David J. Hensley

The Resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress Grievances and conclusions drawn by this 1765 Congress in response to the Stamp Act.

The colonial POV tended to be that the colonial legislatures were the equivalent of Parliament for the colonists, and therefore only they had the right to impose internal taxes. See the resolutions of the Stamp Act Congress of 1765, especially nos. 4-6: www.battlefields.org/learn/primar...

bsky.app/profile/davi...

@bandcamp.com Do you have a policy regarding the hosting and selling of AI-generated content? I've noticed several accounts that appear to be selling AI-generated "music" without explicitly labeling it as such.

Defending French in Flanders, 1873–1974 This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language

If you clicked my profile because I said something interesting or followed you, why not take a gander at my work? link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Defending French in Flanders, 1873–1974 This book examines the efforts of the French-speaking minority in Flanders to maintain a legal and social presence of the French language

Coming up on the 2nd anniversary of publication
link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

"he decided to have the gal not be a hog like his family" -- I am having trouble parsing what this means.

The president pro tem then (1868) was Benjamin Wade of OH, a Radical Republican. Some historians speculate that Johnson was acquitted because other Senators did not want to see Wade in the presidency. A shame, in my opinion, as Wade had some views that were extraordinarily progressive for his day.

Under the Presidential Succession Act of 1792 (in force when Lincoln was killed), the president pro tem of the Senate came after the VP. In April 1865, that was Lafayette S. Foster of CT, a devoted abolitionist. The real "what if" is what if Johnson had been removed from office after impeachment:

This looks like some Gavin Menzies-level BS. (I always use Gavin Menzies to illustrate for my students that not everything in the History section of a commercial bookstore is academic history.)

Gretchen Whitmer, the Democratic governor of Michigan.

I can get it any Mexican restaurant or grocery store here in northwest Georgia.

Jarritos, the Mexican soda company, has a tamarind flavor. My favorite!

To be fair, the 1860 Republican Party platform was like 75% about stopping the spread of slavery into the Western territories. Also one of the planks is about making sure naturalized immigrants were treated equally to the native-born. www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/re...

Screenshot of Mr. Burns using calipers to measure Waylon Smithers's head from an episode of The Simpsons.

Smithers: "Sir, phrenology was dismissed as quackery 160 years ago."
Burns: "Of course you'd say that, you have the brainpan of a stagecoach tilter."

I hate the "customer service" mentality metastasizing throughout Higher Ed. I saw this really terrible Op-Ed last year that goes all in on "customer service."
archive.is/PADyX

Screenshot of July 1, 2017 tweet from @InternetHippo : "Just got back from the centrist rally. Amazing turnout. Thousands of people holding hands and and chanting 'better things aren't possible.'"

Counterpoint:

Unless it produces a fake citation or a "as an AI model" type "tell," it's essentially impossible to prove that it's AI (at least, so that administration would take my side), so I just grade to the rubric as strictly as possible. It's been a very disheartening few years for me.

I wish this was the case with my students, who are overwhelmingly taking History courses for general education requirements in a nursing or business program. The use of AI is omnipresent despite my repeated attempts to explain that it short-circuits learning.

A digital poster in the style of a World War II propaganda piece. Isolaed on a yellow background, a normal, squarish, 20-something guy with glasses is sitting working on a laptop. A ghostly figure of Hitler has his arm around the guy and is grinning and shaking a fist triumphantly looking at the laptop screen. On the lid of the laptop where an apple might otherwise be is an openAI logo, bright green, and dripping green ooze down the lid. Text on the poster, in combinations of sans-serif type and brush script reads: Using Generative AI? You’re prompting with Hitler! GenAI is a Fascist Project! Try using your brain instead Don’t surrender your creativity to the tech billionaire’s control

New awareness campaign

See also Cuomo's anti-Mamdani (and also anti-Sliwa) ads made with AI, which are frankly libelous. I can't believe he is allowed to use these things in a campaign for public office.

In grad school, we History PhD students had a "historical villains"-themed Halloween party. One friend, who studied Early Modern England, wore a little fence (like from a model train setup) around his neck. He said was going as "Enclosure."

Her being Robert Kardashian's kid is what made her sex tape notable at first; this led to her becoming a media figure in her own right which is how she met Kanye.

As someone who voted for Sanders in the 2016 and 2020 primaries, I feel secure in saying this is a certified bad take. One needs to avoid even "the appearance of impropriety," and Platner leaving a Totenkopf tattoo on his person even after he learned its significance is instantly disqualifying.

But he is also be ineligible to be *elected as vice-president*. I suppose one could argue that he could be appointed VP under the 25th Amendment.

Yeah, the problem with that is that the 12th Amendment states that "no person constitutionally ineligible to the office of President shall be eligible to that of Vice-President of the United States." The 22nd Amendment thus makes serving 2 terms as president disqualifying for election to VP.

This is about the demolition of the East Wing of the White House and not Platner, but it's still a bad take.

Screen shot of the "scientician" from the pro-meat short in the "Lisa the Vegetarian" episode of the Simpsons. He is shown sitting at a desk with a microscope and a beaker, dressed in a lab coat, saying "Um..."

"Cephalagia" is literally just headache in Greek, lol. But it makes the list seem more serious I suppose. Just ask this scientician!

I've been thinking that if LLMs existed in 1934, prompts asking about Reconstruction would probably elicit output trained largely on Dunning School writings and Birth of a Nation. Luckily modern LLMs can't reproduce such bias 🙃

The idea that you can take someone's public utterances/writings and "reconstruct" them from those, complete with the same personality, ideology, tastes, etc., completely discounts the existence of an inner life. To be fair, perhaps many AI bros don't have much of an inner life.

Speaking of Sora abuse (ie, all uses of Sora)
bsky.app/profile/davi...