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Jason Heppler
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Historian of the North American West | Writes from a farmstead on the tall grass prairies of central Nebraska | Books and more: jasonheppler.org | Views own | ⚓

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Sep 18
I’m joining the starter pack train: here’s a bunch of historians of the American West here on Bluesky!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3h
A few days ago, I wrote up some thoughts on generative AI and the work of historians: “At best, we’re talking about software that’s very good at making sentences seem sentence-shaped.”
Generative AI and History
Generative AI lacks the ability to understand context, …
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
Merry Christmas.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
Absolutely.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 1d
Looks excellent, high five for Christmas Day cinnamon rolls. I adopted the cinnamon roll tradition from my partner‘s side of the family where I use sourdough discard for an overnight no-knead version and cook them in a cast iron skillet. Can’t wait to prep it tonight.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 26d
As I do every year, I’m heading off social media during Advent. Be good to each other ✌🏻

Reposted by Jason A. Heppler, Simone M. Müller

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Greenhouse Center for Environmental Humanities @greenhouseuis.net · 27d
December 2025 in the Greenhouse! We are winding down for the year with some exciting #envhist #envhum events.
Poster with overview of activities in the Greenhouse in December 2025.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 27d
The perfect film

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 28d
What a wild game.

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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 29d
In honor of the holiday, I am reposting my op-ed on the history of Thanksgiving from the LA Times. (Spoiler: it ends badly for the Wampanoags.)

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Which Thanksgiving?
When Americans sit down to our annual Thanksgiving meal with family and friends, we like to imagine that we are reenacting a scene that first took place in 1621.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 29d
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colindickey.com Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Nov 26
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Nov 26
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’

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Internet Archive @archive.org · 29d
Family cookbooks, filled with handwritten notes, sometimes held together with rubber bands, tell the story of generations of homemakers. They are irreplaceable treasures.

🦃 Celebrate the cultural & family histories on their worn & stained pages ➡️ blog.archive.org/2024/09/30/v...

#Thanksgiving
Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for corn bread dressing with crossed-out words, ingredient adjustments, and cooking notes in pen, including instructions to cook onion, broth, and celery together. Cookbook page stained from use featuring a recipe for hot cakes with handwritten ingredient adjustments in pen.

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Nov 26
Handing back student work that’s been written by ChatGPT with a 0 followed by the comment “This essay will never stand in authentic wonder before the Beauty of God’s creation.”
vulture.com Vulture @vulture.com · Nov 26
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
Even God Is Worried About ChatGPT
Pope Leo XIV told students not to use artificial intelligence for homework, saying that AI ‘won’t stand in authentic wonder before the beauty of God’s creation.’
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 26
Good morning.
Two loaves of crusty, golden-brown sourdough bread rest on a cooling rack.

Reposted by Claire Connolly, Jason A. Heppler

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Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · Nov 26
The November 2025 issue of Environmental Humanities is out now! Check it out for all the lastest #envhum scholarship
read.dukeupress.edu/environmenta...

Cover image: A Marshall Islands navigation chart collected by Thomas William Smillie in 1899. Smithsonian Institution Archives.
cover of journal Environmental Humanities. White sticks laid out in a shape on a light blue background

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 25
If you want to know more, I wrote a whole book about it: jasonheppler.org/publications...
Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism | Jason A. Heppler
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 25
A jazz band hears Nirvana’s Heart Shaped Box for the first time, then covers it.
Jazz Band Covers Nirvana On The Spot (Ft. Ulysses Owens Jr.)
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 25
I mentioned recently how much the current AI infrastructure push reminds me of Silicon Valley in its heyday of tech manufacturing, and every day there’s another example of how it’s remarkably similar.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 24
I don’t see the problem here.

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · Nov 23
Twitter accounts are based in Russia. BlueSky accounts are based in homes with, frankly, too many books, plants, obsolete cables, and pieces of rustic pottery, that could do with a bit of a tidying up, to be honest.

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𝚃𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚜 𝙶𝚛𝚎𝚜𝚌𝚘𝚎 🚇 @taras-grescoe.com · Nov 23
#Finland will begin to #Russia - proof its rail network, integrate with EU train infrastructure.

The Finnish government has announced the conversion of its rail network from Russian gauge (1,524 mm) to European standard (1,435 mm).

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 23
Evergreen.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 23
How about them Huskers?

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 22
Dang that’s phenomenal. (Mine is way lame: I was way into Tom Clancy at one point of my life and wanted to work in national security, which at least set me on the path of history).

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 22
Our ladies are still producing around ten eggs a day right now.

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Robert McNees @mcnees.bsky.social · Nov 22
Journalist challenge: Use “Machine Learning” when you mean machine learning and “LLM” when you mean LLM. Ditch “AI” as a catch-all term, it’s not useful for readers and it helps companies trying to confuse the public by obscuring the roles played by different technologies. 🧪

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 22
Good morning.
Two loaves of artisanal bread with crusty golden tops are cooling on a wire rack.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 22
Seems as though that's enough internet for the day.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 22
I raise my coffee cup towards you, good luck!

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 21
Can't wait to see how posters sharing racist 9/11 memes after Mamdani's election I'd seen in other pockets of the internet will react.

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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · Nov 21
A rainy, dreary day calls for soup. Trying my hand at making pozole verde tonight.