Samuel Huneke

Samuel Huneke

@schuneke.bsky.social

Historian of Queerness, Democracy, Dictatorship • Words in LARB, TNR, Baffler • represented by Inkwell Management • 🏳️‍🌈 • opinions my own

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Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

We need more of this! They want to steal our cognition. Sam Altman has said he wants intelligence to be a ‘metered resource’ in the future. It’s still insane to me that our higher ed leaders are rushing over themselves to adopt this technology and force it down the throats of teachers and students

Aaron Rupar@atrupar.com

AOC: "As AI begins to encroach in our society, their goal is to take your cognition away from you. AI's goal is to take your thoughts away from you, your ability to think away from you, so that you become dependent on a machine ... reading books is active resistance"

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

But I was unprepared for the shock of coming across a quote attributed to Judith Butler that it appears they never said. When I reached out to Neiman, she did not provide a citation. When I wrote to Butler, they responded that they had not said these words.

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

If we are to be champions of “truth,” as Neiman asks of us, it seems a good idea to start with accurately citing those we criticize. In an era where humanistic scholarship is under threat from the right as well as from corporations, this kind of sloppiness is unacceptable

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

In some ways it’s a beautiful book. And while I think there’s certainly a lot to criticize, it is a useful cry to action in the face of fascism

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The Gaily Show
@thegailyshow.org

I'm scruffy because I've been writing and posting all day. BUT, I had to make a video because as of this post we've raised $4,542 and we are $458 dollars away from $5,300 in matching donations! And we need your help to get there by 5p CST!!! Here's the link: givebutter.com/LGBTQMediaGi...

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

If you don’t want to do things like read your kid a book, you probably don’t actually want to be a parent

Jess Calarco@jessicacalarco.com

It's telling that men would rather try to invent tech to replace humans' role in caregiving than step up as equal partners in parenting. Telling, that is, in that it shows how financial capitalism and patriarchy work together to dissuade men from doing "unprofitable" labor, like the work of care.

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

What will it take for university administrations to actually take sexual assault seriously ffs? Everyone who has ever had to deal with Title IX offices knows that they exist to protect the institution and don’t really care about survivors.

Wonkette@wonkettemedia.bsky.social

Is Writing An Essay An Appropriate Punishment For Gang Rape? Cornell Is About To Find Out! www.wonkette.com/p/is-writing... By Robyn Pennacchia @robynelyse.bsky.social

wonkette.comIs Writing An Essay An Appropriate Punishment For Gang Rape? Cornell Is About To Find Out!A former student has filed a lawsuit against the university for the way they handled her assault.
Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

What… what do you mean you don’t know your own zip code? Our economy is run by morons.

Matt Ford@mford.bsky.social

Ezra Klein asked Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang about AI making kids worse at math and reading. Huang’s reply: “Does it matter?” Then he said he doesn’t know his own address or phone number. “We’re going to lose some fine intellectual dexterity.” www.nytimes.com/2026/09/23/o...

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

What the actual f. Have these people no shame?

Jeff Sharlet@jeffsharlet.bsky.social

The provost of Dartmouth, at which I teach, has been using AI to write both academic papers & national op-eds, according to brave reporting by @thedartmouth.bsky.social. Many students are already bitter about AI. This leaves us as faculty no ground to stand on. www.thedartmouth.com/article/2026...

thedartmouth.comOp-eds, academic articles by Provost Santiago Schnell flagged as ‘AI-written’ by ‘near-zero error’ AI detector PangramSchnell said he used artificial intelligence for “making writing processes more efficient,” but that AI was not a “substitute” for his own “intellectual judgment or authorship.”
Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

That it somehow also manages to be wrong is the most unhinged part of this chart. The century begins at year 0, not year 1.

Seth Rockman@sethrockman.bsky.social

I too have sometimes thought that a wall chart of this nature would be a useful addition to any History classroom.

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The Gaily Show
@thegailyshow.org

The far-right, anti-immigration, and anti-LGBTQ rights political party Alternative for Germany (AfD) just won a key election in Germany's eastern state Saxony-Anhalt. Paradoxically, AfD is co-led by an out Lesbian. @schuneke.bsky.social breaks it down for us. thegailyshow.org/the-contradi...

thegailyshow.orgThe Contradiction of Alice Weidel: Inside Germany's Ascendant Anti-Immigrant Party Led by an Openly Lesbian PoliticianTo understand what AfD's victory means to Germany and Europe, we spoke with Dr. Samuel Clowes Huneke, associate professor of history at George Mason University.
Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

Finally reading this exposé about how the AHA has been using funds to hire a corporate lobbyist to quash its own members’ views. It’s entirely dystopian and I hope for the day when we have leadership that is actually responsive to the views of its membership. www.chronicle.com/article/a-sc...

chronicle.comOpinion | A Scholarly Association’s Secretive Washington PlaybookDid the American Historical Association ask a corporate lobbying firm for advice on how to silence its members?
Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

I keep wondering how people like this deal with questions at conferences or from their students, since they clearly don’t put in the effort to learn or ponder anything themselves. Or do they have the LLMs handle those too?

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Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

I literally don’t use AI for anything. And where it’s forced down my throat (eg automated receptionists) it’s made my life strictly worse. I would welcome it disappearing overnight.

Alexander Glass@alexanderglass.bsky.social

I have one answer.

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

The waning appetite for book reviews is really depressing. I used to write tons of them and slowly over time, each publication I used to write for seems to have lost interest in them.

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Moira Donegan
@moiradonegan.bsky.social

I also appreciate Emily Wilson as a woman in a male dominated role, by which I don’t mean translator or classicist or public scholar but rather “curmudgeon.”

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

Apparently Emily Wilson has reached the hey kids get off my lawn stage of her career.

London Review of Books@lrb.co.uk

‘Nolan has read at least the first line of my translation of 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘖𝘥𝘺𝘴𝘴𝘦𝘺 into iambic pentameter. In one interview, he cited my version of it: “Tell me about a complicated man.” But I would be ashamed to have written any part of this script.’ New, by Emily Wilson www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

lrb.co.ukEmily Wilson · An Uncomplicated ManAs they say at the awards shows, I was humbled to learn that Christopher Nolan has read at least the first line of my...
Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

Wtf

Current Affairs@currentaffairs.bsky.social

As Trump's anti-left Red Scare escalates, The Atlantic is helping normalize dehumanizing rhetoric by describing socialists as a "parasite." The Atlantic is a dangerous, reactionary propaganda rag disguised as Reasonable Discourse.

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

Thank you for having me! It was a wonderful conversation with a lovely audience

Christine Schmidt @ceschmidt.bsky.social

With huge thanks to @schuneke.bsky.social for his brilliant talk @wienerlibrary.bsky.social on his moving & incisive book, I Will Not Abandon You: Queer Women in Nazi Germany. Special thanks to @williamrossjones.bsky.social for the insightful conversation. And thanks to all who braved the heat!

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🌈 Dr Ross Brooks
@rossbrooks.co.uk

My book baby has arrived! 🤩 Not for the first time, my wonderful editors @yalebooks.bsky.social have delightfully surprised me: the colours on the jacket catch the light (I'm told it's called 'spot gloss')! It really is a thing of beauty. #books #booksky #histsci #queerhistory 🌈📚🗃️

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

One thing I’ve noticed after 6 months as co-editor of the Journal of Social History: younger scholars at less wealthy institutions and with less secure employment are more likely to say yes as reviewers. Senior scholars at elite institutions rarely do. Smdh

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Ned Resnikoff
@resnikoff.bsky.social

TBH I feel like Mamdani has bent over backwards to demonstrate that he's not remotely antisemitic, and guys like Frum who will call him an antisemite anyway on the basis of his religion and anti-Zionism are doing the work of bona fide antisemites

brent 🌹🗽@therealbrent.bsky.social

I hate this guy so much

Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

This kind of thing is exactly why tenure is supposed to exist. Professors aren’t supposed to fear they may lose their job if they say something politically unpopular.

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Samuel Huneke
@schuneke.bsky.social

I remember when a professor at my Alma mater compared gay marriage to all kinds of heinous things and the (lesbian) president stood up for his academic freedom against alumni calling for him to be fired.