Hi friends: I'm assembling my file for promotion and want to include a list of classes where students read my work. Please let me know if you have assigned my books or articles! Thank you!! #History 🗃️

(Also, if you're assigning my work, THANK YOU and I'd love to Zoom with your class!)

"So in instituting an AI policy, [...] we are inadvertently doing the industry’s work. We are explicitly saying, this product has so guaranteed a space in our institutions that we are mapping out sanctioned uses for it."

Blessed memories of Alex Manninger.

A stellar stand in for David Seaman who helped Arsenal win the 1998 double and a lovely person too. 💔

The George C. Marshall Foundation has put together an outstanding new multimedia guide to the Marshall Plan--rich with primary sources, photographs, posters, and audio. A terrific resource for anyone working on postwar reconstruction or US foreign relations
www.marshallfoundation.org/articles-and...

Loser Orban, more like

With printed media, you can just store it in a warehouse. When some company says "we never said that," you can go to the archives, fetch a newspaper, and that ends the argument. When the companies on their websites change stories, there is no archive outside the Internet Archive.

CfP 16th Annual International Student Conference of the Cold War History Research Center, Budapest, July 30–31, 2026
Deadline for proposal submission is May 15, 2026.

Went to see Romeo & Juliet at the Harold Pinter theatre yesterday and I would like to give credit to this astounding bit of merch:

An adorable little #Roman dog figurine, some 1700+ years old - once an ornament, a lucky charm, or a child's toy, perhaps..?

Slop

Bil sam tu

3022 Article Talk Language Download PDF Watch Edit Learn more This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2022) 3022 is a 2019 American science fiction film directed by John Suits and starring Omar Epps, Kate Walsh, Miranda Cosgrove, and Angus Macfadyen.[1] The film is set on a space station in the future. The crew suffers traumatic stress and considers abandoning their mission after they observe what they believe to be the destruction of Earth. The film is shown as a series of flashbacks and flash-forwards.[2]

It still feels like a sci fi movie...

Camouflage pattern comprising short thin brown vertical stripes on a grey-green background

Just saw someone wearing an East German army jacket with the Strichtarn camo pattern. Haven't seen one of those since the war.

The United States has not negotiated any free trade agreements since 2020. Meanwhile, other countries—including some of America’s largest trading partners and long-standing allies—have continued to negotiate and enter into numerous such deals, according to Cato scholars.

https://ow.ly/k2JQ50YCvSv

Ufff, an important development.

Trump Iranu prijeti gađanjem elektrana i mostova ako ne otvori "prokleti" tjesnac

Ak već ne smijete objaviti što je stvarno rekao, onda barem nemojte koristiti eufemizme i predstavljati ih kao citate.

Orbán posts: "Just spoke with President@predsednikrs. Serbian authorities have found a powerful explosive device, along with the equipment needed to detonate it, at critical gas infrastructure linking Serbia and Hungary. The investigation is ongoing. I have convened an emergency defence council for this afternoon"

🇭🇺 has 3 special legal orders (state of danger, emergency and war). The country's been in a "state of danger" since 2020 thanks to Fidesz. In a state of danger, elections can be held. In a state of emergency or war, they cannot.

Let's hope they don't try to use this as a pretence to cancel elections

I often wonder about how many AI proselytizers in academia only do it because they believe that it's where most of the research funding will be coming from in the future.

TIL

What a way to find out that there's a BYU-Hawaii.

Different losers, same vibe.

The Koujak-Jaber residential building designed by Victor H. Bisharat in Beirut, Lebanon (1966-67) r/brutalism

Cold War Socialism, Non-Alignment and Anti-Colonialism in the Yugoslav Press, 1961-1979 with @exeter.ac.uk. Applications open soon. link.bl.uk/q95

Little ditty about Andreas Ban
three books by Daša Drndić feature this complex man

"In “Smith’s” case, though, using facial recognition software PimEyes, it only took minutes to establish who he really was and what he did for a living[.]
Branko Balon is no actor. He is a Croatian national, a senior lecturer of computer science at the Algebra Bernays University in Zagreb[.]"

My name is “Smith”, “Alexander Smith” - josimarfootball.com How did a computer science academic and reality TV show contestant from Zagreb end up representing illegal sports-betting operator Z6 when it signed a sponsorship agreement with the Croatia national f...

josimarfootball.com/2026/04/01/m...

I mean, the Nazis attacked Poland and blamed Poles for attacking Germany, so it’s not altogether surprising when an AfD member torches his own car and fakes a document that attempts to blame antifa

@ceuropeanhistory.bsky.social is now accepting nominations for its Hans Rosenberg Book Prize for an outstanding monograph on Central European history published in 2025. Please spread the word! For eligibility and nomination process info visit: tinyurl.com/h3urjpr4. Deadline: June 1, 2026.

Uncredited. From Kenneth Gatland & David Jefferis, The World of the Future: Star Travel, Usborne, 1979. Cover art for Terry Carr (ed.), Odabrane naučno-fantastične priče, Stvarnost, 1980. Croatian translation of The Best Science Fiction of the Year #6 by Tomislav Ladan.