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Intellectual history, here decontextualized. Especially modern France, history of political thought, and socialism. And Kansas, because that's where I live.


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Yeah I think this is correct

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Oh yeah, these are going on the stop signs in the neighborhood

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"... the confident authority of a man who knows he will eventually be played by Adam Driver in the English-language biopic of his life"

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Haven't introduced food inducement for this specific thing yet (there'd be too much!) will see how things develop in next months.

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Or: "Wovon man nicht sprechen kann, darüber muss man schweigen."

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I’m no software engineer, just a humanities person who spent 20 years of my life obsessively studying the question “Can reason be automated?” and feeling extreme distress over the catastrophic consequences, for all of us, of this particular iteration of (re)discovering that the answer is “No”

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Absolutely! And that's the plan. I just sometimes feel silly scooping up and baby-talking to this little dog about how great he is. But also he likes it.

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Having been told that it's good to praise the puppy when he pees or poops where he's supposed to, I've been doing that. It feels both patronizing and like it's working.

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Hey! Historians of American higher ed.: got any use for a visiting graduate student's notes for classes in American history taught at Harvard in 1949-50? I'm going through my mother's papers; she took courses from Schlesinger, Morrison, Albion & others. Took detailed lecture notes. Of interest?

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I'm working on a project rife with heterosexuality, and I need to know: What are the _most_ heterosexual songs that still rule?

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