MJRP

a historian currently writing a book about how we do history now (and another one about visitors and newcomers to d.c.) tweets my own

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

I've watched a zillion tiktok videos, used the wayback machine to search c.2000s digital archives, and read some truly weird national treasure fan fiction, all to figure out how we are thinking about history now. I'll be road-testing my ideas this spring so watch this space!

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

I rest my case!

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

sorry but jumping into a mayoral race with zero governing experience and a bunch of vibecoded surface fixes is the most consultant thing ever. if she got in she would fire everyone, stack her admin with the most annoying 22 year olds in the world and appoint ChatGPT night mayor

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

https://t.co/ptIl6T4r1O

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

coming to @CapJewishMuseum next week!

https://t.co/FCw5KJsklu

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

i actually have this exact same nose and I think it looks amazing and always have

[Michael @yosoymichael]

STOP GETTING RID OF YOUR BIG NOSES.

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

delighted to have a framing quote this excellent article for @nytimes, about how you can spend your 250 summer!

https://t.co/Yy56OgWGxj

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

le sigh what even is a doctor of philosophy? In my discipline, at least, it's a person who is interested in understanding ideas

when I teach grad methods a key assignment is that students check and write about individual citations because it teaches them how scholarship works!

[James Miller @JimDMiller]

So this means you expect every author to check every citation and make sure that every citation is real and accurate? What if it's beyond the ability of one of the authors to verify one of the citations because that citation is in a language he doesn't know or concerns technical material he doesn't understand but another author on the paper does?

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

or maybe she won't hire anyone at all and just use stock images like she does on her campaign website!

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

sorry but jumping into a mayoral race with zero governing experience and a bunch of vibecoded surface fixes is the most consultant thing ever. if she got in she would fire everyone, stack her admin with the most annoying 22 year olds in the world and appoint ChatGPT night mayor

[📡 zZz 🛰️ @station_zzz]

A defense contractor lecturing about "cultures of corruption," lol.

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

contrary to popular belief in silicon valley, having grok tell you the plot of the odyssey as if it were a marvel movie doesn't count as having read the odyssey and doesn't qualify you to have any public opinions about it whatsoever

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

chatgpt make me a giant banner that looks like that progress painting but take out the lady and put in some presidents

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

also your name and contact information should be revealed to the reviewer who can then berate you for wasting their time and, if they choose, complain about you to their friends and colleagues in the profession

[Connor Ewing @ConnorMEwing]

A modest proposal: If you submit a manuscript with a made-up citation—not a bungled or misspelled reference—you receive a 5-year ban on having your work reviewed at that journal.

[Sam Biddle @samfbiddle]

VCs love to mock the humanities and liberal arts education then act like they've just invented the concept of "a historian"

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

@cuneytdil machine? really?

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

this Saturday! excited to be in conversation with my @HumanitiesDC colleague Sojin Kim for the closing keynote of @dchistcon. We'll be talking about D.C. and commmeoration (1976, 2026)! registration is free at the link:

https://t.co/1ZfGH3d2fz

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

I would love it if people would stop reporting on publicity stunts as if they were real!

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

Were Arlington and Alexandria to rejoin D.C., the city would pick 400,000 new residents – many wealthy and white. It would also be a jolt to D.C.'s economy and a hit to Virginia – Arlington accounts for 6% of the commonwealth's GDP. We'd also get Columbia Pike! (And Clarendon.)

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

this is the correct take

[Jessica Sidman @jsidman]

TMZ Guys are the Tony P of 2026

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

https://t.co/WWy5FsobO7

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

the Wayback Machine is probably my most heavily-used archival tool. For scholars of culture, media, intellectual and political historians---absolutely indispensible!

[WIRED @WIRED]

As major news outlets cut off the Wayback Machine, journalists and advocacy groups are rallying to protect the Internet Archive’s vast collection of web pages. https://t.co/XWEZr6Q0DF

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

he doesn't even have a photo of himself in uniform--just AI slop!

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

oh my god the man was a mail carrier for four years in the 90s its not even on his LinkedIn and yet it's the lead on every single campaign ad he rolls out!!

[Martin Austermuhle @maustermuhle]

The pro-business group Opportunity D.C. (which has gotten funding from developers, philanthropist Katherine Bradley, and others) says it will spend $1 million on mailers and TV ads backing @kenyanmcduffie's mayoral campaign. The first ad dropped today: https://t.co/CMb99MG2Ip

[MJRP @malgorzatar]

I would love to see the @APWUnational
endorse @Janeese4DC whose policies would ACTUALLY be better for D.C. postal workers (and everyone else)