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Proud to have my latest in @DissentMag’s Spring issue, going live today
I go over the causes and consequences of the current crisis in Cuba
Andrés Pertierra
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Andrés Pertierra
@ASPertierra
Historian of Cuba. LatAm & Caribbean History PhD Candidate @UWMadison. Bylines: @thenation @DissentMag I’m andrespertierra.bsky.social on BlueSky
Mainz, Germany
Joined September 2013
- The really obvious answer to “how to stop kids from cheating using AI” is making tests and quizzes 100% manual again, in rooms where you have to use pen and paper or typewriters, which will be way less convenient but seems like only option at this pointCollege life in 2024.. 😂
00:00 - Latino isn’t a race, it’s a broad cultural identity that includes white people. LatAm also has centuries of explicitly white supremacist laws & policies Also this isn’t some rando Op-Ed, Geraldo Cadava is a historian of right wing Latinos in the US. This is literally his beat
- Portuguese is easy; you have the melodious and happy variant that everyone loves (Brazilian) and then you have the Portuguese from Portugal variant (sounds like Russian)every time you hear portuguese you do like process of elimination for every other romance language until you're like oh you're speaking portuguese
- I wonder how many weird anecdotes like this are just jokes that got lost in translation as “ah, the local primitives and their quaint beliefs” “He can talk but he prefers not to just in case they force him to work” sounds like a joke somebody would come up with today
- Calling it “homemade” makes it sound like bootleg moonshine cooked up in somebody’s basement instead of the product of a decades old biopharma sector.
- Reaction to the Walz vp pick on left twitter is like a Rorschach test for who has depression
- The evolution of 'cultural appropriation' to potentially include 'white guy going to an Asian grocery store' is a great example of how once an academic concept goes mainstream it often loses any relationship to its original meaning
- GOP has invented Schrödinger’s coronavirus; it was both not dangerous at all and the vaccine was as unnecessary/dangerous but also it was deadly and a bio weapon made by the Chinese
- The inability to create a left-liberal popular front in the 2010s against this will probably be studied for decades
- Wait, does this mean PBS and NPR are dead?BREAKING The Corporation for Public Broadcasting is shutting down.
- Can’t believe so many are falling for this, it is clearly a colour revolution organized by international freemasonry
- In his 30s Julius Caesar supposedly came across a statue of Alexander the Great and broke down weeping, saying Alexander had already conquered so much by Caesar’s age while Caesar had hitherto done little by comparison
