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Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3h

It’s also established there’s no time to die, so…

Yes but the franchise has established you can only live twice, so…

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't remotely hard.

Either lean into the fan theory that "James Bond" is a cover that gets passed from agent to agent, or just start setting these back in the 1960s when a character like Bond made a little more sense.

There. Mail me my check.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3h

Yes but the franchise has established you can only live twice, so…

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't remotely hard.

Either lean into the fan theory that "James Bond" is a cover that gets passed from agent to agent, or just start setting these back in the 1960s when a character like Bond made a little more sense.

There. Mail me my check.

Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 7h

James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 4h

This isn't remotely hard.

Either lean into the fan theory that "James Bond" is a cover that gets passed from agent to agent, or just start setting these back in the 1960s when a character like Bond made a little more sense.

There. Mail me my check.

Willard Foxton @willardfoxton.bsky.social · 7h

James Bond’s death in No Time to Die is causing a nightmare for the next film. Writers are stuck because Bond “was blown to pieces.”

Anthony Horowitz, author of three 007 novels, says:

“You can't have him wake up in shower and saying it was all a dream."

radaronline.com/p/james-bond...

Jerry Chen @jcsalterego.bsky.social · 16h

welcome to bluesky. if the word "mapquest" means anything to you and/or you used it as a verb, you're in the right place

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 21h

I'll be eagerly picking up a copy, congrats!

Cory Haala @coryhaala.bsky.social · 21h

And just like that, it's real.

When Democrats Won the Heartland: Progressive Populism in the Age of Reagan, 1978-1992, from @illinoispress.bsky.social. Due out 4/14/26.

Thanks to everyone who tolerated this dream and made it happen. Pre-order if you'd like: www.press.uillinois.edu/books/?id=p0...

When Democrats Won the Heartland

www.press.uillinois.edu

Data & Society @datasociety.bsky.social · 23h

Microsoft and Google say data centers will create thousands of jobs in Chile, but an analysis of permit filings by @restofworld.org shows only a small number of potential positions — and most are not skilled IT jobs, but those in security and cleaning. restofworld.org/2025/data-ce...

Microsoft, Google say their data centers create thousands of jobs. Their permit filings say otherwise

Chile and tech giants promise economy-wide impact but permits show fewer onsite jobs after construction.

restofworld.org

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 2d

Not bad for a first attempt.

A block of wood in the process of being carved sits on a cutting mat surrounded by wood shavings, with carving tools nearby.

A small, unfinished wooden snowman sculpture with twig arms stands on a cutting mat amidst wood shavings, with a carving tool nearby.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 3d

Spending a drizzly morning on some planning before heading out to work on farmstead tasks.

A manual and a vintage service guide rest on a countertop beside a ceramic mug.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d

ah the midwest “interesting”

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d

Currently reading: Love for the Land: Lessons from Farmers Who Persist in Place by Brooks Lamb 📚

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 4d

Hello.

A young chicken stands on wood shavings in front of a water dispenser inside a coop.

Larry Glickman @larryglickman.bsky.social · 4d

I wish Douthat had followed up and asked Andrews what "areas of inquiry" have been "ruled out of bounds in history" because they are "too controversial" and lead historians away from "truth seeking."

Andrews: Well, no. Let me maybe reframe it in a way that will make a point that seems very obvious to me, clear to the people at this table.

If there are more female historians than male historians, that will have some effects on what gets studied in history. You will have more social history and feminist history, and a lot less military history and economic history.

Now, I’m willing to say that that’s sort of fine, and that maybe the old male-dominated history profession did not do enough social history. And we can all probably agree that the correct balance for the history profession is a little bit of each. That’s kind of a neutral result of feminization.

On the other hand, the fact that certain areas of inquiry are ruled out of bounds in history or in psychology now because they are too controversial, that — which is what wokeness is — seems like a genuine problem. That’s not just that feminization has caused some changes, and some of them are good and some of them are bad, and we all need to learn how to live with the world being different now — that’s a bad thing, because it involves history or psychology not doing what it is supposed to do, which is pursue the truth.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 5d

Finished reading: American Zion: A New History of Mormonism by Benjamin E. Park 📚

NPR @npr.org · 6d

In a list of the most important technologies that have shaped the American West, barbed wire would be near the top. It's great for the livestock industry, but can harm wildlife.

Barbed wire fences dot the West. There’s a growing movement to take them down -- for wildlife

Every two and a half miles of barbed wire is responsible for killing one deer, elk or pronghorn a year, one study estimated.

n.pr

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 6d

The coffee is especially good today.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d

“See, the truck nobody else wanted had been my office. I’d built a portable desk inside it. My truck desk, I called it. A couple of planks screwed together, our union sticker slapped on, the whole deal sealed with shellac.”

My Truck Desk by Bud Smith

October 29, 2025 – “Now that I had my Truck Desk, that vehicle was my very own rolling cubicle.”

www.theparisreview.org

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 7d

Really excited to see our new issue of Current Research in Digital History with articles on topic models, event extraction modeling, network visualizations, maps, visualizing art, and computational analysis on congressional roll call votes.

Alejandra Caraballo @esqueer.net · 10d

Cuomo keeps embarrassing himself with AI slop ads.

Ben Maas @masbenmaas.bsky.social · 11d

"Certain chemicals used on farms, including pesticides and herbicides, have been linked to increased cancer rates. There’s also some evidence that nitrates, which can seep into drinking water from crop fields, are linked to some forms of cancer."

minnesotareformer.com/briefs/repor...

Report: Cancer rates rising among young people in the Corn Belt • Minnesota Reformer

The six states that lead in corn production — Minnesota, Iowa, Nebraska, Illinois, Indiana and Kansas — have seen higher rates of cancer among young people than other states over the past decade, acco...

minnesotareformer.com

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 12d

That’s not what those are for, ladies.

Chickens roosting in the ceiling rafters.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 12d

huh I guess the Latinos I touch on in my book organizing a voter registration drive in San Jose to improve their neighborhood‘s conditions shoulda stayed home

*checks notes* wait no I’m sorry their voter drive helped. Weird.

Rosen Thorne @rosenthorne.bsky.social · 13d

We gotta normalize responding to bullshit with "dude who fucking cares"

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 13d

An impending wind storm and drop in temperatures means we christen the new chicken coop tonight. Still some work to wrap up, but close enough to keep everybody safe and warm.

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 14d

I made a similar point last week at our generative AI roundtable. LLMs cannot know History or our sources because it mimics them back. Our sources are unreliable narrators and these systems cannot handle ambiguity—feed it that ambiguity, we get ambiguity back.

Katie Mack @astrokatie.com · Jun 19

Chatbots — LLMs — do not know facts and are not designed to be able to accurately answer factual questions. They are designed to find and mimic patterns of words, probabilistically. When they’re “right” it’s because correct things are often written down, so those patterns are frequent. That’s all.

Matthew Noe @noethematt.bsky.social · 14d

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 14d

I’m bearish on generative AI and it’s role in historical research, but stuff like this is genuinely interesting.

The leading AI models are now good historians

... in specific domains. Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean

resobscura.substack.com

Dolly Jørgensen @dollyjorgensen.bsky.social · 16d

There are now 183 videos of our Greenhouse #envhum book talks available to view via our Vimeo showcase. This includes our most recent talks.

You can also listen to the audio-only podcast, which is slightly behind with 154 episodes available: newnatures.org/greenhouse/f...

Greenhouse Environmental Humanities Book Talks

Book talks with authors of recent books in environmental humanities, with the authors in discussion with Dolly Jørgensen and Finn Arne Jørgensen, University of Stavanger, Norway. The book talks are he...

vimeo.com

Jason Heppler @jasonheppler.org · 18d

I got to do a reprise of my "generative AI isn't great for History" conference presentation last week to a group of undergraduates this week.

Dr Abeba Birhane @abeba.bsky.social · 18d

built on theft and at massive environmental cost and most importantly, numerous studies keep demonstrating that genAI tools often work a little better than by chance. how is it that we can’t expunge these slop machines out of our institutions and communities

www.bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/...

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

www.bbc.co.uk

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