Ah, it's another example of the Very Smart Scientist explaining a thing that historians have always known to us. I really hate this genre which is deeply arrogant as well on the part of the scientists. www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-bi....

This is undergrad level of knowledge about the Holocaust.

"dass beachtlicher Teil dieser Gewalt aus Gruppen der Zuwanderer...kommt." Ich halte das in dieser Pauschalität für eine rassistische Aussage. Bedauerlich, dass ein Bundeskanzler immer wieder in dieses rassistisch-xenophobe Horn stösst, u damit Gewalt auch relativiert. www.spiegel.de/politik/deut...

Historical revisionism - Nazi war crime denialism in Germany and lost cause Confederacy romanticism in the United States - is a core element of the far right project around the world

From research for an upcoming class: Johann Walter met Franz Bauer at the dedication of St. Heinrich in Bamberg in 1929, they went on bike rides in the countryside together. Both were convicted of homosexuality (§175) in the 1930s - Walter was murdered at the concentration camp Neuengamme in 1945.

On advance access: "Company-State at Home: The East India Company and the Fiscal System in Eighteenth-Century Britain" by Karolina Hutková (@ox.ac.uk/LSE), Ernesto Dal Bó (UC, Berkeley, Lukas Leucht and Noam Yuchtman (@ox.ac.uk) #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1093/past...

Yesterday Elon Musk retweeted "white solidarity is the only way to survive". In our numb overwhelmed media environment it barely made headlines that the world's richest man endorsed blood-curdling white nationalism. My brief writeup for @religiondispatches.org religiondispatches.org/elon-musk-ju...

For some reason "AI is just like watching Netflix" is back in my feeds so I took that as a sign to update my data tracking for Netflix. The company's energy use rose 1% from 2021 to 2024. Compare that to: Google: 71% Nvidia: 88% Meta: 96% Microsoft: 119%

‘There’s no ceasefire’: Gaza paramedic and father of two killed as civilian death toll since October passes 650

This ought to go without saying but; the attack in Golders Green is appalling and antisemitism. Blowing up ambulances is cartoon levels of evil.

Today's #marginalmusician is a #monkey playing the #trumpet while sitting on a hog. From a #15thCentury #bookofhours. #BNF Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. Ms-639 réserve #manuscriptmonday #marginaliamonday #earlymusic

Given all the conversation these days about eugenics, I do think it's worth pointing out that that's just one of many forms of scientific racism. There are racist worldviews that come from Malthusian theory, evolutionary biology, environmental securities, etc. that are all distinct from each other.

I don’t know why I’m like this either, but: insofar as Petco is majority-owned by a private equity firm, and the private equity industry gives money to 88% of members of the House and Senate, there’s more overlap with Tammany Hall than you’d think! 🙂

We’re saying it was science because Science has ALWAYS been capable of horrendous things and implicated in slavery, colonialism, the Holocaust. Not because we believe that racism, ableism etc are scientifically ‘valid’ or ‘defensible’ Begging you to think beyond memes.

I have no issues with paganism per se, ancient or modern. I am one after all But the problem with interpreting everything folksy or arcane about seasonal celebrations as some kind of pagan survival is how *reductive* it is. Everything gets given the same story.

I understand the impulse behind such claims after Christian dominance has only comparatively recently began to wane - and seems to be on rise again in the US - but as Adrian reminds us annually, there have always been multiple Christianities and the creativity of ordinary people.

'but what do eggs and rabbits have to do with Jesus' is as historically oblivious a comment as 'what does a bloke riding around on a herring have to do with Jesus' They both have to do with Lent and the observation of Lent

do I really have the energy for another round of 'why the Easter elements you think are pagan aren't, and why a load of Easter elements most people haven't even heard of probably are'

"Send it to the Royals"!!

He is him. Maikel Garcia is the MVP of the 2026 #WorldBaseballClassic! 🇻🇪

Back in 1588, everyone still knew that book trees grow better when there's music around, and when you speak to them. Attention and house organ music were the key.

Publishers say they’re blocking the Internet Archive because of AI scraping. But shutting out a nonprofit library won’t stop AI—it will damage the public’s best record of the web.

„Gegenstand der Vorlesungen von #PeterThiel wird der #Antichrist sein", heißt es in der Erklärung. Das Thema sei „dramatisch wichtig", weil in der Gegenwart Kräfte am Werk seien, „mehr oder weniger verborgen", die darauf abzielten, „das zu zerstören, was vom Westen übrig geblieben ist".

The fact that Mamdani criticized Susan Abulhawa - who has pretty definitively crossed the line between anti-Zionism and antisemitism - should be a reason for Jewish organizations to thank him for showing solidarity. But I'm not holding my breath.

Der Lagerkommandant des Konzentrationslagers Ravensbrück adressierte am 15. März 1942 einen Brief an die Staatspolizeistelle Düsseldorf, die er über das "Ableben der Schutzhaftgefangenen Selma (Sara) Grünewald" informierte. Sie war in Bernburg ermordet worden.

I met with AI data labelers in Kenya who are organizing their colleagues to fight the brutal working conditions and horrible pay given to the workers at the "bottom of the AI supply chain." They believe the NDAs they've signed are unenforceable so are speaking out: www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...

The idea that America isn’t for everyone who wants to be an American is something that makes my blood boil. Posting a photo of yourself as a Congressman smiling next to these words is wicked. It’s antithetical to the concept of America.

"Das diesjährige Programm in München nimmt rechtsextreme und rassistische Narrative sowie deren Wirkung in der sogenannten Mitte in den Blick. Den Auftakt der Internationalen Wochen gegen Rassismus bildet eine Podiumsdiskussion mit dem Titel "Wer ist das Volk? Der Volksbegriff der extremen Rechten"

Truly a perfect news alert

I'm so disappointed when I see really cool artwork in a post and go to share it l, only to realise it doesn't have alt-text. Because then I don't share it. And I want to share cool art with people. Please add alt-text to any images you post. You can even enable in-app reminders to help you remember.

“A.I. chatbots contain the sum of all human knowledge” is so egregiously wrong that I don’t know what to say. Chatbots have been trained on corpus of digital(ised) text - ABSOLUTELY NOT the sum of all human knowledge. Paper, experience, embodiment, oral tales all missing. These people are fools!

Dense, dark forests in Europe are a modern phenomenon - Europe’s landscapes for 23 Myr were mostly tree- & flower-rich mosaics shaped by large herbivores, not dense #forests, see our new synthesis www.eurekalert.org/news-release... #forests #woodlands #paleoecology #nature #trees #refiorestation

Hi #EarlyModern Bluesky - did you know that someone brilliant has built working printing presses using Lego and they are trying to get enough supporters so that Lego will release it as a kit? They look so cool! beta.ideas.lego.com/product-idea...

Yep. Married women have always worked. Many had jobs outside the home, many more did piecemeal work at home to supplement the family income. There are dozens & dozens of books by historians about this. I know because one of my comps fields was History of the American Family & I had to read them all

This didn't happen. The perception that it did is largely based on fictional shows that were about rich people. Much more common was a household where one person (theoretically Dad in a het household) was the higher earner and paid the housing costs and the other paid utilities & food

Absolutely for the whitewashing of genocide! But everyone in the replies is chiming in about how people so gladly left farms for deadly factory jobs...and, uh, wo romanticizing farm life, cities were so deadly that they needed demographic growth from countryside until around 1900!

To be left dead by attacks is the natural state of the Middle Easterner, while in the Western culture (also Israel somehow) being killed is a major taboo.

I'm going to need you to look at this face

Yesterday the Texas Rangers erected a statue of a segregationist cop at Globe Life Field. A statue that was removed from public property in 2020 because of its racist history. @mlb.com has refused to comment. www.cupofcoffeenews.com/cup-of-coffe...

Tab hoarding is leading to stress and information overload, and distraction, since the Middle Ages. #tabhoarding

The sheer cynicism and/or ignorance: a local politician here quoted Rosa Luxemburg and Martin Luther to defend himself against being called far right (for his party suggesting unconstitutional treatment of refugees) www.fraenkischertag.de/lokales/bamb...

🌼 Dydd Gŵyl Dewi Hapus!🌼Happy St. David's Day!🌼 Daffodils have been a national symbol of Wales since the 19th century. This bookplate of daffodils is from ‘Flowering Plants, Grasses, Sedges and Ferns of Great Britain’ by the botanical illustrator Anne Pratt (1806-1893).

My thoughts open.substack.com/pub/musgrave...

Reagan on the My Lai Massacre Today's find in the (online) archives: The Times, Trenton, N.J., Dec 3, 1969.

It’s looking more and more like Trump squeezing Anthropic was just in service of the other tech oligarchs Sam Altman and Elon Musk

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Please also support the LGBTQ Foundation of Kansas lgbtqks.org

I’m transgender, I live in Kansas, if you want to help rn donate to either the ACLU of Kansas or the ACE foundation in Wichita - the ACE foundation especially is the organization that will help people with money for groceries, rent, etc. More orgs also included in attached img acefoundationict.org

can I please piggyback off you as a Bigger Account that responses like "lol it's Kansas what did you expect" or "Kansas deserves to be hit by more tornadoes" are actually not helpful or comforting to the people being harmed most right now? Because no one bothers listening to me