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Jordan Brown

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History teacher. Taiwan.

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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I've been thinking a lot lately about both the value and the limits of historical analogies, esp. analogies to 1930s-40s Germany, to make sense of the present. This review by Sam Adler-Bell does a nice job of navigating this challenge. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/01/b...
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What the Third Reich Can Teach Us About America Today (Gift Article)
In “53 Days,” the historian Timothy W. Ryback shows how the Nazis used democratic means to destroy German democracy.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
Just want to drop this bit of nativist paranoia about Italians here. Check out the labels.
Italian immigrants depicted as ratlike creatures with hats saying MAFIA and SOCIALIST etc.
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Karl Jacoby @karl-jacoby.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Every historian's nightmare
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Dave Karpf @davekarpf.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
Turned this rant into a blog post. davekarpf.beehiiv.com/p/the-data-c...
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The data center backlash Is working. That's why the New York Times is so concerned.
I have a
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More Perfect Union @moreperfectunion.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
AI is making everyone's life more expensive, according to CNN. "Households must spend just over $375 more to purchase the same goods and services as they did this time last year due to AI’s inflationary impact,” Mark Zandi, chief economist at Moody’s Analytics, says. www.cnn.com/2026/07/28/e...
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AI is making your life more expensive. Here’s how | CNN Business
AI is raising prices for Americans – and not just electricity bills.
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Kevin M. Levin @civilwarmemory.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
State offices in Alabama are closed today in observance of Confederate president Jefferson Davis's birthday. I have some thoughts. #CivilWarMemory open.substack.com/pub/kevinmle...
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Alabama Closes Its Offices For Jefferson Davis
In the year we celebrate 250 years of freedom, Alabama is still honoring the man who fought to end it.
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Ed Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026
Uber’s COO has said that it’s getting “harder to justify” its AI costs because there was no way to show a link between AI spend and any meaningful increase in useful features. This is the first time I’ve seen a company say this directly. www.businessinsider.com/uber-coo-and...
"That link is not there yet, right?" he said. think maybe implicitly there is more that is getting shipped, but it's very hard to draw a line between one of those stats and, 'Okay, now we're actually producing 25% more useful consumer features."
He said that the trade-off costs from Al are harder to justify because he can't draw a direct link. Earlier this month, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in an earnings call that Uber was slowing hiring to counter its investments in AI.The comment led to what he described as a
"head-exploding moment," sparking discussions about AI token consumption within the company and the trade-offs it creates, such as on head count.
He said that, based on talks with Uber's senior engineering leaders, he realized higher token usage did not translate into a proportional increase in useful consumer features.
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Eric Rauchway @rauchway.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
People died for the Voting Rights Act.
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Their Loved Ones Died for the Voting Rights Act. The Supreme Court’s Ruling Is a New Injustice.
Dennis Dahmer was 12 years old in January 1966 when Klansmen stormed...
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 22/05/2026
“.. What is happening is an assault on democracy, and they’re using the easiest vector, which is anti-Black racism, because it’s the easiest thing you could do, the laziest thing you can do,” Nelson said. @nytopinion.nytimes.com www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/m...
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Jill Walker Rettberg @jilltxt.bsky.social · 20/05/2026
New dataset published: this is the audio + transcripts of AI-generated podcasts using NotebookLM to analyse how it "translated" source documents from different times and cultures. My favourites are the 20 podcasts generated from an empty PDF. The paper about it is in press. doi.org/10.18710/RNT...
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A dataset of AI-generated podcasts created using NotebookLM
Audio files and transcripts of AI-generated podcasts created using Google's NotebookLM. Four podcasts were created by uploading specific PDFs. Twen...
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Ari Berman @ariberman.bsky.social · 18/05/2026
Majority Black districts in the South that civil rights activists fought and died for are being wiped off the map in a matter of days but the insurrectionists who tried to overturn the 2020 election are being given $1.7 billion from the government
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Adam Serwer @adamserwer.bsky.social · 22/04/2026
Republicans loved gerrymandering as long as their opponents were committed to fair maps. Now that Dems are responding in kind, conservatives aren’t having as much fun. But the only thing worse than constitutional hardball is unilateral constitutional hardball. (🎁) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/0...
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The Virginia Gerrymander Disenfranchises Republicans
Republicans seem to have expected that Democrats would continue to follow rules they had long since enthusiastically abandoned.
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Rutger Bregman @rutgerbregman.com · 04/03/2026
The international boycott of ChatGPT has absolutely exploded. 2.5M people have already joined, and this is just the beginning. Go to quitgpt.org. Cancel your subscription, delete your account. And tell at least one person why. My op-ed: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
All of this thread. I understand the self interest that AI salesmen have to push their product, but the grasping way they’re doing it — the internet version of a traveling salesmen putting his foot in the door so you can’t close it — is only going to drive more people away.
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Holly Brewer @earlymodjustice.bsky.social · 21/11/2025
To “my students and to anyone who might listen, I say: Don’t surrender to AI your ability to read, write and think when others once risked their lives and died for the freedom to do so.” www.huffpost.com/entry/histor...
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I Set A Trap To Catch My Students Cheating With AI. The Results Were Shocking.
"Students are not just undermining their ability to learn, but to someday lead."
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The Conversation U.S. @us.theconversation.com · 21/11/2025
Relying on ChatGPT to teach you about a topic leaves you with shallower knowledge than Googling and reading about it, according to new research that compared what more than 10,000 people knew after using one method or the other. Shared by @gizmodo.com: buff.ly/yAAHtHq
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Ashton Pittman @ashtonpittman.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
NEW: Mississippi Gov. Tate Reeves has declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month. He did so at the behest of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a neo-Confederate organization that espouses “Lost Cause” ideology, which whitewashes the role of slavery in the Civil War. 🧵
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Mississippi Governor Declares April Confederate Heritage Month
Gov. Tate Reeves declared April 2025 as Confederate Heritage Month in Mississippi, keeping alive a 32-year-old tradition that began in 1993.
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Kevin M. Kruse @kevinmkruse.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
No, they actually do suck and aren’t useful.
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Will Bunch @willbunch.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
The gobsmacking grift of the $239M slush fund that Team Trump created around the inauguration should have been Page 1 news, but too many are too numb to such corruption Join me on a tour of sold ambassadorships, sleazy corporate favors, and more! My new column www.inquirer.com/columnists/a...
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The stunning grift of Trump’s inaugural fund | Will Bunch Newsletter
Plus, why young people aren’t out protesting
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Hakeem Jefferson @hakeemjefferson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...
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What DEI threatens isn’t merit. It’s monopoly.
Political science professor Hakeem Jefferson argues for DEI's importance to de-monopolizing universities.
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Asha Rangappa @asharangappa.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Just a reminder that Trump/DOJ continuing to let Abrego Garcia sit in CECOT is *a crime*. Deprivation of rights under color of law is a crime. Was it an "error" at first? Maybe. But once they were aware of the error, and ordered by a judge to return him, and then refusing, it's willful 1/
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Hunter Walker @hunterw.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Sometimes it is important to say things very clearly and directly, so I wrote this. talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things...
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Trump Is Sending People To The Camps
“More than a prison, El Salvador’s CECOT has many if not all...
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The Onion @theonion.com · 07/04/2025
Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
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Revised National Parks Webpage Describes Harriet Tubman As Human Trafficker
WASHINGTON—As the Trump administration continues to alter the version of American history that appears in government publications, sources confirmed Monday that a page on the National Parks website ha...
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Nicholas Guyatt @nicholasguyatt.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
“And are we to have a Censor whose imprimatur shall say what books may be sold, and what we may buy? Whose foot is to be the measure to which ours are all to be cut or stretched?” Thomas Jefferson, 1814 www.nytimes.com/2025/04/04/u...
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These Are the 381 Books Removed From the Naval Academy Library
The office of Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the college to adhere to an executive order from President Trump banning educational material related to diversity, equity and inclusion topics.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Glenn Youngkin’s father was 11 when the first Black student enrolled at Mr. Jefferson’s university. Youngkin’s father attended Duke when it was still an all-white university. This is not ancient history. uvamagazine.org/articles/des...
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Desegregating UVA: Alumni reflect on groundbreaking era
Alumni reflect on a groundbreaking era that began with Gregory Swanson, UVA’s first black student, in 1950.
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Know Your Meme @knowyourmeme.com · 09/01/2025
On this day 12 years ago, @kcg.bsky.social posted the “This is Fine” comic.
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Matthew Gertz @mattgertz.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
can’t pay teens for sex and become attorney general anymore on account of woke
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Chad Williams @chadwilliams.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Trump saying that he never really knew Gaetz and him being AG was someone else's idea in 3, 2, 1 . . .
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Jordan Brown @brownlaoshi.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Disgusting.
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 18/12/2024
Musk's Twitter is not the first time the nation's richest person (who also is a terrified reactionary with a childlike understanding of history, culture, & political science) devoted a big chunk of his fortune to creating a right wing propaganda machine. americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-...
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NET Journal; H. L. Hunt: The Richest and the Rightest
Haroldson LaFayette Hunt is the American success, a grandfatherly Horatio Alger with a Dallas drawl. He was born in Illinois, son of a Confederate war veteran. Later he drifted west, worked at odd job...
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 15/12/2024
Nothing says “anti-establishment populist outsider” more loudly than a billionaire POTUS, assisted by the world’s richest man with a VP handpicked by venture capitalist P Thiel, who will implement the plans of the Heritage Foundation, a 50 year old DC institution funded by the nation’s plutocrats.
The Heritage Foundation's 2022 Founders
CHAIRMAN'S CIRCLE
The Diana Davis Spencer Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Gaby
The Lloyd & Vivian Noble Foundation
Pharos Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Len Robinson
Sarah Scaife Foundation
Mr. Henry D. Smith
Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd H. Smith
TRUSTEES' CIRCLE
Mr. Gary Coats
Mrs. Noni J. Fischer
Mr. Kenneth C. Hill
Mr. Mark A. Kolokotrones
Mrs. Katharine Philbrook
Dr. and Mrs. Michael E. Reif
The Roe Foundation
Searle Freedom Trust
Mr. and Mrs. Daryl D. Smith
Mr. Ray Stata
Lillian S. Wells Foundation
FOUNDER
W.L. Amos, Sr. Foundation
Amway
Joseph C. and Elizabeth A. Anderlik
Charitable Trust
Dr. Patricia Bilden and Mr. Philip M. Bilden
Lynde & Harry Bradley Foundation Inc.
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore W. Brickman
Dr. and Mrs. John H. Bruning
Mr. and Mrs. David W. Caldwell
Challenge Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Gary Cooper
Dr. Garner H. Downey and Mrs. Mae Frances
Mr. William K. Engel
William Howard Flowers, Jr. Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Robert G. Fuller, Jr.
Mr. Alexander Gaston
Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Giles
Gleason Family Foundation
The Gardner Grout Foundation
Mr. Lynn Hall
The Haller Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. John N. Hanson
Dr. and Mrs. Hal B. Holmes
Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Holten
Ms. Ann Hyden
Mr. and Mrs. Hank Kuchta
Dr. and Mrs. Charles Lederer
T.W. Lewis Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Mayer
Martin and Janet Michel
Mr. and Mrs. David Moore
Samuel Roberts Noble Foundation, Inc.
Mr. Norman Novello
Dian Graves Owen Foundation
Mr. and Mrs. Tassos Paphites
Charles Maxfield and Gloria F. Parrish Foundation
Mr. Jack Perrin
John William Pope Foundation
Mrs. Eileen Pratt-Pringle
Miss Lenora Raia
Mrs. Carolyn Randall
Mr. Jerry S. Rawls
Mrs. Barbara Richardson
Dr. Patrice Richardson
Mr. and Mrs. John Rigsby
Mr. and Mrs. Henry Saad
Mr. and Mrs. Anthony J. Saliba, Sr.
Mr. Steven M. Sass
Mr. Walter Schmid
Mr. Robert W. Schneebeck
Mr. Richard Schulze
Mr. John J. Sieffert, Jr.
Mr. Mark J. Smith
Sorenson Legacy Foundation
Mr. John L. Sprock
Mr. James E. Stephenson
Mr. and…
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Randall Stephens @randalljstephens.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
I still think this could explain a great deal about our timeline
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Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
A thread on democracy and "memory work" inspired by this excellent 2-part podcast on a Marine involved in January 6. Nations are defined, to a great extent, by the stories they tell themselves about their past. How we remember (or forget) Jan 6 will shape our future. www.npr.org/2026/01/01/1...
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Jordan Brown @brownlaoshi.bsky.social · 13/11/2024
I guess it's time for everyone to re-learn the word kakistocracy.
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Jordan Brown @brownlaoshi.bsky.social · 09/11/2024
15 years of learning on Twitter down the drain. Ready for BlueSky. Let's do this.
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