Josh Sanborn
@jsanborn.bsky.social
Historian. Russia, Ukraine, and Eastern Europe. Currently working on spies, scientists, and Cold War fictions.
Congrats on a great college golf career, Grace! Finishing with a win in your final tournament is cool:)
April 21, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Congrats on a great college golf career, Grace! Finishing with a win in your final tournament is cool:)
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Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
March 26, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Teen Warned Not To Accept Group Chat Invites From National Security Advisors She Doesn’t Know
Grace at range warming up before first round of final college season
March 24, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Grace at range warming up before first round of final college season
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
16 hits, mostly book reviews. I expect Zuck to send me a check any day now.
16 hits, mostly book reviews. I expect Zuck to send me a check any day now.
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
www.theatlantic.com
March 21, 2025 at 9:23 PM
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
16 hits, mostly book reviews. I expect Zuck to send me a check any day now.
16 hits, mostly book reviews. I expect Zuck to send me a check any day now.
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It’s always gratifying (and harrowing) to read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. But I especially enjoy it when amidst the stark truths about our crisis she turns out passages like this:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
February 27, 2025 at 12:16 AM
It’s always gratifying (and harrowing) to read @sarahkendzior.bsky.social. But I especially enjoy it when amidst the stark truths about our crisis she turns out passages like this:
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
open.substack.com/pub/sarahken...
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February 20, 2025 at 6:32 PM
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Our faculty just passed a no confidence vote in our president, and it is both surprising and unsettling
January 29, 2025 at 12:10 AM
Our faculty just passed a no confidence vote in our president, and it is both surprising and unsettling
Um, which baseball writer left Ichiro off their HOF ballot? It’s either shocking racism or “old school” stuffiness about first-year candidates that is disablingly myopic. Should lose their privilege to vote in the future.
January 21, 2025 at 11:48 PM
Um, which baseball writer left Ichiro off their HOF ballot? It’s either shocking racism or “old school” stuffiness about first-year candidates that is disablingly myopic. Should lose their privilege to vote in the future.
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Gemini has predictably blown up in everyones face. While I wish solidarity to the victims of this travesty, the mocking of AI and AI related products shall increase until moral improves.
I want to share my experience today with Google support, trying to get Gemini (their AI/plagiarism machine) turned off in my Google workspace account. That account is where I personally do all my work communication—I am an editor, and most of my work contracts explicitly ban any use of Generative AI
January 17, 2025 at 8:02 PM
Gemini has predictably blown up in everyones face. While I wish solidarity to the victims of this travesty, the mocking of AI and AI related products shall increase until moral improves.
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Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
January 13, 2025 at 1:53 PM
Ursula K. LeGuin on technology
Alchemist bars are 2 for 2. I really like the one in Kyiv, and I’m at the one in Prague now. Creative cocktails and good bartenders!
January 12, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Alchemist bars are 2 for 2. I really like the one in Kyiv, and I’m at the one in Prague now. Creative cocktails and good bartenders!
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Source familiar w/ Azerbaijan’s investigation into crash tells Reuters that preliminary results show plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system. Its communications were allegedly paralyzed by electronic warfare systems on the approach into Grozny. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
Azerbaijan Airlines flight was downed by Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan say
An Azerbaijan Airlines flight that crashed in Kazakhstan on Wednesday was downed by a Russian air defence system, four sources in Azerbaijan with knowledge of the investigation told Reuters.
www.reuters.com
December 26, 2024 at 5:09 PM
Source familiar w/ Azerbaijan’s investigation into crash tells Reuters that preliminary results show plane was struck by a Russian Pantsir-S air defense system. Its communications were allegedly paralyzed by electronic warfare systems on the approach into Grozny. www.reuters.com/world/asia-p...
My little rust belt city is showing its best at sunset tonight.
November 25, 2024 at 10:59 PM
My little rust belt city is showing its best at sunset tonight.
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Smallpox vaccinations in the Russian Empire, 1810-1848, per the Journal of Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1851. It's not clear why there's fluctuation from year to year, but the overall trend is obviously tremendously up in a way that shows how quickly it was understood as a godsend.
November 18, 2024 at 2:03 PM
Smallpox vaccinations in the Russian Empire, 1810-1848, per the Journal of Ministry of Internal Affairs, 1851. It's not clear why there's fluctuation from year to year, but the overall trend is obviously tremendously up in a way that shows how quickly it was understood as a godsend.
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Any academic at an institution that has brought in consultants knows exactly what the Department of Government Efficiency is about to do, and how much money they will absorb while doing it.
November 18, 2024 at 2:51 PM
Any academic at an institution that has brought in consultants knows exactly what the Department of Government Efficiency is about to do, and how much money they will absorb while doing it.
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I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6
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November 18, 2024 at 10:08 AM
I thought I'd share some recent research for the new crowd. A few months ago my article on Soviet HIV-AIDS activism was published in @pastpresentsoc.bsky.social. It examines the local/global entanglements of AIDS activism in Moscow and Riga in the twilight years of Soviet power tinyurl.com/3a7xdsp6