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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I hope Seth MacFarlane sues the hell out of Collins.

David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Heads-up to any fellow educators who use The American Yawp in their courses; they changed the chapter structure and content over the summer. They do have the old ("First Edition") versions available: www.americanyawp.com/index-first-...

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The American Yawp

A Free and Online, Collaboratively Built American History Textbook

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 19/05/2026

This suggests to me that one of the reasons that AI videos, in particular, are so bad and zany is not only the inherent random jank of "AI," but also that there are no intermediate people (actors, set designers, directors, etc.) who might push back against the weird ideas of these new auteurs.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

"On two occasions I have been asked, – 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' ... I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question."

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 28/04/2026

This is redolent of "establish[ing] a student loan debt forgiveness program for Pell Grant recipients who start a business that operates for three years in disadvantaged communities" except worse in a lot of ways.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

Clankers aren't people and it is good and right to make fun of them.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

@perusall.com In the new grouping system in Perusall, is there a way to have Perusall automatically assign students to random groups for each of the library items? The new group management seems very counterintuitive. I do not want to make "group sets" and apply "group sets" to dozens of items.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 29/11/2025

@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.

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Phineas, a corpse @phineas.bsky.social · 03/11/2025

New awareness campaign

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 20/10/2025

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 🙃

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

I am in a Facebook group where people ridicule AI slop. Someone shared a Sora video in which Hitler was giving a TED Talk about how he was forced into World War II by the Poles & the Brits. I reported it & FB said it was not "hateful." Also, Sora apparently has no qualms producing vids with Hitler.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Are there any examples my academic followers on here know about of *student* resistance to the use of LLMs, among undergrads or graduate students?

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Grading in the age of Generative "AI."

Screenshot from the Star Trek: The Next Generation episode "Parallels," showing a haggard Riker from a parallel universe on the comm viewer yelling "The Borg is everywhere!"

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 22/03/2025

Having a hard time working; maybe I should get another coffee.* *(Wholesale restructuring the world's social, political, and economic structures, including but not limited to funding of and attitudes toward education from kindergarten onward).

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 18/03/2025

I am also teaching in a summer study abroad program this summer, and I have the exact same worries.

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

For all of my contacts who are historians of Ireland: Is there an Irish analogue to this book? I am looking to teach a World History II (since 1500) course using Ireland as the main case study / point of entry. Thanks! www.routledge.com/Transnationa...

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Transnational France: The Modern History of a Universal Nation

Now in its second edition, Tyler Stovall’s Transnational France takes a transnational approach to the history of modern France that draws the reader into a key aspect of France’s political culture: un...

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

Columbia University forbidding faculty from moving classes online to protect students from ICE. The email also lists "resources" for concerned students, which is rich, given that Mahmoud Khalil contacted Columbia the day before his apprehension to reach out for help: zeteo.com/p/scoop-emai...

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SCOOP: Emails Show Mahmoud Khalil Asked Columbia for Protection a Day Before He Was Detained

"I haven’t been able to sleep, fearing that ICE or a dangerous individual might come to my home. I urge you to intervene and provide the necessary protections to prevent further harm."

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David J. Hensley @david-j-hensley.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Horrible. As a past recipient of a Fulbright scholarship, as well as an educator who has touted the Gilman scholarship to my own students (who tend to come from disadvantaged backgrounds) this really hits home.

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Many Fulbright scholars say they feel stranded after the Trump administration suspended their funding

Fulbright scholars were among those in programs administered through the U.S. State Department who learned their funding has been frozen.

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