I don't like the expression "history repeats itself", as each event has an incredibly complex amalgamation of factors leading to it...

That being said... I can only highly recommend watching this clip and then watching Ceaușescu's last speech for a bit of eerie historical comparison.

Calling it collaboration unnecessarily humanizes AI and doesn't mention in which function AI was used.
The fact this gets traction by being posted by RI is an issue, as institutional approval is a vector of scientific accountability that can backfire.
Interesting times for historians of science.

Natürlich sind die ersten 45 Minuten aufgrund technischer Probleme in die Untiefen des Lost-Media Schlundes verschwunden.
Outtakes gibt es trotzdem.
Warum wir vor antik mediterranen Hintergründen sitzen erfahrt ihr wenn die Aufnahme klappt. :D

If you ever wanna chat up a historian, ask them what they're mad about having missed. For me it's probably Buzludzha in its prime and the "Cabinentaxi" pictured down below. 12 y.o. me would have spent all of their change on the test track.
Sadly the 11 stations in Hamburg were never built.

Ah yes, the famously american Lada.
Does anybody want to grab coffee and talk (probably too much) about Tolyatti's history?

In 2019 @philippsarasin.bsky.social held a lecture on the history of sexuality.
I no longer have access to 45pages of notes I took, because google docs is censoring their documents.
Same goes for @modomodo.bsky.social ' colloquium on investigating the church.
Pull your notes from google products!

Zeit neue Projekte anzugehen. Diesmal als Teil eines Duos, welches gerne quatscht, und sich dabei noch passende Quellen und Methodik zurecht gelegt hat.

Most swiss media reports this as "Reporter hit by rubber bullet", which gives the wrong impression of the reporter being hit by a stray projectile.
"Reporters deliberately shot at" is more like it.

If you are in any way shape or form someone who both is *and* understands what it means for you to *be* in contact with an archive of material, you need to start doing whatever it takes to protect those archives, right now.

Maybe a bit controversial, but as someone who has worked with newspaper archives a lot, I consider April Fools an underestimated threat to data integrity.

1) it is global
2) it is protected by being considered traditional
3) it has been going on forever
4) it is competitive between newspapers

Johann Hübners Vollständige Geographie from 1743 is one of those tomes I enjoy casually reading. It's like having eyes and ears in the mid 18th century.
It doesn't feature a single map, which makes it all the more entertaining as it features countless thoughts on the people instead.

I've been staring at this tree for years now. Nothing like a huge tree to put the flow of time into perspective.

I don't like the phrase "history repeats itself", as historical developments are too multifactorial to just repeat. But sometimes people treat it as a playbook and make it a little bit too easy, so yeah... There are definitely familiar developments and they are not nice.

Surely you wouldn't weld the gas-pipe with the pressure still on?
Meanwhile in the USSR 1966:

The history of peaceful nukes is fascinating, but rarely does the Urtabulaq Gas-Field fire get enough credit as the one major event where fighting fire with fire worked.

I still think it is odd to force future teachers into getting a job first.
However, now I am in the unique position to talk about segregation in "Bioshock Infinite", old computers like the Didactic Gama, historical references in "The Last of Us", or social criticism of war in "Army Of Two".

Yesterday I taught 4 lessons on the rise of the NSDAP and a certain austrian painter.
Nobody in the teaching diploma course told me how much of a challenge it would be to hold back tears and expletives about the current developments mirroring a lot of that time.