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Chris Levesque

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"Loquacious history bastard." PhD in military history, adjunct professor of history, archivist. Focus on atrocities in Vietnam, Cold War culture, & religion.

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Daniel Feldman's avatar Daniel Feldman @dfeldman.bsky.social
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An important 1982 lecture by Grace Hopper is stored on tape in a vault at the NSA

MuckRock filed a FOIA request to get a copy of the lecture

Three years later, the NSA said they could not read the 1982 tape format, and sent back a photocopy of the tape reel 🙃

www.muckrock.com/news/archive...

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Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off)'s avatar Dr. Damien P. Williams (Temporarily Logged Off) @wolvendamien.bsky.social
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What? No it wasn't. A bunch of people warned about exactly this, before it happened, and then AS IT WAS HAPPENING. People just… kept pretending that the dude who conned them hadn't conned them and was, in fact, a super genius, instead of taking the fucking L and holding him anything like accountable

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Kate Elliott's avatar Kate Elliott @kateelliottsff.bsky.social
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Unless you live on Oahu, in which case there is apparently no covid booster vaccine available on island until the new booster shot is released this fall.

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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We were told to expect this regarding water in German restaurants forty years ago. How is it still surprising people?

The Chicken Ranch, which served American-style fried chicken was the only restaurant I recall serving ice in drinks while living there.

www.cnn.com/travel/tikto...

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gigastacey's avatar gigastacey @gigastacey.bsky.social
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Go get this book and the first one, y'all. It's delightful.

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Renay⁷'s avatar Renay⁷ @renay.bsky.social
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It's almost like we have decades upon decades of data telling us that debates don't matter to the outcome of presidential elections and all the Democrats and progressives panicking for weeks IN PUBLIC were only doing the GOP's work for them. 🤡

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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Unless they push AP to change AP Government standards, I would bet it's not.

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Amanda Wyatt Visconti's avatar Amanda Wyatt Visconti @literaturegeek.bsky.social
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Blogged my morning work—using a command line tool to automate downloading lots of podcast interview transcript text files, for text analysis purposes, from a list of links on a webpage (HT Ian Milligan's Programming Historian wget lesson!)

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Stephen Schwartz's avatar Stephen Schwartz @atomicanalyst.bsky.social
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This is such bullshit, and a perfect example of the politically-driven “gotcha“ agenda of right-wing media. No officials outside of the White House can instantly call the president. Everything goes through the staff, in this case on the National Security Council and the White House Military Office.

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American Historical Association's avatar American Historical Association @ahahistorians.bsky.social
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This Thursday, the AHA will host a Congressional Briefing offering historical perspectives on the role of the federal government on issues of academic freedom in higher education. With panelists David A. Bell, Natalia Mehlman Petrzela, and David M. Rabban, and James Grossman as moderator. 🗃️

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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This would be illegal in Florida, where students have the absolute right to record lectures for use in studying (or to document alleged faculty attempts to indoctrinate classes).

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Stephen Wolf's avatar Stephen Wolf @stephenwolf.bsky.social
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A reminder that if Trump wins & purges the civil service to replace it with loyalists as planned, all sorts of govt data will become totally untrustworthy. The House GOP is already trying to rig the census to screw Democrats in redistricting after Trump's first-term attempt failed

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Dani cRabaiotti 🦀's avatar Dani cRabaiotti 🦀 @danirabaiotti.bsky.social
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So I want to talk about this from the perspective of someone who does professional fact checking as part of my work. For some years now I have been paid to check TV and written content themed around animals to make sure it is factually accurate. Chat GPT & AI has made that job so much harder.

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Stephen West's avatar Stephen West @stephenwest.bsky.social
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Some editors might think it useful to point out the author clerked for one current and one former Supreme Court Justice, both Republican appointees (Kavanaugh, when he was on the DC Circuit, and Kennedy). But those editors do not work at the Washington Post.

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Jorge Caballero's avatar Jorge Caballero @datadrivenmd.social
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Project 2025, page 455-456: a national abortion database that includes detailed medical information, including the person's state of residence to assist with criminal prosecution

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Mick Ryan's avatar Mick Ryan @warinthefuture.bsky.social
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"There is a strategic imperative & moral obligation to assist Ukraine to win this war as rapidly as possible. The deliberate Russian attack, using precision missiles against children at the Okhmatdyt hospital, provides us with more evidence for why this is so." mickryan.substack.com/p/the-kyiv-c...

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Jason Koebler's avatar Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social
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Beloved Apple blog TUAW was shut down in 2015, sold to private equity, then sold to a company in Hong Kong. It recently relaunched as an AI content farm using the stolen identities and bylines of its former human staff. A nightmare:

www.404media.co/a-beloved-te...

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Holly Brewer's avatar Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social
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Seven times between 1801 and 1869 Congress changed the size of the court, going from a low of five justices in 1801 to a high of ten in 1863. In most of those cases, as in 1801 and 1863, the size went up and down in order to fix an imbalance or overreach by the Supreme Court. My latest

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Kevin M. Kruse's avatar Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social
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It's no coincidence that the Jefferson Memorial, a creation of the New Deal, chose to highlight this particularly apt quote from Jefferson.

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C. L. Polk's avatar C. L. Polk @clpolk.com
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"(AI) companies and utilities to spend an estimated ~$1tn on capex in coming years...(Daron Acemoglu, MIT) forecasts AI will increase US productivity by only 0.5% and GDP growth by only 0.9% cumulatively over the next decade." Suckers. Chumps. Grifters. The Circle of Tech.

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Elizabeth Spiers 's avatar Elizabeth Spiers @espiers.bsky.social
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Criticizing journalists is not only not illiberal, it's necessary. Arguing that the press shouldn't exist or should be restrained by the state (which is the Trumpian position) is illiberal.

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The Autopian's avatar The Autopian @theautopian.bsky.social
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(Facepalms in pickup truck) ➡️ The 2024 Chevy Silverado 1500 Has a Lower Payload Rating Than This Little Truck From 1996 👀

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Jonathan Dresner's avatar Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social
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Administrators have outsourced survey classes in critical core fields that elevate the college experience from job training.

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Jonathan Dresner's avatar Jonathan Dresner @jondresner.bsky.social
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"given the popularity of human rights and progress frameworks, we could redeem Kantianism as one palatable form of liberalism in the service of racial justice in moral and political philosophy. This would mean that we are using Kant against himself but still engaging with Kant!"

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Chris Levesque's avatar Chris Levesque @levesque-chris.bsky.social
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It's always interesting to see those sites pop back up, but I'm reluctant to access them from university computers even to see if they still exist.

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Faine Greenwood's avatar Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social
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bombing hospitals is Always Bad no matter who does it, I am controversial and brave

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Joshua Foust 🪖🎮's avatar Joshua Foust 🪖🎮 @joshuafoust.com
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Is the US going to be the first state to fail in modern history because of systemic scamming at every level of civic and public life? It sure looks like it.

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Assistant to the Professor's avatar Assistant to the Professor @darinself.bsky.social
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This is journalistic malpractice. The Biden admin was working on Parkinson's policy.

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