It’s ‘Trans History Now’ week in my grad class! Many ways to provide a snapshot of current field debates, but this is what I went with (with apologies to the premodernists):

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Find it just so typical that rather than Scotland's media explore what public ownership of busses means to the public, or how it works outside of Scotland - or even how it works in our own capital city - the amplified central voices are reactionary businessmen.

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“Here’s a policy that’s great for everyone except this one millionaire. Who shall we get on as a neutral expert on it? Oh I know, the one millionaire!”

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This essay by Jordan Sand on how LLM chatbots—including the officially licensed “expert” campus version—produced entirely false versions of a primary source should be required reading for every history student #skystorians 🗃️

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You guys fantasize, a lot, about not having to pay for labor or be responsible for treating the labor source with dignity. So much of GenAI discourse is about a desire for ethical enslavement. And that does not exist.

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