Jordan Mitchell-King
@jordanmitchellking.bsky.social
Dress historian. Working on a PhD on 18thc undress at DMU, interested in all things embodiment, material culture and reconstruction.
Some videos of stuff I like to do!
https://youtube.com/@JordanMitchellking?si=2vWTfAUTp0Qo_Bwf
Some videos of stuff I like to do!
https://youtube.com/@JordanMitchellking?si=2vWTfAUTp0Qo_Bwf
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They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
November 24, 2025 at 5:18 PM
They can’t make computers as intelligent as humans, but they can make humans as unthinking as computers.
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AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
BBC reveals web of spammers profiting from AI Holocaust images
The BBC has found an international network of content creators profiting from AI generated posts on Facebook.
www.bbc.com
August 31, 2025 at 3:46 AM
AI's best use case will always be scams. It's scamtech, top to bottom. Everything about it is crooked. Its bedrock is theft and its legacy is the destruction of the environment, both physical and virtual.
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
Even most of its 'legitimate' uses are a form of lying.
"I wrote this."
"I created this."
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I don't think enough of a stink is being made about the naked dishonesty of Reeves and Starmer's crap about 'get people “trapped on benefits” back into work'.
PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!
PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!
March 23, 2025 at 9:37 AM
I don't think enough of a stink is being made about the naked dishonesty of Reeves and Starmer's crap about 'get people “trapped on benefits” back into work'.
PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!
PIP is *incapable of trapping anyone.* You still get it if you're in work. It is one of the few UK benefits offering no perverse incentives!
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Weird that the ratio of genuine cases to 'fad' diagnoses & malingerers is exactly proportional to how much the government wants to save. & that Wes Streeting is able to determine who isn't & isn't ill based on his gut rather than evidence & actually being in a room with someone.
March 17, 2025 at 8:51 AM
Weird that the ratio of genuine cases to 'fad' diagnoses & malingerers is exactly proportional to how much the government wants to save. & that Wes Streeting is able to determine who isn't & isn't ill based on his gut rather than evidence & actually being in a room with someone.
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If you ever want to spend an afternoon paging through your mom, grandma, & great grandma's fashion catalogs, I have an archive for you!
www.patreon.com/sultryvintage
This month, a handful of 30s catalogs are available! Hope you'll come join!
#vintagefashion #vintage #vintageclothes #1930s
www.patreon.com/sultryvintage
This month, a handful of 30s catalogs are available! Hope you'll come join!
#vintagefashion #vintage #vintageclothes #1930s
Get more from Sultry Vintage on Patreon
creating An archival library of vintage fashion catalogs
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February 11, 2025 at 7:16 AM
If you ever want to spend an afternoon paging through your mom, grandma, & great grandma's fashion catalogs, I have an archive for you!
www.patreon.com/sultryvintage
This month, a handful of 30s catalogs are available! Hope you'll come join!
#vintagefashion #vintage #vintageclothes #1930s
www.patreon.com/sultryvintage
This month, a handful of 30s catalogs are available! Hope you'll come join!
#vintagefashion #vintage #vintageclothes #1930s
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🧵 Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the massacres that could have been avoided if Biden had forced Israel to adopt the ceasefire framework — which was swiftly accepted by Hamas officials — when the administration introduced it publicly on May 31.
Biden Brags Ceasefire Deal Is the One He Wrote — 7 Months and 10,000 Deaths Ago
Since Biden introduced that deal on May 27, Israel has killed at least 10,000 Palestinians — and likely far, far more.
truthout.org
January 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🧵 Here is a non-comprehensive list of some of the massacres that could have been avoided if Biden had forced Israel to adopt the ceasefire framework — which was swiftly accepted by Hamas officials — when the administration introduced it publicly on May 31.
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Mending another woman’s hand sewn quilt from the mid nineteenth century. There is an affecting intimacy in looking closely at the characteristic stitched handwriting of another.
January 12, 2025 at 6:15 PM
Mending another woman’s hand sewn quilt from the mid nineteenth century. There is an affecting intimacy in looking closely at the characteristic stitched handwriting of another.
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Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.
December 25, 2024 at 10:42 PM
Yes it's a plagiarism machine meant to put us all out of work and enrich the worst people alive and yes one request expends more energy than it takes to power Buffalo for a week, but more than that anything to do with AI is just corny dork-made shit. It fucking sucks and so do you if you use it.
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I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
December 23, 2024 at 2:45 PM
I know academics who use AI regularly, for work and play, and I'd really like them, and universities, to tell me how they contend with AI's bottomless appetites for power and water.
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
Is asking ChatGPT to interpret a Xmas song or making it write your syllabus worth this to you?
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like, not reading the outline after it has been made! Doesn't the knowledge come from doing the work!
December 11, 2024 at 10:32 PM
like, not reading the outline after it has been made! Doesn't the knowledge come from doing the work!
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I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
December 11, 2024 at 10:31 PM
I'm sure many have said this before but I'm reading a student-facing document about how students might use AI in the classroom (if allowed) and one of the recs is: use AI to make an outline of your reading! But ISN'T MAKING THE OUTLINE how one actually learns?
Very glad to have used the Capturing the Past app when taking these archive photos- coming back to hundreds of them +2yrs later and they've got all the ref info saved in the file names 🗃
November 25, 2024 at 10:12 AM
Very glad to have used the Capturing the Past app when taking these archive photos- coming back to hundreds of them +2yrs later and they've got all the ref info saved in the file names 🗃
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Timely reminder that as Israel continues to murder civilians with impunity, the UN has confirmed that yes, it is committing GENOCIDE.
Yet still this monstrous regime is backed to the hilt by the “civilised” Western powers.
Yet still this monstrous regime is backed to the hilt by the “civilised” Western powers.
November 17, 2024 at 3:14 PM
Timely reminder that as Israel continues to murder civilians with impunity, the UN has confirmed that yes, it is committing GENOCIDE.
Yet still this monstrous regime is backed to the hilt by the “civilised” Western powers.
Yet still this monstrous regime is backed to the hilt by the “civilised” Western powers.
16thc polychrome rainbows and rainclouds 🌧🌈 Going through old research pics and reminded of this fantastic embroidered smock in Patterns of Fashion. Poor photo on my part but the details are so fantastic if you zoom in. One to recreate on a shirt someday
November 2, 2024 at 10:08 PM
16thc polychrome rainbows and rainclouds 🌧🌈 Going through old research pics and reminded of this fantastic embroidered smock in Patterns of Fashion. Poor photo on my part but the details are so fantastic if you zoom in. One to recreate on a shirt someday
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History PhD students around London: the 'British History in the Long 18th Century’ seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgraduate convenor for the academic year 2024/25. A stipend of £200 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! Deadline 6 Sept. #18thCentury.
Apply below:
August 19, 2024 at 9:48 PM
History PhD students around London: the 'British History in the Long 18th Century’ seminar at @ihr.bsky.social is looking for a postgraduate convenor for the academic year 2024/25. A stipend of £200 and a chance to get involved in a great seminar! Deadline 6 Sept. #18thCentury.
Apply below:
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This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...
Internet Archive: Digital Library of Free & Borrowable Books, Movies, Music & Wayback Machine
archive.org
June 3, 2024 at 4:24 PM
This is huge news. The microfilm (& OCR?) of EEBO and The Eighteenth Century (ie ECCO) is available via Internet Archive! I need to dig derper but I wonder about the reactions from libraries, Gale, and ProQuest. H/T to David Smith @dasmiq.bsky.social for sharing news. archive.org/details/bim_...
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The process is where the learning happens. Take that away and what's the point? If faculty are using AI to create the lessson plan and assignments, students are ChatGPTing the essay, and faculty are using AI to grade it, what are we even doing? Where is the education happening?
March 26, 2024 at 3:51 PM
The process is where the learning happens. Take that away and what's the point? If faculty are using AI to create the lessson plan and assignments, students are ChatGPTing the essay, and faculty are using AI to grade it, what are we even doing? Where is the education happening?
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Moon Lander is all of us!
February 24, 2024 at 9:26 PM
Moon Lander is all of us!
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I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.
we fixed acid rain! we fixed the ozone layer! we beat polio! we’ve rescued scores of species from the brink of extinction! the despair many of us feel about climate change isn’t that it’s too big to fix. it’s that we know it is fixable but we’re being thwarted by greedy ghouls at every turn.
The other day I was like “you know something we heard a lot about as kids was acid rain, why don’t we hear about it anymore”
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
TURNS OUT we fixed it???
November 24, 2023 at 3:23 AM
I think the fact that we did fix these things and it didn't make it into collective memory is a big part of the apathy toward climate change now. A lot of us remember being warned about all this stuff as kids only for it to go away without much discussion - *because we fixed it*.
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No.
1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains.
2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me.
Your brain and your soul need the reps.
1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains.
2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me.
Your brain and your soul need the reps.
November 15, 2023 at 5:54 PM
No.
1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains.
2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me.
Your brain and your soul need the reps.
1. The environmental cost is not worth the gains.
2. The effort of making a thing, the repetition, the creative culs-de-sac, all serve to improve me, and I do definitely want to be better. It's a false economy to get AI to do all that for me.
Your brain and your soul need the reps.
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✨Call for Papers✨Delighted to announce the CFP for Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics, a one-day symposium at De Montfort University exploring political dress and fashion! Keynote speaker: Eleri Lynn. 🚨Due Date 15th December 2023🚨
November 2, 2023 at 2:50 PM
✨Call for Papers✨Delighted to announce the CFP for Politicising Fashion and Fashioning Politics, a one-day symposium at De Montfort University exploring political dress and fashion! Keynote speaker: Eleri Lynn. 🚨Due Date 15th December 2023🚨
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So fuckin sick of the prevention of access to trans healthcare being framed as something de facto good especially for kids
October 22, 2023 at 11:07 AM
So fuckin sick of the prevention of access to trans healthcare being framed as something de facto good especially for kids
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This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority.
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BlueSky Invites for "Global South" scholars form
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for Blue Sky which do not seem to be reaching "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in th...
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October 12, 2023 at 12:26 PM
This form was created to facilitate the sharing of invitation codes for "Global South" scholars who may not have the same network privileges as scholars in the "Global North". Scholars who are geographically located in the "Global South" will be given priority.
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#c18 friends. I am trying to find a copy of Richardson's Pamela, first edition (printed in 1740 but dated 1741), which should be estc.bl.uk/T111392. I know that the Bodleian has one, as does National Library of Scotland, and a whole host of others, but is there a scan anywhere? pls help #bookhistory
October 10, 2023 at 1:18 AM
#c18 friends. I am trying to find a copy of Richardson's Pamela, first edition (printed in 1740 but dated 1741), which should be estc.bl.uk/T111392. I know that the Bodleian has one, as does National Library of Scotland, and a whole host of others, but is there a scan anywhere? pls help #bookhistory