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Don't know why I find it cute that the Wiki icon for "Individualism" is just this one dude

“The architect of the German V-2 rockets, Werner von Braun, entitled his autobiography ‘I Aim for the Stars’. Londoners, however, will remember that he usually hit London” Easily the most stone-cold zinger I’ve encountered all year.

This was excellent, I thought, and returns to an insight already hard won by the computer scientist Joseph Weizenbaum in the 1960s: anthropomorphising a computer is only ever self delusion or a cynical ploy www.ft.com/content/bdb3...

Why this philosopher turned down AnthropicThe AI industry is courting the humanities — but it is asking the wrong questionswww.ft.com

I'm reading debates between historians about whether the profession should use computers (from the early 1980s). So much of the writing, which must have seemed groundbreaking at the time, is now remarkably quaint.

An unsettling research first for me this week: cancelling a much anticipated archive trip due to extreme heat.

This was a very well done doc on an important topic: AI in UK Higher Education. I'm writing about this topic at the moment, so I'll add another perspective that was not covered in the show: how AI tools give US tech giants further leverage over UK universities.

BBC Radio 4 - Currently, The Artificial UniversityCan university education survive AI?www.bbc.co.uk

A real honour to have Hotel Lux shortlisted for the Royal Irish Academy's Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction 🙏 www.ria.ie/2026/07/03/s...

Six books shortlisted for the €10,000 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction - Royal Irish AcademyThe Royal Irish Academy in association with the Department of Foreign Affairs has today, 3 July, announced the six shortlisted titles for the 2026 Michel Déon Prize for non-fiction.www.ria.ie

I maintain a running list of unusual nouns Belfast natives describe to me as “wee”. Yesterday I collected an all timer: “wee crypt”

Hopefully releasing sometime before GTA 7.

I graduated! Proud to say I’m now a graduate of @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social in addition to being a historian here. I just finished a PgCert in game development to support my Digital Humanities/Public History work.

A while back I created my own note-taking application by using code + Obsidian. It's a way of organising research grounded in social networks/collective biography. I've since refined it and I'm working on an open source version I'll share more widely. Here is a quick preview:

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In New York an important part of Belfast — and Irish—history is being told on stage in a form that feels so sharply resonant with the moment we face right now: www.nytimes.com/2026/06/11/t...

Frederick Douglass Asked, What Is Home? New York Teens Answer.www.nytimes.com

My first time today doing the whole “mic-arm podcast studio” aesthetic — with the brilliant Shane Todd.

Kate Nash gave Hotel Lux a REALLY great shout in today’s Observer! Thanks to @mcculld.bsky.social for spotting