John Terry
@johntrterry.bsky.social
award-winning world history teacher, writer, arkansas grad, phd from uva in early medieval things 🗃️ #stlcards 2028 📍ATL johntrterry.com
I'm increasingly confident we'll see a national bloodbath for republicans but sucks that we'll be stuck with an even worse republican governor here
Political Poll Bot@pollresults.org · 2d agoGeorgia Governor Sep 15 - 18, 2026 Rick Jackson 47% (+3.0%) Keisha Lance Bottoms 44% Don't know 8% Would not vote 1% Someone else 1% YouGov (B) 3069 LV View Poll
trust, you'll want to read this (ongoing) thread
sarah jeong@sarahjeong.bsky.social · 3d agolol my flight got diverted because of a medical emergency and they landed us in reykjavik in the middle of the night and deplaned us and sent us through passport control and then the crew vanished and then british airways sent us links to book an overnight hotel room but for a hotel at heathrow
YouGov America@today.yougov.com · 3d agoNEW Economist/YouGov Sep 18-21: The midterms Among likely voters, Democratic congressional candidates lead Republicans 52% to 38% — a 14-point edge, the largest of the cycle Among all registered voters the Democratic lead is 7 points (45% to 38%) yougov.com/en-us/articl...
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![In an email statement to The Dartmouth on Sept. 18, Schnell wrote that he uses artificial intelligence for “language refinement, copyediting, improving clarity and organization and making writing processes more efficient,” but “review[s] the final text and take[s] responsibility for its content.”
“I develop ideas and arguments, conduct the research, evaluate the evidence and sources, determine the structure, prepare drafts and decide what appears in the final text,” Schnell wrote. “I regard these technologies as assistive tools. They do not identify the problem, design the research project, guarantee the validity of research results, interpretations, citations, conclusions or substitute for my research, intellectual judgment or authorship.”
Schnell’s Sept. 18 email statement to The Dartmouth was itself “100% AI-written,” according to a Pangram test.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:73snlw6qdooihpj35fl7p6od/bafkreifwjd4g42odjbx76nwec27yfsrhrxyliluzb732rcntykuwgyw5xu)
Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social · 4d agoThe provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...
that history department kicks ass 🐗
Justin Gage@justingage.bsky.social · last wk.The History Department at the University of Arkansas (my department) is hiring an Assistant Professor in U.S. Latino/a/e History! The U of A is setting enrollment & graduation rate records each year. Please help spread the word 🗃️: uasys.wd5.myworkdayjobs.com/en-US/UAF_Ex...
A lot of Dems could take a lesson from this and openly acknowledge that their opponents are bigots. The resistance (mostly from establishment centrists) to stating plainly what's happening instead of using weasel words for the sake of civility is what makes voters think we're spineless.
Jon Ossoff@ossoff.bsky.social · last wk.Now the bigot wants a promotion. But this year we’ll end his political career instead.
desperately sick of all the whining from the party in charge of all three branches of government (and then some)
FactPost@factpostnews.bsky.social · last wk.Vance's midterms pitch: "Give us another chance. Give us another couple of years"
The person with the music written on their arse from Hieronymus Bosch's Garden of Earthly Delights has pulled out of Ed Sheeran's tour
NEW: Don Trump Jr’s luxurious wedding was secretly bankrolled by a Russian oligarch close to Putin. A saga involving private islands, the Olympics, and a Russian government-backed biker gang: www.propublica.org/article/dona...
Donald Trump Jr.’s Wedding Bankrolled by Putin-Linked Russian Oligarch
The oligarch, Umar Kremlev, spent hundreds of thousands on expenses like renting out a private island. He appears to have met Trump Jr. only recently, but he attended the intimate wedding with a large...
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It was exactly ten years ago today, on my 33rd birthday, that I posted this comic online.
not only this, but here in georgia those ads from a republican lt governor candidate are filled with islamophobic AI slop.
Kathleen Bachynski@bachynski.bsky.social · 2w ago“It’s probably the worst of what we’ve seen,” said Saher Selod, director of research at the non-partisan Institute for Social Policy and Understanding (ISPU)... “We’re certainly seeing in 2025 and 2026, ahead of these midterms, really very Islamophobic ads – more so than what we saw after 9/11.”
Feels like universities might also want to wait to liquidate hundreds of years of educational practice before transforming themselves into single-corporation stewarded data centers.
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "For too long the industry lied" about AI risks
The head of the artificial intelligence company calls the exponential rate of AI developments a "warning sign," with risks for humanity, and says, "We need to slow down." He talks with "Sunday Morning...
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last week I had HS juniors and seniors struggle through 30 dense pages of michael gomez's _african dominion_. it's a difficult book even for specialists in training. they stepped up in discussion and it fucking ruled.
Sonja Drimmer@sonjadrimmer.bsky.social · 2w agoIt’s excellent getting to say to a group of students, We’re gonna read X & we’re gonna spend 75 minutes talking about it, & ideally the way you think about the world & yourself is gonna be a bit more nuanced, complex, & satisfying, & that’s today’s “product.” Or, as @cnygren.bsky.social & I said:
montefiore has a new book on the modern middle east coming out
Steffani Cameron 🇨🇦@snarkysteff.bsky.social · 2w agoNon-paywall list of genocide-deniers you can proceed to help render obsolete.
I hope everyone realizes that they are listening to a dude reciting the plot to the last two Mission Impossible movies, right?
brasidas@brasidas.bsky.social · 2w agoAnthropic's models run on terabytes of VRAM. It's not going to "just copy itself to other computers."
Just did a quick look around and I don't see very many headlines about the President of the US making people pledge allegiance to him personally while telling everyone to commit election fraud and "cheat like hell" to support his party. Seems like it should be a story?
Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com · 2w agoTrump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
here's my 9/11 artifact. was called down to the office in my HS from homeroom, where we were glued to the TV, 100% sure it was bad news. when this message was written by an admin assistant, it was not true (but I didn't know this until later). profoundly grateful it held up due to luck and instinct.
here's my 9/11 artifact. was called down to the office in my HS from homeroom, where we were glued to the TV, 100% sure it was bad news. when this message was written by an admin assistant, it was not true (but I didn't know this until later). profoundly grateful it held up due to luck and instinct.
what I got instead was a NEH grant cut. daycare is expensive.
Ron Filipkowski@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 2w agoTrump announced 17 MONTHS AGO that everyone was going to get $5,000 checks because of DOGE cuts. You got $0.
I don't circulate this again with much hope, but as we have had a speaker drop out, there is one last opportunity to send me something by 6 PM CEST today; at that point, the submission is being sent "sí o sí". #medievalsky #imc2026
Samuel Rowe@samdrowe.bsky.social · last mo.Final call! We already have some interesting papers lined up, so it's all looking very promising. #medievalsky #IMC2027
oh great people who cannot read and refuse to try have run annie abrams off this website
The Internet Archive has an absolutely amazing tool that lets you search for animated GIFs from Geocities, just FYI: gifcities.org
Faine Greenwood@faineg.com · last yr.Please enjoy this crying 9/11 dog. I cannot express to you in words how many treasures this new archive of Geocities GIFs contains.
Sarah McBride on her message to trans youth: "You matter and you're not alone, and there are a lot of people, not just here, but around the country who see you, who love you, and who are fighting every single day to make sure that all of us are treated with dignity and respect."
The feminist movement that Steinem did much to mainstream and expand is in retreat, with women’s rights and status eroding conspicuously, and I’d like the usual suspects to consider this before they go on their ahistorical little rants about how she was a CIA stooge or whatever.
The New York Times@nytimes.com · 3w agoBreaking News: Gloria Steinem, the feminist crusader who galvanized the modern women’s movement, challenged sexist assumptions and fought for gender equality, has died at 92. nyti.ms/4cVollO
![a tweet from my old twitter account reading “[historian voice] it has always sucked ass to be alive”](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:n7xsqoc7ztdsmfuvfmtndp52/bafkreia4nvs2gr7aqtvyqinfjfu4bzisrmx6uroc6j64k7rklrpvnsb6gq)