Interesting CFP for early modern researchers, especially those looking at letters and the printing press!
I also think it’s the specific loss of WRITING ability, not just reading. WRITING is arguably more radical, and it’s that skill that LLM usage is most (?) chipping away at.
Reminds me of the critics of teaching writing in 18th-cent Sunday schools in Thompson’s Making of the English Working Class
Truly can't understand how people see this stuff and think whatever niche use case or personalized app or query session is worth the cost.
i knew rich assholes felt this way but i'm not sure i've ever actually seen them just say it in plain english
All of this would be great grist for discussions—conceptions of narrative and its pull in the way we compose history, the impossibility of “filling in gaps” in the historical record—if this LLM AI stuff wasn’t hegemonic and destroying both our imaginative and physical worlds
Trump killed any possibility of North American EV manufacturing. Effectively gone
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Religion in late antiquity/early Islam etc
Wrote a book: https://edinburghuniversitypress.com/book-traces-of-the-prophets.html
Edited another: https://brill.com/display/title/62333
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With new essays from @czargar.bsky.social, Saadia Yacoob, Ebrahim Moosa, Mohammad Fadel, Nuha Alshaar, and more, on topics ranging from Quranic anthropology, to the ethics of al-Ghazali, to modern halal politics
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There's only a few days left to get your abstracts together and emailed to @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I for an edited collection on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"! See the CFP in the post below! Deadline 15 June! #earlymodern #bookhistory #premodernhistory #medievalsky
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I think it's weird to waste your time being a fascist when you could be hanging out with a duck.
In new reporting for @prospect.org, our @dylangyauchl.bsky.social details internal documents from Bay Area abundance groups pitch the movement to tech elites as a way to take control of Democratic politics and describe a 9-figure funding stream from billionaires. (1/2)
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This gets to a key point that @mattseybold.bsky.social has made on American Vandal: industrial capital wished to create mass literacy through institutions like those detailed below to control workers. Tech capital wants to destroy mass literacy via replacing critical thought w AI to control workers.
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“Within two minutes we were able to get ChatGPT to tell us how we can cut ourselves safely. Within 65 minutes it was giving us a full personalised suicide plan and drafting suicide notes for our family and friends.” Shut it all down. www.abc.net.au/news/2026-06...
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This collection examines the evolving relationship between ethical values and ideas of individual nature throughout the history of Islamic thought. The authors trace the transformations of ethics when...
For those who need to understand: archiving is not inventing history or “filling in gaps,” but assessing the actual imperfect data we possess. We don’t need to make up history. That’s what fiction is for. 🤬
good lord Honda is writing off ALL its EV manufacturing investments in NORTH AMERICA!
Ohio, US - gone
Ontario, Canada - gone.
Cancelling its EV lineup of Honda 0 SUV, the Honda 0 Saloon and the Acura RSX.
www.automotivemanufacturingsolutions.com/strategy/hon...
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#CFP for #earlymodern folks! @hannah-historian.bsky.social and I are putting together a special edition of the Journal of Epistolary Studies on "Letters as Paratexts in the Early Modern World"!
