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Early Modern Diplomacy (@emdiplomacy@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image There is something in the making: The weekend is just around the corner, and we are using those days to prepare this year's #emdiplomacy advent calendar. Stay tuned!
9h ago
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Early Modern Diplomacy (@emdiplomacy@hcommons.social)
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20b Zsuzsanna Cziráki: The Ottoman Court as a Special Venue for European Diplomacy https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110672008-021 (1/4) @earlymodern@a.gup.pe @histodons@a.gup.pe @womenknowhistory@historians.social @historikerinnen@a.gup.pe #earlymodern #courtStudies #emdiplomacy #history #OttomanEmpire
#diplomacy #histodons #emdiplomacy #ottomanempire
15h ago
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🇺🇸 Steve McCarty 🇯🇵 (@SteveMcCarty@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 4 images Showed a family friend the Imashirozuka Kofun, a 6th Century keyhole-shaped tumulus in our city that is 350 meters long, and its museum. Because of the Imperial Household Agency's error that they will not admit, this is the only royal tomb in Japan that people can freely...
on Thu, 3PM
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🇺🇸 Steve McCarty 🇯🇵 (@SteveMcCarty@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 4 images After all the heart of Thai university groups here in Japan, I went to Seoul! I visited the World Heritage site of royal tombs (고분, 古墳) in Gangnam. From nearly 2,000 years ago, tumuli were built in the Kingdoms of Goguryeo, Baekje, Silla, and Gaya. There were interchanges...
on Thu, 3PM
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Medievalists.net (@medievalists@hcommons.social)
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Were the Crusader States Penal Colonies? https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/were-the-crusader-states-penal-colonies/ #Crusades #TrueCrime #history
on Thu, 9AM
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Bo Jacobs (@bojacobs@hcommons.social)
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"Dispatch from a nuclear petting zoo" How the language of deterrence depicts nuclear weapons as natural and controllable. By Collin Van Son @sts@a.gup.pe #nuclear https://thebulletin.org/2024/11/dispatch-from-a-nuclear-petting-zoo/
on Mon, 9AM
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Todd Battistelli (@FromTheRostra@hcommons.social)
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Jennifer Sano-Franchini, Megan McIntyre, & Maggie Fernandes - "Refusing GenAI in Writing Studies: A Quickstart Guide" "In short, we demonstrate that our call for GenAI refusal is not uninformed, moral outcry as a result of technological 'aversion,' fear of change, or other so-called 'doom and...
on Nov 15
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You can be an asshole about that or not. I'm not the one who told people not to vote.
on Nov 13
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Adachi Kaori (@adachika192@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image No military support to Israel, says German “people”… From The Berlin Pulse Survey 2024/2025: A representative survey on German attitudes to foreign policy commissioned by Körber-Stiftung, p. 26 https://koerber-stiftung.de/en/projects/the-berlin-pulse/2024-25/ See how far...
on Nov 13
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Adachi Kaori (@adachika192@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 2 images https://www.israelismfilm.com/ 👉 NOW ON DIGITAL👈 (see screenshot ⬇️ for regional availability) “Two young American Jews - Simone Zimmerman and Eitan - are raised to defend the state of Israel at all costs. ... When they witness Israel's mistreatment of the Palestinian...
on Nov 12
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Extinction Studies (@aka_quant_noir@hcommons.social)
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@RiaResists@mastodon.social @Dave_Goldsmith@mastodon.scot @Myerman@toot.bldrweb.org Stop watching TV news. Cancel your subscriptions. Your cable. Move your cash to credit unions. Get involved with local issues. Put your resources where you live, with your allies. Make new friends. Lift up what...
on Nov 11
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Tim Sherratt (@wragge@hcommons.social)
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Now might be a good time to point your academic friends who are finally leaving the dead bird site to https://hcommons.social/ and @kfitz's post on "open matters": https://kfitz.info/open-matters/
on Nov 10
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sport of sacred spherical cows (@beadsland@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 2 images Have only had opportunity to add hundred or so lines to the #AnnoPlot project since the last update: https://disabled.social/@beadsland/112897038827615226 Most of that was experimentation with pyrlang under bots/. (First step in developing language paradigm for a...
on Nov 10
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sport of sacred spherical cows (@beadsland@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image NCHS estimates of #LongCovid—based on Household Pulse Survey. Weighted response rate lowest since Oct 2022. Next release date unknown. Presumably Nov. Chart now reflects Long Covid rates in children equal to those in adults. Lower "Living with" figure follows changed...
on Nov 9
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Quoth the Ryan,"Nevermore." (@ryanrandall@hcommons.social)
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How many smart devices will you want to have continually, inconspicuously, perhaps uncontrollably listening in on your house during the coming years? (This is a gentle provocation for you to ponder, not a question I'd like you to answer in a response. I currently have zero, and your response...
on Nov 9
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To do what we are about to is to believe with my body and to demand that my family believe with theirs that we do not have a future in the US anymore and that we will be safer somewhere else. What I want to choose, though, is what I had. I want Vermont, yes, and I want UU ministry. I want to be...
on Nov 8
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If you are in the US and not married to your partner but want to be before January 20th, clergy are ready to help you, and in our denomination, with a particular justice focus on the LGBTQ spectrum. Happy to help you connect; PM me.
on Nov 7
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Attached: 1 image In your heart is a knife but also a harvest use one to protect the other
on Nov 7
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These two months matter, if you are in any way US tied. What we have now is more meaningful freedom that we are likely to see again for some time. Maybe a very long time. If there are things you need to do, do them. Make a list. Step by step by step. Get it done. Set yourself up to survive...
on Nov 7
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Joyce Lionarons (@joyce@hcommons.social)
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Good morning. After two days of near-paralysis owing to stress and anxiety, today I want to try to begin to get my life back on track. It's a beautiful warm day out there, too warm for November, but I'm going to enjoy it while I can. I'm going to open the WIP and try to write. I'm going to keep...
on Nov 7
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Explore Your Archive (@exploreyourarchive@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image We're delighted to announce our themes for Focus Week in November! Share with us your archive stories related to the theme each day in November. We are an Archives and Records Association platform to encourage everyone to visit, use, celebrate and be inspired by archives....
on Nov 7
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Medievalists.net (@medievalists@hcommons.social)
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Tamer el-Leithy speaking about Scribbles in Hats or the Afterlives of Mediaeval Arabic Documents https://www.medievalists.net/2024/11/scribbles-in-hats-or-the-afterlives-of-mediaeval-arabic-documents/ #history
on Nov 6
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The attacks and erosions, targeted bad faith campaigns and subterfuge, that the far right has engaged in across the last decade of US elections has been an attack on MILLIONS OF VOLUNTEERS AND PUBLIC EMPLOYEES. And the structure nevertheless abides on this day. It's just remarkable. Not...
on Nov 5
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Sjoerd has moved to aus.social (@slevelt@hcommons.social)
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I'm about to migrate this account to aus.social, ahead of being about to migrate myself. if you get a refollow request, please allow me! and if you notice I effed up the migration, please poke me at @slevelt@aus.social! with many thanks to @hello for the good times here
on Nov 5
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JNL of the night (@jnl@hcommons.social)
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@Brad_Rosenheim@climatejustice.social this is why 'residency' is what gets adjudicated, whether for voting or school district enrollment or in-state-tuition, at the state and local level- because the rights, obligations, and litmus tests of CITIZENSHIP are all federal
on Nov 3
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Medievalists.net (@medievalists@hcommons.social)
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How did people sleep in the Middle Ages? https://www.medievalists.net/2023/11/sleep-middle-ages/ #History #dailylife #sleep
on Nov 2
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&2i (@pneumaculturist@hcommons.social)
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"Jezz Bezos and Elon Musk emit more carbon pollution in 90 minutes than the average human does in their entire life." ... “Half of the world’s emissions come from the richest 10% of people. The wealthiest 1% by income account for 16% of emissions, which is more than the poorest two-thirds of...
on Nov 1
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Marilou Pagé (@Marilou@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 3 images My Chouchou disappeared last night in Rosemont, Montréal. Si vous le voyez faites moi signe. C’est un mâle gris stérilisé.
on Nov 1
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Knowledge Commons (@hello@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image There are no tricks from us today, just a lot of treats! 🍫🎃 Yesterday, we announced the launch of our revitalized repository, KCWorks! Here are even more details on what’s amazing about our new system. The scariest thing about this list is..........it's not complete because...
on Oct 31
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gonzalo (@gonzalo@hcommons.social)
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When you see the apocalyptic scenes of the floods in Valencia, Spain, please also remember that in Spain, climate activists are treated as terrorists for trying to raise awareness about climate change. #Valencia #ClimateChange
on Oct 31
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Bonnie (she/her) (@BatsInLavender@hcommons.social)
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Don't forget that Godzilla Day is Sunday, November 3rd! It's the 70th anniversary. https://godzilla.com/blogs/news/godzilla-day-2024 #Godzilla #kaiju
on Oct 30
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Knowledge Commons (@hello@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image The Knowledge Commons team is over the moon to share with you today that the beta version of our new repository, KCWorks, is LIVE! 😍 Knowledge Commons Works (KCWorks for short) has been a massive, team-wide effort over the past year to create a repository platform suited for...
on Oct 30
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sport of sacred spherical cows (@beadsland@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 2 images #CDC finally updated variants proportions Nowcast that was due yesterday. Unfortunately, public dataset they uploaded is corrupt. The file is one tenth of a MB smaller than it was two weeks ago. Filtering for national data, there are no records for the current published...
on Oct 25
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Also, a suggestion for those with ears to hear, something that seems to be a growing edge for the Mastodon village: in these next weeks, know what YOUR work is, and commit also to do the spiritual work to know what YOUR heart needs and what YOUR anxieties are ... AND STAY IN **YOUR** LANE If...
on Oct 24
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Fredrik Graver (@fgraver@hcommons.social)
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Listening to: Home for a Rest – Spirit of the West (1990) You'll have to excuse me, I'm not at my best I've been gone for a month, I've been drunk since I left These so-called vacations will soon be my death I'm so sick from the drink, I need home for a rest We arrived in December and London...
on Oct 19
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Barbara Shubinski, Rockefeller Archive Center – Gender in a (Supposedly) Non-Gendered Historical Space: Generative AI, Sentiment Analysis, and Graph Databases in the Rockefeller Foundation Collections of the 1930s - impossible to summarise but compelling talk! #FF2024 #AI4LAM
on Oct 18
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Sjoerd Levelt (@slevelt@hcommons.social)
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BBC: "Programmes must not portray representations of sexual intercourse, unless there is a serious educational purpose, when broadcast before the Watershed, or when children are particularly likely to be in our audience for radio or in online content likely to appeal to a high proportion of...
on Oct 17
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I spend a fair amount of time dealing with tax and transactional history from the Norman, medieval English, and euro-colonial eras. This is not because these things are how I get my rocks on, particularly; it's because 'then' structures 'now.' The throughlines are so obvious and yet still so...
on Oct 11
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Quoth the Ryan,"Nevermore." (@ryanrandall@hcommons.social)
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We're not living "in the age of AI". We're living in a moment of unproven AI-related claims. These are profoundly different scenarios. And it's disturbing how many folks in education are eagerly, uncritically amplifying the first framing.
on Oct 8
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Sjoerd Levelt (@slevelt@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 video #NowPlaying Linton Kwesi Johnson - Inglan is a Bitch #dub #reggae @vinylrecords@a.gup.pe
on Oct 8
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Zeb Larson (@zeblarson@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 3 images Reading through these is morbidly fascinating because you can have a parent say to a kid that they’re going to Hell or that they dislike their partner or hate them for their sexuality, and then somebody else will comment on their relationship and say “I don’t know why they...
on Oct 8
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Zeb Larson (@zeblarson@hcommons.social)
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Whether or not you suffered through that Atlantic piece this week about reading and high-school students, this is an excellent read from a teacher that was interviewed for it. https://cmsthomas.substack.com/p/the-atlantic-did-me-dirty
on Oct 7
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Bo Jacobs (@bojacobs@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image If you follow #nuclear things, there are stories right now about how Finland is about to put the first nuclear fuel in “permanent" storage. They have been building the Onkalo site to put the spent fuel from their 6 nuclear reactors since 2004. The key takeaway is that it is...
on Oct 6
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sport of sacred spherical cows (@beadsland@hcommons.social)
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Attached: 1 image · Content warning: #LongCovid dashboard USpol
on Oct 5
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Bo Jacobs (@bojacobs@hcommons.social)
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"East Tennessee plant that processes radioactive nuclear fuel 'safe' after Helene floods" "Nuclear Fuel Services, a subsidiary of BWX Technologies, processes highly enriched uranium for naval nuclear reactors and power plants at this facility, located 30 feet above the Nolichucky River − the...
on Oct 4
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I've posted the slides for my Digikult 2024 keynote 'Hold steady: centering the human in the hype of AI' at https://zenodo.org/records/13880550 #Digikult #AI4LAM
on Oct 3
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If you work with digitised newspapers, what’s on your data and/or infrastructure wishlist?* No promises, just starting to dream about possible futures. * Apart from ‘everything free for everyone’, unless you’re able to fund that!
on Oct 1
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The other thing you should know and just really think about is this: your fear is 100% correct, and it's true WHETHER OR NOT YOU SHAME PEOPLE. Indeed, people will not move from where you think they should not live to the places that you, in all of your infinite wisdom, think that they should...
on Sep 29