Ryne Clos

@HistorianDiary Contingent faculty like myself are fighting to make sure we aren’t replaced by an AI. AI ceos are telling people that they want their products to replace human ability to think. And there you are feeding the beast to save yourself a few minutes

@RyneClos There are tools for citations for years. It is an option to use them. It is the user’s responsibility to double check. Often, it saves time so that you can work on other things, such as reading, writing, or proofreading.

I used Claude for the first time to create a full bibliography from my endnotes, and it worked well. It took about ~15 minutes, though I still spent more than two hours double-checking everything. Even so, it saved me a great deal of time.

@HistorianDiary I understand that. But generative AI is a step too far. Every academic should stay away from it and denounce it always. It is obviously actively harmful for society and for our students. Saving some of your time is not sufficient justification for using it

@HistorianDiary Presumably to get your work published in a specific publication. Is that not the essence of academic work? If we farm out all th tedious parts of our work to mindless and destructive robots, where will we stop? What will be left for us?

@RyneClos It is format editing.

@HistorianDiary In my discipline, which is history, I need to have both in text citations and a complete bibliography to have proper citations. Creating both is necessary and is very much an academic task.

@RyneClos I do have “proper” citations. I just needed to have them in a separate document. This is called format editing.

@HistorianDiary Creating a bibliography is absolutely an academic task. Submit a book or article without proper citations and see what your peer reviewers think about it.

@RyneClos This is not an “academic” task… It’s manual work…

@jonathanbfine Sounds like my father in law. And my mom.

nothing my seven year old loves more than asking me a question and then immediately after i answer telling me that i dont know stuff

@podoffame If voters considered the character clause positively and not just negatively, he’s an obvious HOFr

Happy 45th Birthday, Curtis Granderson: 3X All-Star 2X Top 10 MVP Finish (4th in 2011) 2X AL Triples Leader 1,217 Runs (Led AL in 2011) 1,800 Hits (346 2B, 95 3B, 344 HR) 937 RBI (Led AL in 2011) .337 OBP with a 113 OPS+ 3 HR in 2015 World Series (5 G) What a fun career. Granderson pod is a must at some point.

@Heard_Herd @podoffame And Roger Clemens on the bump! He sucks as a human but an all timer as a player.

@RyneClos @podoffame Ha! Quite a lineup you’ve got there.

Pick the best:

@CardsCigarbox Legends win this one

Giveaway Lk Rp or reply w/ who wins this USA vs Legends. Winner picks their card.

@adamjohnsonCHI And how could it be a terror attack? We are at war.

Note that nothing in this headline is true. This is completely made up. It was “cautionary” speculation by the FBI, which followed up by saying “there was no indication Iran was planning an attack or that it could successfully launch one.”

@AKABrewersBeat Maybe my favorite card ever. Definitely top 5

A thing of beauty. Auction ends tonight on eBay.

@PitcherList @nick2822 Thanks. It’s my particular view that hitters are far more interesting than pitchers. Good to know you’ll do them too

@RyneClos @nick2822 Hitter cards are a little trickier as one game isn’t enough of a sample to present fun data. I’ll explore some solutions with the team and make it happen - we really need to nail those, too

All baseball fans need to follow this account holy cow it’s impressive.

@podoffame @baseball_ref I’d have Griffey first but Clemente last. He’s my favorite of the four but definitely behind other 3. I think I’d have Off over Trout, but that’s very close

Final Results (353 Votes): Ken Griffey Jr.: 51.3% Roberto Clemente: 23.8% Mel Ott: 12.7% Mike Trout: 12.2% Did the voters get this right?

@NewLeftEViews @triofrancos How is China aggressive in its immediate backyard? Not challenging you; genuinely asking. Because it doesn’t seem they’ve carried military aggression since 1950s

China is quite aggressive and territorially self-aggrandising in its immediate backyard, but restrained beyond. Even occasional border skirmishes with India are basically fought with sticks and stones. Outside of the military build up triggered by the US during MAGA 1.0, China is not interested in projecting power globally. And why would they? The legitimacy of its political class is not bound up in maintaining global hegemony. You have to inhabit a different plane of existence if you think those aspects of China’s foreign policy warrant a comparison to the full-spectrum vandalism of the US and its satellites which has left hundreds of thousands of corpses and ruined countries in its wake.

@MattPolProf As a historical materialist, this seems undeniably true to me. They have power and power allows them to dictate terms to the likes of you and me. What does power mean if not the ability to make meaning

In 2004 a Bush official, probably Karl Rove, mocked the "reality based" community; insisting that empire and power makes its own reality and the nerds and losers can deal with it. American conservatism hasn't changed because this attitude towards reality hasn't changed.

@jasonhickel @adamjohnsonCHI They think Iran should just roll over and accept it

France, Germany and the UK have issued a statement condemning Iran's "disproportionate" response. I want to know what they think is a "proportionate" response when invaders assassinate your head of state and civilian leaders in an explicit campaign to destroy your government.

@_Zeets @nikhil_palsingh Had a conversation with one of these wackadoos earlier today. He is so happy to pay back Iran for trying to kill him in Iraq

CNN anchor championing a war because US veterans were killed in an illegal war against a different country where the US killed over a million people