Infinitely Scrolling Through the Past
Last night I was looking through documents from British North Borneo and came across a record from 1886 about the murder the previous year in Palawan, then under Spanish rule,…
Grokipedia and the Hồng Bàng Dynasty
On October 27, 2025, Elon Musk’s company xAI released the first version (version 0.1) of an alternative to Wikipedia, called Grokipedia.It appears that the creation of Grokipedia was the result…
They’re Coming!!
When I was working in the US, I never got an email from a predatory/scam journal.Then I went to work at a university in Southeast Asia, and I immediately started…
You Don’t Think AI is a Threat, but You are Also Using the Wrong Model
I see a lot of academics brushing off AI, thinking that it’s not a threat. How do they reach that conclusion?As far as I can tell, in many cases they…
Professors Will be Eliminated by Progressive Logic
The other day an opinion piece from The Conversation popped up in my news feed with the title, “Some unis are moving away from in-person lectures. Here’s why that’s not…
Long-Form Immersive Literacy is Coming to an End
The other day, I went into a bookstore. There was a section on “classics,” which was essentially a section of works of nineteenth and twentieth century literature.I saw volume after…
What Students are Learning but Many Profs Perhaps Still Aren’t
A few years ago, I used to teach a session on “writing a literature review” for a general “methods” course that was offered to incoming graduate students in various humanities…
More on “History is Toast” – An Explanation
I have been arguing that History cannot survive AI, and some people have been offering contending views, such as the idea that AI can’t do certain things that certain historians…
AHA’s “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education”
The American Historical Association has issued some “Guiding Principles for Artificial Intelligence in History Education.”If you have read any of my posts on the future (or what I see as…
I Have Never Read “Orientalism”. . . But LLMs Can
I have been thinking about books and reading as we enter the AI/LLM age.There are a couple of books that were hugely influential when I was a graduate student in…