Karen Racine

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Historian. Age of Revolution. Spanish America and Great Britain. Atlantic World. Co-editor of Atlantic Crossings book series (University of Alabama Press). Canadian.

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Gave a couple of talks in Tübingen which renewed my energy for finishing the book.

Want to read this one!

Hot off the press (with Guthrie tartan upholstery for background, btw) #c18th #c18

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globalmaritimehistory.com/fundraising-... We have just launched this year's fundraiser for donations to support our website and projects.

Fundraising for GlobalMaritimeHistory - 2024 - Global Maritime Historyglobalmaritimehistory.com Last year, we asked for the very first time for support for GlobalMaritimeHistory. Many people were very generous with their donations to this website. When the website was founded (in 2012) as Britis...

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The answer to political anxiety is political organizing.

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'You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.' Link: deborahcopaken.substack.com/p/11-steps-t... #Privacy #Meta #Facebook

11 steps to keep Meta from stealing your data to train AIdeborahcopaken.substack.com You only have until June 26, 2024 to say no to Meta taking your personal photos and words and using them to train their generative AI. Here are step-by-step directions for opting out.

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"The degree to which we allow the rich to insulate themselves from the unpleasant reality that others are forced to experience is directly related to how long that reality is allowed to stay unpleasant. When they are left with no other option, rich people will force improvement in public systems."

Everyone Into The Grinderwww.hamiltonnolan.com It is good to make powerful people participate in public systems.

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‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every week Born out of an anti-car protest in 1974, the Colombian capital closes many roads to cars every Sunday, leaving them free for bikes, skates and pedestrians

‘The tranquility frees you’: Bogotá, the city that shuts out cars every weekwww.theguardian.com Born out of an anti-car protest in 1974, the Colombian capital closes many roads to cars every Sunday, leaving them free for bikes, skates and pedestrians

Beautiful, powerful, calming, a delight.

Observations of the Astral World (across on canvas) 1994 | 🎨 Norval Morrisseau (Anishinaabe) 1932-2007 National Gallery of Canada

I don't want AI added to anything. Seems like a lot of us feel that way.

This morning, I opened a PDF to find Adobe Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. That led to a rabbit hole of finding all the places Acrobat’s AI Assistant has to be turned off. Here they are: www.wordsbywes.ink/a... #LLMs #AmEditing

Turning Off Adobe Acrobat's AI Assistant - Words by Weswww.wordsbywes.ink This morning, I opened a PDF to find Acrobat giving me an AI-generated summary of it. Since I frequently deal with unpublished manuscripts and other confidential documents for clients, I can’t have them processed by generative AI tools (and I don’t want my PDFs being read by LLMs either). So…

My article "Ex-Emperor in Exile: Mexico's Agustin de Iturbide in London, 1824" published today. Open access so free to download! Check it out! Thanks to German Historical Institute, Princeton, Cambridge, and the Humboldt Institute for hosting our working group. www.cambridge.org/core/books/m...

Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutionswww.cambridge.org Cambridge Core - Global History - Mobility and Coercion in an Age of Wars and Revolutions

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It’s getting to the point where I’ll pay more for services which are entirely and demonstrably “AI”-free.

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Yes, there’s the Canadian Group of Seven at The McMichael but there’s also the Indian Group of Seven. #DaphneOdjig, #NorvalMorrisseau

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Eclipse: You shall wait for years, make careful plans, drive hundreds of miles for five miraculous minutes. Aurora: U up?

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the thing about the New York Times, CNN, university presidents, and other institutions falling (preemptively) in line with fascism is ... the fascists still hate them and want them to die. Pandering to evil won't save them, it just makes them look weak and fascism despises weakness.

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Jonathan Cohn

Guys. I think you need to bring Netanyahu to Den Haag ASAP.

Correct

Universities are creating the new generation of activists faster than they realize.

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Maybe, just maybe, university administrators should stop acting as though elected officials have their best interests at heart. danieldrezner.substack.com/p/the-carnag...

The Carnage Is the Pointdanieldrezner.substack.com On the matter of student protests, universities, and a myriad assortment of outside agitators.

Correct and obviously so.

Dear University Presidents: They are coming for you. They don’t care if you give in to every single demand, roll over and play dead. They are coming for you. Stop treating this like a good faith inquiry from civic minded leaders. It’s a hit job.

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Please share and use: a spreadsheet documenting the cuts announced by 87 (!) US universities & colleges during the 2023-24 academic year … so far. A long, dispiriting list of college closures, faculty/staff layoffs, academic program eliminations, and significant budget cuts. 1/

US higher ed cuts 8/2023-docs.google.com Sheet1 Cuts at 2-year and 4-year US higher education institutions since August 2023. Please send additions, edits, updates, corrections to [email protected]. Institution,State,Cuts,Management Rationa...

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"This 'burnout' that secure scholars are feeling is phantom pain where their colleagues should be. Or, to use a term that every other normal worker in the US uses to describe their workplace under these conditions: you are suffering from the effects of intentional systemic understaffing."

A Profession, If You Can Keep Itcontingentmagazine.org Imagined meritocracies mean little to extractive institutions.

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It looks like a tool that encourages people to just slap on citations after they’ve written their essays. If students start using this tool, it’s even more important to look up their sources while grading their papers.

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Authoritarianism is systematic abuse meant to destroy our spirits and any hope for a better future. This is about more than elections. It’s about recognizing that we deserve better and stoking our fundamental convictions in the face of that abuse. jaredyatessexton.substack.com/p/its-meant-...

It's Meant To Grind You Down: Authoritarianism Feeds Off Despairjaredyatessexton.substack.com We are inundated with the unbearable. And it takes a toll.

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Well that's one way to start a book review. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

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One of the things people don't want to talk about is that the real way to fight the chatbot problem in academia is to reduce class sizes and hire fulltime faculty. When it's adjuncts running massive classrooms with no support, it's going to inevitably lead to students and faculty cutting corners...

Knowing that a chatbot is “grading” your assignment is a great incentive for students to give minimum effort and craft assignments that are specific to the dictates of the machine: boring, rote, and drained of creativity and originality.

Teachers are embracing ChatGPT-powered gradingwww.axios.com Writable: AI tool that grades papers for teachers using ChatGPT

I'll talking about my essay "Deferred but not Avoided: Great Britain and Latin American Independence".... hope to see you there! Happy to send a copy to anyone who wants to read it.

The John Carter Brown Library is pleased to be hosting an event to celebrate the publication of The Cambridge History of the Age of Atlantic Revolutions. This hybrid event will take place at the Library on Friday, April 5, 2024. Register here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Oh god there are so many good charts like this

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Asheesh Kapur Siddique

A first step toward regenerating the funereal condition of history in the academy would be for historians to stop embracing job training as a justification for why undergraduates should study history.

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The archives of the Saint Domingue greffe at the ANOM are now on line! Amazing! recherche-anom.culture.gouv.fr/archives/fon...

6 DPPC_Images numérisées des greffes des tribunaux, principalement de Saint-Dominguerecherche-anom.culture.gouv.fr Cet espace vous offre une vue générale des fonds conservés aux Archives nationales d'outre-mer. Il liste les inventaires en ligne ou disponibles sous...

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"Budgets are moral documents. For decades, the mantra in higher education has been, “Run the university like a business!” But truly, even Dunkin’ Donuts seems to understand that, at the end of the day, you need to pay the people who actually make the coffee."

The true cost of the latest round of cuts at UNH – New Hampshire Bulletinnewhampshirebulletin.com You may have seen the headlines this week: “University of New Hampshire to lay off 75 employees to help save $14M.” The headline conceals the true costs of these cuts, which are only the latest ro...

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for folks outside Canada: this is a huge higher ed story Queen's is one of Canada's leading R1 universities and today boasts the fifth largest endowment amongst Canadian universities it's as if Penn suddenly announced it was on the brink of bankruptcy www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...