Patrick De Oliveira
@plso.bsky.social
| Historian of France, technology, and cities | e/ludd | 🇧🇷🇺🇸🇫🇷🇸🇬🇪🇸 | You can find out more about me at http://www.patrickdeoliveira.com |
Harvard Crimson with a drop mic drop conclusion to story on Lawrence Summers's months-long correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein "strategizing" the best approach for Summers to get in bed with a Chinese mentee that they disgustingly referred to as "peril" (oh, and Summers had been married since 2005)
November 17, 2025 at 6:06 PM
Harvard Crimson with a drop mic drop conclusion to story on Lawrence Summers's months-long correspondence with Jeffrey Epstein "strategizing" the best approach for Summers to get in bed with a Chinese mentee that they disgustingly referred to as "peril" (oh, and Summers had been married since 2005)
*Shocking* that health-tech companies would immediately turn to eugenics.
October 22, 2025 at 1:49 PM
*Shocking* that health-tech companies would immediately turn to eugenics.
Desperate for any viable monetization path, it seems that Smarmy Sam and OpenAI will open the doors for pornographic content.
How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?
How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?
October 16, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Desperate for any viable monetization path, it seems that Smarmy Sam and OpenAI will open the doors for pornographic content.
How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?
How do schools and universities that rushed to strike deals with OpenAI feel about this? Would they be fine adopting Blackboard if it also functioned as a kind of Pornhub?
Posting without comment.
October 1, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Posting without comment.
Turns out he was also right about violet powder. (Entry is from The Lancet, 25 May 1878—several years after Marx's comment).
September 30, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Turns out he was also right about violet powder. (Entry is from The Lancet, 25 May 1878—several years after Marx's comment).
This entry in Karl Marx's confession book just goes to show how the man was an absolute unit. (Other passage is from Wikipedia).
September 30, 2025 at 3:06 PM
This entry in Karl Marx's confession book just goes to show how the man was an absolute unit. (Other passage is from Wikipedia).
Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon. Back when some semblance of free speech still existed in the U.S.A.
September 18, 2025 at 12:49 AM
Hunter S. Thompson's obituary of Richard Nixon. Back when some semblance of free speech still existed in the U.S.A.
Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court.
Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.
Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.
September 11, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Bolsonaro found guilty by Brazil's Supreme Court.
Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.
Strange that there's more institutional robustness in a fledgling democracy than in one that is celebrating 250 this year.
I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.
September 3, 2025 at 11:36 PM
I had the privilege of reviewing Tyler Stovall's last book for
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.
@hfrancewebsite.bsky.social—a monograph that elegantly suggests the progressive potentials of global French studies.
Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
September 1, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Ok, hear me out, A Lord of the Rings remake, but with these two taking the One Ring to Mordor:
These people are such losers.
Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.
Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.
August 29, 2025 at 7:58 PM
These people are such losers.
Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.
Their product's improvements over "hot AI summer" were, at best, trivial. Realistically, it just further reinforced the notion that capabilities have plateaued and there's not really much of a "revolutionary" future for LLMs. So constant hyping before the rug pull.
Lol. You know Microsoft is worried it invested a ton of money in the Titanic when its CEO starts desperately content farming to drive hype toward its shit product.
August 27, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Lol. You know Microsoft is worried it invested a ton of money in the Titanic when its CEO starts desperately content farming to drive hype toward its shit product.
Amazing what ChatGPT 5 can do.
August 26, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Amazing what ChatGPT 5 can do.
What is wrong with people?
August 24, 2025 at 11:29 PM
What is wrong with people?
During the first three minutes of the first OpenAI podcast, Altman + the host rhapsodized about a father who got tired of talking to his kid about Thomas the Tank Engine so he decided to offload the "annoying" task of interacting with said child to ChatGPT.
August 23, 2025 at 12:15 AM
During the first three minutes of the first OpenAI podcast, Altman + the host rhapsodized about a father who got tired of talking to his kid about Thomas the Tank Engine so he decided to offload the "annoying" task of interacting with said child to ChatGPT.
Beyond that, these LLMs fundamentally poison the knowledge economy (see screenshot below).
Are we going to need to come up with some samizdat model of scholarly publishing so that our work isn't so easily accessible to be appropriated and misrepresented by LLMs?
Are we going to need to come up with some samizdat model of scholarly publishing so that our work isn't so easily accessible to be appropriated and misrepresented by LLMs?
August 11, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Beyond that, these LLMs fundamentally poison the knowledge economy (see screenshot below).
Are we going to need to come up with some samizdat model of scholarly publishing so that our work isn't so easily accessible to be appropriated and misrepresented by LLMs?
Are we going to need to come up with some samizdat model of scholarly publishing so that our work isn't so easily accessible to be appropriated and misrepresented by LLMs?
Smarmy tech bro not very subtle in his efforts at digital infrastructure capture.
August 6, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Smarmy tech bro not very subtle in his efforts at digital infrastructure capture.
LinkedIn has always been defined by high levels of farcical corporate-speak and, well, grift.
But these people have really lost the plot.
But these people have really lost the plot.
August 1, 2025 at 8:19 AM
LinkedIn has always been defined by high levels of farcical corporate-speak and, well, grift.
But these people have really lost the plot.
But these people have really lost the plot.
It takes some serious cognitive dissonance for this kind of weird racist nostalgia.
August 1, 2025 at 3:33 AM
It takes some serious cognitive dissonance for this kind of weird racist nostalgia.
"GenAI will replace historians."
GenAI (in Google Search):
GenAI (in Google Search):
August 1, 2025 at 2:46 AM
"GenAI will replace historians."
GenAI (in Google Search):
GenAI (in Google Search):
This sounds like a fascinating way to learn things. I, for instance, am planning encourage my students to debate with ChatGPT what would've happened to European nationalisms if Bismarck had actually been a dolphin who learned to speak German.
July 31, 2025 at 1:50 AM
This sounds like a fascinating way to learn things. I, for instance, am planning encourage my students to debate with ChatGPT what would've happened to European nationalisms if Bismarck had actually been a dolphin who learned to speak German.
ICE is essentially a state-sponsored terrorist organization, and every single agent deserves to be doxxed.
June 12, 2025 at 7:18 PM
ICE is essentially a state-sponsored terrorist organization, and every single agent deserves to be doxxed.