Jonny Noise

@BretDevereaux Personally, I’ve never been able to read my own handwriting. I went back to college in my late 20’s, and bought my first laptop. I was able to take notes that were useful to me for the first time in my life. Before that I had to rely on my memory.

Obviously this is all with a history classroom in mind - situations will vary for other contexts and you may need to make exceptions for discussion days where the topic of discussion is a text on a PDF where you haven't supplied a hard copy. /end

So, I actually do ban laptops and such from the classroom. What I would say is: it is important, if you do this, to explain why you are doing it to students in terms of learning outcomes, not in terms of cheating prevention or luddism. 1/

@timjacobwise By their standards George Washington would also be unfit for the Presidency, as he also had no biological children.

7/ Those folks only care about turning the nation into a Christian theocracy. They hate America as it is: a pluralistic, multicultural nation based on democratic principles. They despise that vision. Between cat ladies and THAT shit, it's not even a close call. END

JD Vance's claim that people without kids don't have a real stake in the country is not only a slap in the face to folks who can't have children for reasons of infertility, it's revealing of the sickness of the right-wing worldview. A 🧵...

@AsherPlatts Weird, me too. To be fair, I also distinctly remember the Berenstein Bears spelling, and the Fruit of the Loom cornucopia. Human memory is notoriously unreliable though

What's your "Mandala Effect" moment? Mine is learning at some point in the 2010s that the Brooklyn Dodgers had been in Los Angeles since 1969

@sock_dem @KevinMKruse Granted I graduated from high school more than 20 years ago, and attended a private religious school (against my will), but other than the WWI/WWII part, this tracks pretty well with how history was taught middle through high school.

@BretDevereaux That happened at my alma mater The University of Southern Maine shortly after I graduated. They shut down the Classics dept. It only had two full time faculty, and from what I saw had enough enrollment that there was no way it wasn’t profitable.

Here is what I don't understand: why do universities think they can balance their budgets by scrapping the least expensive departments on a per-student-credit-hour basis? Those credits hours have to be made up somewhere,and it's going to cost more to do it.

@BillBindc @TheRickWilson It will probably end up being a lot like White House Plumbers. I thought I had a handle on how dumb the Watergate break in was, but the whole affair was a comedy of errors my brain couldn’t comprehend until I saw just how stupid they were re-enacted.

Was discussing with a friend that there is going to be one hell of a prestige tv series made about Trump's indictment some day...and I have feeling it's going to be exactly like my experience of watching The Bear. Fascinating, entertaining and PTSD inducing.

@stewartbaker @Mark_MacCarthy @n8jones81 Stewart, a correction to this episode, it was Cato the Elder who’s catchphrase was “Carthage must be destroyed” not Cicero who was born 40 years after the end of the Punic Wars

How worried should we be about “existential” AI risk? Episode 456 of the Cyberlaw Podcast reason.com/volokh/2023/05… With @Mark_MacCarthy and @n8jones81

@KevinMKruse From what I have been told by at least two people, smoking was allowed inside at least some hospitals in my home state through at least part of the 1990’s

@PreetBharara @TheAtlantic I want to push back on the Dying Empire thesis. The late Roman Republic was at least as much of an empire as the United States, and also faced rising inequality, political polarization and broken norms that had held for centuries. It is possible we have not yet begun to empire.

I spoke with (and at times, gently debated) @TheAtlantic’s George Packer about whether we should be optimistic about America’s future. Plus, we talked about the shifting norms around language and speech. Listen: bit.ly/40osgzi

@lezzlemynezzle @WorkersDance @GrimKim When I was young HT was all Transformers, GI Joe, and other 80’s cartoons. I’ve still got a Thundercats short sleeve button down work shirt I bought there probably almost 25 years ago.

@WorkersDance @GrimKim every time I go in now and I’m like pfft this is all kid shit all the cartoons I have to remind myself that when I went it was all Harry Potter and goonies throwback stuff so yeah…it’s the same haha

I would very much like to read a book on the history and cultural impact of Hot Topic, with a focus on its 90s/early 2000s era (mall goths rise up)

@DaltonRowan1 @_Apost8 @robbysoave @reason I don’t post enough to be worth following. I know most of my followers IRL the rest are randos. To me the utility of Twitter wasn’t to get followers, but to read others. I follow a somewhat wide range of perspectives. That has narrowed as some people went off the rails.

@Jonny_Noise @_Apost8 @robbysoave @reason Ah yes. It is definitely sketchy to create a Twitter account right after Elon Musk's acquisition of Twitter. My point is, after having your account for so long only 77 accounts find your content to align with their ideology. 12 years. Nobody agrees with you.

Democrats deride the Twitter Files reporters as "so-called journalists," deny obvious truth that the federal government has pushed for censorship reason.com/2023/03/10/twi… via @reason

@DaltonRowan1 @_Apost8 @robbysoave @reason I’ve been on Twitter for 12 years, and only have about 77 followers, I mostly use Twitter like an RSS feeds to follow orgs and people I find interesting and occasionally post snarky comments. Who’s the more likely not, the 14 year old account or the one created in Nov 2022?

@_Apost8 @robbysoave @reason How else would you describe a troll account with less than 80 followers after 14 years of existence on Twitter? Do you think that others value your opinion?

@BretDevereaux I felt this way when my alma mater cut their Classics program. Are you really a university if you don’t teach Latin and Greek?

A university which cuts history, English, math, econ and the arts isn't a university anymore; it's a mislabeled vocational school. Nothing wrong with vocational schools, but just go ahead and put the name change in your plan too.

@jacobfhsmith @williamadler78 Yes, but we’re 40 years and 43 days early for First Contact.

Isn't Montana where first contact happened in Star Trek? mobile.twitter.com/NewsWire_US/st…

@tzimmer_history @KevinMKruse His response reminds me of how some people reacted when there were no significant computer issues regarding Y2K, ignoring the massive amount of work that went into making sure all of our computer systems didn’t fail when the date rolled over.

This “Democracy didn’t end on Nov. 8 - which proves there never was any threat to democracy to begin with” stuff is so asinine and dangerous. Hamid is one of the most consistently misleading/misled pundits in America. This is actively undermining the democratic defense. 1/

@RatlSecurity you all are really bad at Muppets, Scooter is the stage manager not the scientist. The scientist is Bunsen Honeydew. Additionally Rowlf is a dog not a bear.

@RicoLamoureux @scifri I’m in tech and I still think most of what we have done with the internet post 2006 has been a mistake. Web 3.0 and The Metaverse are like the last thing I want.

@scifri "Do we even want to spend time in metacerse?" 25 years ago ppl thought the internet was weird & just a fad. Now life can't be imagined w/o it. Same will be proven for metaverse.

What is your vision for an immersive virtual world? Do you already spend time in a metaverse? Join us on #SciFriLive📻 for this on-air conversation: ☎️ 1-844-SCI-TALK.

@sandofsky @DJGrothe Probably not uncommon back in that era. I’ve heard stories from older colleagues about prod db servers that were a random machine under someone’s desk, in another case public web hosting for an org going down when someone closed a laptop that turned out to be the only web server.

12 years ago, Twitter’s office used a Mac Mini to tunnel into the servers. One day, an IT guy found it in the closet. “Anyone know who owns this?” “Unplug it. Someone will show up.” Everyone lost access to servers. Huge crisis. It became known as the “Load Bearing Mac Mini.”

@waltisfrozen @Stonekettle I’m not sure I’d put Google Glass in with the others. First, because Google is still in business, and second, in my opinion, Glass in and of itself wasn’t a bad idea, as much as it was way too early to have any real utility. It’s like the Apple Newton of AR.

This is just such a disaster that people will be using “Elon Musk’s Twitter” as a cautionary tale alongside Pets.com, Juicero, go.com, and Google Glass. Terrible, business-destroying ideas combined with arrogant, incompetent management.

At some point @elonmusk is going to realize that his critics are trying to prevent him from completely destroying the thing he just bought for $44 billion, but by then it will be too late and he'll have to sell equity in his other, successful businesses to stay afloat.

@HerbertHistory @HC_Richardson Other than the Venetian republic, I can’t think of any republics that lasted more than a few hundred years without sliding into autocracy. It doesn’t instill me with great hope.