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Aviel Roshwald
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History Professor.

Comparative study of nationalism.

Latest book—Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Cambridge Univ. Press, 2023)
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Aviel Roshwald is an American historian and professor of history at Georgetown University.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · Oct 10
I’m a history professor focusing on 20th-century Europe, with a particular interest in the comparative history of nationalism and of responses to Nazi aggression. My most recent book is Occupied: European and Asian Responses to Axis Conquest, 1937-1945 (Camb. Univ. Press, 2023).

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1h
The great majority of Americans no longer have to carry the burden of sustaining the consumer economy, that task having been outsourced to a dozen or so billionaires.
gabrielzucman.bsky.social Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 5h
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1h
Updates are underway. Please leave your political options open.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2h
I have finally fallen behind the times. No clear notion what this even is. I look forward to staying behind the times indefinitely.
timkellogg.me Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 8h
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 2h
תודה רבה

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 4h
Food pyramid replaced with scone henge.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 4h
They replaced the food pyramid with a tube of tallow.
gavinyamey.bsky.social Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4h
Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries

Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 4h
Fun fact: half of the “experts” who wrote RFK Jr’s new food guidelines—which push people to eat more red meat, saturated fats, beef tallow, & full fat dairy—have financial ties to the livestock & dairy industries

Looks like RFK Jr & Makary CREATED a corrupt food pyramid
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 5h
Some respondents must be confusing him with his dad or something.

Reposted by Archon Fung, David Lazer, Scott L. Greer , and 14 more

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Gabriel Zucman @gabrielzucman.bsky.social · 5h
The pace at which US wealth concentration is rising is simply staggering

The concentration of AI wealth into the hands of a few tech barons + plutocratic capture ==> unchartered territory

Reposted by Margot C. Finn

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 5h
It’s crucial to target the most altruistic immigrants first, as they cause the worst damage to the regime’s xenophobia campaign.
tinadesireeberg.com Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 1d
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

Reposted by Nathan Richardson, Aviel Roshwald

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 5h
Makary: "We ended what was a corrupt food pyramid"

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 6h
U.S. still a source of global inspiration.
joelhs.bsky.social Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu

Reposted by Martin Paul Eve, Paul Goldsmith-Pinkham, Aviel Roshwald

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Tim Kellogg @timkellogg.me · 8h
Token Anxiety

i think i mostly echo this for myself. with so much that can be done, i often feel like i *should* be doing something, always
Token Anxiety Nikunj Kothari C @nikunj • Feb 13 A friend left a party at 9:30 on a Saturday. Not tired. Not sick. He wanted to get back to his agents. Nobody questions it anymore. Half the room is thinking the same thing. The other half are probably checking the progress of their agents. At a party. All the parties are sober now. Young people don't drink because they're going back to work after. Not inspired by Bryan Johnson, although that's probably a factor. The buzz they want now runs on tokens per day. I keep noticing it on walks through the Mission. Laptops glowing everywhere. Cafes, sidewalks, heck even park benches. People walking with screens open like a flashlight guiding them somewhere. Less drunk laughter on the streets these days. More keystrokes. Dinner conversations used to start with "what are you building?" That's over. Now it's "how many agents do you have running?" People drop the number the way they used to drop their follower count. Quietly competitive. The flex isn't what you've accomplished anymore. It's what's working while you're sitting here not working. The vocabulary is what really gets me though. People describe models the way sommeliers describe wine. This one has better taste. That one hallucinates with more confidence. Opus is bold, Codex is smooth. They talk about harnesses and reins like they're controlling horses. Invisible whips directing invisible labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep labor. Someone at a dinner said they keep "Claude on a tight leash for code review but give it more slack for creative work." We've started borrowing the language of how we treat animals for something none of us actually understand yet. Waking up and checking what your agents produced overnight is the first thing now. Before coffee. Before texts. You open your laptop and grade homework you assigned in your sleep. Some of it is good. Most needs rework. But you start shipping a plan before you sleep just so you can wake up to more code written overnight. Saturdays became uninterrupted build windows. No meetings, no Slack, twelve hours of you and your agents. Sunday morning X is all terminal screenshots and shipping receipts. "What'd you ship this weekend?" replaced "what'd you do this weekend?" The anxiety is rational, which is why it sticks. Every week some new benchmark drops that makes last month's workflow feel prehistoric. Codex ships overnight processing. Opus gets faster. Context windows double. None of it reduces the pressure. It multiplies it. You can do more now. And someone already is. The window to be first at anything feels like it's shrinking by the day. Literally, by the day. I replaced Netflix with Claude Code. I lie in bed thinking about what I can spin up before I fall asleep, what can run while I'm unconscious. Reading a novel feels indulgent now. Watching a movie without a laptop open feels wasteful. This voice in my head that says "something could be running right now" just doesn't shut off. I'm not even building a company. I'm just addicted to building my random ideas. Everyone here knows they should step away more. That's not the problem. The problem is what your brain does when you try. I still take a x ss walks. The agents come with me now.

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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Joel S. @joelhs.bsky.social · 17h
Germany's far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD), the party supported by JD Vance and Elon Musk, are now looking to ICE in the US for inspiration and saying Germany needs an ICE of its own. www.politico.eu/article/euro...
European far-right parties push for ICE-style police
Fringe figures want to follow the Trump playbook for tackling unauthorized migration.
www.politico.eu

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 22h
Scientists need to stop instigating unfounded panic about how supposedly “bad” Hell is.
volts.wtf David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h
Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."

Probably fine.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 23h
It all makes perfect sense once one has consumed the right kind of mushrooms.

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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laurentfranckx.bsky.social @laurentfranckx.bsky.social · 23h
So you thought you knew what the "B" in LGBT stood for

Reposted by Kevin Anderson, Aviel Roshwald

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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 23h
Crossing climate tipping points "would lock the world into a new and hellish 'hothouse Earth' climate far worse than the 2-3C temperature rise the world is on track to reach."

Probably fine.
Point of no return: a hellish ‘hothouse Earth’ getting closer, scientists say
Continued global heating could set irreversible course by triggering climate tipping points, but most people unaware
www.theguardian.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Dream on!

Reposted by Norbert Schwarz, Guy Grossman, Paul Goldstein , and 14 more

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Brendan Nyhan @brendannyhan.bsky.social · 1d
Utterly unacceptable in a democracy. In a sane world, House Republicans would be drafting impeachment articles today and Senate Republicans would be preparing for a trial to convict and remove him from office

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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Christina(Tina) Belarde-Hendriks @academicfascism84.bsky.social · 1d
www.youtube.com/live/cOe2ZWX...

Join me!
Venezuela in Crisis: US Imperialism, Maduro, and the Neoliberal Turn
YouTube video by Haymarket Books
www.youtube.com

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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Maggie Harrison Dupré @mharrisondupre.bsky.social · 1d
Signed away my privacy forever as a 14 year old on Instagram in 2012 yet obsessively shred my physical mail as if it’s 1980 and I’m being monitored by Soviet spies

Reposted by Ian Campbell, Aviel Roshwald

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elias isquith @eliasisquith.blog · 1d
notice that in the video quoted here the person who said he is engaging in protest for the first time in his life says, with emotion, “that’s not who we are,” in reference to ICE terrorizing grade schoolers.

think about this person every time you see someone scolding someone else for saying that
sethcotlar.bsky.social Seth Cotlar @sethcotlar.bsky.social · 1d
In 1854, after watching the federal government deploy 2000 federal troops and spend $40,000 sending Anthony Burns back into slavery, Boston's Amos Adams Lawrence said “we went to bed one night old-fashioned, conservative, Compromise Union Whigs and waked up stark mad Abolitionists.”
crindivisible.bsky.social Cooper River Indivisible @crindivisible.bsky.social · 1d
Yesterday morning kids were sent running from their bus stop in panic because ICE showed up. This guy at today’s ICE Out of Lindenwold protest is a must watch 😭. @maddow.bsky.social

Reposted by Ashish Arora, Brendan Nyhan, Neil Pederson , and 20 more

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Tina-Desiree Berg @tinadesireeberg.com · 1d
CCTV footage appears to show DHS agents posing as people having car trouble in order to lure a target out of his house before arresting them. The target comes out and starts helping them before 3 vehicles surround the scene. The car "experiencing" trouble then drives off with them.

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
“The Right people voting, electing the Right leaders.”
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
Withering lows plumbed in review of Wuthering Heights.

www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/m...
‘Wuthering Heights’ Review: Margot Robbie, Amok on the Moors
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Lisa W. Fazio, Nandita Sharma, Richard F. Catalano , and 42 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 1d
Kristi Noem: "When it gets to Election Day, we've been proactive to make sure we have the right people voting, electing the right leaders to lead this country."

Reposted by Gavin A. Schmidt, John Mullahy, Daniel W. Drezner , and 3 more

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Alexandra Petri @petridishes.bsky.social · 1d
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where The Sun Goes At Night
Trump Administration Announces That We Don’t Know Where the Sun Goes at Night
After deciding carbon dioxide does no harm, it was the logical next move.
www.theatlantic.com

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Aviel Roshwald @avielroshwald.bsky.social · 1d
We’ll need a third lane on Washington Metro escalators.

Reposted by Aviel Roshwald

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Mediazona English @en.zona.media · 1d
Alexei Navalny died in a penal colony above the Arctic Circle on 16 Feb 2024, he was 47. His “symptoms are textbook” for epibatidine poisoning, a toxicologist confirmed The Insider. How exactly the samples were taken out of the country remains unclear