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Lewis Wade 🗃️

@wadehistory.bsky.social

Humboldt fellow at Bamberg, FRHistS | Historian of early modern French global commerce - political/economic/social/maritime history 🇫🇷🌍🏳️‍🌈 | Privilege, Economy and State in Old Regime France out now - download for free http://t.ly/NMc17

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will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 2d ago

people in/near bristol and into/violently against tarot/AI: we are hosting a series of events this year on “risk”, tarot and AI as part of my university research fellowship get in touch if you’d like to be involved

La Maison Dieu tarot card above text TAROT / RISK / AI a series of events hosted at the University of Bristol November 4 2026: discussion event open to anyone interested in Tarot / Al contact: william.pooley@ bristol.ac.uk
Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

Claire and Ben have done an extraordinary job in bringing together so many wonderful scholars for this volume, and it's a privilege to have been able to contribute an essay myself. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the volume in print in March! 🗃️

Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

I really, really want to give Burnham a chance to turn things around, but the inflationary demand-side sticking plaster didn't fix the supply-side problem last time, and it isn't going to fix it this time either

Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3d ago

FT Exclusive: Andy Burnham will launch a new version of the controversial Help to Buy scheme through which hundreds of thousands of first-time buyers got on to the housing ladder under the previous Conservative government. ft.trib.al/G2Am743

Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 3d ago

Claire and Ben have done an extraordinary job in bringing together so many wonderful scholars for this volume, and it's a privilege to have been able to contribute an essay myself. I'm very much looking forward to seeing the volume in print in March! 🗃️

Professor Claire Jowitt@clairejowitt.bsky.social · 3d ago

The Wreck of The Gloucester: A Seventeenth-Century Warship Through Time, edited by @benjaminredding.bsky.social & moi is now advertised from @boydellandbrewer.bsky.social boydellandbrewer.com/book/the-wre... 23 original essays & 150 illustrations Available to preorder in January & out 30 March 2027

will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 4d ago

“so will, how did you get into marking google maps with all the scatological folklore landmarks mentioned in academic literature?” well

Google Maps We've accepted your edit Your edit to Les Fesses de Gargantua was accepted. Thanks for making Maps more accurate and reliable. Map data ©2026 Edited Sep 26, 2026 • Accepted Edits may take 24 hours before appearing on Google. You can track the status of your edit at any time in Edits.
will pooley@willpooley.bsky.social · 5d ago

Near Bain-de-Bretagne Adolphe Oran reported, lies a pond, the étang de la Huais, which finds its source in a stream that runs down from between two round hillocks: the buttocks of Gargantua watch this space to see if GoogleMaps accept my request to have this location added!

Google Maps clearly shows the buttocks in relief
John Oxley@joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 5d ago

Think it shows both the confused position of the govt and the relative powers of new/old media that the PM won't speak to The Sun but still uses the CSAM & disinformation app owned by the guy who advocates for the overthrow of the government.

Emilio Casalicchio@ecasalicchio.bsky.social · 5d ago

🗳️ IN LONDON PLAYBOOK PM TONIGHT ... 🗳️ Burnham kills all the SW1 snap election babble 🗳️ That and ALL the other key lines from the PM's mammoth regional interview round in the newsletter

John Stott@jpsastro.bsky.social · 6d ago

Had a UKRI funded grant proposal rejected at the "AI triage stage". "This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review." 🧪 #academicsky

I am writing to let you know that, unfortunately, your application was not successful. Review process As part of the initial triage of the 179 proposals submitted to this call, each was assessed using an AI-based review. Every proposal was read independently by several different AI models against the same seven criteria used to shape this call (including cyber security relevance, research quality and novelty, importance of the problem addressed, feasibility of the project plan, likely outputs and impact, value for money, and responsible research practice), with each model asked to give a score and a written justification with supporting quotations from the text. To guard against any one model's idiosyncrasies, we also ran a second, independent process in which different AI models debated the merits and weaknesses of each proposal before reaching a judgement, again against the same criteria. Scores from both processes were combined to produce an overall ranking. This AI-based triage was used only to identify approximately 50% of the strongest proposals to take forward to full human review. Projects selected for funding were drawn from those that progressed to the full human review stage. We recognise that AI-assisted assessment is a new and evolving part of the review process, and we are continuing to evaluate how well it aligns with the judgements of human reviewers on this call. We will soon produce a document detailing our method, so that others can build upon it and improve it. Feedback on your application Your application was not selected to progress beyond the AI triage stage. To provide transparency on the outcome of this assessment, we are sharing below the scores (out of 5) from each of the two AI review processes described above, together with the mean score across the two processes.
John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 5d ago

will say it again: the most effective way to curb far right agitators like Lowe, "Tommo" et. al. would be to stop their ability to earn money for it from social media or live streaming. So much of it is grifting for revenue, not attention.

Josiah Mortimer@josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 6d ago

Here's Rupert Lowe MP's payments from X Corp over the past year. This man is making serious cash from Musk's platform. Payments surged over the summer, during UK 'unrest', and when Musk was frantically re-sharing Lowe's posts... Bleak, lucrative work if you can get it.

Line chart plotting 21 payments from X Corp to Rupert Lowe MP, as declared in the Register of Members' Financial Interests. The x-axis runs from 3 September 2025 to 16 September 2026; the y-axis shows the value of each fortnightly payment in pounds, from zero to £12,000. Payments run between roughly £1,100 and £2,200 through late 2025, rise gradually through spring 2026 to around £3,000–£3,800, then jump sharply to £11,724.97 on 10 June 2026 and £10,265.50 in July. From there they fall in five consecutive steps — £4,412.76, £3,126.35, £2,885.36, £2,542.04 — to £2,413.89 on 16 September 2026, a fall of 79% from the June peak. Two things worth carrying with the graphic whichever version you use. The July point is marked with an asterisk because the register gives its received date as 7 August 2026 while recording it as registered on 15 July. Plotted it at the likelier 7 July.
Brian Jay Jones@brianjayjones.com · 6d ago

Jim Henson would have been 90 (yup, you read that right: NINETY) years old today. You can celebrate his life by celebrating creativity, diversity, peace, imagination, and silliness.

A tuxedoed Jim Henson sits in a sea of Muppets.
Lewis Wade 🗃️@wadehistory.bsky.social · 6d ago

There are lots of issues regarding LLMs to discuss, but this is the fundamental one that should have stopped all else in its tracks: they are an unprecedented breach of intellectual property rights, and society cannot be ordered around pretending that LLMs are a special case worthy of exemption

Fabio Chiusi@fabiochiusi.bsky.social · 6d ago

AI Exec: We May Have Pulled Off “The Largest Theft of Labor in Human History” www.motherjones.com/politics/202...

BladeoftheSun@bladeofthes.bsky.social · 6d ago

Netanyahu "Did the Nazis ask the Jews to leave? Did any of the genocidal leaders ask people to leave so they could come in? Of course not." Netanyahu openly compares his actions to Nazis and all the genocidal leaders. His own words.