hpstorian

AbuOwaisi.
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[hpstorian @hpstorian]

I've been writing a lot on substack lately. Not quite at 2015-longform-twitter-thread levels of prolific but more than nothing.

If you're on that orange side of the internet, hit me up ❤️

Some non fic. Some higher ed. Some memoirs. See you there.

https://t.co/8CWc6T01mc

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Also worked on building a treehouse (though my oldest tells me it's technically a hide and I should stop calling it a treehouse because it's not fully in the tree).

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Latest updates: I went to a Medieval Fayre as a (non-sexy) Viking, talked to people a bunch and wore vest.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Modern militaries have often waged war with the imagination of a supply-chain manager. On the national account the rise of AI looks like booming private investment, yet governments regulate, protect & procure from these systems as strategic infrastructure.
https://t.co/yCVcJ79zIW

[Zoë Jay @zoecharlottejay]

the article my students & i wrote together about collaborative course design is here!!it’s a collaborative reflection between students & teacher on power, solidarity, & who produces what forms of knowledge in the world politics classroom - please read!

https://t.co/E8524oK1jn

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Quick face update for the curious.

40 coming up on me like a run away freight train.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

I've been writing a lot on substack lately. Not quite at 2015-longform-twitter-thread levels of prolific but more than nothing.

If you're on that orange side of the internet, hit me up ❤️

Some non fic. Some higher ed. Some memoirs. See you there.

https://t.co/8CWc6T01mc

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

(I'd love to see if I have a few hate followers unhinged enough to want me in their inbox on the regular)

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Anyone else remember when the Australian government ran a public health campaign with posters saying "ARM yourself against Covid-19"?

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

"Alright, we've gotta come up with a ripper of a vaccine campaign so we can get back to wargames with the Yanks. Ideas? What's something all you blokes like?"
*From the back*
"Sir, fucken guns, sir!"
"Hmm... Let's make ads that say getting your jab is like getting guns"
"Perfect"

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

I'd forgotten this thread. I shouldn't have.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

For a year or so in primary school we lived in my uncle and aunt's place: brick defence housing, me and my sister on bunk beds upstairs.

I'd wake up early in the morning, lit by the green of a 90s clock-radio, hearing my uncle's heavy boots clobbering past on beige carpet.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

High stakes exams might make it harder for students to get genAI to write their essays, but they make it easier for genAI to mark them.

Exams were already a way that academics made their courses more efficient (no feedback).

That's going to bite.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

AI isn't a threat to academics because it can do our jobs (it can't) its danger comes from the harm it does to our institutions' primary way of making money: the certification of degrees.

This is not "the value of a degree goes down", it is in the costs of invigilation.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Invigilation is not a specialist skill, and while there might be a little delay as AI cheating tech like wearables catch up to exams, it is a skill easily automated.

That applies to marking too.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

When you talk to your students about citation and authorship, about critical thinking and analysis, you're also talking to them about modes of relating to sources and tools.

I made this scale to aid those conversations.

The high res version is here 😃
https://t.co/UPPbokrlEp

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Ibises clean up after us, eating ciggy butts, only to be called 'bin chickens' by the ungrageful.

We, humans, are the real bin chickens.

[hpstorian @hpstorian]

Just dropping back in to point anyone left here to the fact you can find me on bsky now.

Same name, same bs.