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Historian. Posts on the Cold War, Germany, Yugoslavia, and anything else relevant to my interests. http://nanrep.org | https://mastodon.social/@terraform

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NDP says Ontario report on intimate partner violence partly AI-generated, includes non-existent sources The 877-page study was introduced into the legislature on Tuesday

So far we have groups in Toronto using fake-AI (opposition to Bathurst rapid transit, IntegrityTO) and now the gov't of Ontario using fake AI

www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/artic...

11.12.2025 15:14 — 👍 41    🔁 17    💬 11    📌 4
Page from an Italian colonial census record for a butcher from Venice living in Asmara

Page from an Italian colonial census record for a butcher from Venice living in Asmara

Asked by the 1905 census carried out in Eritrea what language he habitually spoke, this hero said 'Veneto dialect'

(but confessed he spoke a little Italian as a secondary language 'un pocco di italiano'

Also enjoying his religious faith: 'God without priests '

11.12.2025 12:31 — 👍 70    🔁 12    💬 6    📌 0

My university paid a marketing company a lot of money to tell us that, give the global recognition of #Dublin as a brand, we should call ourselves ‘UCD Dublin’. So we are now University College Dublin Dublin. 🫠 #UCD #TrueStory

10.12.2025 14:47 — 👍 114    🔁 18    💬 25    📌 5

there is absolutely no universe in which you will be able to guess the surprise twist in this video. this is literally the most surprising finale ever committed to screen.

09.12.2025 18:05 — 👍 18    🔁 5    💬 7    📌 0

Honestly, it's quite disturbing to keep reading about this type of HE administrator.

09.12.2025 16:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I hope the squashed Bolsonaro tweet makes it into the movie. I really need to see Caviezel typing "- Bom vídeo. 👍"

09.12.2025 02:44 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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I’m confused — does this repost mean he secretly likes the EU?

07.12.2025 17:24 — 👍 183    🔁 33    💬 10    📌 3
A street poster with a blue and black image of partisan Stjepan Filipović. Death to fascism freedom to the people is overlaid in white text.

A street poster with a blue and black image of partisan Stjepan Filipović. Death to fascism freedom to the people is overlaid in white text.

Props to whoever is putting these up around Toronto’s east end

07.12.2025 18:33 — 👍 21    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 0
It’s not just the college students. I’m a professor—and these AI models offer keener, smarter, and more thorough suggestions than I do.
By Tyler Cowen

It’s not just the college students. I’m a professor—and these AI models offer keener, smarter, and more thorough suggestions than I do. By Tyler Cowen

I think this is intended as a comment about the capabilities of the robot, but it is possible to read it another way.

07.12.2025 09:22 — 👍 34    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 1
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Muškarac u Zagrebu gazio ruže za ubijene žene NA TRGU bana Jelačića u Zagrebu, muškarac je snimljen kako gazi po ružama postavljenim u spomen na ubijene žene. Čitatelj ga je identificirao kao glazbenika Tonija Kumerlea, viđenog i na molitvama.

“Oni se samo mole”

www.index.hr/vijesti/clan...

07.12.2025 14:06 — 👍 23    🔁 7    💬 2    📌 0
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Housetops in the Ward
A.J. Casson
1924

06.12.2025 20:30 — 👍 223    🔁 49    💬 0    📌 0
Ms. Rachel looking out the back window of a yellow and red Tatra T3SU. The streetcar is driving through a snowy forest.

Ms. Rachel looking out the back window of a yellow and red Tatra T3SU. The streetcar is driving through a snowy forest.

Ms. Rachel appears to be riding in a Tatra T3SU.

06.12.2025 16:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Sam Kriss in the NYT. Proof you can get away with the most abominable behaviour if you’re rich enough.

06.12.2025 06:52 — 👍 9    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 0

I to bi bio pozitivan pomak!

04.12.2025 16:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Hoće li postaviti rinzole između bic staze i ceste?

04.12.2025 16:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Austrian things

04.12.2025 09:51 — 👍 52    🔁 8    💬 4    📌 0

Cruelty is anhedonic. It rarely delivers the euphoria promised because, in the abstract, what feels righteous and joyful inevitably reveals itself to be sordid and small. Then it's "No not like that". "No not enough". "No the real battle, the forever war to make this feel good starts now". Forever.

04.12.2025 10:59 — 👍 1597    🔁 488    💬 18    📌 12

One thing I always want to ask these masculinity entrepreneurs is why men can’t look to women as role models, and can’t see in women models of human virtue and thriving that are worth emulating. After all, women look to men for these all the time.

03.12.2025 17:28 — 👍 2117    🔁 441    💬 127    📌 0
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Wirtshaus Alhartinger Hof - Dragan Ćulibrk; Hainzenbachstraße 86, 4060 Leonding, Austria https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=48.2877388%2C14.2417173&query_place_id=ChIJqYI3aT2Xc0cRxIne4_Tlgb0

02.12.2025 12:05 — 👍 23    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
A bunny is in the Criterion Closet, picking from an enormous shelf of DVDs. Other dvds for foreign films lie strewn about the floor already, including "Hausu", "The Battle of Algiers" and Fritz Lang's "M". The bunny cannot reach above the second or third shelf

A bunny is in the Criterion Closet, picking from an enormous shelf of DVDs. Other dvds for foreign films lie strewn about the floor already, including "Hausu", "The Battle of Algiers" and Fritz Lang's "M". The bunny cannot reach above the second or third shelf

Daily bunny no.3156 can give you some recommendations

02.12.2025 05:03 — 👍 2936    🔁 759    💬 20    📌 23

🚨D&Q sale klaxxon!🚨

(I just ordered a few books myself, including this one on Weimar-era Berlin drawnandquarterly.com/books/berlin...)

01.12.2025 15:24 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
Art deco building entrance with four columns, a relief of a horse above them, and an engraved sign that says "HORSES"

Art deco building entrance with four columns, a relief of a horse above them, and an engraved sign that says "HORSES"

Horses.

29.11.2025 18:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Remembering Janusz Korczak: the Polish-Jewish educator and pediatrician who ran an orphanage in the Warsaw Ghetto and refused rescue, choosing to stay with his 200 children when they were deported by the Nazis to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942, where...

29.11.2025 08:01 — 👍 20    🔁 11    💬 2    📌 1
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A #Roman necklace plaited gold set with sapphires & garnets, with a lovely butterfly pendant, also set with precious stones. Hard to believe this piece of jewellery is about 1800-2000 years old! 🏺 #AncientBlueSky

29.11.2025 10:09 — 👍 77    🔁 17    💬 6    📌 2
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‘Northern Exposure’ actor gave ICE agents in Redmond her tribal ID. They called it ‘fake,’ she says Indigenous actor Elaine Miles of "Northern Exposure" was detained by ICE at a Redmond bus stop. When she showed them her Tribal ID, they told her it was fake.

ICE DETAINED MARILYN. Fuck these people. www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news...

27.11.2025 16:35 — 👍 6812    🔁 3183    💬 232    📌 467
Is ChatGPT Conscious?
Many users feel they're talking to a real person.
Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

Is ChatGPT Conscious? Many users feel they're talking to a real person. Scientists say it's time to consider whether they're onto something.

No, ChatGPT is not conscious. Are the journalists who keep writing these fucking articles?

25.11.2025 22:27 — 👍 1031    🔁 181    💬 73    📌 79

Al ovo pozivanje na razum usred prijetnje je baš neki klošarski moment.

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A skateboarder in the midst of a hand plant. He’s almost entirely upside down. It’s no big deal. He’s done this a million times. He might even be bored. His mind drifts mid-flight. He remembers, randomly, something he hadn’t thought of in decades. His 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Trumbull, is preparing everyone to make granola for a class project, and Trumbull calls one of the nuts they’re going to include N***** nuts, dropping the N-word like it was no big deal. The skateboarder loses focuses at that moment and collapses to the concrete in a pile. What the fuck, he says.

A skateboarder in the midst of a hand plant. He’s almost entirely upside down. It’s no big deal. He’s done this a million times. He might even be bored. His mind drifts mid-flight. He remembers, randomly, something he hadn’t thought of in decades. His 3rd grade teacher, Mrs. Trumbull, is preparing everyone to make granola for a class project, and Trumbull calls one of the nuts they’re going to include N***** nuts, dropping the N-word like it was no big deal. The skateboarder loses focuses at that moment and collapses to the concrete in a pile. What the fuck, he says.

SKATE392.BMF

25.11.2025 17:17 — 👍 28    🔁 6    💬 3    📌 2

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