allows it to be" is a threat to kill anyone who fights back
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Florida Man, PhD
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And we've already seen what counts as "fighting back." Teenagers holding signs? Blood. Black kid holding a stick? Blood. Palestinian flag? Blood. Existing while queer? Blood. Actually teaching US history? Probably also blood.
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Florida Man, PhD
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This is a megaphone aimed at every right-wing militia yelling "will no one rid me of this turbulent [political party]?"
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Florida Man, PhD
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Anyone with any knowledge of US policing whatsoever already knows what sort of behavior from the left will "force" them to draw blood. Hell, with enough melanin a good sneeze will do the trick. The Heritage Foundation just told over half of the country that their choices are war or servitude.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Yeah; that's about as close as a one-liner can get. "Free" can be a problematic construct when it comes to the relevant labor--a framing of "deceptively cheap" would be the most accurate.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Yup; I’ve got an easier path than most to Swedish residency—which I had been considering for some time—but my relatives there have been pretty candid about their own far right resurgence…
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The Onion
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The landmark reversal nullifies all previously lawful forms of right and makes it very difficult for Americans to make ethical decisions or be generally decent human beings without facing criminal charges.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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I've seen enough -- this is the most radical, dangerous, arrogant, out-of-control Supreme Court in American history, and it needs to be treated as such.
open.substack.com/pub/kevinmkr...
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Popehat
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/8 At any rate, congratulations to the Federalist Society for an achievement beyond the reach of the British, outside the grasp of bloody civil war, impossible to Nazis and Soviets and terrorists: defeating the American idea.
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b-boy bouiebaisse
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SCOTUS is telling us that it has completely signed on to the project of a second Trump administration, which is establishing an elected autocracy.
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Alisa Bokulich
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www.theonion.com/supreme-cour...
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Carlos Noreña
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"Whatever he considers to be beneficial to the commonwealth and the dignity of divine, human, public, and private affairs, he shall have the right and the power to do and to execute." From the statute that conferred absolute power on the Roman emperor (*Lex de imperio Vespasiani*, section 6). 😬
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Melissa Johnson, PhD
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When I taught Watergate last spring, I asked my students if they agreed with Nixon that "if the president does it, it's not illegal." Almost universally, they found that idea appalling and said that everyone has to be subject to the laws. My students understood the constitution better than SCOTUS
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Scene on Radio
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To fully grasp capitalism, it helps to understand the medieval, feudalistic world it replaced. We take you there in Ep 2, with big help from the brilliant @goingmedieval.bsky.social.
Wherever you get your podcasts, or here 👇
sceneonradio.org/s7-e2-bc-bef...
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Florida Man, PhD
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Team Biden seems caught in so many iterations of the classic "Lucy with the football" dynamic.
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Florida Man, PhD
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broke: "the medium is the message" woke: "the people who own the medium are the message"
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Jamison Foser
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A fundamentally undemocratic court that has been controlled by Republican nominees for 55 consecutive years just seized control of the whole damn government. Yet another reason Democrats should center the Supreme Court in their campaigns. (More on this soon!)
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Kevin M. Kruse
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“I’m just a simple umpire, calling balls and strikes as I see them, and every now and then rewriting basic rules of the game with no reason”
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Kevin M. Kruse
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The Supreme Court’s right-wing majority keeps justifying its awful decisions with ludicrous claims to “history” that no historian would support.
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Dr Abeba Birhane
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excellent investigation, beautiful visualisation, and scary findings.
tech corps are burning our planet down so people can stop making art
www.bloomberg.com/graphics/202...
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Nathan K. Hensley
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the bill says that Palestinians will get no aid if they try to report war crimes
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Kelsey Atherton
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The scientists have built the O'Brien torturing machine from the story "No one should be tortured as much as O'Brien"
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Dr Eleanor Janega
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My biggest piece of writing advice is figure out when you can actually write. It's really uncommon to have a brain that can write just whenever. What are your core hours? Figure those out and don't torture yourself by trying to be productive outside of them.
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Florida Man, PhD
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This! It took a shameful # of years of my PhD to figure this out. It also becomes a question of "can I reorganize my life in order to ensure a max % of these hours are available for writing instead of, say, sitting in meetings?"
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Florida Man, PhD
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But also: I think we're using slightly different terminology here; I'm treating access and preservation as inextricably linked in an online/digital context; digital preservation absent any of the infrastructure for digital access is a very different (and cheaper) beast.
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Florida Man, PhD
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Security is what links them; preservation, under conditions of digital access, is more precarious due to access opening up first- and second-order risks re: dataset loss.
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Florida Man, PhD
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...and also ruined by the cinematic equivalent of "this meeting should've been an email"
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Florida Man, PhD
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Additionally, as web dev gets more complex w/ more tooling, the sheer qty of code used in the average website (and the # of smaller projects it depends on) balloons. With NPM I have to worry about the security status of 100s of discrete chunks of code on a daily basis.
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Florida Man, PhD
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But the backups of our archives maintained by one of the college sysadmins require much less time and energy from the devs--if I had the option of containerizing our archive and cutting it off from the internet (but maintaining internal access) my maintenance workload would drop by like 80%.
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