dr calyx rose
@calyxrose.bsky.social
PhD history at KCL studying liberty in the Haitian Revolution, twenty something, crochet enthusiast 🩷🤍🧡 she/her
Talking this afternoon on the “empire of liberty” and Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ problems with empire and state-building
October 1, 2025 at 8:23 AM
Talking this afternoon on the “empire of liberty” and Jean-Jacques Dessalines’ problems with empire and state-building
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Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
March 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Le Monde reporting that a French scientist traveling to Houston to attend a conference was denied entry to US after a search of his phone & computer revealed messages critical of Trump's science cuts, "which [says CPB] conveyed hatred of Trump & could be qualified as terrorism". Computer confiscated
This is today!
going to be giving a talk on Toussaint Louverture and forced labour at LSE for the IHR next wednesday - come along!! www.history.ac.uk/events/probl...
The Problem of Liberty: Toussaint Louverture and Forced Labour in Saint-Domingue
www.history.ac.uk
March 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
This is today!
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"How DARE you make me slightly uncomfortable about my choices" is a very potent factor in the modern media-consumption arena.
For some reason, the thing I think of first in this connection is the way Greta Thunberg, of all people, became an object of apparently deep hatred on the part of people who could simply have ignored her without their lives changing in any way
February 27, 2025 at 2:21 PM
"How DARE you make me slightly uncomfortable about my choices" is a very potent factor in the modern media-consumption arena.
going to be giving a talk on Toussaint Louverture and forced labour at LSE for the IHR next wednesday - come along!! www.history.ac.uk/events/probl...
The Problem of Liberty: Toussaint Louverture and Forced Labour in Saint-Domingue
www.history.ac.uk
February 27, 2025 at 2:28 PM
going to be giving a talk on Toussaint Louverture and forced labour at LSE for the IHR next wednesday - come along!! www.history.ac.uk/events/probl...
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When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*
Group of Labour MPs urge No 10 to be tougher on migration to fend off Reform
Exclusive: Pressure group set up by MPs from seats where Reform came second amid concern about party’s rise
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 10:28 AM
When will Govt learn you can’t out-Reform Reform - you end up simply legitimising their toxic narrative. To see off populists, Labour needs to invest in public services & local communities, making a real difference to people’s lives - levy a wealth tax & use it to improve people’s lives *now*
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Once upon a time, we complained that "ethnic cleansing" was too sterile a euphemism to describe the forced removal and often violent expulsion of a racial or religious minority from a region.
And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term.
And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term.
The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something
February 5, 2025 at 12:57 PM
Once upon a time, we complained that "ethnic cleansing" was too sterile a euphemism to describe the forced removal and often violent expulsion of a racial or religious minority from a region.
And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term.
And now the press can't even bring itself to use *that* term.
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Six months later, I am thinking about the impact of the riots, how people have altered their lives, habits and routines. I am also revisiting this important piece by David Olusoga on populism and racism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
There can be no excuses. The UK riots were violent racism fomented by populism | David Olusoga
Culture wars have poisoned political debate, normalised Islamophobia and opened wounds that a generation blighted by nativism hoped had closed
www.theguardian.com
February 5, 2025 at 12:28 PM
Six months later, I am thinking about the impact of the riots, how people have altered their lives, habits and routines. I am also revisiting this important piece by David Olusoga on populism and racism: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Giving a little talk on the “empire of liberty” for the KCL Empires Hub this afternoon ☺️
February 5, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Giving a little talk on the “empire of liberty” for the KCL Empires Hub this afternoon ☺️
Some personal news…. Just had my first article published 💕 www.rrrjournal.com/issue/7/arti...
Gendered Dehumanisation; Labour, Oppression, and Resistance of the Enslaved Women of Colour of Saint- Domingue in the Long Nineteenth Century
Home
www.rrrjournal.com
January 16, 2025 at 1:22 PM
Some personal news…. Just had my first article published 💕 www.rrrjournal.com/issue/7/arti...
What’s up it’s time for my first “some personal news” of bsky
January 16, 2025 at 1:21 PM
What’s up it’s time for my first “some personal news” of bsky
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Absolutely true - the earliest technology was the Lomekwian hand axe 3.3 million years ago. Fire was a technology. The hafted spear too. String. Sewing needle. Shoes. The simplest tools radically changed the planet
January 13, 2025 at 8:43 PM
Absolutely true - the earliest technology was the Lomekwian hand axe 3.3 million years ago. Fire was a technology. The hafted spear too. String. Sewing needle. Shoes. The simplest tools radically changed the planet
Book launch for the incomparable @drjennymorris.bsky.social tonight! Streets are saying that An Ethical Guide to Murder is theee hot new #crimantasy book of the year
January 13, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Book launch for the incomparable @drjennymorris.bsky.social tonight! Streets are saying that An Ethical Guide to Murder is theee hot new #crimantasy book of the year
Officially submitted my thesis! 💃💃💃
December 30, 2024 at 8:57 PM
Officially submitted my thesis! 💃💃💃
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In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
‘Impossible’ to create AI tools like ChatGPT without copyrighted material, OpenAI says
Pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their productsBusiness live – latest updatesThe developer OpenAI has said it would be impossible to create tools like its groundbreaking chatbot ChatGPT without access to copyrighted material, as pressure grows on artificial intelligence firms over the content used to train their products.Chatbots such as ChatGPT and image generators like Stable Diffusion are “trained” on a vast trove of data taken from the internet, with much of it covered by copyright – a legal protection against someone’s work being used without permission. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 18, 2024 at 1:25 PM
In 2010, anti-copyright activist Aaron Swartz hanged himself after being prosecuted to the full extent of the law for making copyrighted academic publications freely available. Today, academic publishers are insisting those copyrights be lifted to feed the corporate AI slop machine.
Counting down the days until 2025 when I can become exceedingly online again (I am submitting soon)
December 10, 2024 at 12:21 PM
Counting down the days until 2025 when I can become exceedingly online again (I am submitting soon)
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In case more turn up - a bulk blocklist you can subscribe to, that deprives them of air
November 7, 2024 at 1:08 AM
In case more turn up - a bulk blocklist you can subscribe to, that deprives them of air
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🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History
We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...
#OlivetteOtelePrize
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We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...
#OlivetteOtelePrize
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October 31, 2024 at 12:57 PM
🏆Prize announcement! #CFP #History
We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...
#OlivetteOtelePrize
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We're excited to announce that submissions are open for our Olivette Otele Prize for Black, UK-based PhD students. This is an opportunity for academic excellence to be recognised and showcased! Please keep reading...
#OlivetteOtelePrize
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been thinking a lot about 'How the Word is Passed' by Clint Smith in regards to California rejecting Prop 6, especially the chapter on Angola Prison - cannot recommend this book enough on the history and memory of slavery in the USA
November 7, 2024 at 1:26 PM
been thinking a lot about 'How the Word is Passed' by Clint Smith in regards to California rejecting Prop 6, especially the chapter on Angola Prison - cannot recommend this book enough on the history and memory of slavery in the USA
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New on the @histparl.bsky.social site today, Gillian Williamson offers her groundbreaking new research into John London, a Black Londoner who voted in a parliamentary election a generation before Ignatius Sancho.
#skystorians
historyofparliament.com/2024/10/21/j...
#skystorians
historyofparliament.com/2024/10/21/j...
John London: Britain's First Black Voter? - The History of Parliament
this election could serve as the earliest known record of a Black person voting in a British parliamentary election - John London
historyofparliament.com
October 21, 2024 at 10:26 AM
Genuinely amazing to me that outlook and eduroam got all the uni contracts given they can barely work on their own, let alone in combination
October 21, 2024 at 11:13 AM
Genuinely amazing to me that outlook and eduroam got all the uni contracts given they can barely work on their own, let alone in combination
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i read recently about how one thing that claims lives in otherwise survivable crisis situations is that people just refuse to believe that what is happening is happening and are cognitively unable to respond to the situation at hand.
October 14, 2024 at 4:14 PM
i read recently about how one thing that claims lives in otherwise survivable crisis situations is that people just refuse to believe that what is happening is happening and are cognitively unable to respond to the situation at hand.
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Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
June 22, 2024 at 7:56 PM
Reminder that Aaron Swartz was facing 35 years in prison and financial devastation for trying to programmatically download and open the contents of JSTOR, which led to him taking his own life.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
But OpenAI is going to scrape all of academia and make billions by plagiarizing it.
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I hope they can find out why the food is doing that
No food has entered northern Gaza since the start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry, the World Food Programme says.
UN says no food has entered northern Gaza since start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of starvation | CNN
No food has entered northern Gaza since the start of October, putting 1 million people at risk of going hungry, the World Food Programme told CNN on Friday.
cnn.it
October 14, 2024 at 2:15 PM
I hope they can find out why the food is doing that