Viet!
@vntrinh13.bsky.social
California boy living in the Midwest. Historian and teacher. Currently writing a book on race, radicalism, and law-and-order policing in Los Angeles. He/Him.
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Viet!
@vntrinh13.bsky.social
· Nov 13
Hey, y'all! My name is Viet, and I'm hoping to find like-minded folks and friendly faces here on Bluesky as I migrate away from Twitter/X.
I like basketball, cats, longboarding, video games, and D&D. I fancy myself an open-minded dude, and I've tried my hand at a few fun things over the years.
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I like basketball, cats, longboarding, video games, and D&D. I fancy myself an open-minded dude, and I've tried my hand at a few fun things over the years.
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This is the most "Teach a person to fish" situation I can think of!
December 21, 2025 at 2:08 PM
This is the most "Teach a person to fish" situation I can think of!
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Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.
December 21, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Encouraging undergraduates to *start* with AI, robs them of the skills they need to begin learning how to be a history detective. And when you move up to the graduate level, AI doesn't have access to actual archives. And it cannot produce new knowledge. *YOU* have to do that.
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A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
It also robs students of learning *how* to research.
December 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
A big part of being a historian is being a detective! Who did this? Why? Where? Why does it matter in the grand scheme of things? You have to learn how to probe, how to uncover, how to read against the grain, how to find unusual sources, how to interpret those sources. How to piece together a puzzle
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It's your birthday, Duane.
December 20, 2025 at 3:21 PM
It's your birthday, Duane.
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I've been hanging ornaments as I finish them, and I love my ornament children. please make something if you can during the holidays, during the winter, anytime at all!
December 16, 2025 at 10:38 PM
I've been hanging ornaments as I finish them, and I love my ornament children. please make something if you can during the holidays, during the winter, anytime at all!
I’m pleased to announce that we’re adopting a new cat from the Bronx Zoo.
Thank you to the zoo for taking such good care of our future fur-child, Nebuchadnezzar.
Thank you to the zoo for taking such good care of our future fur-child, Nebuchadnezzar.
December 17, 2025 at 5:48 AM
I’m pleased to announce that we’re adopting a new cat from the Bronx Zoo.
Thank you to the zoo for taking such good care of our future fur-child, Nebuchadnezzar.
Thank you to the zoo for taking such good care of our future fur-child, Nebuchadnezzar.
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🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
University of Colorado - Boulder - Assistant or Associate Professor of History | H-Net
The Department of History at the University of Colorado Boulder seeks a tenure-track Assistant Professor or early Associate Professor specializing in Native American history with a focus on the North American West, broadly defined. The successful applicant will have access to funds associated with the Walter and Lucienne Driskill Professorship in Western American History. Specialization is open, but the department particularly encourages applications from scholars whose research focuses on the early American West (pre-1920s) and engages with legal history, the history of women and gender, environmental history, and/or the history of medicine and public health. Scholars with demonstrated commitments to engaging Native American communities and/or supporting Native and Indigenous students are especially encouraged to apply, as are those who bring relevant lived and individual experiences and achievements to this position.
networks.h-net.org
December 16, 2025 at 10:14 PM
🚨 JOB JOB JOB!!! 🚨
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
Late-breaking job! Indigenous history at University of Colorado Boulder. Assistant or eatly associate. Been trying to get this line for forever. It’s finally happening 🙏 Great place to live and work. Fabulous colleagues (ask me how I know!) networks.h-net.org/jobs/69637/u...
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Once you’ve braised a brisket, you can slice it up and shallow-fry the slices and it crisps up like bacon.
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: you can put mac and cheese on your hot dog and there is no legal authority that can stop you
December 16, 2025 at 4:49 AM
KNOW YOUR RIGHTS: Once you’ve braised a brisket, you can slice it up and shallow-fry the slices and it crisps up like bacon.
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Again, people keep saying this as if we haven’t been seeing the same thing play out at Columbia smack dab in Harlem.
We are quickly entering a phase in our history as a country where you have to choose a university based on the state it exists in if you want a quality education that doesn’t leave information out based on political and theological ideology.
“At Texas A&M, internal emails show staff are using AI software to search syllabi and course descriptions for words that could raise concerns under new system policies restricting how faculty teach about race and gender.”
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
www.texastribune.org/2025/12/15/t...
December 15, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Again, people keep saying this as if we haven’t been seeing the same thing play out at Columbia smack dab in Harlem.
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(cat doing their resume)
- Expert at judging arm's length of any human being then subtracting 1 centimeter
- Expert at judging arm's length of any human being then subtracting 1 centimeter
December 12, 2025 at 5:36 AM
(cat doing their resume)
- Expert at judging arm's length of any human being then subtracting 1 centimeter
- Expert at judging arm's length of any human being then subtracting 1 centimeter
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There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
December 14, 2025 at 9:11 PM
There’s a specific mechanism in authoritarian movements that we’re seeing play out in real-time across American media and tech. It’s a simple rule: "If we cannot co-opt it, we must destroy it."
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
It is the logic of "scorched earth." It's the logic of the Nero Decree and it's happening right now. 🧵
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This single mom is squeezed by LA’s cost of living. Now she’s running for mayor.
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
This single mom is squeezed by LA's cost of living. Now she's running for mayor
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
lapublicpress.org
December 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
This single mom is squeezed by LA’s cost of living. Now she’s running for mayor.
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
Progressive housing advocate Rae Huang is challenging Karen Bass for Los Angeles mayor, promising free transit and social housing.
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A photograph of Japanese American hairdressers working at a cooperative beauty salon at Granada incarceration camp in Colorado. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on December 11, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
December 11, 2025 at 2:50 PM
A photograph of Japanese American hairdressers working at a cooperative beauty salon at Granada incarceration camp in Colorado. The photograph was taken by Tom Parker on December 11, 1942.
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
🗃 #skystorians #OTD
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Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
Nicole Foy
ProPublica is an independent, non-profit newsroom that produces investigative journalism in the public interest.
www.propublica.org
December 8, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Hey folks 👋 I'm the reporter who revealed immigration agents detained 170+ citizens this year
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
My fellowship w/ProPublica has been incredible, but it wraps January. I'm looking for my next gig. Please reach out to share leads & opportunities! [email protected]
www.propublica.org/people/nicol...
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This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
Heartbreaking. The University of Nebraska will terminate its entire Earth science department.
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
One of the country's most successful and respected geology & climate programs: gone.
When ideologues & politicians are threatened by the very act of studying climate change, I wonder: who of us is next?
It's over.
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
Despite the fact that the academic council recommended against it, despite the fact that the program brought in more tuition than it cost, and despite the fact that Nebraskans need & deserve this expertise, Earth & Atmospheric Sciences will be cut.
www.dailynebraskan.com/news/adminis...
December 7, 2025 at 5:13 AM
This is horrific and exactly what those of us in Black studies, gender studies, women’s studies have been warning our colleagues in the sciences about. Their seeming neutrality will not save them.
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Frantz Fanon died on December 6, 1961, at the age of 36.
December 6, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Frantz Fanon died on December 6, 1961, at the age of 36.
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Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain of command. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.
December 5, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Torture is a feature of life in thousands of US jails and prisons. It’s often blamed on “guards,” but someone had to design this contraption, build it, plan its use, and run it up the chain of command. Judges and lawyers had to create a legal regime where this stuff pervades for decades.
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“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
December 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
“When participants used ChatGPT to draft essays, brain scans revealed a 47% drop in neural connectivity across regions associated with memory, language, & critical reasoning.
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
Their brains worked less, but they felt just as engaged—a kind of metacognitive mirage.”🧪
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You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
onlinelibrary.wiley.com
December 2, 2025 at 7:23 PM
You know that OU student who was failed by her professor for getting all biblical in her paper? When you read the actual article she was assigned to respond to, it becomes pretty fucking clear that she didn't do the assignment. She didn't respond to it. She wrote her own bullshit.
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They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
December 2, 2025 at 8:15 PM
They should invent a university that prioritizes teaching and research
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From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.
December 3, 2025 at 8:24 AM
From the point of view of being an Actual Historian I just find the idea of needing to be "proud" of history baffling. Identifying with the history of a nation, which is in and of itself a made up thing, is just weird. It is also something that usually corresponds with not studying history.