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Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.

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Wessel could be a good parallel (let’s wait for the song) or maybe Ernst Thälmann? Posthumous lionisation by a movement that is secretly pleased these guys are no longer around?

What struck me was the 3 protagonists' apparently total ineptitude to overcome their own rants in relation to the world beyond them. Astonishing emotional and cognitive isolation. That's not to say I was overcome with empathy for these lonely unhappy mofos balkaninsight.com/2025/09/15/c...

An unbearable loss. Jó utat Feri archivum.org/news/ferenc-...

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935) The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Composition (2025)

If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.

Only reminds me of Western liberal prof who tried and failed to stop the forced removal of the Central European University from Budapest. The opponents (then Fidesz) are not gentlemen, they rewrite the rules at whim. Tactics and strategy need ethics & muscle or at least willingness to land a punch

Unermüdlich gehen Studierende & die Zivilgesellschaft in Serbien protestieren. Unermüdlich lässt uns @mihajlovicfreiburg.com daran teilhaben, berichtet von der Beharrlichkeit und den Zielen der Bewegung. Mit ihm habe ich über den Ursprung der Proteste, Präsident Vučić und die Rolle der EU gesprochen

Tapestries are a really neat, user- and reader-friendly contribution to the world of online presentation, & a project of the Internet Archive tapestries.media/t/dfc73e6e-9...

Imagine the complicated and precious genius of the girl who made this embroidery sampler in 1811 The Solar System, sampler, unknown maker, 1811, England. Museum no. T.92-1939. Victoria and Albert Museum, London.

"Chop off your shoulder-length hair, wrap it around your decommissioned womb, and return it to the heavens inside a paper lantern."

Sadly no 🦓 in this clip but largely the same Fidesz aesthetic of imposing rigorous order and right angles on anything green. Trees enclosed in case they get any funny ideas and start causing havoc. Cf. Városliget

The silhouette! Plane belongs to the ecosystem built around a right-wing AI chatbot who hallucinates all the most painful parts of modern Hungarian history

A massive attack on several humanities units (Arabic Studies, Judaic Studies, Holocaust Studies, Classics, Religion, German & Scandinavian, Russian/East European/Eurasian Studies) *and* tenure now unfolding at the University of Oregon (a blue state!). Closure of units and faculty layoffs threatened.

Public Service Announcement: if what's happening in Alaska makes you sick, a donation to Ukraine would improve your health

When Putin visited Budapest in 2014 the entire city was shut down and we all followed his planes fly around but not over 🇺🇦 It was spooky and the actual 56ers were dumbfounded. My colleague said it's like the Master and Margarita round here. That was a very long time ago.

Later in London exile, Moholy-Nagy left a party thanking his prominent socialite hostess "thank you very much for your hostilities." I'm fully convinced he knew exactly what he was saying

Why I love radio and The Global Jigsaw in particular, cont.

“I’d love to ask you in, Howard, but I need some time to digest everything you told me about the Ottoman Empire.”

"Wütend bin ich auf die Medien, weil sie das Narrativ von zwei Stämmen verbreiten, die sich bekriegen. Es kam nicht ein Einziger von uns zu Wort." www.juedische-allgemeine.de/unsere-woche...

the one on the right is starting to resemble a member of the Leningrad Cowboys

Really looking forward to this. I want to hear from the professionals and cut through the noise

"In reality, Putin is stuck, money-tight, and staring at the ruins of his maximalist ambitions in Ukraine. Putin’s war aimed to destroy Ukraine’s sovereignty, but after years, Russia’s gains are minimal and its economy is strained." Alaska and the illusion of strength euvsdisinfo.eu/alaska-and-t...

1 bbc peel session and 2 invasions later, everyone on stage in this clip is safe, no longer in zaporizzhia, don't know about the audience. maybe the worst thing about all the noise re the forthcoming alaska face-off is the neglect of actual lives, survivors & dancers www.youtube.com/watch?v=9_6A...

An unforgettable letter, incredible writing and narration, brava

Dear client(s). Receiving a next-day quote then six (6) weeks later responding with "sorry not this time because reasons" - it's the other way around. You didn't reply within five working days so you're out. Bye kids!

📸💸 Astonishing new drone footage shows Viktor Orbán's family’s lavish €30M Hatvanpuszta dacha (a former Habsburg estate) and zebras roaming nearby. Each week brings new details, making the mansion resemble Viktor Yanukovych's infamous Mezhyhirya Residence. Video by @telexhu.bsky.social

@alidoswimmer.bsky.social an earlier variation on the theme of "I've got a map of Skipton upstairs" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_o6a...

hoping that when they say the LLM talks like a Ph.D.-level expert, they mean "holds indecipherable decades-long academic grudges expressed largely in the form of questions that are actually more of a comment"

Some years ago I wrote a book about Budapest. I wrote it in Budapest then left brokenhearted, just like in the chansons. Yesterday I was reunited with my handwritten notes. The title is Chicago of the Balkans, a 1910 quip I borrowed from Lajos Hatvany, a handsome devil in a top hat

US bureau of statistics next year:

Where there is an arsenal of sharpened pencils, the smell of tyres & tiny paper bags there is also mutual respect

Best of "Erinnerungsaktivismus" one of the very best online archives imo www.dekoder.org/de/article/b...

AI can't eliminate historians because fun it can't create new knowledge, go to archives (where most sources are) or analyze sources. It can repeat what other historians have already written. History isn't "fact" it understanding the past to understand humanity+ #skystorians

More sanctions-busting shenanigans from HU, incl. a letter written by a grown man impersonating a spambot informnapalm.org/en/milspace-...

Rév István magyar nyelvű előadása a hamis holokauszt-emlékiratokról archivum.org/entries/vide...

If only every library had a stationery vending machine like the Stabi in Berlin does.

RIP Tom Lehrer. youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...

Dir. Joris Ivens

Thank you. Am an avid listener too, many hours a day bbc world service and the occasional r4, r6music and r3. Since my tablet was deemed to old to maintain iplayer on it, acc to the beeb, I nearly never watch beeb telly either. This sounds move is not the first exclusionary measure...

pointless observation: the men who explain python tools on youtube should swap for a day with the women who show you how to do a romanian dead lift.

I'd like to see this. And I'd like quite a few prominent German politicians and talking heads to see it too, esp. the ones who keep shoring up their careers with trips to Moscow

Die NS-Propagandaausstellung "Entartete Kunst" wurde am 19. Juli 1937 in den Münchner Hofgartenarkaden eröffnet. Auf der sog. "Dada-Wand" mit einer Wandbemalung vergrößerter Details von Kandinskys Werken wurde unter anderem Paul Klees Sumpflegende von 1919 schräg gehängt. 🧵

Truly the greatest television. Dedicated viewer since 1973 youtu.be/_ul7X5js1vE?...

WeTransfer is no longer viable for work drafts, presentations, your own symphonies, or anything really. SwissTransfer a far better option www.swisstransfer.com/en-ch

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Keeping the receipts: David Campbell's two detailed essays on atrocity, memory and photography in the case of ITN News vs those psychos at Living Marxism www.david-campbell.org/photography/...