Torsten Kathke
@kathke.com
Historian. 19th/20th century US & Germany. LMU Munich. 70s/80s cultural criticism, pop science, futurology. Book: Wires That Bind.
"If the PR departments of a few tech companies are trying to make fetch happen, then fetch must be embedded in the learning and the coursework…"
Hypervisible @hypervisible.blacksky.app · 9h ago“If it's this embedded in the world, then it needs to be embedded in the learning and in the coursework…”
Greetings, Psst, most academics aren't making much money from their book publications. They can't use their royalties. This means we are not popping our collars and purchasing prosecco or NA prosecco. The few scholars who are making bank are not publishing with university/academic presses.
They’re calling it the most theater kid story of all time
Pixie Casey@pixiecasey.bsky.social · yesterdayin insane local news, the 26 year old director of a rocky horror production was arrested for sending threatening messages to himself in order to get the play shut down bc he didn’t want to deal with cast drama www.mynbc5.com/article/rock...
Don't look now, but the world has now installed 3TW of solar. Took 10 years to get from 100GW to 1TW. Less than 3 years to get to 2TW. Less than 2 years to get to 3TW. Analysts expect *9TW* by 2036.
The World Crossed a Major Solar Milestone. No One Noticed
The next phase of the boom may reveal a shift in who is gaining access to the technology.
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Happy 2nd-version-of-the-date-in There Will Come Soft Rains-day
Eric Williams@geoliminal.bsky.social · yesterdaythe first time THERE WILL COME SOFT RAINS was published, in the May 6th 1950 issue of Collier's, the date the robo-house says is "April 28, 1985"
1. historians don't get the luxury of "slow work" in this day and age. 2. Many of our objections are centered around the fact that WE need to be the ones reading and thinking about our sources, not some LLM. Its about understanding and owning the process. 3. Using gAI is cutting corners.
Ill admit American Historical Association rolls off the tongue better than American Fact Sorter Association; or consider also, Social Fact Sorting of Medicine, Journal for the Fact Sorting of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Disability Fact Sorting
Torsten Kathke@kathke.com · yesterdayY'all why did no one tell me? When is the next fact sorting meetup?
Y'all why did no one tell me? When is the next fact sorting meetup?
Aparna Nair@disabilitystor1.bsky.social · yesterday"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.
0.33l in a glass bottle: just about the right amount of soda. 0.33l in a can: just about the right amount of soda. 0.33l in a plastic bottle: what the hell why so small why would anyone ever think this is enough?
Das klingt ziemlich erschreckend für die @bpb.de www.rnd.de/politik/poli...
Fokus auf Linksextremismus: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung plant Kurswechsel
Der bisherige Präsident der Einrichtung, Sönke Rix, schied in der vorigen Woche auf eigenen Wunsch nach nur fünf Monaten aus. Die BpB will sich nun stärker auf ihren „Kernauftrag“ konzentrieren. Die B...
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this is not true. there was no conspiracy. it didn't matter whether the streetcars were publicly owned (seattle, detroit) or private (los angeles, atlanta). a thread (because i wrote a whole-ass book on this): 1/?
David Ho@davidho.bsky.social · 3d agoIs everyone aware of the General Motors streetcar conspiracy? In the mid-20th century, auto and oil interests bought up electric streetcar systems across the US and systematically replaced them with bus routes and paved roads, funneling commuters toward private cars.
I’ve been writing a counter narrative of shutdowns that has me revisiting media from that time. And let me tell you, the only other option was everybody die. So yeah.
Peter@notalawyer.bsky.social · 3d agoit’s pretty obvious that a lot of people remember that COVID lockdowns were unpleasant and from there just extrapolate that they were therefore bad policy
Why are people pretending we're on the verge of AI becoming sentient in the same world in which Microsoft Office is confused about which timezone I'm in on a regular basis?
I feel like the whole world got a taste of what it's like to sit around a grad seminar table.
Joseph Rezek@rezekjoe.bsky.social · 4d agoSUSAN ORLEAN HAS JOINED THE ENEMY IN THE ODYSSEY WARS
For the "don't threaten me with a good time" files
The Irish Times@irishtimes.com · 7mo agoAI boom could falter without wider adoption, Microsoft chief Satya Nadella warns
I've been left alone for the night in my parents' house so y'all know what that means time to finally turn off the motion-smoothing on their TV
I believe this 100%. The moral injury of the period, the grief from not just the too and so many deaths but the kinds of lives we had before, the laying bare of disposability, the non covid deaths it sped, the institutional strain, the collective fear and distrust, the prioritization of work anyway
The Fig Economy@figgityfigs.bsky.social · last wk.One of my Crank Theories of Everything, at least of Everything in the Recent Past, is that we are dealing (badly) with COVID trauma we’d mostly prefer to pretend never happened.
AI keeps making mistakes that an actual human couldn't even make if they tried.
Eric Geller@ericjgeller.com · 6d ago"A US government map of Africa mislabeled every country during a state department presentation at a global conference in Brazil this week, causing a stir among attenders who took screenshots and posted them online."
Idk who needs to hear this but you actually need carbs to like function
This InfoWars caper is going a little too well. We need to staff up a bit. We're hiring a Social Media Lead, who will help make InfoWars the network of the future. We need someone who is extraordinarily online, has big ideas for how things break through in 2026, and can pull those ideas off quick.
Social Media Lead, InfoWars at Global Tetrahedron
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This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
No professional accomplishment has ever made me happier than this. theonion.com/translator-o...
Translator Of Original ‘Minions’ Epic Poem Slams ‘Sexless, Bloodless’ Film Adaptation
PHILADELPHIA—In a 4,500-word essay published in Harper’s Magazine, Emily Wilson, known for her popular translation of the Minions epic poem, blasted the latest film Thursday as a “sexless, bloodless” ...
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THE DISCOURSE: serious thoughts about The Odyssey MY BRAIN: <whistling the soundtrack from O Brother Where Art Thou>
Packing for a trip is hard because present you has to plan for future present you but can only access present future you.
