Lewis Wade 🗃️

It's so discombobulating to realise that some researchers play by entirely different rules to everyone else. I just can't wrap my head around it

Behold: the first-ever list of news outlets that have banned generative AI in their reporting. As of today, this is literally information that you cannot find on Google.

My goal is to fill the starter pack, so please send over suggestions with supporting evidence!

go.bsky.app/8cn1XfT

Sects on the Brain A post-Gorton narrative which is dramatic, seductive, and wrong

🚨NEW BLOGPOST🚨

Is British politics becoming riven with sectarianism? Are we the next Lebanon? Does dodgy bloc voting dominate our elections?

Many are saying "yes" after Gorton & Denton. But it doesn't reflect any of the evidence.

www.joxleywrites.jmoxley.co.uk/p/sects-on-t...

It's a phrase I'd be frustrated but unsurprised to see from a contrarian tabloid columnist. From a vice-chancellor, though...?

It’s not disingenuous to point out that the NYT did not run a single front page story of the Minab bombing. You don’t dispute this claim because it’s true. And the story that you reference on your webpage does not attribute blame to US/Israel and frames it as an allegation by “Iranian state media”

"Getting access to the student loan book"

‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792 Abstract. Following the insurrection of 10 August 1792, the Legislative Assembly named commissioners to bring news of the events in Paris to the department

New article in French History! ‘By the king’s suspension, the constitution is violated’: provincial opposition to the revolution of 10 August 1792' by William S. Cormack

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Open Access here: doi.org/10.1093/fh/c...

@frenchhistory.bsky.social

Co-editing a special issue is a lot of work, of course, but it's also *so* much fun reading the contributions and thinking about the links between them! Watch this space 🗃️

I'm struggling to wrap my head around all the possible knock-on effects of the US abandoning any pretence of adhering to just war theory.

Ooo! Very much look forward to reading this

Representing France: Dragomans and Negotiating Frenchness in the Eastern Mediterranean Abstract. Cet article examine la façon dont l’État français a activement travaillé à l’élaboration de sa représentation dans les interactions quotidiennes dans le monde ottoman du XVIIIe siècle. Les p...

Have you wondered how France tried to craft its representation in the #18thc Mediterranean?

Been curious about the role French dragomans played in constructing the boundaries of identity and nationality?

Well good news! I wrote an article about it! 🗃️

doi.org/10.14321/fre...

New

The poisoning of the wells

Why discrediting election results without waiting for due process is unhealthy for a democracy

This week's Weekly Constitutional by me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk
@chrisgrey.bsky.social

Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran Kyiv has pioneered cheap and mass-produced machines to battle Russian versions of the Shahed attack drone

Let's be clear: the US is expecting the country it left high and dry to bail it out of its reckless war in the Middle East. Any sales should be conditional on the US contributing its backdated fair share to the Ukrainian war effort.

Co-editing a special issue is a lot of work, of course, but it's also *so* much fun reading the contributions and thinking about the links between them! Watch this space 🗃️

🚮 L'actualité nous déprime ? Objectivement, il y a de quoi. Comment garder le cap et essayer de se concentrer sur ce qui compte ? Comment faire avancer les choses dans le marasme et la guerre ? Voici 5 chouettes idées portées par des invités du 2e Festival des idées Chaleur humaine (1/8)

Pentagon eyes Ukrainian interceptor drones to counter Iran Kyiv has pioneered cheap and mass-produced machines to battle Russian versions of the Shahed attack drone

Let's be clear: the US is expecting the country it left high and dry to bail it out of its reckless war in the Middle East. Any sales should be conditional on the US contributing its backdated fair share to the Ukrainian war effort.

FT comments section this morning - saying what everyone else is thinking, right?

What if AI just makes us work harder? Employees have reported increased momentum, but also a feeling of having more to do

“I don’t mean to suggest that AI is useless or trivial, but there is a long history of time-saving digital technologies that at best make us more productive yet overwhelmed — and at worst, just make us feel overwhelmed.”

Sorry I'm not more open-minded about LLMs, it's just some fucking maniacs shoveled out a bunch of useless bloatware featuring that technology, did not give me any chance to opt out, reorganized the entire economy around it, zeroed out gains made by green energy, and made it impossible to buy RAM

A meadow on the outskirts of Bamberg on a sunny late afternoon, with woodland in the background

Not the best day today, but having nature so close by makes such a difference

A meadow on the outskirts of Bamberg on a sunny late afternoon, with woodland in the background

Not the best day today, but having nature so close by makes such a difference

I was interviewed by the French History Network blog about my new @manchesterup.bsky.social book, 'Make cheese not war'. It was an ace opportunity to reflect on the lifecycle of a book project, personal encounters, research-led teaching (& vice versa) & more

frenchhistorysociety.co.uk/6838/

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I personally prefer "Old Regime", because nothing is lost in the translation to English. Some phrases don't translate well, but Ancien Régime does, and I think there's a natural tendency in English to opt for English-language phrases over foreign-language ones where no meaning is lost in doing so

Truly extraordinary. And there’s a twist at the end.

Masthead of the newspaper De Curaçaosche Courant. Reads: "DE CURACAOSCHE COURANT. Deel XL. ZATURDAG den 16den AUGUSTUS, 1823. N. 32. Gedrukt en Zaturdag's morgens uitgegeven door De Weduwe WILLIAM LEE, Drukker voor Zyne Majesteit den Koning der Nederlanden". Available from www.delpher.nl

New publication alert! 🚨 You can now read this Open Access article about women's involvement in #Caribbean #colonialism through their work as print shop owners in #Guadeloupe #StKitts and #Curaçao 1720s-1860s 📰 @silvaperez.bsky.social @heatherfreund.bsky.social muse.jhu.edu/pub/56/artic...

Middle East conflict: Israel vows to kill next Iranian leader Spain’s prime minister brands war ‘disaster’ in defiant response to Donald Trump’s criticism

(Apologies, I forgot to post my source!)

"Israel’s defence minister vowed that 'any leader' chosen by the Iranian regime would be a 'clear target for elimination'."

I don't even know what to say.

EU urges Ukraine to allow access to pipeline carrying Russian oil Kyiv says evidence shows Druzhba pipeline is too damaged to restart supplies after attack by Moscow in January

“Why must we repair the pipeline — in times of war and without a ceasefire — which gives oil from Russia to Russia’s friends?”

A very fair question.

“We must reject the temptation of easy answers.”

Fascinated by the Starmer-Reeves line on “rejecting easy answers”. Which “hard answers” do they think they have given?