Self-funded PhD student (reading history in XVIII New Spain) & paid researcher (open science, research integrity) at Leiden University. Baking & reading aficionada. Managed by a Timneh. ORCID 0000-0002-5676-2122
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
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Please Use AI
McSweeney's on "AI finances" goes harder than most business publications.
https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/ai-economics-for-dummies
Great, LLMs are being weaponised by non-historians to try to fill humanities research with garbage. This is so disrespectful to scholars that actually read & write. Critical fabulation & other creative speculative methods is not just making shit up. One needs to know the archive to fill in the gaps.
www.mcsweeneys.net
“Xavier owns an apartment that he rents out at a loss of $1 billion/month. Seeing this success, he decides to make financial commitments to construct $850 bi...
The focus is as always on the tourists: "Just as before, we are left to fend for ourselves.”
The increased inequality, exploitation, violence, forced disappearances, mass graves don't even get 5% of the resources & attention that the stupid Tren Maya got.
Kurbs
tante
Rebranding a hallucination as a ‘critical confabulation’ that can fill archival gaps is a big no from me.
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Peter Whitewood
Scholars who. When I am upset my Spanish shoots through and I use that instead of who.
A reminder to academic, scientific, and activist organisations & groups which have recently launched (or plan to launch) newsletters via substack 👇🏽
I suspect Kyle from Dallas (what a stereotype we have here!) would rate all the books in my library with one star, after stopping with reading by page 10.
Me watching the game through text cause social event.
Great way to start the day. EC working for their sugar daddies.
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
Andrea Reyes E (she/her)
So they asked Claude to find “evidence,” and the LLM — trained to please — did what it was made to do. 🤦♂️ The admission of confirmation bias is so brazen it’s almost impressive
Charles Pletcher
If only it weren't on Substack, so I could share it.
