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Ted McCormick

@tedmccormick.bsky.social wrld.org
Historian of scientific, economic and colonial projects in early modern Britain, Ireland, and the Atlantic; books http://bit.ly/3HYwNiA & http://bit.ly/3rKdAvt; http://memoriousblog.com; views mine; he/him. Montrealer in Philly, except when I’m in Montreal
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Ted McCormick 4d

Anthropic warns its new AI could develop feelings for you, send unsolicited messages, show up at your spouse's workplace, acquire the address of your children's school, watch them in the playground from behind a hedge while tightly grasping a set of keys you recently misplaced

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Ted McCormick 1w

our institutions have stopped hiring, we've been telling students not to pursue advanced study, and to the extent that humanists have mounted a defence, it's been by pleading our utility as an adjunct of STEM disciplines and professional schools in short, it all worked

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Ted McCormick 2w

historiography now banned from historiography class in Texas

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