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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · Jun 10

Hi all!

Today @mitpress.bsky.social releases "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France."

Order it from your favorite retailer here: mitpress.mit.edu/978026254980...

Or, even better, ask your library to add it to its collections.

Any questions, just let me know!

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 1d

Those of you teaching history of ideas/intellectual history courses that are framed through primary texts: what kind of assignments have you designed to deal with LLMs? If in-class writing, how have you structured it so that students have resources to write while engaging with the texts?

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 12h

That sounds great but also a lot of work with the constant feedback! How many students do you do this for?

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 1d

I've considered something like a commonplace book! How do you go about in grading it (and how often)?

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 1d

Time, access to texts and notes without access to LLMs, etc.

That being said, All my intellectual history classes during college were take-home essays. For me would be the ideal format, but still at a loss on how to implement.

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 1d

20 to 30 students. No TAs.

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 2d

Nearly 1,400 words and Christopher Caldwell can't manage to provide a single tangible example of how "DEI" has actually hurt the military. But what to expect from someone who apparently thinks school segregation was better than the alternative, eh?

www.nytimes.com/2025/10/07/o...

Opinion | That Hegseth Speech Was Actually Pretty Good

www.nytimes.com

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 3d

Indeed.

Why @why.bsky.team · Mar 19

My unified theory of political discourse centers around the fact that the quote post was invented in 2015

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 6d

But I read the Pascal's Wager entry on wikipedia in between my sessions teaching students that profit = revenue-costs!

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 6d

On business faculty and the Malcolm Gladwellization of everything.

time.com/7320539/phil...

The Philosophical Bet We All Need to Make in the Age of AI

Toby Stuart argues that the French philosopher Blaise Pascal can teach us how to make rational choices in the AI era.

time.com

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jon ben-menachem @jbenmenachem.com · 7d

I feel like universities should start mandating some kind of sequence for undergrads on 'how to use the library' and 'the pitfalls of digital archiving.' Search tools are being ruined by LLM integration, and even pre-LLMs, digitization of pre-Internet era works was very spotty.

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 7d

Question for the likes of @tgpeterson.bsky.social. Wikipedia says that original version of The Battle of Algiers is 136 min long but I can only find 120 min versions to stream. Is there some platform (or sketchy website) I'm not looking at? And are there physical media versions that are full length?

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 8d

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 9d

Turns out he was also right about violet powder. (Entry is from The Lancet, 25 May 1878—several years after Marx's comment).

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 9d

This entry in Karl Marx's confession book just goes to show how the man was an absolute unit. (Other passage is from Wikipedia).

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 9d

Oh.

JVG 骨 @jasonv.bsky.social · 9d

Absolute all-timer sentence in today's @nytimes.com

"some legal experts have called it a crime to summarily execute civilians" says today's New York Times, continuing their long tradition of whitewashing fascism

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 22d

Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon. Back when some semblance of free speech still existed in the U.S.A.

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omerbartov.bsky.social @omerbartov.bsky.social · 23d

My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide www.nytimes.com/2025/09/16/o...

Opinion | My U.N. Commission’s Finding: Israel Is Committing Genocide

www.nytimes.com

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 25d

The FT has, among the media, the best incentives to be sensitive to reality.

SpinningHugo @spinninghugo.bsky.social · 25d

It is a bit odd that the FT is so far to the left of the UK government, the BBC and most other political outlets (eg the Graun)

The FT writers moved, en masse, to bluesky, which is where you'll see them engage with people.

See also the writers for the Economist.

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 25d

Musk told a large crowd + a larger offline audience that they would risk death & erasure if they did not support pre-emptive political violence.

"You will have no choice. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that’s the truth, I think.”

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spooky•girl•cassiopeia @sadgirlcassi.bsky.social · 27d

"I wish we could blame this on muslims or migrants, but turns out it was one of us." what a wild thing to say

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 28d

Amazing how none of these Charlie Kirk obits care to observe that few people contributed more to the intense polarization and explosion of "cancel culture" we've seen in the past decade. The dude essentially made his name by creating a professor target list and goading his minions to go after them.

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · 28d

Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court.

Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.

Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · Sep 3

I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · Sep 2

Bolsonaro trial being broadcast live.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=felf...

Bill Hader Eating Popcorn GIF

ALT: Bill Hader Eating Popcorn GIF

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Patrick De Oliveira @plso.bsky.social · Sep 1

Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor: