Samuel Huneke

I wrote this about teaching a fascism class in the age of Trump 🗃️
www.zocalopublicsquare.org/is-he-a-fasc...

OpenAI admits AI hallucinations are mathematically inevitable, not just engineering flaws In a landmark study, OpenAI researchers reveal that large language models will always produce plausible but false outputs, even with perfect data, due to fundamental statistical and computational limi...

OpenAI ”acknowledged in its own research that LLMs will always produce hallucinations due to fundamental mathematical constraints that cannot be solved through better engineering, marking a significant admission from one of the AI industry’s leading companies.”

You can’t trust chatbots.

A reminder that I’ll be hosting a virtual discussion with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM in two weeks. Registration below!

Can’t wait for my swing through the UK to talk about queer women in Nazi Germany

Melania Review: First Lady Melania Trump doc is 'cynical, pointless, and very, very boring' Brett Ratner's Melania, a documentary about First Lady Melania Trump, is in UK cinemas now. Read Empire's review.

“Melania, on the other hand — a new documentary about Melania Trump, wife of President Donald Trump — is more like Triumph of the Shill” 😂

www.empireonline.com/movies/revie...

I wrote this about two years ago and I really wish it didn’t hit so hard today

Thank you! I’m correcting the proofs now and I imagine it will be published online shortly thereafter.

Proofs! I’ve been working on this material for years. I’m thrilled that it’s seeing the light of day in Journal of Contemporary History. It asks what ordinary Germans made of the democratization imposed on them by the Allies, analyzing the paradox that democratization is fundamentally undemocratic.

Every time I despair that the democrats are the most incompetent, feckless center left party in the world, I remind myself that U.K. Labour exists

Every time you opt out of a democratic fundraising email, they send you two new ones.

The implication of these inquiries was clear: if she had been unemployed, then she was indeed "work shy," and thus deserved everything that happened to her. It's a dehumanizing logic that has no place in Holocaust history or remembrance.

One of the women I write about, for instance, was sent to Ravensbrück and then murdered at Auschwitz because she was "work shy" (among other reasons). When her mother submitted a restitution claim in the 1950s, the bureaucrats handling her case inquired about her daughter's employment status.

This disturbing logic (which seems to suggest that if someone commits a crime then they deserve whatever happens to them) is, unfortunately, nothing new -- it was the exact same logic used by the postwar German government to deny reparations claims of survivors and their next of kin.

Did not realize my job made me qualified to nominate folks for the Nobel! 😳

Until we elect politicians who acknowledge this and roll back the thicket of laws that have enabled this violence it can and will continue to happen.

What’s happening now is a direct result of decades of executive power creep and militarization enthusiastically cheered by democrats as well as republicans. It’s the war on terror brought home, the violence we as a nation have exercised against foreign populations now turned against our own citizens

The murder of unarmed civilians is nothing short of evil. But a single election isn’t going to clean out the rot in our system that is allowing these murders to take place with impunity.

The New Politics of Online Feminism

You can preorder the book here: www.dukeupress.edu/the-new-poli...

Spotted in the wild! Register for a virtual conversation with Akane Kanai about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

No, these are very serious comments.

ChatGPT has absolutely no goddamn place in graduate education. It steals from other authors, routinely gets major facts wrong, hallucinates sources, and generally makes the prose flat and boring as hell.

And if you shill for it in my mentions, I'll block you.

Congratulations! Excited to read this

Advance reader’s copies of I WILL NOT ABANDON YOU have arrived!!! If you’re interested in reviewing it shoot me a DM.

Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

Very excited to be hosting my friend Akane Kanai for a virtual conversation about her book THE NEW POLITICS OF ONLINE FEMINISM, coming out with Duke next month. You can register for the event here: gmu.zoom.us/webinar/regi...

The addressee of Dr. Peterson's email, Dr. Sweet, who was the conduit of these complaints. You cannot make this stuff up. The cowardice of so many academics just blows my mind. 😭

Dr Peterson, otoh, absolutely rules.

Come to Texas A&M where we’ve stamped out the woke gender ideology of *squints* Plato

What are we even doing here

I’m so pleased to see our project now in print! - the result of a beautiful collaboration with the amazing @sebboo.bsky.social

Front cover of A Black Queer History of the United States by @crileysnorton.bsky.social and Darius Bost. Published by @beaconpress.bsky.social in January.

Front cover of A Queer Scrapbook: Britain and Ireland since 1945 by @justinbengry.bsky.social, Matt Cook, @rebeccajennings.bsky.social, and E-J. Scott. Published by @manchesterup.bsky.social.

Front cover of I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany by @schuneke.bsky.social. Published by @uoftpress.bsky.social in April.

Front cover of How Queer Bookshops Changed the World by A. J. West. Published by @oneworldbooks.bsky.social in May.

Lots of promising queer history books to look forward to in 2026. Here are just a few coming soon . . . 🌈📚🗃️

www.beacon.org/A-Black-Quee...

www.bloomsbury.com/uk/queer-inh...

www.dukeupress.edu/gay-print-cu...

manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526165312/

utppublishing.com/doi/book/10....

Forcing AI on students will create a generation of functionally illiterate and innumerate adults.