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Giacomo Parrinello

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Environmental historian & associate prof. at Sciences Po Paris. First book on #disasters (shorturl.at/cXZBh) now writing on #rivers & growth in the Po Valley of Italy. All things #water & #climate, #envhist news, & adventures in daily life.

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Damian Carrington @dpcarrington.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future - @copernicusecmwf.bsky.social report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average #climatecrisis www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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May heatwaves, deaths, ruined harvests: study of Europe’s summer paints grim picture for the future
EU Copernicus report shows surface air temperatures from June to August were 2.5C above decadal average
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FT Visual & Data Journalism @data.ft.com · 30/09/2026
Salty seas get saltier and world ocean more acidic as heatwaves bring ‘profound change’ ft.trib.al/e5oRq5R
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Salty seas get saltier and world ocean more acidic as heatwaves bring ‘profound change’
Scientists say rapid warming has also led to accelerated sea level rise over the past decade
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Nicolas Fulghum @nicolasfulghum.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
In May 2023, coal dropped below 10% of EU electricity for the first month on record. Since then, 22 of 39 months were below 10%. Coal is on its way out in the EU, displaced by solar and wind power.
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Libération @liberation.fr · 29/09/2026
Pour l’historien Emilien Ruiz, l’appel à la grève de l’intersyndicale de la fonction publique ce mardi 29 septembre résulte d’un «mouvement de fond» lié à la stagnation du point d’indice et à la répétition de certains discours politiques. ➡️ l.liberation.fr/mFa
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Bob Berwyn @bberwyn.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
I contributed a few words to this striking photographic documentation of the 2026 killer heatwave in Europe ... insideclimatenews.org/news/2809202...
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Revealing the Invisible Injustice of Extreme Heat - Inside Climate News
Thermal imaging shows how people experience scorching heat varies depending on their circumstance.
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Andrea Bettini @andreabettini.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stesse montagne, 46 anni dopo: drammatiche fotografie dalla zona del Gran Paradiso. Non so se correre in montagna per vedere ancora qualche ghiacciaio o se lasciar perdere per conservare il ricordo di come erano una volta aostasera.it/notizie/ambi...
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Gran Paradiso, stesse inquadrature quarant’anni dopo: le foto di padre e figlio raccontano la fine dei ghiacciai
Antonio Bussano fotografava il Gran Paradiso negli anni Ottanta. Quest’estate il figlio Riccardo è tornato sui suoi passi: la gallery.
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Institute of Historical Research @ihr.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Today is World Rivers Day, with communities around the world celebrating all things rivers. You can learn more about the histories of rivers and streams by exploring the Bibliography of British and Irish History (BBIH) buff.ly/he0uDX7 @brepols.net
Black and white etching of a bridge with buildings running across it. The river is populated with several boats, and the land on the far side of the bridge is full of buildings with spires and towers.
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IGN @ignfrance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
📢 Nouvelle expo des Archives nationales “La carte de France de Cassini. Une encyclopédie du territoire” ! En partenariat avec l'IGN, qui a récemment versé un fonds exceptionnel aux Archives nationales, découvrez l'histoire de ce trésor du patrimoine cartographique 🤩​. www.ign.fr/agenda/la-ca...
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Wtaf is this question my university just asked me about my project?
Does the project involve any work that could be interpreted as promoting DEIA, climate change research, or non-compliant to any Presidential Executive Orders?
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The European Correspondent @eurcorrespond.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Between 2015 and 2025, wildfires burned around 1.3 million hectares of Natura 2000 land an area roughly the size of Montenegro. Although Natura 2000 sites cover just 18.6% of European land, they accounted for around 29% of the area burned during that period.
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Renaud Bécot @renaudbecot.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
La préparation de ce livre avec G. Bouleau et C. Bonneuil aura cheminé pendant plusieurs années. C'est donc heureux que la @fondationecolo.bsky.social le récompense! Il est indissociable des 2 volumes précédents, et plus largement des travaux menés depuis 15 ans autour de @leruche.bsky.social.
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Valérie Masson-Delmotte @valmasdel.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Merci de donner à voir ces personnes, leur humanité, leurs parcours et conditions de vie, et ne plus invisibiliser les personnes qui décèdent du fait de la chaleur. www.lemonde.fr/planete/visu...
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Qui sont les morts de la canicule ? « Le Monde » raconte des vies derrière les chiffres
Selon les données publiées mercredi par Santé publique France, 8 124 personnes sont mortes à cause de la chaleur pendant les canicules entre fin mai et fin août. Personnes âgées, travailleurs... « Le ...
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Bathsheba Demuth @brdemuth.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Coming in February! An edited collection on rivers past and present and how they move. The code E27RIVER gets you 30% off a preorder from Duke. #envhist #rivers #envhum
Cover of the book Rivers on the Move, edited by Bathsheba Demuth, by Mark Healey, anyone Giacomo Pareinello & Laurence Smith. Cover shows white swirls of a river channel on a blue background
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Dr. Jessica van Horssen @historiamagoria.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
New #publication alert! I started do-editing the final volume of this series with Bloomberg in 2018. Cue editorial changes, a global pandemic, a baby, a transatlantic move, a new job, and here it is! Can’t wait to dig into the other volumes as well! #EnvHist
Front cover of the new publication with the title A Cultural History of the Environment: In the Age of Acceleration at the top and a space radar image of Salt Lake City, UtahPhoto of the spinal all six books in the Cultural History of the Environment series published by Bloomberg.
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
I resigned from ExxonMobil today. I spent the last three years doing fossil fuel extraction research at both BP and ExxonMobil. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing to maximize extraction while the window to act closes, and gambling with our lives. More below.
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Alix Hui @alixhui.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Trying so hard to not shout BUT OUR BOOK COVER IS UP SO I CAN FINALLY POINT YOU ALL TO THE MOST GRATIFYING COLLABORATIVE PROJECT EVER. @emilypawley.bsky.social Head over on Nov 17th for the OA version &/or NOW to preorder it: mitpress.mit.edu/978026205625... #envhist #envhum #hisSTM #skystorians
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A Historian's Handbook for Saving the World
The work of historians is vital to this moment. As climate debates shift from “believing the science” to fighting for the massive changes needed ...
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Mer de Glace ice cave 1st May | 2nd Sept. Before/after the multiple 2026 summer heatwaves! 🌡️ 4 months = already 18 m ice thickness loss at this location (1,760 m asl)! 📈 That breaks the 16 m record (from 2022) and the melt season is not over! 🧊🔥 Source: Luc Moreau/Glaciolab
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Ada Palmer @adapalmer.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Chinook salmon have recolonised 88% of their historic range on the Klamath River, with more than 13,000 fish passing the old Iron Gate Dam site in 2025, up from 7,700 the year before. Two years after the dams’ removal, it’s going better than anyone predicted. buff.ly/pToC9gB #ShareGoodNewsToo
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Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Rewilding the upper Klamath River Basin: rapid recolonization of Chinook salmon following the world’s largest dam removal
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Melaine Le Roy @subfossilguy.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
The Alps are no longer white 🏔️🧊 And it's entirely our fault! 🏭🔥 Spectacular retreat of the Corvatsch Glacier on Piz Murtel (3,433 m asl, Engadin, CH) over the last 57 years compiled by @landervt.bsky.social !
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Audrey Garric @audreygarric.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Incroyable. C'est bien, comme ça on sera encore pris au dépourvu l'an prochain (voire avant). www.lemonde.fr/societe/arti...
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Rénovation thermique des écoles : le gouvernement ampute le plan d’urgence canicule de 40 millions d’euros
Fin juin, en pleine canicule, une enveloppe de près de 60 millions d’euros avait été annoncée par la Banque des territoires et le programme Actee, qui finance la rénovation thermique des bâtiments pub...
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Faith Kearns, Ph.D. @fkearns.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is why I immediately scroll past anything or anyone saying data center water use is minimal. How can we really know? At this point, we can’t.
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
David Lynch’s Eraserhead has this exact kind of soundscape 😱
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Abbey @abbeyarletto.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
This is what living next door to a 30 megawatt data center sounds like.
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Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 17/07/2026
🥁 co-dirigé avec @clarisseberthezene.bsky.social 𝙐𝙣𝙚 𝙘𝙚𝙧𝙩𝙖𝙞𝙣𝙚 𝙞𝙙𝙚́𝙚 𝙙𝙪 𝙥𝙤𝙡𝙞𝙩𝙞𝙦𝙪𝙚. 𝙃𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙤𝙞𝙧𝙚, 𝙖𝙙𝙢𝙞𝙣𝙞𝙨𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙚𝙩 𝙙𝙚́𝙢𝙤𝙘𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙚 est à paraître le 27/08 aux @puseptentrion.bsky.social 👉 www.septentrion.com/fr/book/?GCO... / plus d'infos à suivre... 😉
EN LIBRAIRIE LE 27 AOÛT

UNE CERTAINE IDÉE DU POLITIQUE HISTOIRE, ADMINISTRATION ET DÉMOCRATIE

Sous la direction de Émilien Ruiz et Clarisse Berthezène

Mots-clés : Histoire politique ; Histoire publique ; Interdisciplinarité ; Démocratie ; Fonction publique

Public cible : Universitaires, acteurs publics et toute personne intéressée par les questions politiques et administratives.


Presses universitaires du Septentrion

Ce livre offre une démonstration de l'importance des sciences historiques, sociales et juridiques du politique pour comprendre et agir sur le présent.
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Agence France-Presse @afp.com · 10/07/2026
Sur plusieurs kilomètres, il ne reste que des roches et des cailloux : près de la frontière franco-suisse, la rivière Doubs a disparu, manifestation la plus saisissante de la sécheresse qui touche actuellement le département du même nom, placé en "alerte renforcée". Reportage ➡️ u.afp.com/SKD7
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Gregory A. Hargreaves @bordergroves.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
Omg it’s real !!
Title page for Raw Capital: More-Than-Human Buisness History edited by Gregory A Hargreaves, Timothy J LeCain, and Nicole Welk-Joerger forthcoming from the University of Pennsylvania Press 2027
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Pierre Charbonnier @picharbonnier.bsky.social · 10/06/2026
Soon! Fall 26 in the UK Winter 26-27 in the US A book I wrote after the beginning of the Ukraine war, and that's unfortunately been vindicated by further events. Global security lies in decarbonization: in times of war, green energy means peace.
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Jim Clifford @jimclifford.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
Iva Lučić’s and my introduction to our Timber Colonialism special issue with the Journal of Historical Geography went online today: “Thinking through forests: Colonialism, capitalism, and the global timber trade” #envhist authors.elsevier.com/a/1n8X2_6yx5...
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Vanda Wilcox @vandawilcox.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Feels like a good day to say that I am writing a trade history of the Italian colonial empire, 1869-1951, tentatively called Fantasylands, under contract with John Murray (UK) & Basic Books (USA)! my focus is on the men & women who dreamed, built, resisted, lived in and dismantled the empire
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 05/05/2026
OK ya'll, I did it. I sent in my final manuscript after revisions to @oupress.bsky.social. Nearly 20 years in the making. Reefs or Rubbish: A More-Than-Human Policy History of Rigs-to-Reefs coming your way soon! #envhist
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Chapter 1. 
Fishing for Support:
Framing Oil Platforms as Artificial Reefs in US National Policy, 1950-1985

Chapter 2. 
Countering loss: 
Saving New Natures Through Rigs-to-reefs in Louisiana and Texas, 1985-2009

Chapter 3.
Dumping and Decision-making:
Associating Waste with Rigs-to-reefs in the North Sea, 1995-2009

Chapter 4. 
Scientific politics: 
Debating Rigs-to-reefs Through Appeals to Science in California, 1994-2010

Epilogue
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Dr Earhart Sampson PhD 🌎 🇨🇦 🇺🇲 🇲🇽 🇩🇰 🇺🇦 @earhart.bsky.social · 04/05/2026
Warming rivers are now a growing source of greenhouse gases: www.earth.com/news/warming...
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Warming rivers are now a growing source of greenhouse gases
Rivers worldwide are warming, losing oxygen, and releasing more greenhouse gases, adding a hidden new source to global climate change.
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Emile Chabal @emile-chabal.bsky.social · 18/04/2026
That's it. I've checked the very last proofs of the book and it's now off to the printers. I hope it will reach Hobsbawm fans, Hobsbawm sceptics, and anyone curious about the intellectual life of the left in the 20th century! Publication: 18 Aug (US), 4 Sept (UK) www.hup.harvard.edu/books/978067...
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Dagomar Degroot @dagomardegroot.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
This second edition is essential reading - for everyone. If there’s one book I’d recommend in environmental history, it might be this. With an introduction by @brdemuth.bsky.social! #EnvHist
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Alison Hoens @physioktbroker.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Errors present in 45% of AI generated reports of news stories 🧪 www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...
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Largest study of its kind shows AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory
An intensive international study was coordinated by the European Broadcasting Union (EBU) and led by the BBC
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
I am teaching exactly this class with a group of master's students, with a 2-page syllabus, and it's been an absolute blast so far, at times even moving.
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Josh Shepperd @joshshepperd.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
What if we just went back to reading a bunch of books and thinking about them together, and that was the class? With syllabi no longer than three pages.
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
being able to sit patiently with other people's thoughts, sit patiently with your own, and make both of those processes legible to someone who is not you is very valuable. if you can find a new way to do this that is fantastic news but I suspect it will at least resemble the model we've inherited
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Finn Arne Jørgensen @finnarne.me · 23/03/2026
Come work with me and the rest of the wonderful @greenhouseuis.net community! #envhist #envhum
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
JOB: Full Professor Political History of contemporary (post-1945) Europe, SciencesPo, France. They are open to people working on environmental politics. Application deadline 13 April 2026. www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil... #envhist
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
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Venus Bivar @vbivar.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Sweet gig!
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
The Center for History @ Sciences Po is recruiting a full professor specializing in the political history of Europe after 1945. This position is open to a mid-career researcher w/ habilitation or equivalent qualifications. Please see below for more & share widely! www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/fil...
full text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdfFull text available as PDF here: https://www.sciencespo.fr/histoire/files/recrutement/262162_Fiches%20de%20poste-FR_EN_FINAL_Histoire-de-Europe-depuis-1945-2.pdf
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 10/03/2026
“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say. Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing. These people are fools!
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Émilien Ruiz @mxli1.eurosky.social · 06/03/2026
Et voilà ! Merci @sklafon1.eurosky.social pour l'info !
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 26/02/2026
Without considering the sources of claims, efforts at epistemic vigilance become play-acting. With LLMs, we don't know the sources. Excellent thread from @mjcrockett.bsky.social
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 14/02/2026
Yesterday, I watched TOUKI BOUKI, a 1973 movie by pioneering Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty. Easily one of the very best movies I have ever watched: outstanding story, shots, acting, editing...and a good movie to pair with F.Cooper's recent piece on "decolonization."
A shot from the movie showing the two main characters sitting and smoking, very stylishly dressed, with tall yellow grass in the background
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Sara Pritchard @sarabpritchard.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
#TransformingNight 🌌💡🌃 🤩 #LightPollution #ArtificialLight #ALAN #Night #Darkness #LightJustice #envhist #envhum #envjustice #histtech #histsci #sts #Anthropocene
Title page of book proofs,
Transforming Night: The History and Science of Light Pollution
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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
It is so important to keep hammering in this point. People always ask me why I would have to go visit archives - why not just look at a scan? Because they haven’t been scanned! And they are never going to be! There are millions & millions of pieces of paper in every archive.
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Faine Greenwood @faineg.com · 11/02/2026
Right, another key thing that historians do is working with important records that have not been digitized. And the vast majority of the world’s records *have not been digitized* and thus do not exist in any format that LLMs/AI can work with.
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Giacomo Parrinello @parriblue.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
Which is why I am astonished that no one has proposed a version of the Universal Basic Income idea as the only logical conclusion of the AI-boosters' model of society. Do you really want to replace all our jobs with your AI? Then we'll have to take your money.
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