Professional Historian and History Consultancy Services Brisbane
Category: Concepts in Public History for Marketplace Dialogue
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Spiral Historiography: 1. Widely-Believed Falsehood, 2. Accountability, 3. Falsehood Retreats, 4. Historical Forgetfulness
“… Last Friday, Salem Media Group announced that it had removed the fabulist film 2,000 Mules from its platform and said it would no longer distribute either the movie or an accompanying book by the right-wing activist and Trump-pardoned felon Dinesh D’Souza. It also issued an apology to Mark Andrews, a Georgia man whom the film had falsely depicted…
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‘Reckless Race for Dominance’: Is Any Decision-Maker Listening?
I have been making the moral warning, over and over, again and again. Is Any Decision-Maker Listening? From Kevin Roose, reporting from San Francisco, June 4, 2024, in “OpenAI Insiders Warn of a ‘Reckless’ Race for Dominance,” The Washington Post. The members [nine current and former OpenAI employees] say…
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The Thinking of Dumbassery: Clear Message to Government and Corporations
dumbassery Jump to navigationJump to search Contents 1English 1.1Etymology 1.2Noun 1.2.1Synonyms English[edit] Etymology[edit] From dumbass + -ery. Noun[edit] dumbassery (uncountable) (slang,vulgar,Canada, US) Immature, foolish behavior; behavior typical of a dumbass. quotations ▲ 2008, Sara Zarr, Story of a Girl[1], →ISBN: Speaking of savages, Bruce Cowell and his pack of jock-wannabes, who’d been kicked off every school team because of attitude problems and/or the use of…
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PASSING OF JOHN MOSES
Dear Colleagues, Ingrid Moses messaged last night that John had died, after a long illness, although he was still quite sharp still in the last weeks and we had been messaging often. He was 91. Quite upsetting for me as he was a constant support both…
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Universities and Employability: Why am I not employed (contracted)?
“The [UK] creation of the Office for Students by the 2017 Higher Education and Research Act to ‘encourage competition between English higher education providers’ and to ‘promote value for money’ has been particularly instrumental in promoting a mercantile narrative that has forced universities to close departments and courses that have not been recruiting well.” Zahid Naz, The employability agenda corrupts educational and personal…
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Have I Got What It Takes to Take a Stand Against the “Self-Righteous Political Decision-Makers”?
From Nell Gluckman, ‘Call the Philosophy Department Office and Tell Them I Have Been Arrested’, MAY 7, 2024 Tell me what that day, April 25, was like for you. How did it start? I’m chair of my department, and we were having our once-every-10-year external-review process, so I went to pick up the…
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What is “Stupidity” and Why it is Not a Dismissal in My Philosophic-Sociological History Work
From ALEX BOLLINGER, “George Santos Boils In Rage After He Was Tricked Into Celebrating Pedophilia,” APRIL 25 2024, in CityWatch. “LGBTQ – Disgraced former Congressman George Santos (R-NY) is willing to say anything to make a buck. He even made a video celebrating NAMBLA, the National Man/Boy Love Association, an organization that…
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The Way It Is, Don’t You Believe Them…
Standing in line, marking time Waiting for the welfare dime ‘Cause they can’t buy a job The man in the silk suit hurries by As he catches the poor old ladies’ eyes Just for fun he says, “get a job” Why do we put up with it? That’s just the…
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What it is Costing Me for What a Higher Education Institution Ought to Be Paying Me
My direct business costs, as a history consultant in Queensland, is a little over $5,000 over six months, but my living costs, being able to do the work of a history consultant, is over three-time that amount. Many of the cost items for the budget are indirect business costs, such as vehicle and transport costs.…
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Why Speaking Out Against Culture-History Warfare is Not Popular, But Why it is Important to Do SO, AND Be PAID?
For more than a decade, I have been “fighting” unintelligent fiction which has promoted the valuations within the culture-history warfare. It is warfare that brings about the “real” warfare. The “real” war in Gaza-Israel is built from a culture-history war. I have been working on this message for the public marketplace…