Assistant Professor of History @CampbellsvilleU | Ph.D. @baylor | Historian of religion, slavery, and the US South who never tweets.
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Creating a syllabus for a sports history class from the ancient world to present. I want to assign great novels and stories and articles and poems about sport. Recommendations on what I should assign?
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We cannot consider #AI to be morally neutral. In reality, every technical tool embodies choices and priorities through what it measures, ignores, and optimizes, and how it classifies people and situations. Ethical discernment cannot be limited to asking whether we are using a system for good or bad purposes. It must also examine how that system is designed and what vision of the human person and society is embedded in the data and models that guide it. #MagnificaHumanitas
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Next up in my series about whether my 9 year old daughter will be going to college: I talked to 12 professors about how AI has changed their classrooms. newyorker.com/news/fault-lin…
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This CBS interview w Thomas Massie is insane.
Massie: “my policy has always been, no country is special and no country deserves my constituents’ taxpayer dollars.
So I’ve never voted for foreign aid, to Egypt, to Syria, to Israel or to Ukraine… but the ones in Israel … they are the biggest recipients so they are mad.” […]
CBS: “…are you antisemitic?”
Kentucky Republican Rep. Thomas Massie pushed back on criticism from President Trump and GOP leadership ahead of a costly and closely watched primary against former Navy SEAL Ed Gallrein, telling CBS News’ @edokeefe the race has become a referendum on party loyalty, foreign policy and outside political spending.
Massie is one of the few Republicans in Congress who has opposed the war with Iran and has voted with Democrats to rein in Trump's authority to carry out further military action without congressional authorization. He has also voted against symbolic resolutions backing Israel, as well as a resolution condemning antisemitism that he argued promoted censorship.
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Don't know if it exists already--completely out of my field--but I would love to read a piece on the history of undecided voters. Whence the term/concept? How has the idea been a part of/ functioned in political discourse?
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My family and I are facing a tough season. Please consider sharing 💜 gofund.me/306c6d17
Turning to crowdsourcing for some paleography help on a nineteenth-century letter:
What is the word or abbreviation in the first picture?
The second picture gives the entire sentence and the third picture shows it being used in another sentence.
It's never a bad time to read Levertov's "Life at War," but it's an especially good time now.
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Strongly considering a gym membership after reading the article--not what usually happens after getting my magazine fix.
One of the many things that I love about Harper's is that, every once in a while, there's an article that completely changes how you view something. Do yourself a favor and read this incredible essay by @jordan_castro2
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“Anyone who has tried to change their body in the gym has not forgotten that the heart is in conflict with itself: one wants a certain outcome, but finds blockages within that he didn’t know were there.”
@jordan_castro2
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Looking forward to this conversation about Catholic intellectual history next week! Very excited to put Romanticism in conversation with work from @petecajka, @BrennaAMoore, and Jacob Saliba.
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Really excited for our upcoming @achahistory panel "New Directions in Catholic Intellectual History." Our panel -- me, Jacob Saliba, and David Roach -- will put our case studies in conversation with the excellent work of @BrennaAMoore.
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Cool Dad Raising Daughter On Media That Will Put Her Entirely Out Of Touch With Her Generation bit.ly/47oS5mj
Aaron, we’ve never meet and I rarely tweet, but I want to share my story of reading Stoner. 10 years ago, my grandmother sent me Stoner when I was in college. She had read it in a book club, knew that I had just become interested in literature, and ordered a copy.
I felt an almost moral urgency and a necessity to finish it—and almost burst into tears on a plane while finishing. I don’t know how moved I would have been as a 20-year-old undergrad, so I’m glad I “lost” it read it as a 30-year-old teacher.