Weird, the relevant entries on my university risk register are all about the consequences of *not* adopting LLMs etc. Not a word about the dangers of doing so.

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These arguments always boil down to the same thing (yes I read it) "if you use your freedom in ways we don't like, we should take it away from you." Which is not, you know, freedom bsky.app/profile/pgou...

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Political instincts notwithstanding, this is just a good way to live life. He's going to be a very effective politician, but, more importantly, he's going to be a terrific leader.

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Thanks to @monicavasile.bsky.social for arranging a screening of Overburden @oulu.fi. Issues around the uneasy alliances of #mining and #conservation resonate from West Africa to near the Arctic Circle. We need stories across the globe connecting mining, AI, extraction, and the extinction of life.

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Y’all. We trained up a cohort of historians of capitalism in response to the Great Recession. I know, I’m one of them. The expectation was that during the next economic crisis people could turn to us for context and guidance. The crisis is here, so are we, but our profession is being eviscerated.

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