Marie Francois
@mefrancois.bsky.social
History professor, research on everyday life in 18th and 19th cenury Mexico City, mother, wife, daughter, sister, friend, feminist, anti-racist, scholar, author, historian
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AI companies depend on psyching people out: on pretending that their brains don't matter, and that they can't make things or research things without slop machines.
They're wrong.
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They're wrong.
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Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
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November 30, 2025 at 4:20 AM
AI companies depend on psyching people out: on pretending that their brains don't matter, and that they can't make things or research things without slop machines.
They're wrong.
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
They're wrong.
buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
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as the saying in Brazil goes
"If you steal a little, you're a thief;
if you steal a lot, you're a chief"
its clear to everyone in latin america that the drug war is nothing but a pretext for trump’s authoritarian crackdown at home & abroad
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
bsky.app/profile/noth...
"If you steal a little, you're a thief;
if you steal a lot, you're a chief"
its clear to everyone in latin america that the drug war is nothing but a pretext for trump’s authoritarian crackdown at home & abroad
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
bsky.app/profile/noth...
“Ah, just one more thing, sir. You’re blowing up those boats, saying they’re filled with drugs headed for the US. But then you go and pardon the guy who brought in 400 tons of cocaine. That’s billions of doses. Help me understand that.”
November 30, 2025 at 5:45 AM
as the saying in Brazil goes
"If you steal a little, you're a thief;
if you steal a lot, you're a chief"
its clear to everyone in latin america that the drug war is nothing but a pretext for trump’s authoritarian crackdown at home & abroad
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
bsky.app/profile/noth...
"If you steal a little, you're a thief;
if you steal a lot, you're a chief"
its clear to everyone in latin america that the drug war is nothing but a pretext for trump’s authoritarian crackdown at home & abroad
www.thenation.com/article/worl...
bsky.app/profile/noth...
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My book about the cotton and sugar revolutions in Louisiana. It begins with the crisis of the 1790s (related to the French and Haitian Revolutions) and ends with the German Coast Insurrection of 1811, probably the largest slave rebellion in the US.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/
Replanting a Slave Society
<div><p>Although it eventually became a regrettably profitable business for enslavers and their partners, a successful slave economy in the American S
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November 27, 2025 at 1:17 AM
My book about the cotton and sugar revolutions in Louisiana. It begins with the crisis of the 1790s (related to the French and Haitian Revolutions) and ends with the German Coast Insurrection of 1811, probably the largest slave rebellion in the US.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/5665/