An intelligent, informed thread on the dispute about whether the Manchu-led Qing Dynasty can be said to represent "China" in the modern sense. Sometimes you can still learn something back on the hellsite. x.com/huwaliyasunt...

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This Reddit post highlights the reorganisation of Burma's urban fabric, which deserves much more attention & research. reddit.com/r/myanmar/co... (AI translation justpaste.it/i9sz7) In so much of Burma now, the previous urban centres are basically abandoned & the smaller rural towns are bustling.

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Another resource for students/historians: froginawell.net/reference/ja... Full text extracted (Sonnet 5.5) from over 500 speeches, treaties, laws, and misc. reports from a selection of (the very pro-Japanese empire) issues of the Tokyo Gazette and Contemporary Japan, mostly 1937-45.

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Climate Researcher Colleen Golja always thought science and reason would have a seat at the table in deciding the planet’s fate. That was until one morning last September in London, when she took part in the first in a series of war games.

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Anthropic's recent threat report provided unusually detailed insights into how state actors benefit from AI models to scale up their repressive repertoire. Together w/ @katepundyk.bsky.social & @sanstis.bsky.social we show how these tools can be used to supercharge digital transnational repression.

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