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Michael Kaplan

@differance.bsky.social
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Writer. Teacher. Scholar of rhetoric, media and democracy. Chicago Bears and Arsenal fan. My work is mysterious and important.

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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 21h
what a finish from Lamine Yamal to seal the game. yeesh
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 21h
BREAKING: Trump to rename "artificial intelligence" American Superintelligence System, or "ASS"
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Signature win by the #Bears
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A 38 year old QB sneak for a TD is not something you see a lot
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Everybody Loves (Kalif) Raymond
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
4 for 30 on the #Eagles. Aikman still talking trash about the #Bears
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Eagles have 3 penalties for 25 yards. #Bears have 1 for 5. Aikman: “Bears are getting too many penalties!”
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Why is Roush still being allowed to play?
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Ben keeps trying to make Zavion happen
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
That escalated hilariously
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Trivia question: who is the oldest quarterback ever to throw a touchdown pass for the #Bears?
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A beast, that Burden
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Rams trying Zeno’s Encroachment
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Watching Stanford get picked off for six never gets old
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Things past redress are now with me past fucking care
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Stallone is doing the interview circuit, telling his story of "Whoa!"
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
we are six years into weekly media stories asking if *this* time Trump has gone too far and is losing his supporters. that's a lot of crying "Wolf!"
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Spain are dominating England, in terms of winning.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
MLS is the top #Arsenal player in this match.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
To evade punishment from the Premier League, Man City announce move to Saudi Arabia. UEFA immediately adds the Saudi League to Europe. City spend €3B on transfers and win the UCL.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
the groundskeepers at Wembley have a lot to answer for
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
LOL Guehi
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
England have 4 #Arsenal players to Spain's 3, so that's the way to bet.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
I have some thoughts about this
nytimes.com
Opinion | The Four TV Shows That Heralded America’s Fall
Four TV shows, now acknowledged as the medium’s high point, each cannily predicted the ways in which America would start to crack apart.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Trump promised you that you'd only have to vote one last time. SCOTUS is fulfilling that promise.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
I know I shouldn’t care, but the NYT ranking of the best tv shows of the 21st century makes me angry
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Man City have Trump-level immunity. No matter how guilty they’re found, no punishment is forthcoming
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
"The native…is attached to his township because it is independent and free: this cooperation in its affairs insures his attachment to its interest; the wellbeing it affords him secures his affection; and its welfare is the aim of his ambition…" —Tocqueville, "NIMBYism in America"
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
sure looks like the critique of phallogocentrism did not go far enough
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
statistically unlikely
washingtonpost.com
Using AI, a professor wrote 200 papers this year. Researchers are alarmed.
An online platform removed 257 papers written or co-written by the University of Chicago’s Nicholas Polson after other academics raised questions.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
maybe we should have a version of peer review for academically-credentialed media experts? like, if you go on TV and spout "expertise" that repeatedly proves laughably wrong, there should be material consequences for your career.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
incredible that I have reached this ripe age without ever hosting my own podcast
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
this reading of social-media-post nostalgia is nostalgia for nostalgia
nytimes.com
Things Are So Bad, People Are Longing for Cringey Millennial Culture
Sepia tones, film cameras and ukuleles are a fast route to an imagined past of ease and quirkiness.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
this can't be good
cnn.com
Exclusive: US military had close call after using AI for false intelligence report, sources say | CNN Politics
The episode shows the risks of using this new, relatively poorly understood technology in the middle of the Iran war
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I naively hoped that for my 60th birthday, my favorite teams would win their games. instead, both suffered devastating losses in humiliating fashion.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#Bears are doing an #Arsenal today
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Greg Olsen is one of the most annoying NFL commentators working today
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
I guess if you’re City, you can play with your hands in your own box.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
this is a laughable goalkeeping performance. Sunderland need to find a better option.
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just ran 7.5 miles in 67 minutes. Which is better than any #Arsenal player today
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
This scoreline flatters #Arsenal and will only get worse
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
3-0. Fully deserved. Arteta’s men are sleepwalking through this match
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Trossard > Tzolis
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Brighton deserve to to be up 2-0. #Arsenal have been shite
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Called it
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
2nd goal imminent for Brighton
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
#Arsenal defenders back off to give Gross space to shoot. Not up to the task today
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Michael Kaplan @differance.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Just make the simple pass, David
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