@HereticArtwork @rhaplord There is no advantage to the reader in introducing them to bad history.
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Robert M Brown
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Robert M Brown
@BrownsLaws
Writer of fantasy and alternate history. Dad. Mercenary computer wonk. Fueled by caffeine and rage. Sorry ladies; I'm taken. @plainbrownwriter.bsky.social
Bear Country, CT Katılım Nisan 2011
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@rhaplord These books are good for introducing people to history
Historians hate them because obviously they're extremely knowlegable, there are no "brief summary of humanity" that could EVER please historians because they're too specialized
personally big proponent of this and Sapiens
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@zilevandamme @naledimashishi If you didn't look at the paper how do you know to cite it?
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@naledimashishi Uyazi? You’s gonna sit and read that paper even if it’s for a single sentence.
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I’m confused??? Why would you cite a paper if you haven’t even read it or confirmed it exists???
Luca Dellanna@DellAnnaLuca
The reactions of many researchers on finally being held responsible for having read the very paper they submitted are... something.
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@MeathGuerilla No one thinks that nations didn't exist. NATIONALISM didn't exist until the 18th century.
Quit lying.
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The dumbest leftslop idea is that nations didn’t exist until the 19th century. Ethnolinguistic signifiers have been identified as the binding unit of a collective political identity since ancient Sumer lol, the distinction is really the relationship of the nation to sovereignty
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i’ve noticed a couple people my age using the expression “love you longtime” as an expression of endearment and i’m kinda confused cause isn’t that phrase orientalist/racist?
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@Seb__flyte1 My classics prof would give timed essay pop quizzes. I tell this to kids like a terrifying urban legend, but that was just crazy old Ed Coomes.
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If I had given a pop quiz during my days as a teacher I would have had half the kids in full mutiny ready to have parents call up the dean to get me fired and the other half of them not doing that because they were having a panic attack.
Joe Weisenthal@TheStalwart
The teacher announcing "pop quiz!" and everybody groaning. Feels like you don't see it as much these days?
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@BravesAndBirds @janecoaston Pritchett even tried giving Connor some advice, and they ended up hating each other.
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@janecoaston There's a reason why MLK figured out that marching in Bull Connor's Birmingham would be more effective than doing so in Laurie Pritchett's Albany.
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honestly, the funniest thing about this entire thing is that much of the most visible elements of the Civil Rights Movement relied on racist Southern white people losing their shit. They didn't have to! They didn't have to bomb churches or buses or arrest anyone or shoot anyone to death in their driveway! But they just couldn't help themselves. Sad!
Ben Pobjie@HartWexford
@janecoaston It’s a deep scandal
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@JimDMiller @predict_addict @tdietterich @arxiv Then you don't fucking cite it, you ignorant slop hog.
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What if the citation is to a source that is not available online and is in a language one of the authors doesn't understand? What if the paper has a hundred citations and one of the authors is an extraordinarily productive scholar who has better things to do than check the accuracy of citations that other authors put into the paper?
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Attention @arxiv authors: Our Code of Conduct states that by signing your name as an author of a paper, each author takes full responsibility for all its contents, irrespective of how the contents were generated. 1/
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@notjessewalker Well, it IS scandalous, and while not technically a "secret", it's also known by extremely few people.
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Every few years, another dope dusts off the old "Did you KNOW that Rosa Parks PLANNED her protest?" routine and acts like he's found something secret and scandalous.
Aaron Reichlin-Melnick@ReichlinMelnick
I feel like Rosa Parks' story is also very well-known? The version the screenshot discusses is basically the elementary school version. By high school, I had already been taught the fuller context of her advocacy, and learned about Claudette Colvin as well.
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@AustinWyckes Most classics wouldn't even get published today, much less get bad reviews. Would never even be seen by an acquiring editor.
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one of my personal unpopular opinions is that if a lot of classics were released today, booktok/booktwt wouldn't like them and say they had terrible prose and were too slow paced. Not just Fitzgerald, but even works from the Brontë sisters, or Austen, or what have you.
Clarissa Aykroyd@stoneandthestar
Just saw The Great Gatsby described as "unreadable". You can dislike it, go right ahead, but it is one of the most easy-to-read classics I can think of (& beautifully written at the same time). Open the schools.
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@anecdotal There's a big difference between, "It doesn't matter which of our degreed professors who went through multiple rounds of vetting to be hired teaches the course," and "It doesn't matter if the course is taught by a credentialed professor or a vending machine."
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Even at Chicago, students are told their choice of professor is irrelevant: it shouldn’t matter to you who is teaching you. This is how institutions become vulnerable to AI disruption. If it doesn’t matter who is teaching the class, why not AI?
The Chicago Maroon@ChicagoMaroon
Professors’ names will no longer be visible to students pre-registering for social science and civilization studies Core courses beginning with autumn quarter 2026, several professors in the Social Sciences Collegiate Division told the Maroon. chicagomaroon.com/52530/news/sos…
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@UngratefulFungi @mollywidstrom The fuck is wrong with you, you freak.
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@mollywidstrom not complaining but when did americans start metric-posting??
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due to the air pressure on everest from around 7500 meters on up, a four-liter oxygen bottle will effectively give you 1000 liters of oxygen. that's crazy
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@ARMYandBTS2026 @queenie4rmnola It explicitly was, in so many words, you fucking lie bot.
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@queenie4rmnola Minimum wage was never intended to be a living wage.
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If minimum wage is good enough for everyday Americans why isn’t it good enough for those in Congress? Why can’t they freeze their assets while serving and live off the basic income? And if the response is “that’s not a living wage” then Congress has a responsibility to raise it.
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@original_twiggy @starbennettt Never heard of thousand island dressing? Okay. Sure
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how did everyone complete misread this o don’t think its crazy germany has “american hot dog sauce” i think its crazy they thought it was authentic just like i and everyone else would think its crazy if and america got on here and said “French toast isnt big in france???”
𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑣𝑒𝑟 ⋆˚𝜗𝜚˚⋆@starbennettt
i hate to be “if the roles were reversed” but like genuinely if americans mistook any product thats boldly marketed as something from another culture and we genuinely that it was a big thing in said country we be rightly dragged a little for
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@DubiousCA It makes a huge difference, because there specifically was not anyone sitting down and making a top 100 list. There were a bunch of people who could only pick their favorite 10. That is ENORMOUSLY different.
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@BrownsLaws One person picking their top 100 or 170 people picking their top ten, doesn’t really make a difference in terms of what I said
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I love Austen more than most people in the world and I’m pleased as punch that Mansfield Park made the list, but putting FOUR Austen novels on this list still feels a bit “I know there needs to be more books written by women on here but I can’t think of many female writers”
pearl 📖@pearlreads_
I've read 32 out of 100 on the list. How many have you read? theguardian.com/p/x4f9v5
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@redhotnerd What the fuck do you think mustard is? Or chili sauce?
"We don't call what we put on hotdogs a sauce! Except when we do."
Jesus Christ. Grow up.
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Ok let’s end this: “hot dog sauce” is not a thing here in the United States. We use mustard (mostly yellow, but also brown), along with ketchup, pickle relish (sweet and dill), onions, chili, kraut, tomato pickle & sport peppers (Chicago), cream cheese (Seattle), nacho cheese sauce, jalapeños, and other things. But we do not have “hot dog sauce”. We DO have burger sauce
Milkyray🪽🥛DOKOMI@Milkmeray
i just found out my American friend doesn't know what hotdog sauce is. It literally has an american flag on the bottle of hotdog sauces wdym they don't have it and never heard of it? Germany just made that shit up!???😭😭 HUHHH
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@JackDunc1 I really wanna see you waving this flag 🏳️🌈 in Gaza
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I genuinely can’t find a single rational reason to ban Israel from the Eurovision Song Contest.
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@domeskeller2 @JaguarGator9NFL What was the score in those 2 games?
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@JaguarGator9NFL This is false. The Rangers won the World Series at home in 2023, winning the first 2 games at home. Tampa only won 2 games in the 2020 series played there.
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The Texas Rangers are members of the American League. The Tampa Bay Rays are members of the American League. It is impossible for them to meet in the World Series
The Texas Rangers have won a World Series. The Tampa Bay Rays have never won a World Series
The Tampa Bay Rays have more World Series wins at Globe Life Field, the home of the Texas Rangers, than the Texas Rangers have
Ramin Nasibov@RaminNasibov
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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Americans: What is this thing, some weird shit that Europeans made up? We don't eat anything like that!
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There are a whole lot of Americans angry about mustard today and insisting they don't put anything on their hot dogs.
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