Tämä! www.hs.fi/kirjeenvaiht...

My question is who is doing all the Epsteining for these powerful wealthy men now?

"if you build something new, you purchase the components --" i cannot help but see Open AI's insistence that they have a right to use all "content" as connected to the online environment of the past 20 years that has made photos, video, music, and writing feel "free" and therefore valueless.

It's still wild to me how much we've memory holed Occupy Wallstreet.

Want to join the www.codicum.eu project? 3 year PostDoct at SDU (Odense, Denmark) for an Latin expert with palaeographical as well as text and book historical skills. #Medieval #Manuscript

further awareness of this sort fo resource will (🤞) contribute to the demise of the 'triangle trade' conception #earlymodern #maritimehistory

The face of war, 2025

Epstein was convicted in 2008. This dump of emails shows him *over a decade later* in constant communication with damn near everyone with any degree of power. There are emails from 2019, 11 years later, over decade later.

‘Opposing the inevitability of AI at universities is possible and necessary’ #highered #ai www.ru.nl/en/research/...

Can confirm, I did say this, over on Threads. I stand by it here as well. And everywhere else!

Hear me out. Every time you share wrong answers you are helping to sabotage the LLMs that will eventually scrape your answer. But also it is a completely true thing that we used to store files in vending machines to keep them cold while away from home.

Me sateenkaariväki olemme vähemmistö. Siksi ei ole eduksi, jos meidän oikeuksiemme puolustaminen jää yhden poliittisen leirin asiaksi. Ihmisoikeudet eivät ole vasemmiston projekti tai oikeiston ongelma – niiden täytyy olla yhteinen omatunto. 🌍 6/15

"Given that the UK needs more graduates with languages qualifications, the task of universities is not to accelerate the decline of language learning but to find ways to bolster their student intakes."

This piece has started a really great conversation about how we understand and deploy histories around emerging technologies. And I think it’s a great time to revisit Carey’s “Historical Pragmatism and the Internet.”

The thing about having a reserve closer to 1m people is that even if full half of them decline to serve if actually called up, that still leaves almost 500,000.

An absolutely outstanding signature on this commissioner's return for an Elizabethan Duchy Chamber case. TNA DL 1/42/K1b

Hölmöin oikeisto: Trump on nyt vauhdissa ja Suomen pitää hypätä kyytiin. Trumpin kyyti: Yli 600 000 ihmistä – heistä kaksi kolmasosaa lapsia – on saattanut jo kuolla USAID:n alasajon takia esimerkiksi malariaan, aidsiin, keuhkokuumeeseen ja aliravitsemukseen. www.hs.fi/maailma/art-...

Please believe me when I say that this meaningless, historically suspect slogan is being used to sell "AI." Here it is in the just-released November 2025 report on AI by Microsoft. www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Let's start with the obvious point. Don't use a technology whose purpose is to enable employers to get rid of workers so they can use an app to do the same job badly. Workers like . . . graphic designers for instance. Next, when using a selection of images, VARY your images. Total rookie mistake. 2/

It's not just ambition on climate action that's being run down, but nature. Planet Earth is in the fight of its life and, on balance, those of us who are its allies are losing. It's our duty to work out why, and act on it. share.google/N0QU31GX4Znw...

To object to Meta using your private DMs and WhatsApp messages… It doesn’t work in the app, you need do login through browser or desktop. Click the blue ‘object’ in middle of this text chunk www.facebook.com/privacy/genai

I thought I would mark the occasion by making an interactive dashboard of the London Lives Westminster Coroners Inquests. sharonhoward.github.io/mindseye_of/...

Another 3 vols. (110-112) of the journal Acta Asiatica went online today, meaning that after almost a decade my paper on "Foreign Sources on the History of the Japanese Language" (2016) is finally accessible online: doi.org/10.69382/act... 🙏 Make sure to check out the other contributions as well!

#Wikidata really needs to be better known - and more widely used - by historians. #DigitalHistory

Linked Pasts 11 programme (December 1–5 and some 8–12) linkedpasts.hcommons.org/2025/11/09/l...

“Housing shortage – Jews to blame," letter sticker, German Reich, 1938 zwangsraeume.berlin/en/context

ECCO III !! Hard to find details but i.a. 1.7m newly digitized pages, i.e. not from microfilm: gale.com/ECCO-III

So I’ve had a very brief search of the Epstein database in the last half hour. Noticed Epstein was paying for Google search result poisoning and attending hacker conferences

ZOMG LET ME TELL YOU ABOUT THE SHALE Okay, so the Burgess Shale is a fossil bed in British Columbia that contains a whole bunch of fossils of weirdass creatures from the Cambrian era, over 500 million years ago. But the great thing about the shale is that it has fossilized SOFT PARTS!

Jokaisen eurooppalaisen on syytä olla huolissaan siitä, mihin perinteinen keskustaoikeisto on menossa ryhtyessään äärioikeiston leikkikaveriksi. Historiasta tiedämme, että siitä ei seuraa yhtään mitään hyvää. www.ku.fi/artikkeli/52...

Millaisia havaintoja tai näkemyksiä teillä on rallienglanti-sanan käytöstä? Mitä se mielestäsi tarkoittaa? Onko se aina hirveää vai jopa ihan sympaattista? Onko rallienglannin kurssi nousussa? #rallienglanti #tankero #englantisuomessa

"Fossil fuel lobbyists outnumber all COP30 delegations except Brazil" - via @ninalakhani.bsky.social in @theguardian.com Time to kick them out? ⏰ www.theguardian.com/environment/...

EPP on valinnut äärioikeiston tien ja päätynyt horjuttamaan parlamentin yhtenäisyyttä. Heidän linjansa heikentää yritysten vastuuta ihmisoikeuksien ja ilmaston suhteen ja kaventaa sekä yritysvastuudirektiivin että kestävyysraportointidirektiivin soveltamisalaa. 6/8

EU:n yritysvastuulainsäädäntö vedettiin vessasta alas, kun EPP liittoutui äärioikeiston kanssa tuhotakseen koko lainsäädännön perustan. EPP ei suostunut sanomaan ei lapsityövoimalle tai luonnontuhonnalle. 4/8

Naamiot on nyt riisuttu ja kokoomuksen europuolue EPP on aivan avoimesti yhdistänyt voimansa äärioikeiston kanssa tuhotakseen ympäristö- ja ihmisoikeuslainsäädäntöä EU:ssa. Yritysvastuulainsäädäntö jäi tämän valtapelin jalkoihin. 1/8

Moni ei ehkä tiedä, mutta suurin osa eurooppalaisesta kolonialismista oli yksityisten kauppayhtiöitten käsissä, ei valtion. Kirjoitin blogiini kirjasta, jossa kerrotaan tästä vähän tunnetusta historiasta ja miten nämä yksityiset kauppayhtiöt muovasivat modernin globalisoituneen maailman

The European Commission uses ChatGPT outputs in public documents. @iccl.bsky.social has filed a complaint to the European Ombudsman as this use likely violates Commission's own guidelines and its obligation under EU treaties www.iccl.ie/news/europea...

This is a thoroughly delightful video from some linguists in Finland marrying Finnish etymology with Finnish folk dancing and even if you know nothing about any of these things their enthusiasm is contagious (and it has English subtitles) youtu.be/0FoOuV76vKA?...

The Transatlantic Slave Trade and the Development of Europe (TASTADE) is funded by the @erc.europa.eu Synergy Grant. Lancaster University will receive a portion of the funding to create seven new jobs. (3/3)

A major international project to examine how the transatlantic traffic in enslaved African people shaped the development of Europe will be led by our own Prof William Pettigrew, thanks to a new €10 million grant. (1/3) @globalaffairslu.bsky.social | @erc.europa.eu

The story is as bad the post. The reporter, Michael Schmidt, basically places responsibility for the statutory rape and exploitation of this girl on the victim and her mother, not Gaetz. (Schmidt is also the journalist who “broke” the Clinton email server story and is married to Nicolle Wallace.)

'Matt Gaetz Raped A Homeless Teenager' is what you mean. A teenager with a homeless parent? What? The fuck? Did she have a home and not allow her parent to live in it? Ended up having sex with? What? Yeah clearly you guys been caping for pedos long enough and you understand the assignment here

Wait, weren't there some people who wanted to learn how to fly an airplane, but didn't care about learning to land. Is this the school that taught them?

Anyhoo, here's a paper about "the centrality of housing concerns in facilitating the Holocaust and the complicity of individuals in the exclusion of Jews for economic, ideological, and geographic reasons." journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative. The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.

Sehän meni hyvin. yle.fi/a/74-20193999

✍ Introducing ✍ Sharpie, a letterform recognition game for beginner #EarlyModern #palaeography gjhilton.github.io/Sharpie/ AKA What I Did Over Reading Week. #skystorians I’d be so grateful if you had time to share or take a look and tell me what sucks and needs fixing. Love g 🗃️

CALL FOR PAPERS! Thrilled to announce the third Communication and Exchange in the Early Modern 1500-1850 conference: ‘A Continent in Conversation.’ (Aberystwyth University, 11-12 June 2026). Please do check out and share our #CfP! #Earlymodern #History

Hey hey, it’s now official on Concordia UP’s website, 20% discount code KENNEDY2026 at CUP (CAN) or Chicago (USD, link in next post) for Illuminating Media: Transmitting the Renaissance in England, 1400-1550! concordia.ca/press/illumi...