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I say sometimes that analytic philosophy messed up my intellectual development in some ways that turned out to matter for the career I eventually chose. But credit where it is due, my philosophy professors, who really were fantastic, did teach me the importance of this.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

amazing

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Friday afternoon in my weird office, turning the Tom Zé waaaaaay up

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

instead of using AI imagine me in your brain saying "don't effing use AI!"

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

As elites brasileiras não aprenderam nada nos últimos 15 anos. O que não deve surpreender considerando os últimos...500 anos.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

A friend I work with bought a fancy new car and I joked that he bought himself a survival present — for, you know, still being alive, still shuffling along, still being employed (in our case not taken at all for granted). If you are surviving, I hope you get to get yourself a survival present.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Elections increasingly make people lose their minds.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Not feeling optimistic this morning.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Ah sim, o verdadeiro escândalo do STF

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Problem with this is that they all* have a point. This is what I learned from reading @stephengrahamjones.com *All the compelling instances in the genre, basically tautologically.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I don’t think I will be submitting any work to or reviewing any manuscripts for journals published by Wiley.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

I regret to inform you that the discourse still sucks.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Erev Shabbos Shuva thought: We have never been free, but I think we used to be more free. And we are not entirely unfree.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Erev Shabbos Shuva thought: We have never been free, but I think we used to be more free. And we are not entirely unfree.

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lastpositivist.bsky.social @lastpositivist.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Hell yes replace me daddy

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Teaching is a strange profession. The best you can hope for is to find yourself in your office crying over your students’ work because it is too moving, too beautiful.

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UPColorado @upcolorado.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

When you try to get a "tiebreaker" third peer reviewer. Happy #PeerReviewWeek to everyone (even Weird Barbie)!

Three barbies, each representing Peer Reviewer 1 (regular barbie), peer reviewer 2 (supreme court justice barbie) and Peer Reviewer 3 (weird barbie)

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

You know what you can teach your students? That scholarly books take years and years to research and write. It’s a long, long process. For some authors, it may just be part of the job, as a professor. For others it may be a deeply beloved craft and passion. Either way it’s WORK, to be respected.

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Rebecca Colesworthy @rcolesworthy.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

PSA: you know what scholars love? Talking about their books! You know what you can do? Invite them to your class to do so. It’s great! You absolutely do not have to use AI or tell students to use AI to understand their books. You can get the actual real life person to help with that! For free!

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Victoria Livingstone @victoriajane.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

CFP for the 2027 NeMLA Convention--for a panel I'm organizing. Deadline Sept. 30. Join me in March in Rhode Island! cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S...

Screenshot of abstract, which can be found here: https://cfplist.com/nemla/Home/S/22368

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Love to see my employer watering the grass while it’s pouring rain.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Considering I have been at work for ten hours and will need to stay at least two more and have been losing battles all days, this is a mighty fine frozen burrito.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I find myself unfollowing some folks. Mostly big accounts whose dubious takes I will end up seeing anyway as they crawl repeatedly over the feed.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

I guess I’m glad this is in the news, but also how is it news? This is exactly what they said they were doing.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

“As coisas precisam ser chamadas pelo nome.”

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

OK my one is that driving out of work this evening there were turkeys everywhere (seriously they were everywhere) and a bunch decided to be in the middle of the road and I had to come to a dead stop and wait for one of them to move aside. And I did not hit the turkey!

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Tonight, playing loudly in my head for no reason I can fathom, a song I don’t think I’ve heard in many, many years and that was going just fine, thank you very much: Nickelback, “How You Remind Me” (Seriously, what the hell.)

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Somebody please tell me something good. I would very much like to hear something good this evening.

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I know this is self-centered and wrong for me to even ask, but: Brazil, could you just chill out a little, just cool it with the mind-blowing news, just for a little while? Your poor gringo friends (me) just cannot keep up with this pace ☹️

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David Mittelman @dmittelman.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

a very good question for those with wisdom to share (I…sadly don’t…)

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