Patrick De Oliveira
@MustHistoricize
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| Historian | Teacher | e/ludd |
Madrid
Joined August 2010
Hi all!. Today @mitpress releases "Ascending Republic: The Ballooning Revival in Nineteenth-Century France." . Order it from your favorite retailer here: Or, even better, ask your library to add it to its collections. Any questions, let me know!
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Minimum annual leave by country:. United Kingdom: 28. USA: 0.
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I'm sure the men and women who orchestrated Operation Overlord (including the 20,000 United States troops who died during it) appreciate the @SecDef's comments.
Secretary Hegseth set the record straight about what happened with the successful strikes in Iran: . "President Trump directed the most COMPLEX and SECRETIVE military operation in HISTORY, and it was a resounding success, resulting in a ceasefire agreement and the end of the
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RT @GaryMarcus: @kevinroose you honestly don’t appear to know what you are talking about. you can’t repeat multiple passages of Harry Potte….
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Great to see that racist right wingers are drawing inspiration from Stalinists.
By the way in Zohran’s particular case he is clearly not defined by being from Uganda or India but from being essentially from nowhere, a floating elite class global citizen with no loyalty to a place or its people, which is why he didn’t bother to get American citizenship until.
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Also, if you're in the United States, you can get some big discounts if you order from Penguin Random House at the following link: Order today using the code MITP30 to get 30% off. Use READMIT20 after today to get 20% off.
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Friends and colleagues, the book is coming out next month, so I wanted to put my name out there in case you're looking for anyone to give a book/research talk at your institution this upcoming academic year. Happy to do so anywhere in the world, so please reach out :).
The book has a page!. Check it out if you want to learn about how for a century balloons were deemed useless/obsolete technology only to then be reinvented in the late 1800s as quintessential artifacts of modernity. Oh, and if you're into French history.
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Always interesting to see someone who was offered a legacy spot at an Ivy League school rhapsodise about meritocracy.
This isn't FOX. it is News Nation -- but that point aside. here is some commentary on what is happening at Harvard.
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Going to move most of my interactions to CielBlue. This space has just gotten too weird the last year, and not getting as much out of it as I did in the early days. You can find me at
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The book has a page!. Check it out if you want to learn about how for a century balloons were deemed useless/obsolete technology only to then be reinvented in the late 1800s as quintessential artifacts of modernity. Oh, and if you're into French history.
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RT @MustHistoricize: While ostensibly a book about ballooning, this is probably one of my favourite images (there are close to 100!) https:….
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While ostensibly a book about ballooning, this is probably one of my favourite images (there are close to 100!)
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In my job, I find few things as rewarding as going through proofs. Have done it a few times with articles but this is the first (and hopefully not last) time with a book. Couldn't be happier with @mitpress's font choice. In bookstores sometime mid-2025 :). #ascendingrepublic
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3."As such, we'll continue allocating resources to this stuff. Also, rather than address the immediate ways it is making things worse, we'll allocate resources to speculating about future catastrophic scenarios that those standing to win the most with AI have distracted us with.".
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2. "That being said, we believe [based on no concrete evidence] that AI has the potential to improve X, Y, and Z. This belief comes mainly from science fiction and from whatever folks like Sam Altman has been saying.".
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The typical mainstream AI discussion in three steps:. 1. "AI has not completely revolutionized or destroyed existing systems, but we have a bunch of evidence that it has been making X, Y, and Z [which were already pretty bad] worse.".
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Early in grad school I got pretty interested in the history of the self (@DavidAvromBell led a great seminar titled "Revolutionary Lives"). So I had some fun revisiting Rousseau to pen this very brief survey of the history of authenticity for @IeInsights.
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