Matteo Giuliani Pedraza
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Matteo Giuliani Pedraza
@mattgiulp.bsky.social
Did a master in Social Sciences at UC3M. Now doing a PhD at the Universidad Pablo de Olavide.

Trying to figure out something about political parties, referenda, national identities... that kind of stuff.

A chess player by passion, not by talent or skill.
Somehting like that, in the early 1850's he worked at Meucci's candle stick factory, in Staten Island.

It was indeed a weird turn in his career, because he was already a famous general in both South America and Italy, but from what I've read of his memories, he regards it as the most normal thing.
October 13, 2025 at 3:49 PM
A small detail I like about that story is that among the reasons Garibaldi considered joining the union's army was that he wrongly believed that had become a US citizen when he lived in New York.
October 13, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Not a very sophisticated solution, but maybe just graphing the 'live' rating at the end of each chapter or book (or however you call the parts the illiad is divided in, I don't know the word in English). That way one could easily see where each hero ranked at the time of his death.
October 3, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Enhorabuena Tarek!!
September 8, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Congratulations! I truly enjoyed the reading. I do hope that the final plea for further research gets followed up, it looks like lots of interesting things may come out of this.
August 28, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Absolutely, I am ready even to buy some story closer to the original claim. Maybe Democrats are actively doing something that creates that perception, I just need to see some evidence to support that claim. And them some more showing that this supposed halo of wokness is bad at the ballotbox.
August 28, 2025 at 1:04 AM
It is amazing how often "bad things are the fault of the left for being too woke" is presented as a default truth, with out need for any logical or empirical support.
August 27, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Of course, the good bigot knows how to use any small and apparently neutral cognitive bias such this in order to build his castle of biggotry.
🧵2/2
August 26, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Does reasoning well entail being a basically pleasant bureucrat?
August 21, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I think I have access, which article do you need?
August 21, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Done it! It is impossible to do it without developing hypotheses. My siblings and I have a whole set of theories for the interaction between gender, cat-dog feelings, and self reported cookie eating capacity.

Your students will have so much fun!
August 10, 2025 at 10:29 PM