Have to admit, these comprehensive exams are not my idea of a good time.

If history departments had the same dress code and FIDE there would be no history departments

Chess drama is wild I'm so here for it

UAW should hire Scott Boras idk

I would also sign a 765 million dollar contract if anyone is offering

Certainly the UCs won't abuse such technology to limit/replace TA labor to cut as much cost as they can. Certainly not.

Hilarious not because it's wrong, but because I'm now picturing William Penn reading Max Weber in utter confusion.

"The stimulation for early modern thinking about the nature of office and government came not from reading Max Weber but rather from Cicero" is a hilarious sentence from a really, really good book.

Guess I'm re-reading Koselleck soon

Happy to be opening my Bluesky account with my latest post for @scilicetblog.bsky.social on 1664's A Book of Knowledge. Should be something here for anyone interested in early modern astrology, medicine or print culture 📖

It would have been a lot cooler if he was right about Spinoza imo

I've reached the point I'm exam prep where I have to read *gulp* Jonathan Israel