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My name is Dean Rehberger & I teach & do digital history at MSU. I have always been a pseudo/artificial historian (cultural studies) & I dabble in AI but the views and ideas posted here are my own.

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#ironyisdead Let me get this right. Kennedy links circumcision to autism through Tylenol that is not given to the baby. Trump repeats it with no evidence. And people are talking about idea and not the stupidity of people who would spread the idea.

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#ironyisdead let me get this right. Trump is having Comey put on trial for lying.

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#october #raybradbury Why does it seem that every October my head fillls with dandelion wine, lingering twilights, carnivals. Always medicine for melancholy.

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#wildcard Apparently, teams that win the first game of MLB Wild Card playoff series advance to the Division Series an astounding 90% of the timeβ€”18 out of 20 series since the current format began. Go Tigers 🐯

01.10.2025 17:13 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

#irony. Let me get this right. An overweight guy in orange tanner & a former TV host in pancake makeup lectured hard bitten military leaders about β€œmanliness” and fitness. Obviously Dean Wormer was wrong & we don’t need The Onion.

01.10.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did anyone stop to think that the #rapture happened yesterday and we were left behind with an orange leader who views climate change, vacines, scientific research, and medical research as a con job

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Florida Moves to End Vaccine Mandates for Schoolchildren

I am not sure why the press can’t get headlines right. β€œFlorida moves to approve the death of children”. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/03/u...

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Johnny Appleseed – LIT

My daughter published another one of her wonderful stories www.litmagazine.org/johnny-apple...

01.07.2025 20:52 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Is it just me or are the billionaire class starting to look the the elites in the Hunger Games

01.07.2025 01:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œTyranny follows the tyrant. Woe to the man who leaves behind a shadow that bears his form.”
Victor Hugo, Les MisΓ©rables #lesmis #lesmiserables
#kennedycenter

11.06.2025 23:40 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Victor Hugo, Les Miserables β€œThere is corruption under all illustrious tyrants, but the moral pest is still more hideous under infamous tyrants.” #KennedyCenter #LesMiz #lesmiserables

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'Wholesale slaughter': MSU loses 10 grants amid National Endowment for the Humanities cuts - The State News The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) terminated 10 grants and one fellowship at Michigan State University. The terminations reflect another agency's response to the Trump adm...

statenews.com/article/2025... overdramatic headline but we are at the crossroads of doing and sustaining larger digital humanities projects #dh #digitalhumanities

26.04.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short β€’ Ohio Capital Journal Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Cuts from President Trump and Elon Musk will critically harm research on cancer treatment, ...

ohiocapitaljournal.com/2025/03/31/c...

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Cuts to science research funding cut American lives short β€’ Ohio Capital Journal Nearly every modern medical treatment can be traced to research funded by the National Institutes of Health. Cuts from President Trump and Elon Musk will critically harm research on cancer treatment, ...

Brutal threats, reckless uncertainty & ceasing payments may work in the unsparing world of real estate, yet in the delicate machinery of small businesses, global supply chains, & university research, these tactics can decimate & destroy years of frugal, meticulous work never to be recaptured

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ClaudeAI future of #digitalhumanities: The brutal truth is that many digital humanities projects and centers will not survive this funding crisis intact. Some valuable digital archives and resources may need to be archived. The field may see a significant contraction before any potential rebuilding.

09.04.2025 17:19 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

All 6 of ours cancelled this week

05.04.2025 01:12 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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Losing six funded grants in 1 week. This is when I wish my office were in a seedy film noir, and I could pull a bottle and two glasses out of my bottom drawer and toast my good luck. #thedhlife #digitalhumanities

04.04.2025 20:29 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

β€œDemocracy demands wisdom and vision in its citizens” and β€œto know the best that has been thought and said in former times can make us wiser than we otherwise might be, and in this respect, the humanities are not merely our, but the world's best hope.” (Report of the Humanities, 1964).

03.04.2025 18:42 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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URGENT: Save the NEH

Terminating grants is simply cruelty and pain. Grants from NEH are awarded by Congress and should not be terminated by a group not empowered by Congress.
Please act now to save NEH -- p2a.co/DdtlGIT

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URGENT: Save the NEH

(often non-profits, always on the edge of solvency because doing good work is placed above profit) are passed by because a grant was awarded, and one believed if you did good work, it would continue until completed.

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URGENT: Save the NEH

It is hiring people, putting in place equipment, and establishing processes that often take years.
Terminating the process mid-grant often destroys the whole project's work. People lose their jobs. Other funding opportunities for organizations

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URGENT: Save the NEH

Having worked on and received many NEH grants, it can take a year(s) of planning, assembling a team and expertise, writing a proposal, and often submitting not once but many times over several years to receive grant funding.

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URGENT: Save the NEH

To have a healthy debate and happily concede to the wishes of whatever administration is in powerif the work is shown to be inappropriate in their eyes or wasteful -- that is democracy (we don't always get what we want).
Yet wholesale termination is simply cruelty and pain.

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URGENT: Save the NEH

β€’ Preserves our cultural heritage
β€’ Fosters local tourism economies
I would be very happy to see a process that seeks to root out inappropriate materials, waste and inefficiencies. Even a speedy process.

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URGENT: Save the NEH

Provides lifelong learning opportunities for a range of audiences
β€’ Fosters community conversations
β€’ Ensures rural access to high-quality humanities programs
β€’ Supports Veterans
β€’ Promotes civic education
β€’ Supports cutting-edge research
β€’ Celebrates local histories
β€’

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URGENT: Save the NEH

The majority of NEH funds go to local state Humanities Councils (all state funds were terminated).
The NEH funds not only the preservation of historical materials from being lost to time and provides public access, but
β€’ Enriches K-12 education
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URGENT: Save the NEH

This morning we learned that all NEH grants had been terminated. There was no rhyme or reason or culling through to see what was appropriate or not appropriate for the new administration. All were simply terminated.

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I like the app brilliant.org for working through solutions

19.03.2025 00:43 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

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