James Crossland
Professor of #History. Author of "Rogue Agent" and "The Rise of Devils".
#spies, #terrorism, #extremism, fake news, weird stories, terrible people and things that are not real 🗃️ 📚
- Free phd idea for someone to use: How representation of the Internet habe evolved over the course of The Simpsons. Research aspect would be fun
- Going to be talking about how the Black Death altered human history in my lecture this morning.
- www.theguardian.com/environment/... The economic benefits of the higher education sector that the "why bother with this liberal nonsense when you can learn to lay bricks" crowd don't understand.
- Zinger of the week.
- V'Ger still requires the information
- www.theguardian.com/books/2026/f... Good man
- www.dailymail.co.uk/debate/artic... Time for a Monday dystopia: Royal family wiped out in mass accident (see start of King Ralph for guidance) except for ostracised Andrew. Becomes king and abuses norms of royal-parliamentary practice to rule as a petty, creepy tyrant. You're welcome.
- The zone is being flooded with people not called Trump. This was always the danger of a mass release
- The king of law firm capitulators was also apparently an Epstein fanboy. www.ft.com/content/e12a...
- The appeal of being part of a secret club just for the vibes is one of humankind's many peculiar weaknesses. This was the whole premise of the original Illuminati. I suspect Epstein's circle was a similar case of people wanting to sit in the tree house and mock the little people on the ground.
- He obviously won't care, but Aronofsky just lost himself a fan. There's being "edgy" and then there's producing horseshit that the world doesn't need.
- #AI #history #AmericanHistory '...anyone with eyes can see that it looks like low-effort AI slop. To put it another way, it looks like absolute dogshit.' gizmodo.com/darren-arono...
