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🗃️ 🗄️ 📜 Historian of Latin America, revolution, belonging. The Limits of Revolution: Worker Citizens in a Bolivian Mining City out March 10 from University of Texas Press! https://utpress.utexas.edu/9781477333297/

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Saeed Jones@theferocity.bsky.social · 11h ago

I came across an arrangement of words describing a movie as “The Purge but as a romcom” and made the mistake of googling the movie in question. One night a year people are allowed to have premarital sex???? Straight people are never beating the allegations. ANY of the allegations.

E M@ecmcgrath.bsky.social · 8h ago

Brb gotta go inside and brag to my wife that the author of the Murderbot Diaries liked my anti-AI post. Love those books so much, @marthawells.com, wish certain fictional anti-corporate found family machines were the only AI we had to deal with right now.

E M@ecmcgrath.bsky.social · 10h ago

What a lovely afternoon I just spent sorting hundreds of thousands of facts! I'm always surprised by how joyless AI boosters are. Historical research is FUN precisely because it is not a data retrieval exercise. Why outsource something rewarding and pleasurable to a machine?

Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · 2d ago

"History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts" I remain astounded by how loud and wrong people are about what history actually is.

Post See new posts Conversation Megan Stevenson @MeganTStevenson I haven't heard people talking about this, but AI is an absolute game changer for doing historical research. History involves sorting and organizing hundreds of thousands of facts— a massive logistical/memory problem made so delightfully easy with agentic research. 1/ 1:31 PM · Jul 29, 2026 · 126.1K Views Relevant View quotes Megan Stevenson @MeganTStevenson · Jul 29 I did an OCR conversion of all my PDFs to make text files, built a semantic search index, and can just let my agents roam free to answer questions, fact-check, dig up interesting stories, quotes, etc. It takes a lot of the hard work out, as well as a lot of the human error. 2/2
Surprised Eel Historian, PhD@greenleejw.bsky.social · 14h ago

It's Wednesday, & you're wondering: "What were the smallest, & the largest, annual eel-rent in 12th C. England?" Well, I'm here to help! The smallest was 22 eels, from Hoddeston, for Sir Geoffrey Mandeville. The largest was 75,000 eels, from Harmston, for Earl Hugh of Chester. 🗃️🧪

Meme. Colored drawing of premodern-looking people wading knee and hip deep in a stream with nets and traps. There are 10 people in the water, and 2 in a boat pulling up a heavy net. There is some serious fishing going on here; they all look quite intent. It's not explicitly clear that they are fishing for eels; in fact, one of the men is holding a fish in the net that looks like it has a non-eel-like tail. But also, several of them are holding what look like wicker eel traps. So who knows? The best bet is that the artist had no idea. We can imagine that this is a scene from 1483, and that these are villagers catching silver eels during their downstream migration. It's a party, and they are all happy (despite their seriousness). Beyond being delighted over their catch, they are thrilled at a deep level to know that YOU won't have any of their eels. They love to fish, but hate to share. Get your own eels, gentle reader. Meme text reads: "One fish, two fish 75,000 owed to Hugh fish"
Matthew Hay Brown@matthewhaybrown.bsky.social · 15h ago

BREAKING federal judge allows Trump administration to end temporary protection for 350,000+ Haitians in the U.S. Employers are laying off healthcare workers, housekeepers, landscapers, bus drivers, security guards in Miami, Boston, other cities DHS is fitting migrants with ankle monitors

TPS for Haitians officially ends, putting thousands out of work and in limbo

A federal judge allowed the Trump administration to terminate temporary protected status for 350,000 Haitians, meaning they are likely to lose their jobs and be at risk of deportation.

washingtonpost.com

Dr. Heather Dichter@hdichter.bsky.social · 13h ago

PhD students & recently minted PhDs working on US foreign relations - please submit applications for these @shafrhistorians.bsky.social grants! I won 2 of these & previously chaired 1 of the committees. Don’t be shy - apply! #skystorians 🗃️ #diplohistory

SHAFR@shafrhistorians.bsky.social · 18h ago

The deadline for William Appleman Williams Emerging Scholar Research Grant; Hogan Foreign Language Fellowship; and Graduate Dissertation Research Grants is October 15. Visit www.shafr.org/awards for more details.

Erika Milam@emilam.bsky.social · 13h ago

Please circulate: www.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/news/call-ap... Seeking 10 Early Career Fellows to participate in 2 summer academies to be held in Berlin June 14–18, 2027 & June 26–30, 2028: SCIENCE IMAGINES ITS FUTURE. How have scholars deliberated about investing scarce resources in an uncertain future?

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" | MPIWG

Call for Applications: Summer Academy on "Science Imagines Its Future" (Deadline November 1)

mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de

jamelle@jamellebouie.net · 2w ago

interesting to me that as the administration treats democratic-voting states like conquered or occupied territories, you don’t have pundits demanding the president respect “half the country”

tony romm@tonyromm.bsky.social · 2w ago

NEW: In a stunning admission, the Trump administration admitted in court documents that it canceled billions in energy grants to states "based solely" on politics -- and whether that state was represented by Democrats and backed Harris in 2024. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/24/b...

Remora House DC@remorahousedc.bsky.social · 2w ago

There are over 800 people sleeping on the streets of DC (& that’s a lowwwwball estimate). Almost all of them are Black & from DC. But we’re spending hundreds of millions & making exceptions for the occupying military force so they can continue to terrorize our neighbors.

Martin Austermuhle@maustermuhle.bsky.social · 2w ago

Wow: The National Guard has signed a $292 million contract to house thousands of troops deployed to D.C. in 2,000 apartments in the city, instead of in hotels or other places where they've been put up. www.notus.org/defense/nati...

✊🏼Indigiqueer Hummingbird@riotousmuse.bsky.social · 2w ago

The hits just keep coming, Minneapolis. If you know any museums or historical societies or folks/foundations involved with them who might be able to help out, direct them to Memorialize the Movement! Fundraiser TOMORROW linked in reply. SATURDAY 7/25 - 6-10p - 3140 Snelling Ave, Mpls

Group preserving George Floyd protest murals fights to survive

A nonprofit organization that worked to preserve hundreds of protest murals after the murder of George Floyd is planning an emergency fundraiser Saturday amid financial uncertainty.

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Emily M. Bender@emilymbender.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is laughable --- "reporting says", well yes, these reporters did a bang-up job anthropomorphizing the system they are talking about, and obfuscating the responsibility that OpenAI holds here. bsky.app/profile/mims... Some examples:

Christopher Mims@mims.bsky.social · 2w ago

I've seen some folks try to frame OpenAI's unreleased model hacking a company that tests its abilities as a cynical marketing ploy but reporting says that absolutely was not the case: This was a real-deal escape of an AI agent that could have done vastly more damage. www.wsj.com/tech/ai/how-...

John Schwartz@jswatz.bsky.social · 2w ago

“An unproven claim was allowed to circulate before it was tested, and the way it was made public did real damage, diverting attention from what actually matters in this case. Lorenzo was shot, and no lab report answers for that,” Powers said. www.texastribune.org/2026/07/24/t...

Officials: Van in Houston ICE shooting didn’t contain drugs

The FBI suggested plastic bags in the van contained methamphetamine. The agency hasn’t released official test results.

texastribune.org