My History Can Beat Up Your Politics

My History Can Beat Up Your Politics' Mixing history and the politics of today since 2006.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

Coming Soon: Our 3 Parter on Zachary Taylor's Presidency

[James Fulford @JMF1958]

@RBrookhiser I think you were trying to type linotype machines, and your phone didn’t believe there was such a word @RBrookhiser What I heard about those machines was that their ETAION SHRDLU keyboards ruined the operators for ever typing on QWERTY.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@admcrlsn Kamala wasn't going to go with 2 women as she would have feared a loss would have focused on that. Wasn't ready. Good generally but untested under attack, and those attacks would have come.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@LarrietDarling @JoyceCarolOates Should not be source, but viewed with prompt included, at least is a starting point. If someone quotes Grok here, just ask Grok "how would I argue against this information" and you can see how slippery it all is.

[Joyce Carol Oates @JoyceCarolOates]

no doubt, but if you ask AI what are the steps for renewing a passport, or exactly what to expect if you have a bone marrow biopsy, it will reply promptly & helpfully with numbered steps.

AI may prevail as a kind of Encyclopedia Britannica plus handyman guide. I would not wish to use AI for writing--for anything that I could & would want to do myself--but simple references are indeed helpful & their accuracy can be checked.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JoyceCarolOates We should remember always that the pre AI method of "Googling" was fraught with error and commercially spiked. I get annoyed with people showing me Chat GPT or Grok, but at least I can ask for prompts.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JoyceCarolOates She'll just turn again. Don't take my word for it, that's what the right is saying about her.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JoyceCarolOates To me that is perfect for what AI really does: add, not subtract.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@averyfjames The NY conviction absolutely cemented the GOP Primary for Trump when some, including Murdoch wanted to bail. It was stupid classic "don't come at the king" idiocy. Kansas hypothetical dunno. I they thought HRC comeback was possible..prolly woulda.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@averyfjames Not equatible. One wrong with multiple people and huge damage to nation's democracy. Also near-tragic see Pence.
Other, if wrong, can be corrected in appeals. But no I wasn't a fan of the Bragg prosecution, and said so to people cheering around me.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JoyceCarolOates Overly watchful HR departments at companies make it difficult too. All but self-employed or lawyers will have to avoid running to avoid employer reputation damage. Some of that was always happening. Had employers say they'd "have to look up policy." To participate in democracy

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JoyceCarolOates Tough for the families of candidates. Candidates (generally) sign up for it. Biggest worry is not so much themselves but how other people esp. family with same name/employers view it. "why'd you get involved in that?" etc.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@GRobLewis @JoyceCarolOates @GOP I think a constant assertion of the alternative is enough, i.e. "Whenever you guys want to have that Constitutional Amendment on Gerrymandering, we are for it, until then..."

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@JMF1958 @RBrookhiser Qwerty is so muscle memory based...i think it would ruin me to learn anything else, and now the career prospects arent worth it.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser I use one of these now. Gives you that old keyboard feel, but not like a typewriter. Does bluetooth or USB.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser 80's Typing student, which meant my 1990's was a decade-long admonishment to be lighter on the keyboard.

[Richard Brookhiser @RBrookhiser]

I remember those…

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser Great library in #Newark. Now of course, it is a holdover from it's glorious 19-aughts. Keep an eye on this city. Lack of budgets means things weren't razed. This could have been a 1960's style modernist block.

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@RBrookhiser Indeed

[My History Can Beat Up Your Politics @myhist]

@BillieHolidayW @liz_july4th @RBrookhiser Yes it does and it has his typewriter and a lot of stuff. He once worked at the circ. desk in the 50's. And it's a great building on its own. Nice reading room. My only complaint about NPL is not much books other than fiction.