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I love that in order to use "AI responsibly" we're requested to check all the AI references, which presumably, we could avoid by just doing the actual research required.

I’m re-reading The City and the City by China Mieville to prep for a podcast recording this week, and like Piranesi, it’s even better on the second read. Dunno how I missed it when it first came out.

I’m sorry, but I’d prefer that police not waste their time or taxpayer money on arresting someone for touching their car. If it was vandalism, sure, but touching? When did police become such pussies?

Good luck! 🍀

Reading advice for young historians This is a sheet of reading tips I’ve developed over the past few years for my first-year students in history. I posted it on Twitter yesterday, as a png image and a tweet thread, and it got q…

An old post from late in my Twitter days. I'm going to have to update this in some fashion for the post-generative AI context, but in that context I think something like it remains important -- perhaps is even more so. I do not think these are skills that should be outsourced, even if they could be

Read in public. Read in private. Read e-books, genre books, comics, fanfiction. Read literature. Read nonfiction. Read books you’ve already read. Listen to audiobooks. Read what you want. There’s no such thing as “doing reading the wrong way.”

THAT’S what this administration reminds me of - an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm.

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Powerful.

Same old cycle.

Humanity needs to evolve at some point, doesn’t it?

World Central Kitchen has been my monthly tithe as well, they are always on the ground quickly where there is a need, but there are plenty of other choices to help victims of hurricane Melissa.

#bookhistory

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AI of a Thousand Faces What happens now that AI is everywhere and in everything? WIRED can’t tell the future, but we can try to make sense of it. Behold: 17 readings from the furthest reaches of the AI age.

🎇New package alert @wired.com! This one has been in the works for months. If WIRED was going to tackle AI -- something we cover daily -- we had to go big. So here are 17 different stories about the way AI is changing us, even as the technology itself keeps moving www.wired.com/ai-issue/

African #bookhistory in the archives

A beautiful example of Indigenous #bookhistory

Cats will never change.

Cat prints are all over #bookhistory 🐾

So many secrets to uncover in #bookhistory

Factory Girls by Michelle Gallen It’s the first day of March and the beginning of Reading Ireland Month 2023, which I am kicking off with a review of a work of comedy by Michelle Gallen originally published in 2022. Women Wr…

It's Irish Book Week & today's prompt is:

- a book set in Northern Ireland

so I chose Factory Girls by #MichelleGallen a novel I loved as much as her debut Big Girl,Small Town.

#FactoryGirls won the Comedy Women in Print Prize UK/Ireland

#irishbookweek

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OK and we need 1 trillion dollars to fund feminist journalism. Ours is better.

#bookhistory

So pretty! #bookhistory

4 grounding questions [if useful at this moment]:

1. What resources exist so I can better educate myself [about x issue]?
2. Who's already doing work around this injustice?
3. Do I have the capacity to offer concrete support & help to them?
4. How can I be constructive?

An #IrishBookWeek stack from this afternoon's delivery

Truly a “let them eat cake” moment

He knows the size of Trump’s feet

An archivist just told me about this great website for German watermarks. Thanks to this website, I was able to identify a watermark on an #EarlyModern archival record and say more about the document's approximate date (which was unknown) 📜 #BookHistory 📚 🗃️ #MedievalSky

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This is because if the current administration is going to continue down this path they need to give up this flag - this flag doesn’t represent ANYTHING they are doing.

I am not certain anyone of any knowledge of anything meaningful has had anything to do with this project. He’s probably building it as cheaply as possible on top of everything else.