Patrick De Oliveira
@plso
Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at | ICE is a terrorist organization
I figured some folks might be interested in seeing this, as Europe deals with record-breaking heats year after year. In 1873, Camille Flammarion published an atmospheric science book geared toward a general audience. In it, he included a table indicating average temperatures in Paris since 1800.
According to Gallup 37% of Americans are creationist purists who believe God created humans in their present form within the past 10,000 years, so I guess we need to start making some changes to the composition of biology departments!
The losers behind this should first partake in "Basic Comma Use Appreciation Day".
Hooliganism hasn't been an issue in World Cups since 1998... (In other words, can't wait for this WC to finish so that all the new U.S. soccer geniuses can focus on RBI or whatever).
Um. Wut? (Asking as someone who fundamentally doesn't think there is such a thing as "objectivity" but who also doesn't think we can engage in rational dialogue without evidence to back out claims).
These two headlines are umbilically connected to the administration's drive to break something and then make it worse through the fix.
That's ok, though. It's not like the Americans Society of Civil Engineers gave transit a grade of D in its 2025 infrastructure report card. infrastructurereportcard.org
Oh, and there was one final negative response, which I didn't include under the ones above because, um, it's this:
Once in a blue moon, I think my silliness ends up being pretty clever.
Throwing grenades in the corporate social media because what else is one supposed to do?
Important questions! And, like the BBC, I'm sure this guy has the answer! www.linkedin.com/in/shane-wat...
Dear lord, some of these business school folks have truly lost their minds.
This final quote reveals just how unserious this particular person in this particular context is... "Me murdering that guy does not, in fact, diminish the larger questions about violence, accountability and guns and their impact on society, democracy and safety," he added.
This final quote reveals just how unserious this particular person in this particular context is...
This answer is also so deranged. WTF is she going about her weird Mars RPG commumity?
I know that one of the defining features of fascist rhetoric is that it rejects reason and refuses the rules of logic. That being said, it really annoys the shit out of me how points 7 and 8 in the Palantir "manifesto" are inherently contradictory.
Quote post with something good that lasted longer than the Confederacy (1861-1865) My undergraduate years as a Jayhawk at the @universityofkansas.bsky.social (2005-2010).
Taught a session to c-suite types in an executive leadership and foresight boot camp, and I couldn't miss the opportunity to present them with my favorite slide.
I mean, this makes perfect sense given all the space they need to clear for Bari Weiss's ego.