One advantage of the history major: exclusive time travel benefits
Scott Reynolds Nelson
@nelsonhist.bsky.social
Dad, historian, tireless layabout, often incompetent in meatspace. wrote: Steel Drivin' Man, Nation of Deadbeats, Iron Confederacies, & OCEANS OF GRAIN @basicbooks he/him
Nearly 180,000 Black men served in the Union Army. Another 19,000 in the Navy. Black soldiers accounted for roughly 10% of Union military deaths. A large portion of each were formerly enslaved. I imagine they gave a damn about slavery.
I mean if your name is Charles III, it’s not surprising that grade school lessons about the dangers of executive power would leave a lasting impression
I can't believe this. @normcharlatan.bsky.social you're a Minnesota Legend, my man.
Hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software, Persona. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, and that was just the beginning. www.therage.co/persona-age-...
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet.
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New anxiety unlocked: does my discussion of financial disasters in the past make me look like Thanos?
From the Journal of the Civil War Era: I have a piece on how the "diploma divide" & the manipulation of new media - then & now - shaped elections. Mostly I am fond of this dig at Elon Musk & the dad he wants everyone to forget. Issue: muse.jhu.edu/issue/56406 My piece: muse.jhu.edu/pub/12/artic...
Linear Algebra Medieval France and Spain Hegel 19th c. Russian Literature Programming the 6502 (talk about a dog's breakfast)
T. Lacy@tnlacy.bsky.social · 6mo agoNever mind the jobs you had, tell me five classes you took at university. ---------------- 1. Philosophy 101: Logic 2. History of American Environment 3. Econ 101 I Macroeconomics 4. Organic Chem 5. History of American Religion Above all, I wish I had taken more philosophy.
Remember entering a room full of workstations and having to babysit them for 3 hours while they updated? I do. Thanks, Jeffrey. • The Register share.google/mWuY6oajBa2R...
PowerShell architect retires after decades at the prompt
: After Microsoft, Google, and a long fight for automation, Jeffrey Snover hangs up his keyboard
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POV: you are A.P. Hill on July 2, 1863, and you could have sworn you just heard someone say “I don’t plan to let you do that” in a Minnesota accent
Essential read from @pkrugman.bsky.social on the tech bros media scheme: paulkrugman.substack.com/p/maga-the-b...
Friends in African-American history. Come be our colleague at UGA! careers.historians.org/jobs/2180454...
Associate or Full Professor for the John C. Inscoe Chair in Southern History in Athens, GA for University of Georgia Department of History
Exciting opportunity in Athens, GA for University of Georgia Department of History as a Associate...
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It is now clear that average tariffs on August 1 are set to be higher than they were on "Liberation Day." Only a fool would look back to the chaos of early April and conclude that the problem was that the announced tariffs were too small. If you're not worried, you're not paying attention.
Just a reminder as Netanyahu bombs Tehran to the Stone Age, that most of "western civilization" (including writing, higher math, brass, wheat) actually came to us from North Africa via Persia
Look at the cover of the Ukrainian translation of my book! #booksky #WhatsHistory www.instagram.com/p/DI1ok8gN4Y...
Not true. I see you're a luxury watch dealer. I'm also interested in watches. Let me show you how free and easy migration has allowed you to earn a living. 🧵
Elon Musk's DOGE sacked 10% of EPA officials just as Musk's xAI was spinning up. What is xAI's powerplant? 35(!) huge gas-powered generators in Memphis, all without permits, all discharging uncontrollably ... Colossus indeed www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VJT...
Elon Musk Built an Al Super Computer in Our Backyard: It's Poisoning Us
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Its amazing that a thing i never even heard about five years ago is 78% of ocean plastic, literally everywhere e360.yale.edu/features/tir...
Road Hazard: Evidence Mounts on Toxic Pollution from Tires
Researchers are only beginning to uncover the toxic cocktail of chemicals, microplastics, and heavy metals hidden in car and truck tires. But experts say these tire emissions are a significant source ...
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Wow, & straightforwardly implying why Owen was removed too: "CBS's parent, Paramount global is trying to resolve the [Trump] suit as it completes a merger that needs government approval."
jamelle@jamellebouie.net · last yr.i have always admired and looked up to dickerson and this is a very good example of why
Actually. How the US benefitted from outsourcing its research interests to experts in universities.
Chris Bail@chrisbail.bsky.social · last yr.
One of the worst effects of successive govts' rhetoric on Higher Ed is that it's 'training for a job'. So 18yos get themselves (and are pressured) onto narrow technical courses. Yet employers are crying out for ppl who can read, think, write, speak! I've never met an employer who said different.
"Since the 19th century, US government actions have led to drastic changes in international trade and finance," @nelsonhist.bsky.social writes in #AHAPerspectives. "And in all four cases, the result was not recessions but depressions." 🗃️
Radical Tariffs Aren’t New, But They Have Been Disastrous
In four cases, tariffs have led to depressions in US history.
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Radical changes in US tariffs have led to 4 US depressions, but carry on believing a rich guy who ought to know financial history, but apparently doesn't foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/t...
Here's my piece in Foreign Policy about how we've seen radical changes in tariffs or trade rules in the past (1819, 1837, 1890, 1930) & it ain't pretty. foreignpolicy.com/2025/04/11/t...
The Awful History of Tariffs and Depressions
What the 19th century teaches us about what happens next.
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