Another point against Diamond, unsurprisingly

When Musk said the "cumulative sum of human knowledge has been exhausted" for training AI, what he was really saying is that he would not pay for digitisation, and had reached the limits of useful data he could scrape for free. The GenAI house is built on sand.

The notion that the US would bring "freedom" to Cuba is actually obscene. The US effectively controlled Cuba for half a century before the revolution, and ran it as a dictatorship characterised by gangsterism, political repression, sex tourism, racial hierarchy and mass poverty.

What the US has done to Cuba, it does with any nation seeking true Freedom and Independence. This has always been US foreign policy. Want proof? Look at Haiti. Then Venezuela. Nicaragua. Yemen. Iran. Do we see a pattern?

So proud of this episode with @michmo.bsky.social, Abou Bamba, Moses Ochonu, and Thula Simpson, who each brought such thoughtfulness and honesty to our JAH Vol. 66 retrospective. Grateful to work with these brilliant editors! 🎙️: www.podbean.com/eas/pb-4ywb9...

The world is run by monsters. They monsters have ruled the world for 500 yrs. It’s time we destroy the monsters

Aristides Pereira nasceu a 17 de fevereiro de 1923 na ilha da Boavista. Foi um dos fundadores do movimento de libertação de Cabo Verde e da Guiné-Bissau - o PAIGC. Depois da independência foi o primeiro presidente da República de Cabo Verde.

Read the new #OpenAccess article by @davidwilsonhist.bsky.social on #fishing and #law in #Ghana: bit.ly/45CFld3

"'The Net That Catches the Most Fish': Fishing, Innovation, & Law in the Gold Coast Colony (Ghana), c. 1898–1923" now published @thejah.bsky.social. This article was in the works for several years, very pleased to see it out. Thank you to the editors & reviewers. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

🚨🐟 CFP - COLONIAL HINTER-SEAS: A Conference on Subaquatic Resources and Waterside Lives from the Early Modern to the Contemporary, 10-11 August 2026, virtual, Zoom & 19-21 August 2026, in-person, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland. Details: www.colonialfisheries.com/colonial-hin... 🐟🚨

For those who didn’t know: Mark Carney (Canadian PM) was the Govenor of the Bank of England when that bank illegally froze (stole) $5 billion of Venezuela’s gold on behalf of the US. The gold is still frozen. Carney is crying now about “rules-based order”, but was more than happy playing US lapdog

Check Toby Green's beautiful essay on @aeon.co, edited by dear Sam Haselby, essay draws on Toby's new magnificent book The Heretic of Cacheu. For reading and listening, and to be shared widely in these difficult times we live in #slaveryarchive #Africanhistory #Africa aeon.co/essays/lesso...

You know Alex Pretti & Renee Good—the 2 white people ICE killed. ICE has also killed Keith Porter, a Black man, Parady La, a Cambodian man, & 5 Latinos—Heber Sanchaz Domínguez, Victor Manuel Diaz, Luis Beltran Yanez-Cruz, Luis Gustavo Nunez Caceres, and Geraldo Lunas Campos. 9 TOTAL. ABOLISH ICE.

Clifton Crais’s book out in UK today:“In this radical rethinking of modernity,…Crais argues that the era between 1750 and the early 1900s – seen by many as the birth of the Anthropocene – should instead be known as the Mortecene: the Age of Killing.” #academics www.panmacmillan.com/authors/clif...

A friend of a friend aptly called this moment a call for a non-aligned movement of intermediate imperial powers.

I fear my tipping point into madness is "Thus is un-American" posts in response to ICE terrorizing immigrants. I beg you to open Wikipedia (I would say a book but let's start small) and read up on The Trail of Tears, Fugitive Slave Catchers, Japanese internment, Indian Boarding schools & Jim Crow

“One notable MIT study found that 95 percent of companies that integrated AI saw zero meaningful growth in revenue. For coding tasks, one of AI’s most widely hyped applications, another study showed that programmers who used AI coding tools actually became slower at their jobs.”

the European mission to Greenland was fourth in the BBC news running order this morning, which feels a bit like doing a light "and finally..." item about the archduke's motorcade taking a wrong turn in Sarajevo

The slow motion stage. Amidst the destruction and death, Israel has moved the yellow line another three hundred meters west.

We’re excited to support the launch of Prof. Clifton Crais’s book The Killing Age. ECDS collaborated with him to create an interactive companion website featuring maps, datasets, images, and expanded resources. Explore: thekillingage.com Check out our blog: scholarblogs.emory.edu/ecds/the-kil...

My review of 'Finance and the Coming of War in Southern Africa, 1894–1899' is now in the Business History Review. This book is the first to seriously examine speculation and fraud in South Africa's early gold industry. www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This sort of spinelessness is why I resigned from the AHA a few years ago after 30 years of membership. No regrets

Bombing Venezuela while coordinating a genocide in Palestine while threatening to attack Iran (again) while destabillizing Somalia while carrying out a heist in the DRC... US imperialism is the greatest threat to peace and security in our world today and it's not even close.

The world must boycott the World Cup and the Olympics. It is both the only moral choice and will actually get the attention of these dead-eyed clout demons.

The Empire strikes back, not just to grab oil and other riches but, fundamentally, to hide its own weakness at home – and to prepare the ground for subjugating its own people, in Chicago, Portland, NYC etc. Meanwhile, a vassal Europe watches in silence... www.theguardian.com/world/live/2...

The US struck Venezuela and captured President Nicolas Maduro, who was taken out of the country, President Trump said. It is the first such direct intervention by the US in Latin America since the invasion of Panama in 1989 reut.rs/4qsMC72

On January 1, 1804, revolutionaries established the independent country of Haiti, the first nation to permanently ban slavery. As we begin a year engulfed by the 250th anniversary of the US Declaration of Independence, it’s worth reading the Haitian Declaration of Independence in full. 🇭🇹

2025 brought many lessons. I returned to the Amatolas. Met wonderful colleagues deeply dedicated to teaching, learning and justice, even amidst the fires. Grateful for community and kindness.

This is a dumbfounding guideline. Absolutely a destructive and incompetent recommendation that was clearly made by people not qualified to judge such decisions.

This guy was just confirmed to be US ambassador to South Africa

Greetings check this out: Amplifying voices is a new Cambridge grant to help under-represented scholars publish. Apply!!! www.cambridge.org/gb/universit...

2/2 🧵 ✨ The entire Frantz Fanon special issue is available to read and download for free — the perfect festive deep dive 🎄🔥 👉 buff.ly/6ZACRRN 💡 You can also suscribe to support #ROAPE as an fully open-access journal. #Fanon100 #AfricanLiberation #Decolonisation

Nestled in the Shashe-Limpopo area, Mmamagwa was a significant satellite site of the ancient Mapungubwe Kingdom. Today, Mmamagwa is part of UNESCO Tentative List site of Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape spanning Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. #UNESCO #BotswanaSouthAfricaZimbabwe #Mapungubwe

I have a new article in the Journal of Early Modern History about the Jesuits and their role as agents of the Inquisition in Angola. It is now available as an advance article: brill.com/view/journal...

So, El Fasher looks like one of the worst single event atrocities to happen this century so far, but the evidence has come in such a trickle it seems to only now be getting verified

Time again for this annual post.

CFP: AEH welcomes submissions in English, French and Portuguese from all disciplines that relate to the economic history of African societies from precolonial times to the present. AEH is also interested in proposals for thematic special issues. Please send us your work!

We’ve grouped our primary source collections under historical themes! “Slavery and Abolition” contains 19 collections, totalling over 695,000 images. They document Britain’s involvement in transatlantic slavery and opposition to it. Explore this theme at britishonlinearchives.com/themes/11/sl...

I would love for more French people to read “Africa’s Last Colonial Currency” by Fanny Pigaud and Ndongo Samba Sylla. Currently 50% off at Pluto Books. www.plutobooks.com/product/afri...

European conquest of the islands of the Canarian archipelago lasted almost a century (1402-1496). Genocide in the Canary Islands was via attrition and the aggregate result of violence. The Canary Islands were one of the 1st places in Atlantic to have plantations of enslaved African in the 15th c.

To paraphrase Walter Rodney: international law is white law. What we need is the dismantling of the european white supremacist global order and its replacement by truly global systems organized by the global majority

Someone in the replies claims China's clean energy development is only for export. This is false. China is installing more clean energy capacity than the rest of the world combined, while *also* exporting clean energy tech that's helping the rest of the world decarbonize.

“Ancient boundaries were more ambiguous than what is often shown in historical maps. While the modern understanding of borders relies on recent concepts of territorial sovereignty, the frontiers of pre-modern states were fluid and frequently contested.” www.africanhistoryextra.com/p/african-ot...

At the African Studies Association meeting in Atlanta this year? We hope to see you there! Explore our featured books and get 30% off & free US shipping with promo code EX58096 at our virtual exhibit: bit.ly/UCPEXAFS #ASA2025

We are running a search for an Associate Professorship (or Professorship) in Modern Middle Eastern History 1830-1970, with expertise in across key regions, including Iran, Iraq, Israel, Jordan, Palestine, Syria, Turkey, Egypt, and the Maghreb. www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies

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Celebrating the life and eternal work of the master myth-maker!

The next Makerere History Seminar will be on Tuesday 18 Nov at 2:30pm (Kampala time). Simon Werner @eui-eu.bsky.social will present "Social science between Busoga and Chicago: Lloyd Fallers, the East African Institute of Social Research, and the colonial networks of Cold War knowledge". See poster