Mark T. Kettler

Good news, everyone! @CentralEuropean published my new article on Friday. “Incurable Megalomania” and “Fantasies of Expansion”: The German Army Reimagines Empire in Occupied Poland, 1915–1918 cup.org/3sTyb1E

When simulation becomes the norm, it weakens the human capacity for discernment. As a result, our social bonds close in upon themselves, forming self-referential circuits that no longer expose us to reality. We thus come to live within bubbles, impermeable to one another. Feeling threatened by anyone who is different, we grow unaccustomed to encounter and dialogue. In this way, polarization, conflict, fear and violence spread. What is at stake is not merely the risk of error, but a transformation in our very relationship with truth.

Within digital environments — structured to persuade — interaction is optimized to the point of rendering a real encounter superfluous; the otherness of persons in the flesh is neutralized, and relationships are reduced to functional responses. Dear friends, you, however, are real persons! Creation itself has a body, a breath, a life to be listened to and safeguarded.

The Catholic University can form pioneers of a new humanism in the context of the digital revolution. This is a service to the truth and to all humanity. Without this demanding educational effort, passive adaptation to dominant paradigms will be mistaken for competence, and the loss of freedom for progress. #ApostolicJourney #Cameroon

Metropolis (1927) Directed by Fritz Lang

This movie slaps! Same screenwriter as Nosferatu, Henrik Galeen (Heinrich Weisenberg).

Weird that they programmed Claude to think it’s better than a Berkeley PhD student.

There’s something bleakly amusing about the fact that we’re seeing a wave of research coming out on the negative impacts of computerization of classrooms at the same moment that we’re seeing a wave of excited cheerleading about how AI will transform education…

This! And we need to zoom out. As LLMs are used for research and academic writing, hallucinated ‘facts’ and ‘citations’ are leaching into an ecosystem already too overburdened to catch slop. AI is the lead paint in the walls of scholarship. we will be scraping it out for decades.

@titivilis @lionel_trolling I’m not a historian of Japan, but i’m under the impression that two swords were traditional.

@Marktkettler @lionel_trolling Shows what you know.

the frog of war

@jackcalifano @Tyler_A_Harper Who would bookmark this?!

@jackcalifano @Tyler_A_Harper Require it to use the comic sans font.

Require all AI generated text to be printed in Comic sans! If you don’t take your writing seriously, I want to know immediately!

@ogbrian_b @jackcalifano @Tyler_A_Harper i wanna have a seizure if i try to read it!

@Marktkettler @jackcalifano @Tyler_A_Harper Comic sans? You mean turning ordinary text into something that's even more fun? That's not just regular sans - that's comic sans. Would you like me to show you different colors and font sizes too?

In "Broken Ground: Building Germany's Occupation of Poland in the First World War", Andrew Kless offers critical reading for historians of German war aims, occupation, or the war in general. Read my full review for First World War Studies. tandfonline.com/eprint/WRJRHQ6…

Gustav Klimt's Forest

This was a well-crafted and important piece of scholarship. I strongly recommend it for scholars of military occupation, German imperialism, and the First World War. Schluß.

Kless's account thus reinforces our increasingly textured understanding of German imperial policy during the First World War, agreeing with Jesse Kauffman's interpretation in "Elusive Alliance". 9/