Joer

A history major & living historian who works in archival/information management. I am also a dedicated fantasy lover, particularly Tolkien.

[Joer @Zejoer]

Using AI art is a sin on its own, but using AI art to depict historical events or characters of which actual, period-made art already exists ought to be a ticket to the deepest reaches of Hell.

[blue @bluewmist]

pretty shitty how baseline human activities like singing, dancing and making art got turned into skills instead of being seen as behaviors
so now it's like 'the point of doing them is to get good at them' and not 'this is a thing humans do, the way birds sing and bees make hives.

[The Bulwark @BulwarkOnline]

"It’s unfortunate that almost none of the people behind these accounts know very much about the ancient world." Unfortunately, ignorance is not the only thing wrong with them.

@BretDevereaux on Elon Musk's X and the fascist statue accounts:

https://t.co/c4XquHEWMV

[ᴅᴏᴏᴍᴇɴɪᴄ @dinosaur_info]

Nobody is complaining loudly enough that Wikipedia is sometimes no longer even on the first page of google results. Like what the hell are we doing

[Lulu | WC 🇪🇬 @muixyui]

and if I say the reason why all of a sudden we jumped to 35° in may here in europe, it's cuz you all can't stop loving those ai generated fruits videos

[Shahanshah of the Internet Age @ChazakielDoremi]

The Dutch fetish for infrastructural development work has been their biggest strength for the last few hundred years and the fact that the rapid americanisation of their government parties means that they're just not fucking building things anymore is going to be the end of them.

[Natali Simmonds @NJSimmondsbooks]

I wanted to run the London Marathon but training takes too long and is too hard as a pudgy 47yo woman, so I got an Uber to the finish line. It's not fair that athletic people get to gatekeep long-distance running. I'm still a Marathon runner!

This is what AI 'writers' sound like

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Reasons to use an em dash:

1) reclaim it from the machines
2) you don't know what a semicolon is for
3) it has incredible vibes

[Priya Satia @PriyaSatia]

Instead of worrying that humanities degrees don’t prepare students for jobs in today’s world [product managers finance consultants startups], we should worry that we’ve created a world with such little value for literature, art, philosophy—anything that expresses the human soul

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I hate when people at work ask you what books you are reading for professional development. I am reading books to counteract the effects of being professionally developed. I am reading books that bring me back to being human.

[Acyn @Acyn]

Standing ovation for this line from King Charles: The U.S. Supreme court historical society has calculated that Magna Carta is cited in at least 160 supreme court cases since 1789, not least as the foundation of the principle that executive power is subject to checks and balances.

[Anon Opin. @anon_opin]

The audio tours for medieval castles should have a separate channel for people who are not complete idiots, who want to hear a deadpan description of the history of each room with absolutely no struggling actors hamming it up pretending to be a nobleman or a lowly washerwoman.

[mithrandir 🦬 @___mithrandir_]

I'm tired of this. Medieval people weren't stupid and they didn't chalk every mysterious phenomenon up to magic. They knew there were aspects of the natural world they didn't yet understand and like any good scientists they hypothesized.

[pep 🐟 @SUBMARINER1941]

worst part of the literacy crisis is that you can’t use hyperbole or be dramatic anymore without some dumb fucking idiot thinking that you sincerely believe whatever exaggeration you said

[justin serb-ert 🇷🇸🍉 @markocantdunk]

I cannot relate to anybody who doesn’t feel like an insane person doing a facade of normalcy these days. I walk around looking at strangers and wonder “are you doing a facade as well? Are you going insane the same way I am?” I cannot disguise my disconnect with the “sane” world.

[Rushi @rushicrypto]

I don't know that words will ever be able to adequately express how insane it feels to sit at a desk and respond to trivial emails while the President of the United States threatens to destroy an entire civilization.

[BSF 🇬🇧🐀 @BSF42069]

We’ve come a long way

[Napoléonos I Tritharsaléos @Brumairian]

"Most men don't see forty" is one of those bullshit Enlightenment Era propaganda talking points that always gets thrown around by uneducated idiots.

Life expectancy was cut in half because of infant mortality. If you survived childhood, even a lowly peasant was likely to make it into his mid to late sixties.

The description of diet here is mostly accurate, for a particular season not year round. Also, most peasants had the right to hunt small game on the Lord's land to supplement their diet. Nobody was getting thrown in the stocks for poaching a rabbit; they were unlikely to catch a rabbit because of over hunting.

[daz @MetamateDaz]

My BIGGEST problem is that I want to be politically informed but I would also like to have a good day and be happy, and those are mutually exclusive things apparently.

[Chad Scott @cpscott16]

Two things can be true.

1. Assassinating the head of a sovereign state exceeds the president's unilateral authority without a war declaration and should not be allowed.

2. Fuck the Ayatollah, I'm glad he is dead.