Miloš Jovanović
@milosthehistorian.com
Balkan barbarian burrowing through history. Own opinions only, alliteration accidental.
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
Author of Cites of Dust and Mud | Asst. Prof at UCLA | Yugo Millennial | Cat dad | Basketball fan
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Miloš Jovanović
@milosthehistorian.com
· Dec 15
Cities of Dust and Mud: Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
Urbanism and Bourgeois Fantasy in the Balkans, 1820-1920
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Why do bourgeois elites try to transform cities? What happens when their fantasies fail to materialize?
Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
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Learn about the social costs of elite-led urban change in my book! Published by @stanfordpress.bsky.social and available for pre-order today!
bookshop.org/p/books/citi...
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A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
February 11, 2026 at 3:43 AM
A dresser inside a museum in New York City has been discovered as a secret stop on the Underground Railroad — the first of its kind discovered in Manhattan in over 100 years
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"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
February 10, 2026 at 10:09 AM
"A modern-day concentration camp ... People have been killed by the staff here." Irish citizen Seamus Culleton has been in ICE detention since September, despite having a valid work permit and his own business in the US.
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“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Hungary: Pride organiser faces prison in latest attack on LGBTI rights
We uncover truth and hold the powerful to account. Take action, donate and join the Amnesty movement to protect human rights.
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February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM
“Rather than being threatened with a criminal sentence, he should be commended for his courage in organising the largest Pécs Pride in history.”
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
Solidarity with Géza Buzás-Hábel and the many other activists in Hungary fighting for their freedoms. Everyone should be free to celebrate Pride.
🇭🇺🏳️⚧️🏳️🌈
I don’t follow the Super Bowl but heard about the shout out to Villa’s tacos. Nice!
February 9, 2026 at 2:28 AM
I don’t follow the Super Bowl but heard about the shout out to Villa’s tacos. Nice!
Neither Huang nor Raman are Mamdani, and the comparisons show profound misunderstanding of Los Angeles.
February 9, 2026 at 2:27 AM
Neither Huang nor Raman are Mamdani, and the comparisons show profound misunderstanding of Los Angeles.
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"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
Marc Bloch, historien et résistant juif, entrera au Panthéon le 23 juin
La date du 16 juin avait été dans un premier temps pressentie pour son entrée au Panthéon, mais la cérémonie a dû être décalée de quelques jours en raison du G7 à Evian-les-Bains.
www.lemonde.fr
February 8, 2026 at 7:02 PM
"Eighty-two years after his execution by the Gestapo on June 16, 1944, the Jewish historian and resistance fighter Marc Bloch will be inducted into the Pantheon on June 23... His family requested that 'the far right, in all its forms, be excluded from any participation in the ceremony.'"
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Shoulda fought harder to not be disappointing.
In a Democratic club meeting, LA Mayor Karen Bass pronounced herself "flabbergasted" by Nithya Raman's entry into the mayor's race. "I’ve worked closely with Nithya, helped her gain the Democratic endorsement, helped her clear an encampment in her district," she said. "I am going to fight."
February 7, 2026 at 8:28 PM
Shoulda fought harder to not be disappointing.
UCLA has had some major real estate purchases in the past few years, and is currently in a manufactured budget “crisis”. 🤔
“California College of the Arts gambled on a major campus expansion. Here’s what went wrong” archive.ph/KnydJ
February 8, 2026 at 8:01 PM
UCLA has had some major real estate purchases in the past few years, and is currently in a manufactured budget “crisis”. 🤔
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New bike lanes on Hobart Blvd from Hollywood Blvd to Fountain Ave.! Thanks @ladotofficial.bsky.social & Councilmember Soto-Martinez @cd13.lacity.gov (Unprotected buffered lanes w green pavement at conflict areas) #bikela
February 4, 2026 at 9:59 PM
New bike lanes on Hobart Blvd from Hollywood Blvd to Fountain Ave.! Thanks @ladotofficial.bsky.social & Councilmember Soto-Martinez @cd13.lacity.gov (Unprotected buffered lanes w green pavement at conflict areas) #bikela
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Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's-
Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it
Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it
Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.
Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it
Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it
Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.
February 3, 2026 at 4:03 AM
Dem leadership for generations: no you fool, you infant. It is a process. It takes time and political capital and expertise, it's-
Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it
Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it
Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.
Mamdani, dusting off his hands: fixed it
Dem leadership: what do you mean you fixed it
Mamdani: Just had to unplug it.
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Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
January 31, 2026 at 1:45 AM
Union workers solved the trolley problem, you're welcome
every day the US turns more and more into 90s Yugoslavia
I think this is what you call foreign interference, and it goes well beyond running an ad featuring a Ronald Reagan speech.
Trump officials met group pushing Alberta independence from Canada
Separatists from oil-rich province try to capitalise on friction between White House and Mark Carney
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January 30, 2026 at 6:59 PM
every day the US turns more and more into 90s Yugoslavia
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The scholarship includes:
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The scholarship includes:
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3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000
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January 29, 2026 at 8:20 AM
The Gerd Bucerius Scholarship, funded by ZEIT STIFTUNG BUCERIUS in partnership with CEU, supports outstanding MA students in Historical Studies.
The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000
www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...
The scholarship includes:
1️⃣ 100% tuition waiver
2️⃣ monthly stipend
3️⃣ one-time research allowance of € 1.000
www.linkedin.com/posts/zeit-s...
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don’t let chatgpt in the shire
January 30, 2026 at 2:30 AM
don’t let chatgpt in the shire
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The reason Anne Frank's story has resonated with so many people over so many years is not because circumstances have to be exactly the same as her's for anyone to care, but because anything remotely like it is wrong, and societies moving in that direction should oppose it well before they get there.
January 28, 2026 at 7:57 PM
The reason Anne Frank's story has resonated with so many people over so many years is not because circumstances have to be exactly the same as her's for anyone to care, but because anything remotely like it is wrong, and societies moving in that direction should oppose it well before they get there.
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Big anti-ICE rally at UCLA today. Students, staff, faculty in solidarity with the Minnesota fight back, connecting the dots btw many causes
January 28, 2026 at 10:26 PM
Big anti-ICE rally at UCLA today. Students, staff, faculty in solidarity with the Minnesota fight back, connecting the dots btw many causes
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i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
January 27, 2026 at 3:15 PM
i have just gotten off a productive call with sauron where i laid out our requests
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
- nazgul bodycams
- morgul knife must remain sheathed unless suspect is determined to be carrying the one ring
- shelob will be the new point of contact
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Was telling the students that rapid modernisation in the Balkans created anxieties about identity that mean the most insulting thing you can say to a person is that they are rural or “uncultured.” The students nodded, laughed, and said, yes, it's just the same in China.
January 26, 2026 at 5:24 PM
Was telling the students that rapid modernisation in the Balkans created anxieties about identity that mean the most insulting thing you can say to a person is that they are rural or “uncultured.” The students nodded, laughed, and said, yes, it's just the same in China.
On vibe coding, but stands true for higher education as well.
How do you measure productivity? Let’s start by talking about the engineering obsession with quantitative metrics. You can easily measure productivity on an assembly line. The faster a car comes off the line at a given quality level, the more productive you are.
1/10
1/10
January 26, 2026 at 12:15 AM
On vibe coding, but stands true for higher education as well.
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. This man has been in the US for over 30 years, based on where they are saying they are deporting him to.
Yugoslavia is the country noted in my immigration papers too.
Yugoslavia is the country noted in my immigration papers too.
January 24, 2026 at 2:00 AM
This would be funny if it weren’t so sad. This man has been in the US for over 30 years, based on where they are saying they are deporting him to.
Yugoslavia is the country noted in my immigration papers too.
Yugoslavia is the country noted in my immigration papers too.
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Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
Microsoft Gave FBI BitLocker Encryption Keys, Exposing Privacy Flaw
The tech giant said providing encryption keys was a standard response to a court order. But companies like Apple and Meta set up their systems so such a privacy violation isn’t possible.
www.forbes.com
January 23, 2026 at 7:35 PM
Do not store your Bitlocker encryption keys on Microsoft's servers if your threat model includes governments or law enforcement. As this article points out, this is the result of a design choice Microsoft made. It didn't have to be this way. www.forbes.com/sites/thomas...
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Sepulveda modified alt 5 approved. THE MONORAIL IS DEAD.
January 22, 2026 at 7:27 PM
Sepulveda modified alt 5 approved. THE MONORAIL IS DEAD.
Wonderful point which reminds me of the hopefulness I felt in James Boggs’ “American Revolution”.
my Blackest opinion is that the presumption of conflict between "America has a long and deeply rooted history of violence" and "we can and should fight against today's version of that, as did those who came before us" is less a philosophical debate about how to treat the past and more a skill issue
January 22, 2026 at 7:19 PM
Wonderful point which reminds me of the hopefulness I felt in James Boggs’ “American Revolution”.
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Metro board meeting: first up Sepulveda rail - item 10. Item would approve heavy rail alternative connecting Westwood to Van Nuys boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
2025-1062 - SEPULVEDA TRANSIT CORRIDOR PROJECT - Metro Board
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January 22, 2026 at 6:15 PM
Metro board meeting: first up Sepulveda rail - item 10. Item would approve heavy rail alternative connecting Westwood to Van Nuys boardagendas.metro.net/board-report...
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I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.
"agents told hospital staff that Castaneda Mondragon ... 'purposefully ran headfirst into a brick wall.'”
A Minnesota man received a life-threatening injury while in ICE custody. It's not clear how he got injured because his memory and ability to communicate are so severely impaired. Agents said "he got his shit rocked." Wild story from @katrinapross.bsky.social sahanjournal.com/health/ice-d...
January 20, 2026 at 10:58 PM
I grew up hearing stories from my father about how folks abducted by Franco’s secret police would routinely “escape” to the roof of police HQ and “commit suicide.” The obviousness of the lie was itself an intimidation tactic.