It’s not nowhere. Connecticut is the borderland where both New York and New England negotiate their identities.

Connecticut as Borderland

The state has always been a place of in-between.

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Updating the book manuscript with some recent figures and I came across this chart from the Chainalysis 2026 Crypto Crime Report. Does anyone know what might have changed between 2024 and 2025 to cause such an enormous spike in crypto crime?

Two time zones too few; Fahrenheit vs. Celsius; AI and scholarship; Writing by hand; Horror and losing yourself ... and bunnies! New “Briefly Noted” post at Found History. Read and subscribe! open.substack.com/pub/foundhis...

Briefly Noted for July 22, 2026

Different ways to tell the temperature; Daylight Saving in the news again; AI and scholarship; horror in the 2010s and 2020s; and more.

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The House just voted to make Daylight Saving permanent. But whichever way you set the clocks, if you want a real fix you need to fix the real problem: the U.S. has too few time zones for a country this wide. foundhistory.substack.com/p/daylight-s...

Daylight Saving Is Only Half the Problem

The other half is our time zones

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Imagine how jacked these bunnies would be if they just had more protein in their diets.

Latest newsletter! Fahrenheit vs. Celsius. Temperature is natural. Degrees are man made. foundhistory.substack.com/p/fahrenheit... #History #HSTM #HistSci

Fahrenheit vs. Celsius

Zero is wherever you put it.

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This was a month ago. I’ll see you again in a month.

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Trump has announced “great progress” on reopening the Strait of Hormuz at least six times. Each time oil prices plummeted. Each time the “deal” fell through. Each time oil prices climbed again. And I’m supposed to believe that Wall Street is full of geniuses?

So I guess we’re writing all our section headings as questions now in this new day of AI-assisted search (via NYT/The Athletic)

Just explained to an incredulous 13-year-old that the LED-incandescent culture war was really a thing.

I’m confounded by the convention discourse around Platner’s candidacy. Mainstream GOP types think Collins has a shot because Platner is too progressive. Establishment Dems worry Collins has a shot because of the Nazi stuff.

Just wanted to point out that I posted this BEFORE the latest bombings.

Tom Scheinfeldt@foundhistory.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Trump has announced “great progress” on reopening the Strait of Hormuz at least six times. Each time oil prices plummeted. Each time the “deal” fell through. Each time oil prices climbed again. And I’m supposed to believe that Wall Street is full of geniuses?

A reminder that being good at one thing doesn’t make you good at everything. Nobody wants a Ferrari that looks like an iPod. www.forbes.com/sites/maryro...

Ferrari Luce Sparks Controversy Online—And Among Investors

Jony Ive, former Apple executive, is credited with designing the iMac's famous translucent case and the Apple Watch.

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Trump has announced “great progress” on reopening the Strait of Hormuz at least six times. Each time oil prices plummeted. Each time the “deal” fell through. Each time oil prices climbed again. And I’m supposed to believe that Wall Street is full of geniuses?

The U.S. hasn’t seen a mining disaster of this scale in more than 75 years. The next time you marvel at China’s ability to build—its “dynamism”—remember that its relative indifference to human suffering is a big part of it.

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🔊 A gas explosion at a coal mine in China killed at least 90 people, making it likely one of the deadliest mine accidents in the country in at least a decade. Hear the latest on today's episode of Reuters World News reut.rs/49dUZxs

Latest Found History (Briefly Noted) is out: The Cartier Crash; Chimp civil war; Pluralism in the AI classroom; Millennials, Gen X, and money; Dog parks are not the problem; and more. foundhistory.substack.com/p/briefly-no...

Briefly Noted for May 14, 2026

An AI disclaimer; The Cartier Crash; Chimp civil war; Pluralism in the AI classroom; Millennials, Gen X, and money; Dog parks are not the problem; and more.

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A decade ago my kids had Kindle Fire tablets. I recently bought an Amazon Fire TV. Now my screensaver is a bunch of silly seven-year-old selfies and pictures of random Lego creations. I’m in dad nostalgia heaven.

Possibly unpopular on this channel, but for any AI-curious academics tired of having to establish their bona fides at the start of every article, post, and talk, here's a standard disclaimer, v1.0. Pull requests welcome. foundhistory.org/a-standard-d... #AI #DigitalHumanities #HigherEd #academia

A Standard Disclaimer for AI-Curious Academics

I've noticed that when "pro-AI" academics—and by that I mean academics who don't reject AI out of hand for all purposes and are willing to experiment with the technology—write about AI, they generally...

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New on my Substack: Callable thinking; The problem with prediction markets; AI stock market takes; Craig Newmark on giving; Consciousness and William James; Helicopter parenting; Stephenson on the metaverse; and more. buff.ly/Sofofgi #Tech #Humanities #HigherEd

Briefly Noted for April 6, 2026

Callable thinking; The problem with prediction markets; AI stock market takes; Craig Newmark on giving; Consciousness and William James; Helicopter parenting; Stephenson on the metaverse; and more.

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Axiom: use of the term “slop” itself constitutes slop

I Asked 5 Social Media Managers for the Best Clickbait Headline—They All Said the Same Thing

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar? No, but it’s good click bait. New blog post at Found History ICYMI. foundhistory.org/future-token...

Future Tokens and the Prospect of Callable Thinking

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

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My latest post explores Jordan Rubin's Future Tokens project, which aims to make common analytical moves "callable" Claude Skills. They map surprisingly well onto moves historians have been teaching graduate students for generations. foundhistory.org/future-token... #AI #DigitalHumanities

Future Tokens and the Prospect of Callable Thinking

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

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New on my "Briefly Noted" Substack: DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; Testing and education; AI reliability vs. trust; and more. Go ahead and subscribe! buff.ly/jcA1UAr #AI #Humanities #NEH #Education #DH

Briefly Noted for March 23, 2026

New England's accidental borders; AI reliability vs. trust; DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; and more.

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New newsletter post! Part two in the series on New England's borders, including disputes over the northern border and two "what-might-have-been" maps. Please read and subscribe! #NewEngland #Canda #maps #history

Contingency and the Cartographic Making of New England (Part 2)

In Part I, we explored how Southern New England’s borders emerged from surveying errors and charter conflicts. These disputes over the Southwick Jog, the Merrimack Bend, the Horse’s Neck, and the…

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New "Briefly Noted" post: AI and disciplinary hierarchies; Mapping New England; Rethinking academic range; Ottoman archives unlocked; and more.

Briefly Noted for February 26, 2026

AI and disciplinary hierarchies; Mapping New England; Rethinking academic range; Ottoman archives unlocked; and more.”

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The "useless" has become essential, and the "practical" has become automated. Maybe we should be more cautious about defunding fields just because we can't immediately see their application. buff.ly/J8GxgOv #HigherEd #AI

AI Inverts the Disciplinary Hierarchy

Maybe we should be more cautious about defunding fields just because we can't immediately see their application.

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