Ned Richardson-Little

"Culturally illiterate and immune to satire" was implied, but unsaid.

What is a better qualification than being the right sort of chap?

Basically every western country's worst friendly fire incident in history is always "A10 pilot finally saw a cluster of real targets and wanted to make gun go brrrrrrr"

"Millenial Nazi whose only way to understand the world comes from a pastiche of blockbuster films and video games," is really becoming a defining aesthetic of our era.

A problem with the critique of international humanitarian law as a facilitator rather than a restrainer of violence is that it is written from within the post war liberal hegemony forgetting that the unrestrained and enthusiastic mass violence against civilians is still an alternative.

Buchläden von Buchpreis ausgeschlossen: Von Bremen geliebt, vom Kulturstaatsminister gecancelt Der „Golden Shop“ in Bremen ist eine Institution. Den Buchhandlungspreis bekommt er wegen Extremismusgefahr nicht. Das sorgt vor Ort für Irritation.

Zur Buchhandlung Golden Shop in Bremen deren Inhaberin:

»Wie sie in den Fokus des Verfassungsschutzes gekommen ist? „Weil ich Weimers Gedichte nicht verkaufe?“, fragt sie sarkastisch zurück.« (1/3)

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I don't use enough profanity in my published work for the LLM to properly guess my authentic response here.

They want to turn the meaning of lit review from collective critical analysis of a field into a bullet point summary.

Also PRC founded on a war footing but Soviet system so shaped by war communism of the civil war and reinforced by WWII that it was practically impossible to imagine a planned economy that was not set up like a war time mobilization.

At least google books is expanding access. I have no problem with pirating compared to taking public goods and re-privatizing them

Large Language Model - generative AI systems using a massive, usually stolen corpus of texts.

Gotta love how academic books don't earn you money, but LLMs can make money off of stealing them in the aggregate and if you write enough, they can also profit from stealing your personality after you are dead.

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Germany chose a great time to make a gas lobbyist in charge of energy policy.

I see academia as a calling. A calling to produce content. High metric value content.

This is a redux of the liberal humanitarian interventionists who thought that the Bush admin could bring about a swift transition to liberal democracy in Iraq because they ignored all the evidence that the people who were going to carry out all of this violence had no plans for the post war.

One of the problems with deciding to ignore all international law and bandwagon for air strikes because you want to see regime change is that the type of people who want to launch wars of aggression are fanatics who do not share your limited rational plans for regional stability.

Papers please! No not your passport, the last six years of bank statements...

“My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors”: Gemini generates false records and fake screenshots of TNA website | Who Do You Think You Are Magazine The Gemini LLM generates fake records and screenshots from the UK National Archives, a family historian has revealed

Gemini: 'I deeply regret the time and effort you spent searching for references that I fabricated. My ‘methodology’ was a series of errors and an attempt to cover those errors with more artificial information.'

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I am regularly kind of in awe at the ecological and egalitarian ambition of the political forces they imagine compared to the ones that actually exist in reality.

Kind of amazing the evolution of collective xenophobic paranoid fantasies from "evil foreigners want to steal your children" to "evil international forces want to steal your car."

We are at the sunsetting of a new dark age?

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Fotografie von Ossietzky als 26-Jähriger im Jahr 1915. Er trägt das Haar gescheitelt, einen Anzug und Krawatte. Er blickt ernst in die Kamera. Nachweis von wiki commons folgt.

Am 28. Februar 1933 wurde Carl von Ossietzky von der Gestapo verhaftet, gefoltert und im Gefängnis Spandau interniert.

"Was er an bösen und häßlichen Instinkten hervorgerufen hat, wird nicht so leicht verwehen und für lange Jahre noch das gesamte öffentliche Leben in Deutschland verpesten. [...]" 🧵

It's been memory holed now, but that was the Hilary 2008 Dem primary pitch in a lot of ways.

Congratulations! Look forward to reading it 🥳🍾

Cover of book with text in yellow reading: The Firearm Revolution: From Renaissance Italy to the European Empires, overlaid on an image of an angel in seventeenth-century dress with wings and a long gun.

Hello Bluesky! My new book, THE FIREARM REVOLUTION, is out on 14 April. It’s about how a new technology changed society, and how hard it was to control. Here’s a little thread of what’s inside:

Read this too quickly and saw Borges on the Muppet Show and honestly he probably would have been great on it.

Trying to imagine Jean de Brébeuf wandering around trying to get signal for his iPhone.

Yeah, I haven't even processed the idea that he thinks draft horses can now enjoy playing video games all day because they aren't weighed down by the 9-5.