@robertsmartino
Medieval & Early Modern Historian (PhD Nottingham 2020). Writes about C16 Church Courts. Postdoctoral Researcher @ University of Lincoln. Once a lawyer. Still overweight. Increasingly bald. Never keen on Fascists. Philogynist.
Over 1000 civilians dead, and we're letting Trump use UK bases to further his war.
Britain should stand firm against Trump's illegal warmongering, and stop these bombers landing on UK soil.
Venture Capitalist and Biden's Secretary of Commerce, Gina Raimondo, is taking AI as an opportunity to further subsume education under the needs of capital and embrace deskilling.
Make no mistake, this is about shifting income from labor to capital, it's about wage depression
This deeply weird ethno-nationalism of the USA govt uses dangerously flawed interpretations of what, for most of us, is, at best, one of many guides on how to behave in society. I'm a historian of the church. All this 'rapture' stuff is weapons-grade C19 BS.
ah, for years we've been ringing the alarm bell that all the 'cost saving' measures which these VCs are pushing through are actually wildly elitist drives to destroy all the work of widening participation of the past few decades, and now he's just straight up declaring it himself.
Hate to be right.
The man's an idiot. Did he learn anything from his education? How on earth did he get to be a VC?
Totally unacceptable in a civilised society.
This is a chilling crime. A shame on our country. The Iranian ship was unarmed. The US knew this. The sailors were murdered by our navy, and the survivors were left to die at sea.
newrepublic.com/post/207429/...
I feel this must be some kind of portent of doom!
Seconded.
Jesse Singal proving that anti-trans extremism is just like creationism. This is the sort of thing creationists do all the time. They accuse the experts of being biased because they have “a professional stake”
History is not backwards! Like, this site isn't new: programminghistorian.org/en/lessons/
It just requires specific questions and datasets to be useful. I don't do economic or social history! I don't need a thousand engineers coding the study of religious and cultural history, thanks, no thanks!
The transatlantic relationship is dysfunctional, and will be until Trumpism is gone.
Time for the UK to embrace a European future.
Time to set course to rejoin the EU!
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...
Lord Vallance laid out his five overall priorities for the research and innovation system. 🧵
#SHAPEConference26
I've never observed a wider gap between self-confidence and lack of any actual understanding than in Badenoch. On other topics it can be comical, but when it extends to undermining gov't on matters of national security, in breach of established conventions, it is profoundly dangerous. #PMQs
okay, Ill bite.
What do you think the point of reading for and writing a literature review is? The process of reading and writing is crucial for THINKING. Your ideas are shaped by all of this, offloading it to gAI, no matter how "good" you think gAI is at it defeats the purpose entirely.
🇵🇱🇺🇦 War in Iran distracts attention from Ukraine and reduces the amount of available weapons, - Polish FM Sikorski
💬A huge number of cruise missiles and anti-missile weapons are currently being used, and what was used will definitely not be available for transfer or even sale to Ukraine.
It’s being said a lot that the shadow of Iraq is hanging over Keir Starmer and the Labour Party during this Iran crisis.
It absolutely should. What’s remarkable is how little much of the British media and the rest of politics seem to be thinking about it at all, or learning its lessons.
When we talk about Baby Boomers not getting off the stage: In 1997, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2007, the US president was born in 1946.
In 2017, the US president was born in 1946.
And next year in 2027? The US president will have been born in 1946.
Much like "social media victims" of today, distraught parents across the country repeatedly declared novels were the root cause of children taking their own lives.
Here in one clip from 1897 the cause of suicide was declared as reading "sentimental novels." The title: Novel Reading Causes Suicide
More idiocy from the world's most dangerous fool.
comic by political cartoonist Gary Varvel depicting a man hearing about Greece sending ships to defend Cyprus from the Persians while turning his calendar and discovering the year is 499 BCE.
Fascinating!
When FBI Director Kash Patel fired a dozen FBI agents and staff last week for their role in the classified documents investigation of Donald Trump, he targeted an elite counter espionage unit that investigates threats from foreign adversaries and specializes in Iran www.ms.now/news/kash-pa...
Some quick back-of-the-envelope arithmetic indicates that this "cash boost" will support the National Year of Reading by giving each public library enough money for a one-time purchase of two (2) additional books for their collections or cover approximately three (3) man-hours of staffing.
The extent to which 'AI' is robbing writers, academics and artists of their work just got even worse - now they want to steal our reputations too, putting words into our mouths after we've died. Just think for a second about the horrendous ways that could be exploited, intellectually and politically
Nothing like a bit of fascism from the top.
Definitely nutriri. It's 'to be provided for' and is, in itself, common in church court records. It's the middle word that's the problem.
'prolem facu nutriri'. LAO/Cj.4/fol.36v
Anyone out there dealing with C16 punishments of pregnant women? I have a record that says that the court ordered the child to be provided for by speech ('prolem facu nutriri'). Any idea what this means in practice? There are a couple of crossings out, but I'm sure 'facu' is the word written. TIA
Make it stop!
