hpstorian
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Allow me to flex right quick?
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
September 19, 2025 at 8:47 AM
Allow me to flex right quick?
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
Since 2021 I have received 100% on student feedback surveys, an unblemished record.
It wasn't something confined to Victoria. NSW police issued 15 million dollars in 23 000 fines that were invalid at a time when there were metre spaced lines outside pawn shops in red zone Bankstown.
The CHO did not call for the response, it was called for by police. That's not a mere mistake.
The CHO did not call for the response, it was called for by police. That's not a mere mistake.
August 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
It wasn't something confined to Victoria. NSW police issued 15 million dollars in 23 000 fines that were invalid at a time when there were metre spaced lines outside pawn shops in red zone Bankstown.
The CHO did not call for the response, it was called for by police. That's not a mere mistake.
The CHO did not call for the response, it was called for by police. That's not a mere mistake.
Anyone else remember this campaign from 2021?
August 28, 2025 at 4:22 AM
Anyone else remember this campaign from 2021?
I'm curious about the dynamic at play when people unironically adopt a similar approach to genAI as Nancy Reagan to drugs.
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
August 21, 2025 at 8:06 AM
I'm curious about the dynamic at play when people unironically adopt a similar approach to genAI as Nancy Reagan to drugs.
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
Do they think that the campaign in question worked?
I'm going to take solace in him liking that post in that context. The full lyrics are here 😂
August 8, 2025 at 5:59 AM
I'm going to take solace in him liking that post in that context. The full lyrics are here 😂
It's the things it misses that I notice.
This timeline misses two shipwrecks and 3 massacres.
This timeline misses two shipwrecks and 3 massacres.
August 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
It's the things it misses that I notice.
This timeline misses two shipwrecks and 3 massacres.
This timeline misses two shipwrecks and 3 massacres.
It feels like a kind of wrestling. Like getting my four year old to do it.
August 6, 2025 at 11:01 AM
It feels like a kind of wrestling. Like getting my four year old to do it.
I found what it prioritised to be interesting.
For it to work well there needed to be a flattening of complexity.
For it to work well there needed to be a flattening of complexity.
August 6, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I found what it prioritised to be interesting.
For it to work well there needed to be a flattening of complexity.
For it to work well there needed to be a flattening of complexity.
When there's no images it seems to struggle less, but it bumps up against numbers a bit. Also the more complexity the greater it struggles.
August 6, 2025 at 10:48 AM
When there's no images it seems to struggle less, but it bumps up against numbers a bit. Also the more complexity the greater it struggles.
The conversations you have with your students about generative AI can be productive if they push beyond prohibition and towards a reflection on process.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
August 4, 2025 at 4:33 AM
The conversations you have with your students about generative AI can be productive if they push beyond prohibition and towards a reflection on process.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
To aid that conversation I made this scale for thinking about thinking.
You might find it useful.
A section of that incident I recounted on Twitter at the time.
What worried me as much, if not more than, the violence was the way that Google Translate could seem like a neutral party to the interaction. A simple intermediary, a tool of transmission rather than interpretation.
What worried me as much, if not more than, the violence was the way that Google Translate could seem like a neutral party to the interaction. A simple intermediary, a tool of transmission rather than interpretation.
July 19, 2025 at 8:54 AM
A section of that incident I recounted on Twitter at the time.
What worried me as much, if not more than, the violence was the way that Google Translate could seem like a neutral party to the interaction. A simple intermediary, a tool of transmission rather than interpretation.
What worried me as much, if not more than, the violence was the way that Google Translate could seem like a neutral party to the interaction. A simple intermediary, a tool of transmission rather than interpretation.
If this world was a just one someone would sample this for a homage to 2196.
Yes I'm excited for a new Clipse album. Going to pretend my new cut is a homage to No Malice.
Yes I'm excited for a new Clipse album. Going to pretend my new cut is a homage to No Malice.
July 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
If this world was a just one someone would sample this for a homage to 2196.
Yes I'm excited for a new Clipse album. Going to pretend my new cut is a homage to No Malice.
Yes I'm excited for a new Clipse album. Going to pretend my new cut is a homage to No Malice.
4 years ago I stitched this undyed notebook cover as my first (clearly inexpert) foray into leathercraft.
Natural leather tans and patinas through use, from the sun and oils from your hands (and an ink spill from moving house after curfew during lockdown).
I love the stories I see in it.
Natural leather tans and patinas through use, from the sun and oils from your hands (and an ink spill from moving house after curfew during lockdown).
I love the stories I see in it.
July 9, 2025 at 10:14 PM
4 years ago I stitched this undyed notebook cover as my first (clearly inexpert) foray into leathercraft.
Natural leather tans and patinas through use, from the sun and oils from your hands (and an ink spill from moving house after curfew during lockdown).
I love the stories I see in it.
Natural leather tans and patinas through use, from the sun and oils from your hands (and an ink spill from moving house after curfew during lockdown).
I love the stories I see in it.
"But Will," I hear you say, "aren't you a historian of science with a focus on the Nineteenth Century?"
Yes habibi, I am.
Don't worry, I talked about handwriting in the 1800s too.
Yes habibi, I am.
Don't worry, I talked about handwriting in the 1800s too.
July 9, 2025 at 10:08 PM
"But Will," I hear you say, "aren't you a historian of science with a focus on the Nineteenth Century?"
Yes habibi, I am.
Don't worry, I talked about handwriting in the 1800s too.
Yes habibi, I am.
Don't worry, I talked about handwriting in the 1800s too.
Nazi grok sucks but you can't fault the timing when my slides had this exchange front and centre.
July 9, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Nazi grok sucks but you can't fault the timing when my slides had this exchange front and centre.
Finally got around to hanging these space Catholic prints.
Forgive the foreground I haven't worked out exactly what to do below them yet.
And yes they are slightly off kilter, I'm trying.
Forgive the foreground I haven't worked out exactly what to do below them yet.
And yes they are slightly off kilter, I'm trying.
July 7, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Finally got around to hanging these space Catholic prints.
Forgive the foreground I haven't worked out exactly what to do below them yet.
And yes they are slightly off kilter, I'm trying.
Forgive the foreground I haven't worked out exactly what to do below them yet.
And yes they are slightly off kilter, I'm trying.
AI is such a great teaching tool, as this infographic clearly shows.
July 6, 2025 at 10:04 PM
AI is such a great teaching tool, as this infographic clearly shows.
It picked my own handwriting with annoying precision. It even called out the fact that my cursive was something picked up well after childhood.
As well as identifying the nineteenth century influences on my style.
As well as identifying the nineteenth century influences on my style.
July 3, 2025 at 9:53 PM
It picked my own handwriting with annoying precision. It even called out the fact that my cursive was something picked up well after childhood.
As well as identifying the nineteenth century influences on my style.
As well as identifying the nineteenth century influences on my style.
This one is going to be interesting...
June 29, 2025 at 9:41 AM
This one is going to be interesting...
We read extracts from these (amongst others) today.
The cohort of students signing up to a course ostensibly about AI have adapted surprisingly well.
The cohort of students signing up to a course ostensibly about AI have adapted surprisingly well.
June 20, 2025 at 10:26 AM
We read extracts from these (amongst others) today.
The cohort of students signing up to a course ostensibly about AI have adapted surprisingly well.
The cohort of students signing up to a course ostensibly about AI have adapted surprisingly well.
The numerical detritus of abandoned technology is a good place to start conversations.
I wrote this post some time back with a similar opening but took it to a very different place.
I wrote this post some time back with a similar opening but took it to a very different place.
June 20, 2025 at 9:20 AM
The numerical detritus of abandoned technology is a good place to start conversations.
I wrote this post some time back with a similar opening but took it to a very different place.
I wrote this post some time back with a similar opening but took it to a very different place.
But it's in the article, sort of:
“Time pressure ... drove continued use, ‘I went back to using ChatGPT because I didn't have enough time, but I feel guilty about it’, ethical discomfort persisted: P1 admitted it ‘feels like cheating’.”
The qualitative responses show how student criticality.
“Time pressure ... drove continued use, ‘I went back to using ChatGPT because I didn't have enough time, but I feel guilty about it’, ethical discomfort persisted: P1 admitted it ‘feels like cheating’.”
The qualitative responses show how student criticality.
June 20, 2025 at 8:24 AM
But it's in the article, sort of:
“Time pressure ... drove continued use, ‘I went back to using ChatGPT because I didn't have enough time, but I feel guilty about it’, ethical discomfort persisted: P1 admitted it ‘feels like cheating’.”
The qualitative responses show how student criticality.
“Time pressure ... drove continued use, ‘I went back to using ChatGPT because I didn't have enough time, but I feel guilty about it’, ethical discomfort persisted: P1 admitted it ‘feels like cheating’.”
The qualitative responses show how student criticality.