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Great post on the 'Opportunities and Limitations of Computational History' / Digital History from Sarah Lang @… https://latex-ninja.com/2026/06/2…

Opportunities and Limitations of Computational History
By now, we have all heard of computational humanities. We knew of digital humanities and digital history, but now, all of a sudden, it seems that computational history is a thing. I will not get in…

"The Great Lakes Fire History Digital Archive is a working, evolving digital archive that collects and makes accessible primary source documents pertaining to forest fires in the Great Lakes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."
"created and maintained by Dr. Hayden L. Nelson, a research historian at the #Minnesota Historical Society"

stair danger
#caturday #catsofmastodon

As per my posts, I have the luxury of not having LLM vendors shoved down my throat, and I generally avoid them for ethical reasons:
https://hachyderm.io/@inthehands/116581463138461199
But because this all these questions about the usage and limits of these tools keep crashing through my doors, all of our doors, whatever we think of the ethical showstoppers, well…
…fight off amazing percentages of LLM overhype with this one weird question.
/end

Dolphins' rookie class tours Historic Overtown in recognition of Juneteenth https://www.nfl.com/news/dolphins-rookie-class-tours-historic-overtown-in-recognition-of-juneteenth

Hey, Twin Cities folks! I'm in an upcoming show that I'm excited about.
It’s visual art, it’s theater, it’s music, it’s ritual, it’s community meditation, it’s one of those •experiences• that defies categorization. It's the brainchild of Summer Hills-Bonczyk, who runs the cermics studio at Macalester, and I'm working with her brother to create music for the show.
I have a good feeling about this. I think it's going to be really cool!
#MSP #StPaul #Minneapolis

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116620861976200877
projectile dysfunction

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116618604162265149
Wrote this on my Network Computer that’s based on the Apple Pippin, dictating to ELIZA.

Minnesotans: please call Governor Walz and express your opposition to this bill.
Two key points:
1. It's unconstitutional.
2. It's mass surveillance, a massive personal data handout to the tech giants, a gross privacy violation, and a catastrophic personal data breach just waiting to happen.
#Minnesota #mnleg @… https://mastodon.sdf.org/@argv_minus_one/116615688225346689

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116620861976200877
I’m not sure what bothers me more—the wanton environmental damage or the nerds cheering this on.
If this thing would have some good purpose it would maybe be different—but “Mars colonies” are bullshit.
It’s gonna be used to deploy tons of satellites that will pollute the night sky and for nefarious military shit. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯