Christopher R Davis

Don't let it haunt you; you were dead-on right. The 20th century, for example, was in some ways a period of amazing, unprecedented progress, but it also produced WWI, WWII, the bomb, the Holocaust, etc... as people applied the methods of that progress to killing others.

Yeah, threatening nuclear war, I'd say that's disproportionate intensity.

I heard a lot of Dems speak out against Project 2025, remember the signs at the Dem convention. The problem was the GOP (Trump) lied and said it wasn't intricately linked to their plans and voters were too naive and believed them.

I heard a lot of Dems speak out against Project 2025, remember the signs at the Dem convention. The problem was the GOP (Trump) lied and said it wasn't intricately linked to their plans and voters were too naive and believed them.

To ask that question, a student would need to already know about the concept of supply and, if they know the concept, they probably already understand that more supply would drive the price lower. So, in this case at least, the chatbot adds very little learning wise.

First I've heard about this book, but it just jumped to the top of my summer reading list.
#SportHistory

To paraphrase Twain:

"There are lies, damn lies, and BS written by ChatGPT."

I appreciate your concerns, but I hope it turns into an opportunity for academic historians to engage a broader public on what historiography is, how it evolves, and why it is so important to studying and understanding the past.

A really great thread here about doing history, the critical importance of historiography, and why AI will never be anything more than average.

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My personal ability to remember song lyrics from the 1980s far exceeds my ability to remember why I walked into the kitchen. My formative years with #MTV still pays off :) Can you relate? RT

If he'd studied history, he might know about unintended consequences.

It's maddening to me that MAGA now claims to be antiwar and some people accept that as fact. I guarantee that almost all of them who were around in 2003 backed the invasion of Iraq.

Chicago, 1968

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I'm trying to think of an assassination of a conservative since McKinley in 1901. Reagan was shot, Ford survived an attempt, George Wallace was shot and paralyzed in 1972. I'm sure I'm missing some.

Whereas on the left so many great leaders were killed: JFK, Malcolm X, MLK Jr., RFK, John Lennon.

Don't get me wrong, I love statistics, but you should always interrogate their integrity.

Hard to beat Samuel Langhorne Clemens.

My favorite:
There are lies, damned lies, and statistics.

The assassin dude is a right wing nut job. If you say he's a leftist you're either lying or not bright.
Some cops are problematic, but even the cops think most security guards are potentially violent loons. Many tried to join the police force, but the cops said no thanks. Remember Zimmerman?

Great video; and, while I'm not near the expert Stoermer is, I would add that it was mainly an assault on older women. 80% of those accused in Salem were women and 2/3's of those women were over the age of 40 - past their childbearing years. Half the men accused were related to accused women.

Great video; and, while I'm not near the expert Stoermer is, I would add that it was mainly an assault on older women. 80% of those accused in Salem were women and 2/3's of those women were over the age of 40 - past their childbearing years. Half the men accused were related to accused women.

And without you, we'd all still have a great app called Twitter.

This is right on, and economists call it a multiplier effect. The admin is currently putting into motion tens of thousands of cuts that will have a massive negative multiplier effect. To quote Bob Dylan, "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall."

The first time I saw ChatGPT(Christmas 2023), I asked it to write a short essay on the Zoot Suit Riots like I sometimes assign in US History II. It wrote an excellent essay, but I fail to see how that makes learning and writing about the topic irrelevant for students.

Part of my institution's advice on using AI to create assignments:
If you want to stick with (essays) ... , test out your prompt on an advanced chatbot ... if you have come up with an assignment that can be satisfactorily completed by computer software, why bother assigning it to a human being?"

"The time hath found us." -- Thomas Paine, 1776

As apropos today as it was almost 250 years ago.

"And our plan to remain a growing economy is to take away the healthcare of 14 million people, fire a substantial portion of the federal workforce, impose crippling tariffs on literally all imports, and engage in unprecedented corruption."

This country was built on immigration. I'd like to ask the VIce President how he'd feel if we locked the doors before his ancestors got here.

"Moron"? it's your complete lack of respect for other people that gets me. That, in fact, is a very fascist like debate tactic.

Excellent advice