I think the reason AI propagandists are so flustered by the fact that no real writer wants to use their idiotic tools is that they themselves don't enjoy writing. They see it as a boring arduous chore to be avoided, while real writers actually enjoy writing and actually care about the quality of it.

Brainwashing, 2026 edition. This paper shows how X's algorithmic feed shifts people's views rightwards. It's a sophisticated, highly effective form of reorientation. And it is utterly chilling. If you're still on that platform, unhook yourself now. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great. No more fingernails. #icehockey

The BBC's coverage of the Winter Olympics must be the worst in television history.

Okay, this is quite outstanding from Bedford Council.

Not sure if Man United owner Jim Ratcliffe will see this being as he literally migrated to Monaco to avoid paying tax in the UK, but we wanted to put this up outside the stadium anyway…. 📍 Old Trafford, Matt Busby Way

At last an AI tool I can get behind “Upload an architectural render. Get back what it'll actually look like on a random Tuesday in November.” antirender.com

Very excited to host the wonderful Tim Waterman tomorrow at the Liverpool School of Architecture! His talk, ‘Reworlding: Planetarity and Future Imaginaries’, is open for all and you can also look around our new home! @sotauol.bsky.social @livunihss.bsky.social www.liverpool.ac.uk/architecture...

So, part of my job is to see what people are making of the history of our Hospital. Bethlem partly exists in the gothic, horror-adjacent end of history, and so attracts a certain kind of presentation. Restraints, gore, electrodes, I thought I'd seen it all. Until... ...I stumbled onto this book.

Brilliant to see the BBC picking up Ranald Lawrence and Dean Hawkes' fabulously interesting and important #environmentalhumanities work on #HardwickHall. They measured solar gain to understand Elizabethan comfort tech. The original articles are hugely worth reading too. www.bbc.co.uk/future/artic...

It's been a long time in the making, so it's great to share a sneak peak of 'High-Tech Britain: Buildings of the Space Age', published by @batsfordbooks.bsky.social and @c20society.bsky.social on 5 March. Pre-order at www.batsfordbooks.com/book/high-te... 🤖

More updates to come up soon.

Did anyone snap the Foster/Holcim Essential Homes prototype at the Venice Biennale 2023? If so might I be able to use your photo for an article? I'm not getting replies to my request for permission.

I have been working through @parismarx.com ’s guide to getting off US tech, slowly because I am so deep into the Apple world, but today’s events just gave me a big kick in the butt to get it done. disconnect.blog/getting-off-...

The algorithms are making it a lot harder to spread the word about these online talks. Although numbers are still reasonable, it would be a great help if folk were able to give the 30 December event a quick share 🙂 Booking available here: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/buildings-...

TIL about a memorial ceremony in Iceland in 2019 to mark the end of a glacier, changing the place name from Okjökull to Ok (jökull = glacier). Uncompromising wording on the bronze plaque: "This is to acknowledge that we know what is happening and what needs to be done. Only you know if we did it".

Free online seminar alert - 'Down Under Webinar: Religion and Architecture in Australia' (via KADOC/KU Leuven), 8 Dec, 8am UK time. Registration link - kadoc.kuleuven.be/english/3_re...

This is what many of us have been saying. Part 3 of the Planning & Infrastructure Bill is based on a myth: that we don't have enough homes because wildlife and green spaces are protected. It will solve nothing, and inflict terrible harm on our remaining ecosystems www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

@wildtwin.bsky.social Great chatting with you today Jeff. Thanks for attending and talking with the first year students it was lovely to hear you talk about your work and processes. Thanks Stephen

Best buildings in Zurich, 2021-24 - sixteen projects, almost half of them retrofits. gutebauten.stadt-zuerich.ch

Manchester historians! @historylabplus.bsky.social and @porticolibrary.bsky.social are uniting again for another History Open Mic Night! Come down on Dec 11th to hear brilliant speakers from the Manchester history scene on a range of topics - book below! www.theportico.org.uk/event-calend...

Zürich hat jetzt seine eigene M-Wort-Debatte, allerdings natürlich unter klassisch Zürcher Bedingungen mit direkt persönlichen Attacken auf einen guten Kollegen, Bernhard Schär

One off the bucket list … I hiked from Manchester to Liverpool over the weekend. 71 kilometres. Won't be doing that again anytime soon.

*sigh* No, that’s just the effect of several centuries of rain through an iron grate. Nobody was wasting precious oil during a siege. they were throwing piss

#AliceDavisHitchcock … how exciting!

Please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/al...

The 1985 Transport Act was one of the biggest policy failures of recent decades. Nothing better describes this than the chart below by @jburnmurdoch.ft.com. A combination of new powers and funding through 'bus franchising' is looking to reverse this.

When the dust settles, and if universities have meaningfully survived, it will be worth asking how institutions usually so resistant to thoroughgoing change chose to leap with both feet into an untested technology they didn't understand and didn't know how to use.

Slightly diminish a band: Public Opponent

Facebook reminds me that a year ago I started a project of scanning the journals of the Central African Historical Association, based at the University of Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, which ran from 1970 to the early 1980s. I have uploaded my scans to Dropbox here: www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/ruzbp...

the scenario we all feared

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Worth a watch, now available with English subs. www.arte.tv/en/videos/RC...

William Knight, third-year student project for a Riverside Restaurant, Liverpool School of Architecture, 1946

More and more I am hearing from archivist pals who are receiving enquiries for records that don't exist because AI has somehow generated fake catalogue numbers and titles...

Anyone know anyone who wants to buy over 1,100 books and over 4,000 magazines of C20 architecture history/theory? An instant collection? Some incredibly rare and collectable magazines including Archigrams, Uppercase, Leonard Koren's Wet (the magazine of gourmet bathing), Arts & Architectures etc etc

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

Shame, but WeTransfer is completely unusable now if this it strue.

Speechless.

Grok says Elon Musk tweaked the AI to "dial down the woke filters" and now it is apparently a full-blown Nazi

Winston Churchill in Zurich, September 1946

3MT® Final! Our first 3MT® finalist is Adefola Toye from HSS with her presentation “How do you build universities for a new nation?” #LivUni3MT

#LivUni #PGRs The Academy is proud to be hosting the University of Liverpool’s 3MT® Final 2025 today! We will be posting live throughout the day! Our 8 finalists representing the three faculties HLS, HSS and SE will compete today for this years overall competition winner! #LivUni3MT

Welcome to the archives.

Fascinating article on Gavin Stamp by Joshua Mardell in British Art Studies: main--britishartstudies-26.netlify.app/issues/26/ga...

My book is finally published! Percy Thomas: Modern Architecture as a National Service. www.uwp.co.uk/book/percy-t...

We're currently looking for someone to join us in Architectural History at Edinburgh for the 2025-26 year (and a little bit after) to cover a colleague's research leave: elxw.fa.em3.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/Candid...

The Postwar Trinity

I know most historic periodicals only through bound volumes. I recently acquired some Architectural Review back issues from the 1930s and 1940s. Some of the covers are incredible!