Thanks, Harry! If I get stuck, I'll let you know.
Matt Fitzpatrick
@kilderbenhauser.bsky.social
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Historian, particularly of Germany, empires, colonialism, mass expulsions, global royals and ideas. Occasionally complaint rock and other nonsense. Living and working on Kaurna yarta.
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The Adelaide show is on. 🙃
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Very happy to pay for a few hours work for someone in Hamburg.
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Trying to recover from the fact that I inexplicably didn't photograph 50 pages from the Hamburg state archive that are now quite central to what I'm writing about.
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Updated edition (August 2025) of the coverage table of the major bibliometric databases (millions of records). GS reindexing period
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Since search is dead, how soon do you think Google Scholar is headed for the Google Graveyard? I'm betting it's soon, and academia is NOT prepared
Google Scholar Is Doomed
Academia built entire careers on a free Google service with zero guarantees. What could go wrong?
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The daughters of Hermann Göring's aide - who refused for years to talk with art-theft investigators - put their home in Argentina up for sale, and GUESS WHAT.
Old master painting looted by Nazis spotted in Argentinian property listing
Dutch newspaper AD says it has traced Giuseppe Ghislandi’s Portrait of a Lady to house near Buenos Aires
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The funny thing is animals actually can suffer and we slaughter them by the billions but sure let’s have an existential panic over whether a software program screams when we turn it off
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
Can AIs suffer? Big tech and users grapple with one of most unsettling questions of our times
As first AI-led rights advocacy group is founded, industry is divided on whether models are, or can be, sentient
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Deleted last post on this, because it gave the impression that the parliamentary archive was the only archive. There is the National Archive at the Alele Museum. But it's still terrible to have lost the parliamentary archive. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
Marshall Islands parliament burns down in overnight fire
A blaze on Tuesday night destroyed the parliament building, archives and library
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Labor's go-slow on JRG hurts students, disproportionately the poorest students. www.theguardian.com/australia-ne...
Arts degrees to cost $50,000 until at least 2027 despite Albanese reform promises, vice-chancellor says
Australia needs critical thinkers who develop ‘philosophy about the world’ by studying the arts, university warns
