Miloš Jovanović
@milosthehistorian.com
Balkan barbarian burrowing through history. Own opinions only, alliteration accidental.
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
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Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
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Why do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize?
Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
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Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
bookshop.org/p/books/citi...
We will get a UCLA station! (in 2035)
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
January 10, 2026 at 1:37 AM
We will get a UCLA station! (in 2035)
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
I am so happy Fred Rosen and the gerontocracy of Bel Air didn’t get their way. Thousands of students and university workers matter more, it turns out!
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Just a piece of news: the shadow library anna's archive lost it .org domain, but its mirrors can easily be found on its wikipedia page.
January 9, 2026 at 4:30 AM
Just a piece of news: the shadow library anna's archive lost it .org domain, but its mirrors can easily be found on its wikipedia page.
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the thing that drives me crazy is people putting the weights in the wrong place, as if it is somehow too difficult to put the 10 pound plate on the 10 pound plate rack
I don't ask for much gym etiquette wise but if you take 10+ minutes between multiple sets and do not allow people to work in with you I need to speak with whoever raised you (and to have a snack and a nap to deal with my Big Feelings)
January 8, 2026 at 9:07 PM
the thing that drives me crazy is people putting the weights in the wrong place, as if it is somehow too difficult to put the 10 pound plate on the 10 pound plate rack
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I didn’t have a ton of time for it, but I spent a few minutes during our first lecture explaining that a syllabus is an argument, not an encyclopedia. I asked students to imagine they were teaching a class on C20 US history & gave them a list of events to cover, from which they had to choose 5. +
January 8, 2026 at 2:05 PM
I didn’t have a ton of time for it, but I spent a few minutes during our first lecture explaining that a syllabus is an argument, not an encyclopedia. I asked students to imagine they were teaching a class on C20 US history & gave them a list of events to cover, from which they had to choose 5. +
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The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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January 8, 2026 at 12:13 AM
The woman killed by ICE today was a poet. She won the 2020 Academy of American Poets, University & College Poetry Prize at Old Dominion University.
(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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(And this is Renee from confirmed socials- a photo of a different woman with red lipstick is going around, but that was a classmate.)
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jamal murray has become such a gifted and crafty playmaker. he doesn’t get enough credit for this
January 8, 2026 at 2:00 AM
jamal murray has become such a gifted and crafty playmaker. he doesn’t get enough credit for this
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I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
January 7, 2026 at 8:16 PM
I want the media to understand just how close what happened today is to where George Floyd was murdered. 0.8 miles.
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If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14!
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Online Sessions for Prospective Students | Department of Historical Studies
historicalstudies.ceu.edu
January 7, 2026 at 1:12 PM
If you, or anyone you know, is interested in studying Contemporary History at CEU join us for an online info session next week, Wednesday, Jan. 14!
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
Full details here: historicalstudies.ceu.edu/online-sessi...
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"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
Texas A&M Bans Plato - Daily Nous
Drop the race and gender material from your course and the Plato readings, or teach a different course. You have a day to decide. That's a paraphrase of what Martin Peterson, professor of philosophy a...
dailynous.com
January 7, 2026 at 10:36 AM
"I’m going to pause here just to review: an institution that purports to be a university has told a philosophy professor he is forbidden from teaching Plato."
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
surreal times
dailynous.com/2026/01/06/t...
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“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
We Need to Get Off The Defensive About Immigration
Free movement is a fantastic thing, and we should say it.
www.liberalcurrents.com
January 7, 2026 at 11:08 AM
“We are locked into a battle we did not seek and our timidity is keeping us on the defensive. It isn’t working. Our pessimism is self-fullfiling.” www.liberalcurrents.com/we-need-to-g...
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Seriously.
i find it funny when digital rights activists, particularly in the US, speak out about the problems with US tech and even advocate digital sovereignty now, as if their advocacy and opposition to government and regulation didn’t help usher us toward this terrible reality in the first place
January 6, 2026 at 7:56 AM
Seriously.
I think they tried this in China in the second half of the nineteenth century. Wonder how that turned out..
Some might be tempted to think Mark Lutter’s “charter city” proposal for Venezuela is reasonable. Many such people are unaware of the ideology of the men—eg, Palantir co-founders Peter Thiel & Joe Lonsdale & Thiel Fellowship co-founder Michael Gibson —who fund or otherwise promote Lutter’s work. 1/
January 6, 2026 at 10:37 PM
I think they tried this in China in the second half of the nineteenth century. Wonder how that turned out..
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"About 300,000 more people are riding the subway each day — far more than the 70,000 cars that have been taken off the road in the congestion zone.
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
Congestion pricing after one year: How life has changed. (Gift Article)
How life has changed in the New York area, according to data on traffic, transit and the responses of 600 readers.
www.nytimes.com
January 6, 2026 at 12:35 AM
"About 300,000 more people are riding the subway each day — far more than the 70,000 cars that have been taken off the road in the congestion zone.
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
People are still coming, just not necessarily by private car"
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I hope this photo of Buttercup finds you well.
January 4, 2026 at 6:19 PM
I hope this photo of Buttercup finds you well.
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When software developers tout a tool as “flexible” so one can “set it up any way you want”, experience has taught me that it will require a lot of setup effort to make it useful at all … and it will turn out that one cannot in fact set it up the way •I• want
January 3, 2026 at 4:36 PM
When software developers tout a tool as “flexible” so one can “set it up any way you want”, experience has taught me that it will require a lot of setup effort to make it useful at all … and it will turn out that one cannot in fact set it up the way •I• want
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Transparency & uniformity in pricing—treating likes alike—is a big part of what people demanded from the platform monopolies of a century ago, the railroads.
Today platforms use "algorithms" to make wages and pricing opaque enough to enable price discrimination and theft.
It's the same story!
Today platforms use "algorithms" to make wages and pricing opaque enough to enable price discrimination and theft.
It's the same story!
screenshot in case the post gets taken down or deleted
January 3, 2026 at 3:31 AM
Transparency & uniformity in pricing—treating likes alike—is a big part of what people demanded from the platform monopolies of a century ago, the railroads.
Today platforms use "algorithms" to make wages and pricing opaque enough to enable price discrimination and theft.
It's the same story!
Today platforms use "algorithms" to make wages and pricing opaque enough to enable price discrimination and theft.
It's the same story!
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Media coverage of Mamdani’s inauguration continues to paint him as an out-of-control radical. For insightful background of material struggles behind NY City Hall, read this piece by @ceaweaver.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social published last October.
Stabilization and Speculation | Cea Weaver
Struggles over New York City’s housing policy
www.phenomenalworld.org
January 2, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Media coverage of Mamdani’s inauguration continues to paint him as an out-of-control radical. For insightful background of material struggles behind NY City Hall, read this piece by @ceaweaver.bsky.social in @phenomenalworld.bsky.social published last October.
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“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”
Cops Forced to Explain Why AI Generated Police Report Claimed Officer Transformed Into Frog
AI-powered software Draft One automatically generates police reports from body camera footage. It thought an officer turned into a frog.
futurism.com
January 2, 2026 at 4:50 PM
“‘The body cam software and the AI report writing software picked up on the movie that was playing in the background, which happened to be ‘The Princess and the Frog…'”
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Six years have passed since the volume came out that I edited together with #MarkianProkopovych and #CarlBethke - and the funny thing is that exactly this part of our foreword has been so far most often cited ;-)
An online version of it: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/11293...
An online version of it: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/11293...
December 14, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Six years have passed since the volume came out that I edited together with #MarkianProkopovych and #CarlBethke - and the funny thing is that exactly this part of our foreword has been so far most often cited ;-)
An online version of it: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/11293...
An online version of it: durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/11293...
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Americans do not have a "love affair" with cars, the term typically used in the media.
Rather we are in an abusive relationship, wanting to leave but fearing the consequences.
Rather we are in an abusive relationship, wanting to leave but fearing the consequences.
An astonishing percentage of Americans are open to car-free living.
The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options.
humantransit.org/2025/12/many...
The problem isn't attitudes. The problem is the failure to invest in viable options.
humantransit.org/2025/12/many...
Many Americans Are Open to Car-Free Living — Human Transit
Is Americans a “car culture” or are they “car dependent”? Do they drive because they love driving, or are they in an unhealthy relationship with a substance it would be happy to do without? Obviousl...
humantransit.org
December 31, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Americans do not have a "love affair" with cars, the term typically used in the media.
Rather we are in an abusive relationship, wanting to leave but fearing the consequences.
Rather we are in an abusive relationship, wanting to leave but fearing the consequences.
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Do we like Vivaldi (the browser)?
December 31, 2025 at 6:27 AM
Do we like Vivaldi (the browser)?
I adore this.
modesty laws prevented showing even one lousy frame of John Waters' PINK FLAMINGOS (1972) in the trailer, so the only footage in it is of people reacting to a screening they just came out of. every single type of extant queer person is contained in the specific sequences I have selected here
December 29, 2025 at 4:49 AM
I adore this.
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“In November, around 200 faculty members joined a Zoom call held by the Council of UC Faculty Associations, lamenting what they see as an increasingly centralized and isolated leadership that has refused to join in their fight against the administration.”
No deal, no defiance: UC's Trump fight grinds on, leaving UCLA in limbo
School officials and the Trump administration have been at a standstill for months over $584 million in research grants.
www.politico.com
December 28, 2025 at 11:51 PM
“In November, around 200 faculty members joined a Zoom call held by the Council of UC Faculty Associations, lamenting what they see as an increasingly centralized and isolated leadership that has refused to join in their fight against the administration.”