Patrick De Oliveira

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Historians' Handbook for Saving the World TOC A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency Co-organized by Alexandra Hui and Emily Pawley Forthcoming from MIT Press, 2026 Table of Contents Acknowled...

Today's #histSTM lunchtime read: The table of contents from **A Historian’s Handbook for Saving the World: Responding to the Global Climate Emergency**, an incredible anthology edited by @alixhui.bsky.social & @emilypawley.bsky.social, which will be published later this year by @mitpress.bsky.social

There's a reason why it's a favorite among Marxists! Pretty serious and transparent about interests as far as financial publications go.

I think it’s abysmal. Especially in the case of Palestine where state violence was used against student encampments and those speaking against the genocide.

it is well past time for FIFA to reschedule all World Cup matches slated to be played in the United States in venues in Mexico and Canada

No shade intended toward @benmckenzie.bsky.social, of course. I used to love the show and am really looking forward to the crypto doc.

Oh yeah! Forgot he'd got aboard the Bored Ape bandwagon! Honestly, I think the last thing I would've expected in my teens was that Ryan from The OC would become the driving force in the ethics of tech and entertainment.

Totally understand!

Ah, that's too bad! :)

How much are they getting paid to throw fellow artists under the bus? Can folks at @adultswimcentral.com check (not official, but maybe there are connections)?

Or maybe someone with greater influence than some lowly history professor can email them at press@leagueofbuddies.com to see what's up.

Superhuman @ SXSW

Today I found out that Seth Green & Matthew Senreich—the people behind Robot Chicken (a show many love)—seem to have no issue partnering with the company behind Grammarly, an app that co-opts people's identities to sell a dehumanizing product.
events.superhuman.com/sxsw-2026/

Anyone who cares an ounce about authors and editors should boycott Superhuman and its blatantly unethical products. And shame and shun its CEO Shishir Mehrotra.

I'll get us started. Leave it to a philistine tech overlord to peddle falsely attributed quotes while engaging in self-help platitudes.

1. Are you currently using an AI tool for work-related tasks or projects? * Yes * No, but I would like to (PLEASE SKIP TO QUESTION 7)

My employer asks me to complete a survey on AI usage for which this is the first question (required):

They're also just incredibly stupid/shallow.

bsky.app/profile/plso...

Its loser CEO also peddles falsely attributed quotes while engaging in self-help platitudes (screenshot from coda.io/@shishir/to-..., Mehrotra's website).

Pretty amusing that one can't really differentiate between the output from a CEO (who likely never read Twain) and his enshittified product.

Shishir's To-Do List Philosophy Eating the frog, one bite at a time.

The screenshot is from coda.io/@shishir/to-... (Shishir Mehrotra's website).

Pretty amusing that one can't really differentiate between the output of a CEO (who I'm willing to bet has never read a single page by Twain) and his enshittified product.

Anyone who cares an ounce about authors and editors should boycott Superhuman and its blatantly unethical products. And shame and shun its CEO Shishir Mehrotra.

I'll get us started. Leave it to a philistine tech overlord to peddle falsely attributed quotes while engaging in self-help platitudes.

I think it's simultaneously this and the fact that many enthusiasts seem to have a narrow sense of what job tasks are/can look like. There's a lot of "you don't understand what AI can do" coming at some of us and a legitimate response is "you don't understand what I can do, and need to, in my job."

How to be so totally wrong.

And maybe this is all just because I really don't think the structural conditions offer any real possibility of left-wing authoritarianism (at least in the vast majority of the world, including the U.S.), whereas they are ripe for right-wing authoritarianism.

And honestly I don't feel too bad about being confused. History and the present are very confusing!

As someone whose only subs (it's expensive to get them sent to Europe!) are Jacobin & The New Yorker, all I can say is that I think the liberals tend to be more historically accurate and the leftists more politically so.

But that says more about my own confused state of mind than anything else.

"As seen in an obituary"

Google AI summary still doing god's work.

Is Amazon down? 18,000+ outage reports as users cite checkout, pricing issues Shoppers are reporting widespread problems with Amazon’s website, raising questions about a potential outage.

God I really hope this is because of some shitty AI coding integration.

www.fox5dc.com/news/is-amaz...

Fetterman was really an incredible mistake, eh? Basically like voting in one of the batshit Berzattos (Donna?) to help run the show.

Can attest to this.

Nothing Succeeds Like Failure by Steven Conn | Paperback | Cornell University Press Do business schools actually make good on their promises of "innovative," "outside-the-box" thinking to train business leaders who will put society ahead of money-making? Do they help society by makin...

I read this recently and found it quite good (certainly written from a critic's perspective, but there is indeed much to be critical of).

www.cornellpress.cornell.edu/book/9781501...

Larry Summers to retire from Harvard amid Epstein scandal | CNN Business Economist and former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers announced plans on Wednesday to retire from his professorship at Harvard University at the end of the academic year amid scrutiny over his ties to...

Is there a prediction market going on yet on how long it takes for him to end of at either Hoover Inst. or University of Austin?

edition.cnn.com/2026/02/25/b...

I've already corrected the "Michel-Rolph Trouillot" :)