Chris Slaby
@cjslaby.bsky.social
Scholar, teacher, writer, earth human person (he/him/his). Art + history: Native American and Indigenous Studies; the environmental humanities; media, culture, and representation. Food and music, too, though those are more passions than subjects of study.
My department is hiring an assistant professor of (post-1945) Korean history. Come work with me! recruit.ap.uci.edu/JPF10290 Please don't hesitate to reach out with questions about the position. And I'd be ever so grateful if you could spread the word to potentially interested parties.
Assistant Professor of Korean History (post-1945)
University of California, Irvine is hiring. Apply now!
recruit.ap.uci.edu
Hi there, an educator here. We don’t need training on AI. We know what it is. We’re holding on for dear life until private equity decides to move on to the next shiny thing. I just hope there are enough of us still around to pick up the pieces.
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 17h ago“Teaching educators about AI is a ‘moral imperative’, said Randi Weingarten, the AFT president.” “And without outside funding, it was a choice between taking big tech’s money or doing nothing, she said.”
Can anyone out there recommend a good article for students on how to annotate readings?
The edited collection that I contributed a chapter on penguin eggs to is part of Berghan Books' summer sale! www.berghahnbooks.com/title/McCahe...
Antarctic Materialities | Berghahn Books
Independent Publishing since 1994
berghahnbooks.com
By the way, I missed some of the details of this story when it first came out. How does someone writing a book about the future of truth make use of AI and not know that one of the main concerns many (including and especially scholars) have about it is that it just makes stuff up?! It’s no secret!
Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
What blows my mind with AI is the people who are like "how could you possibly function without it?" To which I say, "you, YOU literally did until what like 3 years ago? Did it degrade your brain that fast that you can't figure out how to do the thing you trained for years and earned a PhD to do?"
Brendan Keogh@brkeogh.bsky.social · last wk.Surely the solution here is just *don't use AI tools* for your writing and research and continue to do your writing and research in ALL the ways you were doing it before you started using AI instead of doing the work??
I work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
First, this is fantastic. Second, it gives the lie to the idea that people need to “learn” how to use AI given that it’s become compulsory. What lurks behind the notion that people need tutorials in it is that AI “education” is just a how-to in avoiding its hazards. The real education is this ⬇️
jessamyn@librarian.bsky.social · 5d agoI work at a public library. People who want to use AI seem to have no trouble doing so. People who don't want to use AI have a harder time. I crowdsourced and then finalized this document "How to disable or avoid intrusive AI" and then gave it a short URL: notoai.org Please pass along if it's useful
“AI has become a blunt instrument in the enterprise to impose precisely this form of sanctioned ignorance about America’s past...Taken together, [Trump’s & Musk’s] plans amount to a one-two punch, history in the hands of the corporate state.” My latest on AI & history: www.salon.com/2026/07/28/t...
Trump and Musk both want to control America's history
The frenemies' strange obsession with historical "accuracy" has disturbing connections to big AI
salon.com
I am absolutely gobsmacked. And trying not to pass out from hyperventilating. Thank you @barackobama.bsky.social — you just made my secret dream for DATA EMPIRE, spoken aloud to NO ONE, come true.
Barack Obama@barackobama.bsky.social · last wk.It’s that time of year again: here are some of the books I’ve enjoyed this summer. If you’ve read any good ones, let me know!
The disclaimer in the credits saying that the movie was NOT IN ANY WAY endorsed by any museum, nor was it filmed in a museum. #HATM
Please note: this film was not approved by any museum ever and seriously please don’t pull this. #ThomasCrownAffair #HATM
I always ask my students if there was a real Renoir in the box or not. #HATM
Laura Bedrossian@laurabedrossian.bsky.social · 3d agoI’ll say it: I think he’ll burn her like he burns paintings #hatm
Is is bad when your therapist starts laughing at you and comparing you to Peter Pan? I feel like that's a bad sign. #ThomasCrownAffair #HATM
Here's a bit on Frederick Barbarossa historyofthegermans.com/emperors-kin... #HATM
Frederick I Barbarossa - 1152-1190 • History of the Germans Podcast
Few emperors are as well known as Barbarossa. His life was a rollercoaster of ups and downs, cooperation and conflict that shaped both Germany and Italy
historyofthegermans.com
I love this movie and am excited to watch with you guys, but I have to get it out of my system now: do not snap a painting’s stretcher in half with the painting still stretched on it. Right, now I can watch and not need to vent about that plot point. #HATM
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d agoAs our fearless leader @herberthistory.bsky.social is still out this week, I am once again the substitute teacher taking over his lesson plans & showing the class a film. See you at 7pm CT for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. #HATM
Most of the interior shots are actually the NY Public Library movie-locations.com/movies/t/Tho... #HATM #ThomasCrownAffair
Filming Locations for The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), in New York and the Windward Islands.
Travel guide to filming locations for The Thomas Crown Affair (1999), in New York and the Windward Islands.
movie-locations.com
Katherine @auntik.bsky.social · 3d ago#hatm does anyone know what museum this was filmed in?
"It's about money, theft, and... romance." Counterpoint: It's about two incredibly attractive people playing two incredibly smart and attractive people doing clever things while looking incredibly and casually attractive. 😎🍿 #HATM
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d agoAnd welcome to Historians at the Movies! Tonight we are live posting THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. It’s about money, theft, and… romance. 1/
And welcome to Historians at the Movies! Tonight we are live posting THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. It’s about money, theft, and… romance. 1/
Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · last wk.This week Historians At The Movies asks what do you get for the man who has everything? Join us on Prime Video this Sunday August 2 at 8pm eastern for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999). Keep #HATM trending by sharing and we'll see you soon!
Tonight’s #HATM questions: 1) What's your favorite heist in history or in a film? or both? 2 Fav film with a remake? (as this is a remake of 1968 film & is getting a remake in 2026) 3 What’s on the menu at your place tonight? #HATM #ThomasCrownAffair
Love this film. So much to unpack about the cultural history of 1990s New York/U.S. (Plus, I just saw the trailer for the new Michael B. Jordan version and it likewise looks great.)
Rachel Gunter, Ph.D. 🗃️@phdrachel.bsky.social · 3d agoAs our fearless leader @herberthistory.bsky.social is still out this week, I am once again the substitute teacher taking over his lesson plans & showing the class a film. See you at 7pm CT for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. #HATM
As our fearless leader @herberthistory.bsky.social is still out this week, I am once again the substitute teacher taking over his lesson plans & showing the class a film. See you at 7pm CT for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999) on Prime. #HATM
Jason Herbert@herberthistory.bsky.social · last wk.This week Historians At The Movies asks what do you get for the man who has everything? Join us on Prime Video this Sunday August 2 at 8pm eastern for THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1999). Keep #HATM trending by sharing and we'll see you soon!
Not only did they absolutely beg for this, they made it so that “merit” was synonymous with being white so now you’re stuck with precisely the kind of moron who believes that. www.politico.com/news/magazin...
Here's a recommended book-list-interview, for a UK publication. For everyone who has had enough of discourse (as I certainly have): it has a tiny mention of Nolan as the hook, but then we move on to some reading. www.countryandtownhouse.com/culture/emil...
‘Homer Is For Everyone’: How Emily Wilson Elucidates & Obfuscates In Equal Measure
Classicist Emily Wilson has made headlines in recent weeks for slating Christopher Nolan’s blockbuster adaptation of The Odyssey – for which the director,
countryandtownhouse.com
I cannot rest from discourse. I will see that film again tomorrow. I will drink life to the lees. Again I will enjoy greatly, will suffer greatly, both with those that love me, and in Pleasantville NY. I am become a meme. Film showing: burnsfilmcenter.org/booking/the-...
The Odyssey : Jacob Burns Film Center
The Odyssey, Matt Damon, Tom Holland, Christopher Nolan, Zendaya, Robert Pattinson, Odysseus, Greek, Classic, Antiquity
burnsfilmcenter.org
NYRB should do their own version of the Criterion Closet for their book publishing arm imo
