• rumschlumpel@feddit.org
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    19 days ago

    We’ll see how many primary sources even survive the following decades.

    Though I don’t envy anyone who has to do history science when a large amount of primary sources are available. Imagine having to analyse Trump tweets for a paper.

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      19 days ago

      We’re in the age of AI now. Are future historians going to be able to trust primary sources?

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      19 days ago

      I can see future students simply denying that anyone would have really voted for DJT.

      “I refuse to believe that anyone was that dumb!”

      Can’t really blame them, I can hardly believe it now.