Four eras of San Francisco tech culture; One Laptop per Child in retrospect; a future prime minister's American tour, before Tocqueville; and more.

An addendum to Dan Cohen’s post on preserving AI-assisted scholarship

Take a page from English football

The state has always been a place of in-between.

Different ways to tell the temperature; Daylight Saving in the news again; AI and scholarship; horror in the 2010s and 2020s; and more.

The other half is our time zones

Zero is wherever you put it.

Jony Ive, former Apple executive, is credited with designing the iMac's famous translucent case and the Apple Watch.

An AI disclaimer; The Cartier Crash; Chimp civil war; Pluralism in the AI classroom; Millennials, Gen X, and money; Dog parks are not the problem; and more.

I've noticed that when "pro-AI" academics—and by that I mean academics who don't reject AI out of hand for all purposes and are willing to experiment with the technology—write about AI, they generally...

Callable thinking; The problem with prediction markets; AI stock market takes; Craig Newmark on giving; Consciousness and William James; Helicopter parenting; Stephenson on the metaverse; and more.

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

Has a finance quant reverse engineered the history seminar?

Open Source Not for Profit Community Driven Reimagining Remote Research Get Started Request documents through Sourcery Need to see archival materials for your research but can’t make the trip? Want…

New England's accidental borders; AI reliability vs. trust; DOGE's ChatGPT humanities purge; Digital history after vibe coding; Musk's orbital data centers; and more.

In Part I, we explored how Southern New England’s borders emerged from surveying errors and charter conflicts. These disputes over the Southwick Jog, the Merrimack Bend, the Horse’s Neck, and the…

AI and disciplinary hierarchies; Mapping New England; Rethinking academic range; Ottoman archives unlocked; and more.”

Maybe we should be more cautious about defunding fields just because we can't immediately see their application.

New England's borders aren't natural. They're historical accidents.

Trusting AI; Regional measles strategy; Moltbook’s agent ecologies; Why Socrates was right about AI; Knowledge-based literacy; and more.

Measles is a national issue. It's not a national phenomenon.

How is trusting AI different than trusting people?

The medieval roots of the university; Billionaires don't really believe in UBI; The myth of scientific 'discovery'; EnshittificationU; Lüften's OK but A/C isn't? and more.

Tech transfer's failings; Crypto kleptocracy; Springsteen's poetry; and more.