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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

Nazis said what now? None of this is done for the benefit of the people of America. This is all being DONE as violence to the people of America.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

"Fear the gold's connection to corruption" sounds like the understatement of the year. Sorry guys but gold in Venezuela is nothing but corruption and violence. You buy Venezuelan gold and you are helping a corrupt government to kill innocent people is southern Venezuela. It is that simple.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

This should be next to the definition of gaslighting as an example. This kind of "control" that "you want" is at the core of AI, and it is all that is wrong with it.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

This picture says everything you need to know about the Bolivarian revolution.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Yes, linguistic anthropologists do... seriously, they do. Specially those doing ethnography in the pacific. I promise.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

How old is this guy? Seriously, how old? because he must be finishing these programs on a weekly basis.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Jesus Christ, this is NOT the convenience I would like to live under.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Have you notice that the media never ask why is AI "inevitable"? After all, this is not a force of nature but a human made tech. The reason is because someone is going to get richer, and governments will protect their right to be richer, even if it kill us all. The reason is that they don't care.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

But also, want to know how f@%# up AI is? Study linguistic anthropology.

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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

The idea that there is no literature, no critical reflection, no depth of thought, without literacy is one of those bad ideas that refuses to die because it flatters our own vanities. But anthropologists, like Paul Radin, have long shown such ideas to be empirically false.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

He lies, Venezuelan oil is extra heavy. He won't be able to refill anything directly.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Believe what DJT says at your own peril.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Hey NYT, STOP CLEANING UP MAGA'S IMAGE AT THE EXPENSE OF DOLLY PARTON. What a disgrace of a propaganda post.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nope, not "some" but lots of people are cooked. Too many.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

First, this guy should be gone in the next primaries because he would be unable to bring accountability, or any kind of real justice, after Trump. Second, abolishing the senate? Is he on drugs?

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Agreed, during the rise of fascism there is no time for prescribed, and naive, interactional principles. Your fascist interlocutor does not have your wellbeing in mind.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

There will be no remorse and no self-reflection by the British press. They will learn nothing from bullying someone to death.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

It is the ultimate behaviorist dream, and those dreams have invariably end up in a rejection, or a faking, of human understanding. They never ended up well in the 20th century, I don't see how they will be better in this one.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

This country just went to the movies for a 2700 years old poem. At the same time journalists are impressed a song's popularity can last longer than 30 years.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

Is this cat one of the original Beastie Boys? Was he dropped from the band before they made it?

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My sense of Todd Blanche's appointment is that a lot of people in the Republican party are going to need complete and utter pardons to avoid jail time for all the crime that is about to happen in Washington. The pardoning is gonna be insane!!!

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Oh, absolutely Geoffrey, absolutely.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Yup, the difference is that current oligarchy seems more set up to endure over time. There is no civil war bringing it down, and there is no way a great depression and insane levels of inequality bring about change as it did in the 20th century when Americans were terrified of the Soviet revolution.

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CUNY Graduate Center @thegraduatecenter.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

ICYMI: This week's New Yorker excerpts the forthcoming biography of Roy Cohn co-authored by Kai Bird, executive director of the Graduate Center's Leon Levy Center for Biography www.newyorker.com/magazine/2026/08/…

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How Roy Cohn Taught Donald Trump Everything

How Roy Cohn taught Donald Trump to ignore the rules, avoid a paper trail, and make up a good story for the media.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Who ever said that the goal of capitalist grow was to employ more people?... I mean, other than lying politicians, grifters, con artists and neocons?

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

The most cruel joke I keep seeing around social media these days is that A.I. can be regulated and made safe. And people write that on social media that couldn't be regulated and made safe. Seriously, get a grip, A.I. is here to screw our lives with explicit consent from our government.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Well, in Chile and Venezuela you would find statues of Andres Bello in unexpected places.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Stephen Miller won't quit going after birthright citizenship for as long as he is in government. He must go out of any kind of government position once an for all.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

It is insane that politicians think that selling this obvious inversions will go unnoticed... And yet, for so many, it does... American politics is insane.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

So, he is admittedly taking care of his billionaire friends and hoping every else solve itself. He is not taking care of anyone else. That is the neocon plan since Margaret Thatcher. It didn't work then and it isn't working now.

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Michael Deibert @michaeldeibert.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Might anyone in my network be able to help with this?

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Heba Gowayed هبة جويد @hebagowayed.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Fellow academics: I know a Haitian PhD student who due to TPS termination needs another institutional affiliation not in the USA. Do you or someone you know have an avenue for them? If so, DM me.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Neither the Trump administration nor Rand Paul care about the thousands of people dead in these attacks because they Iranians. There are already thousands of casualties.

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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

The effective federal corporate income tax rate: 1950: 50% 1990: 25% 2020: 13% Stop asking "but how we will pay for it?" Restore the corporate tax rate. That is how we will pay for it.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I never use the NYPD. Mamdani can use that portion of my taxes for this, even if I never use it. I just think it is a better use of money.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

I wonder how many epidemiologists, and doctors in general, will be deterred to join the CDC, or any similar institution of public service, by the spectacle that Congress made of Dr. Fauci witch trial.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I am 100% sure this is not the take away message that most of the American public will learn from the movie.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

A reminder that for as anti-socialist as Marco Rubio and Donald Trump pretend to be, they actually are the reason the Socialist Bolivarian dictatorship remained in power in Venezuela. And they are very friendly with China. It is not socialism they oppose but rule of law and actual justice.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Except, Venezuela didn't welcome U.S. intervention... Maybe Delcy and the bolivarian revolution, making Trump the first US president to help a socialist revolution to stay in power, ironically.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

Deporting people to a third country is cruel and unacceptable punishment.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

This is what is wrong with trying to solve a problem with more border infrastructure. People will simply die and the so called "migration problem" will not be solved but made more horrific.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

My hot take of the day is that borders don't make countries. It doesn't matter how many times you heard it. They are instruments of violence that do not solve problems without causing even bigger, more horrific, catastrophes.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

It is so disheartening to see people in the U.S. blaming Fauci for public health policies that were adopted in the entire world, as if global institutions and foreign governments were stupid and would follow the U.S blindly. The pandemic was global the response was global.

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Juan L Rodriguez @jlrodriguez10.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

This is what happens when people grow up with an unhealthy amount of American exceptionalism. They start believing that everything's going to be ok simply because 'this is America." But no, things don't always just work out in this country. It is not magic. We are not the exception.

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