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Tim Barker
@timbarker.bsky.social
recovering historian
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Andy Schou, he works at google
If you baselessly accuse someone of fraud under a pseudonym and then keep doubling down while also saying shit like “i don’t want a claim i can’t prove connected to my name” to journalists, guess what, people are going to be motivated to find your name.
The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
gizmodo.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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I sincerely cannot think of a less provocative, less trolly thinker than Yglesias whose whole thing is mostly just to insist that obviously true things are in fact true.
April 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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Sahar’s account was suspended again despite her story being verified in Gizmodo (here is her link www.gofundme.com/f/donate-to-...)
July 9, 2025 at 8:05 AM
Andy Schou, he works at google
If you baselessly accuse someone of fraud under a pseudonym and then keep doubling down while also saying shit like “i don’t want a claim i can’t prove connected to my name” to journalists, guess what, people are going to be motivated to find your name.
The Rise of AI Is Making Life Even Harder for Real People in Gaza
Gizmodo spoke with desperate Palestinians who were accused of being AI creations.
gizmodo.com
July 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Why are you lying about this? There is no burner account.
April 15, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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one of my basic principles (which made Noah Smith really angry at me) is that I don't keep the confidence of racists
March 22, 2025 at 6:24 PM
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yeah, Yglesias regularly takes money to shill for the crypto industry alongside fascists
March 23, 2025 at 5:47 PM
The AHA Council vetoed the Scholasticide Resolution. Time to cancel your membership. www.historians.org/news/busines...
Business Meeting Resolution Update - AHA
Update as of January 17, 2025: The AHA Council deplores any intentional destruction of Palestinian educational institutions, libraries, universities, and archives in Gaza. The Council considers the “R...
www.historians.org
January 17, 2025 at 4:38 PM
Is this supposed to be a threat? What are the consequences? Claire Potter unblocked me on Twitter yesterday specifically to fight about Gaza. I'm not broken up that she doesn't like me.
January 6, 2025 at 5:28 PM
No one should tell anyone what to think, believe, or say. But the 2014 version of @tenuredradical.bsky.social has a petition you might be interested in signing. What happened, Claire?
January 6, 2025 at 5:07 AM
fact check: partly true
January 6, 2025 at 5:01 AM
Happy update
January 6, 2025 at 1:23 AM
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If you happen to be an historian, and you happen to be in NYC and you belong to the AHA, please come to the AHA Business Meeting (Sunday 1/5, 5:15 pm) to vote in favor of the resolution condemning scholasticide in Gaza. Every vote is needed, as there will be plenty of opposition.
January 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Makes u think
Historians ≠ activists
January 5, 2025 at 2:39 AM
Historians of the US should oppose US-backed genocide.
Did you know that historians usually have a specialty, and while they have the moniker "historian" in common, those specialties usually confine their comments to their areas of expertise. You expecting a comment is kinda like wanting a second opinion from an OB/GYN on your knee replacement.
January 5, 2025 at 2:37 AM
Kevin Kruse can be on the same side as me any time he wants. That’s up to him.
January 5, 2025 at 2:36 AM
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Seems reasonable to expect a leader in the history discipline to speak out on this extremely important issue of public policy
January 5, 2025 at 2:10 AM
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Hey stalker, I’m glad you saw this and hope you get the engagement you’re craving.

Try retweeting it every half hour!
January 5, 2025 at 1:58 AM
The fact that someone who probably makes $300,000 a year responds to criticism by complaining about “unpaid labor” is really a perfect epitaph for the Twitter-poisoned history profession
January 5, 2025 at 1:53 AM
"We need to create a shared educational experience for everyone," says Natalia Mehlman Petrezela, the American Historical Association's designated champion of Israeli scholasticide.
"...we need to create a shared educational experience for everyone — whether they attend college or not.

I’m talking about required national service, which would teach different Americans that they are part of one nation."

Agree w Jon Zimmerman @thehill.com

thehill.com/opinion/5060...
thehill.com
January 4, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The American Historical Association is about to vote on a resolution condemning the Israeli destruction of every educational institution in Gaza. The spokespeople for the pro-scholasticide wing of the historical profession are Roger Horowitz, Suzanne Marchand, and nataliapetrzela.bsky.social.
January 4, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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This essay on Jimmy Carter by @timbarker.bsky.social is characteristically excellent. I’m adding it to my US in the Cold War years syllabus

ourtime.substack.com/p/jimmy-cart...
Jimmy Carter, 1924-2024
As an individual, Jimmy Carter stood as a rebuke to our venal and heartless political class. As a politician, his private virtues proved to be public vices.
ourtime.substack.com
January 1, 2025 at 4:24 PM