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Mack Penner

@_MackPenner

historian, drawn more to argument than discovery and gone to 🦋

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Joined July 2012
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"Historians are thinking about AI, that much is clear, but they are not necessarily of one mind." Mack Penner's essay is live today. activehistory.ca/blog/2024/1…
Flattened History

Flattened History

To the extent that we as historians accept as settled the first order questions about AI and instead opt to talk about nuanced details of implementation, I think we risk a very serious mistake. Her…

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The Department of History & Religion is hiring a term instructor with a background in Canadian & European history! Please share with anyone you think might be interested. uleth.peopleadmin.ca/posting…
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"Smith is concerned that federal research funding is biased toward certain kinds of scholarship and opinion because she has been talking to “some of our academics.” This raises the question of with whom, exactly, Smith has been conversing." activehistory.ca/blog/2024/0…
On Bill 18: Danielle Smith, the Calgary School, and the Politics of Academic Freedom

On Bill 18: Danielle Smith, the Calgary School, and the Politics of Academic Freedom

Mack Penner On 10 April 2024, the United Conservative Party (UCP) introduced Bill 18, or the Provincial Priorities Act, in order to “support Alberta’s government in pushing back against overreach b…

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Learn about the "paradox of #polycrisis" in the context of the coronavirus pandemic and its historiographical implications in this newly published JH 58.2/3 research by Mack Penner (@_MackPenner @McMasterU) bit.ly/JH5823b #capitalism
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Read @_MackPenner 's (from @McMasterU) CHR 104.3 article that explores how neoliberal ideas facilitated Tom Flanagan's defense of settler colonialism in Canadian political science: bit.ly/chr1043b #neoliberalism #settlercolonialism #TomFlanagan #intellectualhistory
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My favourite Secret Canada story of the series. Last fall, @tom_cardoso and I put out a call: if you have stories about Canada's broken freedom of information regime, we want to hear from you. The loudest, largest group to reply: FURIOUS HISTORIANS theglobeandmail.com/canada/a…
Redacted and out of reach: Canada’s access laws keep the country’s history locked away

Redacted and out of reach: Canada’s access laws keep the country’s history locked away

Researchers are often denied decades-old documents because there’s no process for declassifying them and poor records of what’s piled up in government warehouses

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never change, comrades
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Man how are they not getting sued into insolvency? washingtonpost.com/technolog…

17 fatalities, 736 crashes: The shocking toll of Tesla’s Autopilot

Crashes have surged in the past four years, reflecting the hazards associated with increasing use of Tesla’s futuristic driver-assistance tech.

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Michal Schatz@miyyka99 Jun 2023
In honor of Eric Hobsbawm's 106th birthday today, we have a new piece on the @VersoBooks Blog: Hobsbawm's 1978 essay on the Communist Party Historians' Group. versobooks.com/en-gb/blogs/n…
The Historians' Group of the Communist Party

The Historians' Group of the Communist Party

 **This essay originally appeared in a collection published by Lawrence & Wishart in 1978 entitled Rebels and Their Causes: Essays in Honour of A. L. Morton. With their permission, Verso is publish...

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On the pacifist Christians whom Tolstoy loved and funded to move to Canada-and their situation today nytimes.com/2023/06/04/world…
A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity (Published 2023)

A Pacifist Sect From Russia Is Shaken by War, and Modernity (Published 2023)

The Ukraine conflict is causing soul-searching among the Doukhobors, a peace-loving group that emigrated to Canada in 1899.

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muse.jhu.edu/issue/49488 Free for Two Weeks ! Our Latest Issue « Mixed Signals » all things information but no AI authorship ! @zeithistoriker @iheid_history @kenlipartito
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Im 1991, these country legends were asked what they would want the United States to fix. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson answered:
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Scott Dippel@CBCScott16 May 2023
If you are thinking wildfire smoke is becoming a regular part of Calgary's weather, you are correct.
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Must-read dispatch on the Temple strike and the state of the public university from @bucephalus424 and Josh Stern nplusonemag.com/online-only/…
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The Corsini Fellowship in Canadian History This two-month fellowship is geared towards graduate students. Application by 1 May 2023 wilson.humanities.mcmaster.c…
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alex@alex___tanner18 Apr 2023
the greatest story ever written is unpaywalled at @nplusonemag nplusonemag.com/issue-17/fic…
Fish Rot | Rebecca Curtis

Fish Rot | Rebecca Curtis

My evaluations that year said, “Leah is strange. Her comments are late. She is also late. She tries hard and is enthusiastic, that’s true. She smells bad. It is difficult to concentrate when she...

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Breaking: Hailing "profound victories," Rutgers unions reach deal to end strike Deal includes: 14% raise for full-time faculty 44% increase in per credit salary rate to adjuncts over 4 years Raises pay of graduate student teaching assistants to $40,000 politico.com/news/2023/04/15…
Rutgers, unions reach tentative deal to end strike

Rutgers, unions reach tentative deal to end strike

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This is precisely how @McMasterU has built its reputation as a leading research university. Grad students are forced to apply knowing that if they win, most or all of the prize will simply be taken by the university. They brag about all that prestigious funding, and we starve. – at Hamilton, Ontario
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One of the most exploitative practices in Ontario higher education is known as a graduate stipend “clawback.” Here is how this disgusting practice works, a 🧵. #HigherEducation #AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter #ontpse
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Profit margins of US companies have reached levels not seen since the aftermath of World War II.
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So ... America had a big bank at the heart of a crucial high-vis sector, that had 97% runnable, uninsured deposits that by end 2021 built a giant one-way, unhedged bet on interest rates staying at 0 and NO-ONE sounded the alarm! Chartbook Newsletter #200 adamtooze.substack.com/p/cha…
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