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Gwen Jones
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Archival researcher, editor. Favourite pasttime: learning languages. Part-time collector of martial arts maxims: be like the fan on the wall
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michaelsocolow.bsky.social
Today @time.com named the "Architects of AI" as 2025's "Person of the Year." Just hours later, it announced its new Global AI Literacy partnership with OpenAI.

Yes: Time's Man of the Year award is now sponcon.

I knew it was a ghost brand, but this seems a new low.

time.com/7340010/time...
TIME and OpenAI Partner to Advance Global AI Literacy
TIME and OpenAI announced a partnership to increase people’s understanding of how to use AI effectively and responsibly in daily life.
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December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
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sarahebond.bsky.social
Roman shears (2ndC CE): "Whoever created the design clearly had a sense of humor; when the shears are closed, the top register brings a dog face-to-face 🐕 with a cat 🐈 on one side and a lion on the other." ✂️ www.metmuseum.org/art/collecti...
Shears Roman Period A.D. 2nd century perhaps On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 137 This piece is remarkable for its rich inlays. Both sides of each blade are decorated with three registers of figures. Whoever created the design clearly had a sense of humor; when the shears are closed, the top register brings a dog face-to-face with a cat on one side and a lion on the other. The combination of atypical iconography (the dogs and lions or the plants at the base of the blades) and rather loose interpretations of Egyptian elements and figural style marks the shears as being in an "Egyptianizing" rather than an actual Egyptian style. Perhaps they served a ritual function at an Isis sanctuary at ancient Trebizond on the Black Sea, the site where they are said to have been found. View less Shears, Bronze or copper alloy, silver, black copper (?) Public Domain Share Download Image Enlarge Image Artwork Details Object Information Overview Provenance References Title: Shears Period: Roman Period Date: A.D. 2nd century perhaps Geography: From Turkey, Anatolia; Possibly from Trabzon Medium: Bronze or copper alloy, silver, black copper (?) Dimensions: Height: 9 5/16 in. (23.7 cm) Credit Line: Rogers Fund, 1939 Object Number: 39.2.2 Curatorial Department: Egyptian Art
December 8, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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attention tankies!
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Warum Karl Marx die Ukraine verteidigt hätte: „Er forderte, dass der Westen seine Armeen schicken soll, um die Russen aufzuhalten“
Sozialwissenschaftler Timm Graßmann sagt: Marx hat nicht nur den Kapitalismus kritisiert, sondern auch vor Russlands imperialen Absichten gewarnt. Daraus, meint er, könne die heutige Linke nur lernen....
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December 8, 2025 at 5:44 PM
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amaragraps.bsky.social
The Hybrid War Tracking project took a mega-leap forward!

1. Live BETA --> hwt.lv/admin/events
2. Front End/Backend of database
3 Processing of data. 1142 records now.
4. A Brief History of the project.
5. Status of the project.
6. OSINT: Please join us.
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Amara Graps posted a story update on Hybrid War Tracker: Exposing Russia’s Under-reported Ops in 🇫🇮🇪🇪🇱🇻🇱🇹🇵🇱
Dear Hybrid War Tracker Supporters, 1. Live Beta with some screen shots 2. Front End and Backend of the database 3 Processing of the Data 4. A Brief History of the Hybrid War Tracking project. 5. Stat...
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November 30, 2025 at 1:42 PM
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bengidley.bsky.social
Hannah Arendt in Syria, by the great Yassin al-Haj Saleh, has been published in German. It would be amazing if there was an English edition.

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As a political thinker, Hannah Arendt grappled with evil based on the experiences of her time. She initially found the Nazis' unimaginable atrocities incomprehensible because, from a military perspective, the mass killing of women, men, and children simply seemed unnecessary. Similarly, the violence and horror of the Assad regime, which transformed Syria into a prison for its inhabitants over several decades, often seemed unimaginable. One person who experienced and survived this firsthand is Yassin Al-Haj Saleh. In his four essays, presented here for the first time in German, he critically engages with Hannah Arendt's thought in order to develop concepts of a philosophy situated in the Syrian experience: thinking as an undogmatic form of co-thinking, the absent as a third element that transcends dialogue, state and time as a relationship that unites in totalitarianism, and finally an elaboration of the concept of evil, which here is not only conceived as banal, but also as physically intimate, as in the torture prisons of Syria, and as normalized, as in the war on terror.
November 6, 2025 at 9:11 AM
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kalmantibs.bsky.social
My home away from home.

Budapest at night, as seen from the International Space Station.

"The core of the city is divided by the Danube River, the two sides, Buda and Pest, connected by the seven bridges visible near the city center."

🙏🏼🌍🕊️

📷 NASA©️
November 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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kyivindependent.com
⚡️Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later.

Natalia Khodymchuk, widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv after suffering severe injuries in a mass overnight Russian attack on Nov. 14–15.
Widow of Chornobyl's first victim killed by Russian attack on Kyiv 39 years later
Natalia Khodymchuk, the widow of Valerii Khodymchuk, the first victim of the 1986 Chornobyl disaster, died in Kyiv overnight on Nov. 14–15 after suffering severe injuries in a mass Russian attack on t...
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November 15, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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sasastanisic.bsky.social
bitte einmal hand heben wenn du nicht normale deutcshe bist
November 14, 2025 at 11:03 AM
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jasminmuj.bsky.social
BiH’s oldest daily publishes excerpts of its reporting from April 1995 which appear to provide concurrent evidence of “sniper safaris,” during which wealthy “war tourists” were given the opportunity to shoot at civilians in besieged Sarajevo. www.oslobodjenje.ba/vijesti/bih/...
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November 14, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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hendov.bsky.social
as a bosnian, i cannot accept this depoliticization of the mass murder that was directed against us. to brazenly claim that the violence has "no political or religious motivation" is beneath common sense. it harms any understanding of what happened in sarajevo and bosnia
okwonga.bsky.social Musa Okwonga @okwonga.bsky.social · Nov 12
“There were no political or religious motivations. They were rich people who went there for fun and personal satisfaction. We are talking about people who love guns who perhaps go to shooting ranges or on safari in Africa.” www.theguardian.com/world/2025/n...
Prosecutors in Milan have opened an investigation into Italians who allegedly paid members of the Bosnian Serb army for trips to Sarajevo so that they could kill citizens during the four-year siege of the city in the 1990s. More than 10,000 people were killed in Sarajevo by constant shelling and sniper fire between 1992 and 1996 in what was the longest siege in modern history, after Bosnia and Herzegovina declared independence from Yugoslavia.
November 12, 2025 at 4:55 AM
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archivum.org
Today, on World Digital Preservation Day, the USAGM terminated the funding of Szabad Európa, the Hungarian-language service at Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty.
As the keeper of the RFE/RL Research Institute's historical archives, we highlight the role of digital preservation: tinyurl.com/bdd9pudu
November 6, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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evansmithhist.bsky.social
I have a lot of narrative details from the archives. Isn’t that enough?
evansmithhist.bsky.social Evan @evansmithhist.bsky.social · Oct 24
When you're trying to figure out the purpose of the paper you're writing...
October 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
gwenyth.bsky.social
“[Reform] hadn’t counted on the fightback from members of the Caerphilly Ukrainian community” as well as many other good people! Chwarae teg
nation.cymru NationCymru @nation.cymru · Oct 24
The people of Caerphilly are not nearly as gullible as Nigel Farage thought they were. For him and his abominable party, the by-election loss is a huge setback that they weren’t expecting✍️ Martin Shipton
Reform's defeat is a triumph for Wales
Martin Shipton Lindsay Whittle’s triumph in the Caerphilly by-election is a victory not only for Plaid Cymru, but for Wales. Like many others, I had been seduced into believing that the Farage bandwag...
nation.cymru
October 24, 2025 at 10:31 AM
gwenyth.bsky.social
Gute Wahl
www.rbb24.de/kultur/beitr...
Historiker Karl Schlögel mit Friedenspreis des deutschen Buchhandels ausgezeichnet
Er lehrte 19 Jahre lang an der Viadrina-Universität in Frankfurt (Oder) und lebt seit vielen Jahren in Berlin - jetzt wurde Karl Schlögel mit einem der bedeutendsten Kulturpreise Deutschlands ausgezei...
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October 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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antongerashchenko.bsky.social
Curious peace of news to take our minds off current events a bit.

Two predators were captured in a single frame in the Chornobyl Radiation and Ecological Biosphere Reserve in the Kyiv region.
October 16, 2025 at 11:49 AM
gwenyth.bsky.social
Sticker in the toilet of a Czech/ Hungarian train from Budapest to Berlin
A purple and white sticker with the following text: “German-spreading [noun]: an act of symbolic violence; taking up a disproportionate amount of public space by shouting in German way too loud in a quiet environment; disrespecting quiet cultures; may be retraumatizing”
October 15, 2025 at 6:52 PM
gwenyth.bsky.social
Best description ever
October 3, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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jessdkant.bsky.social
Machine learning is a neat tool, but clearly companies are desperate to give “AI” credit for what human scholars accomplish in part because companies have bet the farm on the idea that human ingenuity is expendable. This historian is extraordinary and deserves the real credit.
waitmanwbeorn.com Waitman Wade Beorn, PhD, FRHistS @waitmanwbeorn.com · Oct 2
Oh, man. After reading the article, what it actually says is that an historian did a lot of archival work and spatial research to determine the site of a killing and then the family of the likely perpetrator stepped forward with photographs to confirm identity.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...
Historian uses AI to help identify Nazi in notorious Holocaust murder image
Jürgen Matthäus has for years been investigating the killer – and is confident he has finally solved the mystery
www.theguardian.com
October 2, 2025 at 12:38 PM
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archive.org
The digital age threatens our cultural memory. Can libraries, archives & museums create a just, sustainable future?

📖 Learn how in the #booktalk for AFTER DISRUPTION with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.

📅 Thurs Sept 25
🕖 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET
📍 ONLINE
🎟️ www.eventbrite.com/e/1633230118...
Promotional image for an online book talk titled 'After Disruption.' Left side shows portraits of Trevor Owens and Shannon Mattern with text: 'After Disruption Book Talk, with Trevor Owens & Shannon Mattern.' Center panel reads: 'September 25th, 10am PT / 1pm ET, Online. Join us for a book talk with Trevor Owens, author of After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory, in conversation with Shannon Mattern, as they explore how libraries, archives, and museums can reclaim their role in shaping a just and sustainable digital present.' Logos of Internet Archive and Authors Alliance appear at the bottom. Right side shows the book cover for 'After Disruption: A Future for Cultural Memory' by Trevor Owens, featuring a photo of a grand library entrance.
September 23, 2025 at 5:01 PM
gwenyth.bsky.social
mood
Hungarian writer Frigyes Karinthy (1887-1938) in a striped shirt looking grumpy
September 22, 2025 at 3:36 PM
gwenyth.bsky.social
Wessel could be a good parallel (let’s wait for the song) or maybe Ernst Thälmann? Posthumous lionisation by a movement that is secretly pleased these guys are no longer around?
hntdove.bsky.social Harry Turtledove @hntdove.bsky.social · Sep 21
Horst Wessel's funeral was a big production number, too.
September 21, 2025 at 6:43 PM
gwenyth.bsky.social
What struck me was the 3 protagonists' apparently total ineptitude to overcome their own rants in relation to the world beyond them. Astonishing emotional and cognitive isolation. That's not to say I was overcome with empathy for these lonely unhappy mofos balkaninsight.com/2025/09/15/c...
Czech Documentary on Russian Disinfo Over Ukraine Exposes Bitter Societal Rifts
A bold and controversial documentary about Russian disinformation on the war in Ukraine has ignited a heated debate in Czechia, inflaming tensions between two camps that seem more polarised than ever.
balkaninsight.com
September 21, 2025 at 7:37 AM
gwenyth.bsky.social
An unbearable loss. Jó utat Feri
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Ferenc Nemzetes, 1961–2025
The Blinken OSA Archivum community is mourning the untimely death of our beloved colleague, Ferenc Nemzetes, after a serious and short illness, endured with dignity.
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September 19, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction (1935)

The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Composition (2025)
September 16, 2025 at 5:53 AM
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hystericalblkns.bsky.social
If you’re on academia dot edu, let me suggest that you strongly consider deleting your account.
The new TOC from academia dot edu. By creating an Account with Academia.edu, you grant us a worldwide, irrevocable, non-exclusive, transferable license, permission, and consent for Academia.edu to use your Member Content and your personal information (including, but not limited to, your name, voice, signature, photograph, likeness, city, institutional affiliations, citations, mentions, publications, and areas of interest) in any manner, including for the purpose of advertising, selling, or soliciting the use or purchase of Academia.edu's Services.
September 17, 2025 at 7:09 PM