Patrick De Oliveira
| Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com | ICE is a terrorist organization |
- This only makes sense if it's some kind of Wile E. Coyote scheme where the march ends at a guillotine scaffold. marchforbillionaires.org
- Can't make this shit up.
- This is a pretty compelling theory.
- The world is in a pretty dark place, so it's all the more important to celebrate initiatives that try to shine some light through the darkness. Today I'm proud to be part of this political community. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/o...
- Normal.
- Every time someone posts an "AI & calculator" post an angel loses its wings, falls on a child, and the 2 decomposing corpses become a hotbed for disease—including one that gets into into the water supply, contaminating even more people who then feel like the world needs another AI & calculator post.
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- There are currently 58 U.S.-based "prompt engineer" jobs on LinkedIn. Every single higher ed administrator and policy figure who claimed that they were pivoting to LLMs to prepare students for the "jobs of the future" should be forced to stare at that number for the rest of their lives.
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraThe people of Minnesota have executed one of the most impressive civil resistance campaigns I can remember: - Organized a city wide general strike - Maintained nonviolent discipline amidst violence - Mobilized 10,000s in subzero temps to protest and watch ICE - Flipped public opinion against ICE
- You know shit is bad when you have Emperor Palpatine saying things have gone too far. (Also, if there's anything that might convince me that physiognomy is real it may just be Sepp Blatter just looking like pure evil). www.theguardian.com/football/202...
- Feeling that one German word after reading this hilarious #fail. www.nature.com/articles/d41...
- So what's the deal? Can you gun down an unidentified ICE agent who barges into your house without a warrant on the basis of stand your ground legislation? Or is that law applicable only for when racists think a Black person is standing too close to them?
- I would also like to make the very important announcement that I rescind the invitation is was going to make to Warren Buffet to engage in a joint-wealth management scheme.
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraCal State University’s deal with OpenAI — providing ChatGPT to all faculty, students, and staff — will expire in June 2026. Amid the prospect of layoffs in the CSU, we’re asking the chancellor not to renew this costly and demoralizing contract. Link below and anyone can sign:
- ICE is a terrorist organization. www.thehandbasket.co/p/ice-st-pau...
- Honestly, my disavowal of a Whiggish view of history has little to do with historiographical debates. It does, however, have a lot to do with the fact that for a long time I kind of assumed that many of my views would moderate as I aged, but *gestures toward everything* hasn't really allowed that.
- Love reading juicy gossip about the absolute mess that is UATX. That being said, the only appropriate reaction for this kind of writing is 🙄 www.politico.com/news/magazin...
- Trump's fascist shock troops are also busy kidnapping Native Americans. ictnews.org/news/north-c...
- Most heroes don't wear capes.
- Hilarious to see a Yale dinosaur argue that nothing has changed in academia in the past 40 years and then pitch the innovative power of... MOOCs? Dude, we get it, you headed a MOOC initiative a decade ago that faculty were skeptical about and it failed. Move on. www.chronicle.com/article/why-...
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- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraAt least Obama's hypothetical Death Panels would have decided who deserved to die based on a rubric more complicated than "did they just piss off a high school dropout armed by the state"
- Absurd. But also, not sure why any Brazilian of sound mind would be excited to visit a shithole country like the U.S.A.
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraIf there’s a better obituary for an evil cartoonist than an A.I. generated version of his character that fucks up the defining detail of its design, I can’t think of it. No notes. 👨🏻🍳 💋
- As our media ecosystems get polluted with LLM-generated text, it's hard not to be moved by this quote from the always incisive Frantz Fanon, which I came across in @adamshatz.bsky.social's fascinating biography: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘣𝘦𝘭'𝘴 𝘊𝘭𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘤: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘙𝘦𝘷𝘰𝘭𝘶𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯𝘢𝘳𝘺 𝘓𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘻 𝘍𝘢𝘯𝘰𝘯.
- Reposted by Patrick De Oliveiraice takes out ICE again 😬 🧊
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraIn America you drop your kid off at school, get your brains blown out on the ride home, then the Vice President drops everything for a week to call you a terrorist, to slander your family, to protect the circumstances that led to your death so they can do it again. It is government by Alex Jones.
- Lolol. Just remember... If you use AI to write for you, you're a fraud and a loser (regardless of your rank and experience).
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- Murderer identified: Jonathan Ross. www.startribune.com/ice-agent-wh...
- About to start another semester of Global History II and put together the course playlist. Each song corresponds to a week of the course. Wondering if people can guess what the topics are. Shouldn't be too hard :) open.spotify.com/playlist/695...
- Interesting read about radical historians at the AHA meeting in 1971 (given the global context and the state of our field). Then, conflict erupted over Vietnam, rather than Palestine. But they also faced a major job crisis (wondering how it compares to today's). www.nytimes.com/1972/03/12/a...
- Imagine if Biden had destroyed the White House, pardoned everyone who had been arrested at a BLM protest, emboldened rogue agencies to tear down government services (DOGE) and terrorize demographics (ICE) he didn't like, and kidnapped a foreign leader bringing the U.S. close to another war?
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraThe “prosecute the former regime at every level” candidate has my vote in 2028.
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraMayor Jacob Frey: “To ICE, get the fuck out of Minneapolis.”
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraThis is the ICE agent who murdered a woman by shooting her multiple times in the face.
- The US is a failed state that enables losers to turn weapons against innocent people. This video of ICE agents murdering a woman at point-blank range should be spread widely (she was an US citizen, not that it should matter). We will need our own Nuremberg Trials and detrumpification initiative.
- #ICE trigger warning
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraFuck Bari Weiss, fuck bootlicking regime propaganda
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- THIS. 1000 times.
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- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraNone of these anti-AI assessment strategies y’all are promoting are at all reasonable for adjuncts or folks who teach asynchronous online classes or who have large large classes. Imagine adjuncting an asynchronous online class of 50 students and doing oral exams.
- No one should ever take seriously a "why I am leaving letter" if the person writing it is over 65. You are leaving because you're old and have a nice pension waiting for you after retirement. Anything you add to that is post-hoc self-aggrandizing, grandpa.
- Reposted by Patrick De OliveiraI'm sure the 22 million people whose healthcare premiums will triple in six days are delighted by this news, you inhuman fuck.
- Merry Christmas. www.youtube.com/watch?v=8SVP...
- So, a lot of the Christmas oldies on Spotify are accompanied by modern-looking music videos. How were these created? Are they AI-generated?
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