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Patrick Wyman

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Pod: Tides of History, currently covering the Iron Age. Book: "The Verge," on the world around 1500. Coming soon: “Lost Worlds,” on prehistory. pwymanusc at gmail.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11d

Today's the big day, friends - my new book, Lost Worlds: The Rise and Fall of Human Societies from the Ice Age to the Bronze Age, is available for preorder! Smash that link and purchase from your retailer of choice, if that's the kind of thing you're into. www.harpercollins.com/products/los...

Lost Worlds

The creator of the hit podcast Tides of History offers a new look at humanity’s deep past, showing us how our world was built not by inevitability, but by t...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 11h

Oxford University Press has been trying to do a volume (same series as Battle Cry) on pre-Revolution North America for a long time - one of my old professors, Peter Mancall, has been working on it - but it's never quite come together, per my understanding

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

Big news, friends: on December 3rd, I'll be launching a brand-new history show, "Past Lives." Every episode focuses on the life of a real person from history and tries to make sense of their experiences and their world. There will be weekly scripted episodes and tons of bonus content on Patreon.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 13h

Two of my favorite books - 1491 is getting a bit dated now as work continues in the field, but its main theses hold up just fine, and it's still worth a read. It's been longer since I read 1493.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

Not a bad way to understand him - he was by all accounts pretty good at working a room, particularly when his targets weren't versed in his grift

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Kelsey Atherton @atherton.bsky.social · 14h

"The Verge," Patrick's great book on the era of financialization that made this all possible, rules, and in no small part because of how clear he is about the way that everything from purgatory to violence work was not just monetized, but financialized www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/patri...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

Not by the Inquisition, by his own subordinates!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

I wrote about this back when "The Verge" came out for Defector. Loved writing this essay. defector.com/christopher-...

Christopher Columbus And The Replacement-Level Historical Figure | Defector

It’s easy to tell Columbus’s story as one of a determined innovator, triumphing over the backwardness and ignorance of medieval Europe to usher in a new era of global exploration, trade, colonization,...

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

The Spanish crown didn't even pay cash out of pocket for the expedition: They sold a round of indulgences, borrowed from some Genoese financiers, and turned a port's back-tax obligations into one of the caravels.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

Even if Columbus had been right about the size of the Earth (and nobody really thought he was), he and his expedition would've starved long before they reached Asia by sailing west. The Spanish just thought it was worth a flier: The whole thing cost less than a middling nobleman's annual income.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

It's the exact equivalent of being mad at NASA for telling you that your idea about Mars being closer than we thought is wrong, and then acting vindicated when you run into an asteroid on your otherwise-doomed voyage into space.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 14h

My favorite aspect of the Columbus legend is him getting rejected by the Portuguese gets spun as them not recognizing the genius of his idea. No - he went into a roomful of expert navigators and made basic math mistakes, they thought he was a moron, and they wouldn't fund his idea on that basis.

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

Thanks so much buddy! It's been way too long, next time I'm in LA let's grab a frosty beverage!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

Slotted in for season 4

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

You'll have to stick with MooD for that content but I'm looking for synergies wherever possible

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

I couldn't possibly be more excited about this, and there's so much I can't wait to share!!!

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 16h

Season 1 is about the lives of enslaved people from Assyria to the 20th century: war captives from Elam, Thracian mine overseers, Mamluk sultans, and the last survivor of the Atlantic slave trade. Season 2 is people we know from their mummies, bones, or DNA, and how we can reconstruct their lives.

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C. E. Aubin @ceaubin.bsky.social · 22h

What The Hell Is Going On, a thread:

I’ve seen some thinkpieces and posts about Portland protests that fail to understand the long-term hyperspecificity of Portland culture/humor, and frame it as a sort of shitposting meme-pilled ironic thing. Which is wrong.

So I’m gonna give you my breakdown.

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Mike Duncan @mikeduncan.bsky.social · 3d

Of all the posts I've seen go up this one most captures how i feel rights now

Blue sky nice guy @rajandelman.bsky.social · 3d

Mariners win

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

Seconding the recommendation, great place to start

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

That’s me

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 3d

Firmly believe that one of the best reasons to lift is that it’s funny to be big in random places, and that belief is confirmed by the wildly jacked guy working the Matterhorn at Disneyland. Amazing bit, 10/10, worth it

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 4d

There’s no such thing as “Antifa,” at least not as an actual organized institution, but repressive measures of the kind the regime is doing will certainly create one

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Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5d

Not unless you already use nicotine

Patrick Wyman @patrickwyman.bsky.social · 5d

When you time the Zyn and preworkout perfectly before lifting >>>
Perfect combination of tingling skin, vibrating teeth, and pure focus

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