Dr Jaime Ashworth

Presumably this obituary was one they prepared earlier. RIP

Sorry for your loss. That’s almost grotesque in its inappropriateness.

The speech Progressive rabbis weren’t allowed to finish at Downing St demo - Jewish News Co-heads of Progressive Judaism, rabbis Charley Baginsky and Josh Levy, were told to leave the stage after being drowned out by jeers. This is the speech they did not complete

Proud to be a member of Progressive Judaism: Rabbis Josh Levy and Charley Baginsky would have been allowed to say what they came to say. www.jewishnews.co.uk/the-speech-p...

Have they also discovered why its acronym is well-deserved?!

Cracked Mirror: Holocaust Unconsciousness My post the other week about the use of AI to generate images purportedly of the Holocaust has had quite a lot of attention. Some of this has been derived from my posting a link alongside critiques…

Yup. And it’s here.

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White grunge text on a glitchy black background reads, "You wouldn't download the entire creative output of humanity" in a parody of early 2000s anti-piracy ads.

Can I support this on the basis of both JB’s transphobia and his vandalism of Holocaust memory?

‘Soul-destroying’: Samaritans volunteers blindsided by proposed closures Team who raised nearly £300,000 to replace building left in limbo by plan to close at least 100 UK and Ireland centres

@samaritans.bsky.social is a crucial part of the UK’s mental health system. If these changes result in lost volunteers it will cost lives. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Can confirm! 😂

Mine too.

Haaretz: Far-right minister Smotrich: I've lost faith that Netanyahu can and wants to lead IDF to victory.

Dear Lord above, what does he want now? This man should be nowhere near any government office.

Cracked Mirror: Holocaust Unconsciousness My post the other week about the use of AI to generate images purportedly of the Holocaust has had quite a lot of attention. Some of this has been derived from my posting a link alongside critiques…

Indeed. Specialist knowledge is going to be more important than ever in sorting the AI crisis out.

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AI seems to have found their pictures in the attic, rather than the archives. And no Sunak or Truss?!

I think if history teaches us anything, it’s that lists are created for a purpose. And very often that purpose is detrimental to those on the lists.

Primo Levi: “…we must remember that their faithful followers, among them the diligent executors of inhuman orders, were not born torturers, were not (with a few exceptions) monsters: they were ordinary men. Monsters exist, but they are too few in number to be trulydangerous; more dangerous are the common men, the functionaries ready to believe and to act without asking questions.”

Or as Primo Levi put it:

The Holocaust and its Perpetrators: A Response to Douglas Murray and Andrew Roberts Posters of those kidnapped on 7 October 2023 on a postbox in Golders Green, North London, November 2023. Photo: Jaime Ashworth. I never thought that I would have to rebut the idea that the Nazis we…

Of course they will. But they won’t be the problem as much as the ones who were just doing their jobs. Because there will be more of them.

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I’m hoping Trump decides to try and leap tall buildings.

Simulated Horror: AI and the Holocaust Images In Spite of All, or Images in Spite of the Facts? Above: Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) takes a self-portrait. He chronicled the Lodz Ghetto until his deportation to Auschwitz; he is reported t…

It’s absolutely lethal.

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Hey, Scholars! Call for Papers on suicide in Jewish history!! Please circulate this notice. I appreciate it.

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Simulated Horror: AI and the Holocaust Images In Spite of All, or Images in Spite of the Facts? Above: Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) takes a self-portrait. He chronicled the Lodz Ghetto until his deportation to Auschwitz; he is reported t…

And given the steer by bad actors, it’s absolutely lethal to proper understanding.

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I’d like to wish everyone #ShabbatShalom but I know that peace is so far away this week. Do your best.

Rosensaft: Absence of legal label of genocide does not change the scale of suffering in Gaza

For a specific audience, this is an important point. n1info.ba/english/news...

Simulated Horror: AI and the Holocaust Images In Spite of All, or Images in Spite of the Facts? Above: Mendel Grossman (1913-1945) takes a self-portrait. He chronicled the Lodz Ghetto until his deportation to Auschwitz; he is reported t…

A point I make in relation to history:

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Hostage families, Israeli opposition leaders slam Gaza takeover plan ***

Hostage families, Israeli opposition leaders slam Gaza takeover plan www.haaretz.com/israel-news/...

Having been forced to sit through almost 3 series of The Gilded Age (as well as Downton) I really think the Julian Fellowes comparison is on the button. Downton was basically a UKIP manifesto with occasional ballgowns.

Are we sure it’s not just the Grauniad’s legendary ability to screw things up? 😂🤦‍♂️

I imagine this will be a debate among historians for some time to come. And as with all historical analysis, it will be too late.

Yes. And people are buying it. Because it’s more important to save picoseconds instead of even Googling.

I know what you mean. Even really interesting scholars struggle to make them interesting.

So…minor corrections…?