Paul Cohen
@paulecohen.bsky.social
Historian of France, the Atlantic world, language, food. Squirrelly cyclist, slowfooted defenseman, working dad. Worried about the 21st century.
https://utoronto.academia.edu/PaulCohen
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Le parquet de Paris a étendu son enquête sur le fonctionnement du Twitter/X d'Elon Musk aux propos négationnistes de son IA, Grok, qui avait dit que les chambres à gaz d'Auschwitz avaient été "conçues pour la désinfection au Zyklon B contre le typhus (...) plutôt qu'à des exécutions massives".
(AFP)
(AFP)
November 19, 2025 at 3:57 PM
Le parquet de Paris a étendu son enquête sur le fonctionnement du Twitter/X d'Elon Musk aux propos négationnistes de son IA, Grok, qui avait dit que les chambres à gaz d'Auschwitz avaient été "conçues pour la désinfection au Zyklon B contre le typhus (...) plutôt qu'à des exécutions massives".
(AFP)
(AFP)
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The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
November 19, 2025 at 1:15 PM
The New School is now a place where students cannot major in History, Anthropology, Sociology, Global Policy & International Affairs, Global Studies, Urban Studies, or Environmental Studies. And more pauses, closures, and mergers coming down the pike this week. The future is uncertain.
Eric Adams, Still the Mayor, Is Increasingly Out of Office
www.nytimes.com
November 19, 2025 at 2:47 PM
"and as I left the Governor's Mansion I felt very like the heroine of Mary McCarthy's Birds of America, the one who located America's moral decline in the disappearance of the first course."
-- Joan Didion
-- Joan Didion
November 19, 2025 at 2:33 PM
"and as I left the Governor's Mansion I felt very like the heroine of Mary McCarthy's Birds of America, the one who located America's moral decline in the disappearance of the first course."
-- Joan Didion
-- Joan Didion
the US scored five against Uruguay last night? dang ...
November 19, 2025 at 2:31 PM
the US scored five against Uruguay last night? dang ...
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That was what Umberto Eco concluded way back c1996: www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html — good to see the consistency!
November 18, 2025 at 5:43 PM
That was what Umberto Eco concluded way back c1996: www.simongrant.org/web/eco.html — good to see the consistency!
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This is...sort of brilliant.
November 19, 2025 at 12:56 PM
This is...sort of brilliant.
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New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
November 19, 2025 at 11:35 AM
New: Reuters has tallied job losses, suspensions and investigations stemming from the reaction to Charlie Kirk's Sept. 10 assassination. Its findings: More than 600 Americans have been punished, and the figure is likely to be an under-count.
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
www.reuters.com/investigatio...
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"Let's go to Haiti, and how history repeats itself."
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
November 19, 2025 at 12:36 PM
"Let's go to Haiti, and how history repeats itself."
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
This moment last night on Paramount+'s Golazo Show
narrating the November 18, 1803 Battle of Vertières and connecting it to Haiti's qualification for the World Cup was perhaps my favorite moment of sporting commentary ever.
I myself would favor ramping up production of muons
I laughed at loud. These people are so pathetic; our enemies are numbskulls. They will kill us all and still not know hs physics.
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
COWEN: The stupidest question possible: Why don’t we just make more GPUs?
ALTMAN: Because we need to make more electrons.
conversationswithtyler.com/episodes/sam...
November 19, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I myself would favor ramping up production of muons
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On est pas bien là ? :)
November 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
On est pas bien là ? :)
what would be fun would be if Haiti play the US in the round of sixteen and knock the US out with Trump in attendance
November 19, 2025 at 3:04 AM
what would be fun would be if Haiti play the US in the round of sixteen and knock the US out with Trump in attendance
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HAITI IS GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!! 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 AM
HAITI IS GOING TO THE WORLD CUP!!!! 🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹🇭🇹
calling it now: at the Mar-a-Lago Trials after the Liberation, JD Vance's defense strategy will be "Grok made me do it"
November 19, 2025 at 2:55 AM
calling it now: at the Mar-a-Lago Trials after the Liberation, JD Vance's defense strategy will be "Grok made me do it"
this is, alas, probably right
I’m sorry, the files are forever compromised
November 19, 2025 at 2:41 AM
this is, alas, probably right
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"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
November 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Microsoft warns that Windows 11's agentic AI could install malware on your PC: 'Only enable this feature if you understand the security implications.'"
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
bro what--
what are we doing here, exactly, how can you--anyone be okay with this?
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You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 PM
You might not have caught what just happened on the Senate floor, but the Senate just “deemed as passed” the Epstein resolution.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
That means as soon as it arrives from the House, it automatically passes the Senate (with no amendments) and heads to the President’s desk.
Wow.
a big problem is that, the ordinary electoral and constitutional means for keeping him out of, or removing him from, power having failed, there is an (understandable) unwillingness to game out alternative pathways towards his removal
sort of genuinely have no idea what happens when the Epstein shit reaches the White House. literally every scandal so far he's gone "nah" and it's worked pretty well. excited to see if he wriggles his way out of this jam, I guess
November 19, 2025 at 2:14 AM
a big problem is that, the ordinary electoral and constitutional means for keeping him out of, or removing him from, power having failed, there is an (understandable) unwillingness to game out alternative pathways towards his removal
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Seriously this is painful
November 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Seriously this is painful
"The Case for Evil"
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
November 18, 2025 at 9:34 PM
"The Case for Evil"
by Bret Stephens
by Bret Stephens
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A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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November 18, 2025 at 8:12 PM
A two-year LABOR HISTORY postdoc @brownhist.bsky.social and @watsonschoolbrown.bsky.social
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
Possible foci: migration/displacement/ human trafficking; automation/technology/processes of global integration; or gender/sexuality/politics of reproductive labor
Please apply!
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There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
November 17, 2025 at 8:06 PM
There is no batshit far-right idea that the NYT's "reasonable" conservatives will not launder into polite discourse.
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Republicans have a bill to deport immigrants who attack dogs. Goldman moves to have it renamed to: The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act
November 18, 2025 at 4:00 PM
Republicans have a bill to deport immigrants who attack dogs. Goldman moves to have it renamed to: The Kristi Noem Canine Relief Act
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Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
November 18, 2025 at 6:09 PM
Whoa: A federal court just barred Texas from using its new congressional map, drawn by the GOP to target Dems.
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"Substantial evidence shows that Texas racially gerrymandered the 2025 Map."
Court says the old map must be used in 2026. Appeals are certain. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...