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“Ik had nooit gedacht dat de luipaarden mijn gezicht zouden opeten…” 🐆

Carlo Ginzberg is dead. The giant of microhistory. If you don't know his book The Cheese and the Worms, seek it out. When I first read it as a student it changed my sense of what history-writing could do. I had the pleasure of hearing him speak in Stockholm - via zoom - last year. A brilliant mind.

ChatGPT is to DH tools what Wario is to Mario. If you really don't know from Mario, and aren't paying that close attention, maybe you could confuse the two. But it requires missing all the ways in which everything about Wario is wrong, from the subtle (mustache angle) to the extreme (evil goals).

And the kind of historical work celebrated in that post was itself always less common than service work, such as working in country houses, and working class movements have always faced challenges bridging the gaps between these various groups

There's now also a poster for our November conference Learning from History: The Philosophies of Historiography and the Historical Sciences. The submission deadline is in the end of August. Please spread the word, and come to Ostrava to discuss the historical sciences and their philosophy with us!

Thinking about the social media ban and wondering where kids will shift if not on mainstream channels. When I was a teen in the late 80s - living in a small town, into Sarah Records and my bloody valentine - there were pen pal listings in music magazines and a whole fanzine/floppy disc subculture.

Genuinely like this, if Wix were the ones involved it could be branded Brix. Building British skills one micro site at a time

This is an incredibly regressive idea and if it's being discussed by ministers that is a sign of how completely Labour has been lost

RIP Carlo Ginzburg, a true legend of our field

stopped playing scrabble to look outside, accidentally saw a rothko

Guys, to put this into context: this is at the internationally-renowned home of a TON of continuing education in the digital humanities. It’s not just an “event,” it’s a site where students & faculty come from all over to learn new techniques in week-long intensive classes.

This is a great thread, beautifully & humanly constructed! I would say that academic men like the 1 here should resign as they have functionally already resigned to AI Sadly, I fear universities would not then hire one of the many many fully qualified professionals available to do the work

Is anyone talking about the fact that Real Names Online is specifically a very funny policy for a UK government to be propoaing given that you are perfectly at liberty to start calling yourself whatever you want in the UK at any time

16 June marks the 81st anniversary of the execution of historian, Marc Bloch. Always a salient time to reflect on his commitment to seeking hist truth in the face of xenophobic nationalism and Nazisim. He has so much still to say to us, as my recent cp on hist evidence tries to show #historyteacher

Brianna Ghey found safety online. She found acceptance and support, and reasons to go on living. She was murdered by her actual classmates, who hated her for existing in her own body. Anything else is a lie.

Thinking a lot recently about how being the HUMAN working with data for my monograph is what helped me uncover the stories of queer and disabled women heretofore obscured from literary history. AI couldn't have done that. Digital Humanities, emphasis on *human*.

Transforming reading lists into live sets of hyperlinks to an internal library page for university members, so that students no longer needed to know how to use their library, had the knock-on effect of making reading lists into less easily shareable documents

This is great but that maddening “just a piece of paper” thing is developing in the comments. Obviously the expensive bit of a degree is getting evaluation of your work, opportunities to talk to teachers and fellow students, and the whole embodied context of being at a university on a course.

Ooh I love a bit of interactive data.

Regulating social media is a great idea, and the mechanism to do so is to treat social media sites as publishers. Carving out specific rules about how children or young people use these spaces misses most of the damage social media currently produces

"all children will be issued with a state-funded Sanyo personal cassette player, orange foam headphones and a selection of TDK90 mixtapes"

1. UK government proposes sweeping new laws to regulate the Internet 2. Experts warn the powers are badly-defined, technologically unfeasible and will be difficult to enforce 3. Government passes them anyway 4. Enforcement turns out to be hard 5. Government proposes more new laws

Every parent in the country has had the absolute power to ban their own children from social media, ever since phones were invented. "Parental controls" are a thing. What you're saying is, you don't trust other people, or yourself, with the power you already have. But you trust the government.

If Starmer was trying to stubbornly miss every single point and ignore every single action he could take to make children safer and more informed online, he could not have done a better job.

We have found the new “immigration is the main issue facing this country/doesn’t bother me personally”

we are all above average parents Sam, that's just the science

Hahahaha at the difference between polling on "children" and on "your own children"

Our descent into a joke country continues apace. Casual authoritarianism for the general public; feeble-minded pandering for the rich & powerful.

David Hockney. Rain, 1973

The government's official position is that 16-17 year olds should watch Question Time but not post about it

A sound take

I genuine think David Cameron does not get enough blame for the current binfire the UK is.

Nick Cave on the two pillars of the meaningful life www.themarginalian.org/2026/06/13/n...

The thing about racists is they will never be happy. Not even if we all got deported

It has made the discourse worse by reinforcing the idea that immigration is a bad thing that should be reduced

Having spent the day, much like every other day at present, listening to journalists and broadcasters restate unsubstantiated claims, and elide the fact of difference with a trigger for racist violence, here are simple rules even Chris Mason might grasp. ⬇️

Lots of people dying on zotero shaped hills and look I don't care how you make your citations so long as they're accurate but I do ask you extend the same respect to me, a regular user of citation software since I was a student

What is a journal article? What is a monograph? In this new video I discuss some of the kinds of text students might encounter, and where they come from youtu.be/L9oJ9TKSP00

For #IndiePressDay I made a video about a couple of books I bought recently from @freeklomme.bsky.social and @guillemotpress.bsky.social youtu.be/GRJHEsmnXpw #BookTube #books

youtu.be/N0RBpclvrKA #IndiePressDay follow-up video reviewing Care Where No-one Does by Freek Lomme #Books #BookReview #BookTube #politics #culture #arts

Everything we do is making the future youtu.be/IH0Uli5tto4 #arts #culture #future #hope #ai

📚 Check out @samgrinsell.bsky.social's review of Timothy Mitchell's latest book 🌍 The Alibi of Capital: How We Broke the Earth to Steal the Future on the Promise of a Better Tomorrow 🔗 doi.org/10.1017/S096...

Someone should publish a book claiming to be about woke nonsense that actually just tells people about the oppressions and inequalities that social justice policies seek to address

Who's your favourite wholesome dude? I'll post a few without thinking too much

“Kids are on the phones all day and we think it’s bad for them!” okay well how about you make it possible for them to do literally anything else

Meanwhile, let’s let boomers who are destroying democracy and any semblance of a future for a kids via having access to unfettered AI slop and lies on Facebook carry on as normal.

Banning social media for kids when we’ve already taken away youth centres, sports and play areas, third spaces, community centres and funding for extra curricular school activities? What a great idea!