Alan Maričić
@alanmaricic.bsky.social
Historian. Posts on the Cold War, Germany, Yugoslavia, and anything else relevant to my interests.
http://nanrep.org | https://mastodon.social/@terraform
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Pathetic and contemptible.
November 24, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Pathetic and contemptible.
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this Administration is an utter disgrace, I swear to God!
Witkoff should get back to selling condos or whatever the hell he was doing before shredding the American diplomacy to pieces.
Witkoff should get back to selling condos or whatever the hell he was doing before shredding the American diplomacy to pieces.
November 22, 2025 at 11:19 PM
this Administration is an utter disgrace, I swear to God!
Witkoff should get back to selling condos or whatever the hell he was doing before shredding the American diplomacy to pieces.
Witkoff should get back to selling condos or whatever the hell he was doing before shredding the American diplomacy to pieces.
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Pasta Box; Svetog Save 33, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44.3664672%2C20.9597776&query_place_id=ChIJYdg_klHPUEcRU9b1TLfsA2Q
November 21, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Pasta Box; Svetog Save 33, Smederevska Palanka, Serbia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=44.3664672%2C20.9597776&query_place_id=ChIJYdg_klHPUEcRU9b1TLfsA2Q
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please share widely!
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
www.trinity.ox.ac.uk/vacancies
November 20, 2025 at 3:32 PM
please share widely!
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Should you ask the Commission what it means by "AI", I very much doubt you'd get a cogent or coherent answer. There certainly isn't one in what I have read in this document. "AI", here, is magick, a panacea, an abracadabra, a lucky charm, a proof of "relevance" (to what?). In short, bollocks.
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November 19, 2025 at 4:53 PM
Should you ask the Commission what it means by "AI", I very much doubt you'd get a cogent or coherent answer. There certainly isn't one in what I have read in this document. "AI", here, is magick, a panacea, an abracadabra, a lucky charm, a proof of "relevance" (to what?). In short, bollocks.
If I ever teach a course on the Holocaust again, this is going in the lecture on Holocaust denial. Although, unlike 20th century instances of denial, I'm not too optimistic about there being anything like the Irving trial for this.
November 19, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If I ever teach a course on the Holocaust again, this is going in the lecture on Holocaust denial. Although, unlike 20th century instances of denial, I'm not too optimistic about there being anything like the Irving trial for this.
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A 1940 issue of an Italian fascist magazine, dedicated to Germany in Africa. It advocates the overthrow of the Versailles treaty & the restoration of the German colonial empire; sings the praises of pre-1918 German colonialism; attacks the mandate system.
There is ... a lot going on here.
There is ... a lot going on here.
November 18, 2025 at 5:45 PM
A 1940 issue of an Italian fascist magazine, dedicated to Germany in Africa. It advocates the overthrow of the Versailles treaty & the restoration of the German colonial empire; sings the praises of pre-1918 German colonialism; attacks the mandate system.
There is ... a lot going on here.
There is ... a lot going on here.
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1937: Show your solidarity! Send international brigade volunteers a solidarity postcard in Esperanto. Three pence per card.
November 19, 2025 at 1:08 PM
1937: Show your solidarity! Send international brigade volunteers a solidarity postcard in Esperanto. Three pence per card.
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Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/
Manchester University Press - Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe
Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe - Browse and buy the eBook edition of Humanitarian mobilisation in Central and Eastern Europe by Doina Anca Cretu
manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 12:56 PM
Our volume is finally out! Open access to boot! Personal thanks to Michal Frankl for his patience and trust ...and, of course, to our authors for powering through the long production process. manchesteruniversitypress.co.uk/9781526189929/
It's in the syllabus
exercise class I go to every week is mixed levels but not for beginners, a fact which is mentioned on the booking page not only several times but SOMETIMES IN ALL CAPS, and the fact that we still get beginners in at least once a month does make me worry about how closely people read things online
November 17, 2025 at 4:04 PM
It's in the syllabus
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Berlin’s CDU, which has refused calls to examine banning the partly openly neo-Nazi AfD, is now demanding that security services review Die Linke for “anti-Israel” positions
November 16, 2025 at 1:36 PM
Berlin’s CDU, which has refused calls to examine banning the partly openly neo-Nazi AfD, is now demanding that security services review Die Linke for “anti-Israel” positions
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Kitajska Restavracija Azija; Gosposvetska ulica 1, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=46.2461111%2C14.3530556&query_place_id=ChIJNa7XIxm4ekcRFVcBeqrV-qE
November 15, 2025 at 12:05 PM
Kitajska Restavracija Azija; Gosposvetska ulica 1, 4000 Kranj, Slovenia https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=46.2461111%2C14.3530556&query_place_id=ChIJNa7XIxm4ekcRFVcBeqrV-qE
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Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 AM
Nothing makes me stop paying attention quicker than hearing or reading 'I asked ChatGPT...'
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 12, 2025 at 4:00 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” John Cassidy writes. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/mlYgP3
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No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
November 12, 2025 at 10:38 AM
No no no begs every archivist. You are never going to be able to find anything. Please don’t start using emojis in file names. Who asked for this? What fresh hell is next?
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Hier sans paywall
archive.ph/HxNpO
archive.ph/HxNpO
archive.ph
November 11, 2025 at 6:46 PM
Hier sans paywall
archive.ph/HxNpO
archive.ph/HxNpO
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Das ist eine angenehm unaufgeregte Einordnung der Causa Jason Stanley von @ronensteinke.bsky.social:
Jüdische Gemeinde distanziert sich von Redner
In Frankfurt wird der Faschismusforscher Jason Stanley eingeladen, zum 9. November zu sprechen. Das tut er, redet aber auch über den Gaza-Krieg – und kann seine Rede nicht beenden.
www.sueddeutsche.de
November 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Das ist eine angenehm unaufgeregte Einordnung der Causa Jason Stanley von @ronensteinke.bsky.social:
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I’d like to know, too. In what way did Sarah Kendzior violate the terms of use here, please? @bsky.support?
#SarahKendzior
#SarahKendzior
If BlueSky suspends someone, natural justice requires, surely, that they be given some explanation? @jay.bsky.team #sarahkendzior
November 11, 2025 at 5:35 AM
I’d like to know, too. In what way did Sarah Kendzior violate the terms of use here, please? @bsky.support?
#SarahKendzior
#SarahKendzior
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Annual post for the day that's in it.
Good Luck Everyone - Blackadder - BBC
YouTube video by BBC Studios
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November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Annual post for the day that's in it.
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Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
November 11, 2025 at 12:17 AM
Christchurch's playground elephant: demure, unassuming, shaped like a friend
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
Oamaru's playground elephant: ready for the next Punic war
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Uschi Glas lässt nach jüdischen Vorfahren forschen und findet raus, dass ihr Vater bei der Waffen-SS-Division Skanderbeg war, die Juden aus dem Kosovo deportierte. Maximum Deutschland wie ein Schriftsteller von Weltrang zu sagen pflegt.
November 10, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Uschi Glas lässt nach jüdischen Vorfahren forschen und findet raus, dass ihr Vater bei der Waffen-SS-Division Skanderbeg war, die Juden aus dem Kosovo deportierte. Maximum Deutschland wie ein Schriftsteller von Weltrang zu sagen pflegt.
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Tragic Landscape
Alex Colville
1945
Alex Colville
1945
November 9, 2025 at 6:01 PM
Tragic Landscape
Alex Colville
1945
Alex Colville
1945
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In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...
In Indiana, a vaunted Jewish studies program is upended by red-state politics over Israel and speech - Jewish Telegraphic Agency
A leadership shakeup, a defunded graduate student and political pressure from above have turned a storied program into a flashpoint for Trump-era campus politics.
www.jta.org
November 8, 2025 at 3:22 AM
In the name of "fighting antisemitism," Indiana University appointed a Christian scholar to tell Jewish scholars what they can and cannot say - all while they invited Tucker Carlson to speak on campus. www.jta.org/2025/11/07/u...