#Historical

Nancy Rommelmann

NancyRomm

Portland to Progressives: Not So FastWhile the nation waits to see how badly presidential pollsters got things (again), Portlanders already know how far off local statisticians were: 11 points. That

Taivo Pungas

taivopungas

Thread: if data is the source code of AI, what tools could we steal from the Software 1.0 world?Here are 10 examples. I'll mostly be using an image classification example

Arrogantly Black: The Negro Subversive

negrosubversive

1. “A recent concept...” You could say that for any political theory. People strategize based on current conditions. “No historical basis,” Historically there was no sense of continental identity, nobody

João Florêncio

NoisyBits

“It’s a sin,” or where was Russell T Davies when it happened? I’ve finally started watching it and I’ve been struggling. From the get go—from the first seconds in—the

HAZINE

HAZINEblog

If you're teaching with digital tools & digitized sources, remember that your students should know how they're constructedWe have interviews that can be assigned to high school, undergrad & grad

Ruby Barrett 🍑 Have you preordered Hot Copy yet?

RubyBarretWrite

hey @MaddieDucharme and @sethmaxon. so you put your foot in it yesterday and maybe you're wondering how to make it better (to be honest from the snide tone of your

Irène DB

UrbanFoxxxx

An extreme form of 'kamikaze loggias', informal structures characteristic of post-Soviet Tbilisi. Anarchic, vernacular extensions of Soviet buildings have been created since the 1990s, and now preside over the collective

Erik Loomis

ErikLoomis

This Day in Labor History: February 7, 1894. Gold miners in Cripple Creek, Colorado walk off the job, leading to one of the biggest wins for workers in the Gilded

Taisu Zhang

ZhangTaisu

Back in 2016, Trump’s election was only part of a globally wave of right wing populism and ethno-nationalism that seemed inexorably on the rise—the UK, France, Germany, Hungary, India, the

vakibs

vakibs

It is such an important historical fort and landmark, which is defaced by a stupid road for motor vehicles. We in India are really exceptionally dumb in how we ruin

Rajiv Malhotra

RajivMessage

The following 12 books from our History of Indian Science and Technology (HIST) series are a treasure trove of information on the advanced state of science and technology in ancient

Jonathan Koomey

jgkoomey

This is a pretty good popular writeup of historical improvements in computing efficiency. @erikbryn @amcafee https://www.makeuseof.com/is-koomeys-law-new-moores-law/?utm_source=MUO-FP-P&utm_medium=Social-Distribution&utm_campaign=MU

Ahmed

Post_Apathy

A new education platform would see mobile peripatetic scholars developing networks via a Twitter-like social media site but for education, blogging via an integrated Substack-style CMS, and teaching unrestricted by

Anosognosiogenesis

pookleblinky

The historical precedents to get an idea of the amount of effort necessary to actually *attempt* to repudiate virulent racism and fascism, are American Reconstruction and the denazification of Germany.Hint:

James Lindsay, increasingly relevant

ConceptualJames

Got asked how bad Woke anti-Semitism is likely to get if they keep gaining power. Real bad. Mass murder and diaspora are likely outcomes, again. And that's ignoring the threat

Dr. Gerald Roche

GJosephRoche

Second lecture, January 14, 1976. As I see it, today’s lecture covers two main topics: a discussion of methodology in relation to the study of power a discussion

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