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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Once again Gen AI reveals that we've been focusing on product when process is the important thing (see also: the moral panic about plagiarism). The thread asks what math is for -- maybe the real math is the proofs we understood along the way

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

You'd dig this @lollardfish.bsky.social, somewhere in the queue I have a draft of a piece about the "too many Ivy League students are getting disability accommodations" moral panic, compared to my view as a cc prof that students come to us when four-year schools are too stingy with accessibility

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

[hæːɡn̩ dɒʒ], [mœtli kryø], things of that nature

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

snake of the union [Gadsden flag]

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I teach at a community college now, and I have taught at elite universities before, and this tracks 100%

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Yeah, transmedicalism etc. No please. As you say in your post, we have so much to thank the millennials for (and zoomers too)

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Oh totally, everyone has ideologies about gender! What bugs me is when it's framed as "those people have ideology; my people have facts." Generally in such cases that isn't facts, it's hegemony

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

Reminds me of a post I once saw on here: "I am 'business critical' in the sense that I am often critical of business"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I ruled the world, "gender ideology" would refer to the belief that there are precisely two genders that correspond to one's anatomy in an obvious and unproblematic way

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

If I ruled the world, "gender ideology" would refer to the belief that there are precisely two genders that correspond to one's anatomy in an obvious and unproblematic way

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Our rabbi is R' Yosef Berman who is in some of these photos bsky.app/profile/ther...

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

It's the other side of this coin, isn't it bsky.app/profile/nema...

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

every time professors talk about assigning "points" to this or that to try to modify student behavior, it makes me want to throw my laptop at a wall and walk into the sea

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Ben Collins @bencollins.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

If crime is down why are TEENAGERS hanging out OUTSIDE where I can SEE THEM?

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Intelligence is also culturally defined and not everyone links it to verbal ability. I'm thinking today about the story of the Indigenous man who said to the settler, "you want to talk to someone to see if he's worth hunting with. I want to hunt with someone to see if he's worth talking to"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Regarding the inescapable conversation about whether language = thought = consciousness,

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

I just read Annihilation the book and yes

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

This Labor Day I am in a union again, join one if you can

A selfie that cuts me off just below the nose and shows I'm wearing a size XXXL tee shirt from SEIU Local 500. It's purple with a white and yellow design showing a raised fist holding a fountain pen and the text "Maryland Community Colleges United"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

I teach gen-eds and I approve this message

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

But wait, there's more! Who owns "woke"? Etymology is not destiny—it's perfectly natural for "decimate" to come to mean "cause great destruction," not "kill 10%"—but pay attention to WHO uses "woke" to mean WHAT, how much power they have, and what their political goals are. #linguistics

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Jay Gatsby, his glass raised

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

So much #linguistics on here today. The discourse has me fondly remembering the sociosyntax syllabus I once started writing. My plan was to hook students by saying, let's talk pronouns, if you think "they" is controversial, wait til you learn about "y'all"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I can't read this without remembering that "performative," in linguistics, means "an utterance that becomes true by being said," like "you're under arrest." A vote is another obvious example

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

This treats me, a professor, as a problem to be solved. I prefer to think of myself as a human being you can talk to

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I've been saying, to hear some tenured faculty talk, you'd think they're epiphytes that can subsist on only high-impact journal citations and air

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Surprised Pikachu, his mouth agape!

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Spooky Simonson @thedansimonson.bsky.social · 24/08/2026

IMO particle physics is far less practical than nearly every social science, but people act like it’s the opposite. Like, my guy, quarks will never have an effect on your daily life, but you’re going to be involved in multiple stance triangles every day, and you won’t even be aware of them.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 19/08/2026

The criminally deployed troops in DC are not fighting crime. They are the crime.

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fakesharrows @fakesharrows.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

no, I don’t think there should be armed soldiers walking around the playground where we are celebrating a seven year old’s birthday. come on

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Overheard ER doc tell a student that I was an "interesting" case. Then he came in to talk to me, said I might need major surgery but don't worry, "my dog had the same procedure and she's fine"

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

What do you think, fermentation : accelerationism :: rhizome : neoliberalism?

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The Midnight Society @midnightpals.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

Frank Herbert: I've told you 100 times Herbert: if only you'd listened to me about having a butlerian jihad and also finding the guiding light of islam, then maybe none of this would have happened King: wait how is islam related to this? Herbert: inshallah

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

DC Grand Prix but for dirt bike kids only! Love this

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

That being said, what is happening to DC now is a travesty. My mom was born in Romania, and she said it reminds her of Bucharest under Ceaușescu. We need to do so much more than de-Trumpify the Mall and get rid of the National Guard. I love DC, but Statehood is the only way it can truly thrive.

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Alan Zilberman @alanzilberman.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

DC gets a bad rap from... well, everyone. But this is a real-ass city with culture and community that are worth celebrating. I met my wife, lifelong friends, and all sorts of rad people here. My career blossomed. Once I factor in free museums and bike lanes, I can't imagine living anywhere else.

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DEAD TEENAGERS out now in paperback @judedoyle.bsky.social · 24/07/2026

Too often, we neglect the subtleties of Homer's original text. For instance, this famous passage: Odysseus is coming And everybody's jumping His wife has many suitors His son, a godly tutor His giant horse is wooden His guilt is a great burden So if you like to party He'll make you a dead body

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Mark Joseph Stern @mjsdc.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

Just canceled my DashPass and sent this email to DoorDash. I encourage you to do the same if you support D.C. home rule. press@doordash.com and ir@doordash.com

Hello,

I’m writing to let you know that I just canceled my DashPass because of DoorDash’s disgraceful campaign against D.C. home rule.

DoorDash is urging Congress to nullify a new D.C. law imposing a 20 percent tax on food-delivery services—not merely by overturning that law, but by prohibiting the District from enacting any new tax without prior congressional approval. That is an extraordinarily sweeping assault on D.C.’s right to govern itself and an odious insult to the District’s residents.

I am especially disgusted by DoorDash’s public claim that it is somehow defending D.C. residents while actively seeking to strip us of our right to govern ourselves through our own democratically elected lawmakers. Please do not pretend that disenfranchising District residents is an act undertaken on our behalf.

I intend to publicize DoorDash’s attack on home rule as widely as possible and urge everyone I know to boycott the company.

Shame on you.

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Something is Being Born @nabelew.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

The arguments against language reclamation haven't changed much in the nearly 20 years I've been working in this field: "It costs too much." "People are choosing to abandon their languages, so let them." "They have no practical use." "It's just sentimental nostalgia." Fuck All That, a thread:

newyorker.com

Sometimes It’s O.K. to Let a Language Die

When cultural preservation comes at the expense of speakers’ decisions, sometimes it's O.K. to let a language die.

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Brad Johnson @climatebrad.hillheat.com · 20/07/2026

Some of these deaths were caused by the thousands of paramilitary goons zooming around our streets doing Kavanaugh stops. Funny how Trump's ~10,000 National Guard and federal LEOs aren't actually making our streets safer

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Road deaths up sharply in the nation’s capital, despite goal of reaching zero

D.C. Mayor Muriel E. Bowser pledged to eliminate traffic deaths in the city. More than a decade later, they still haven’t gone down.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

tell me you've never met a non speaking autistic person without telling me y

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David Cooper @davidbcooper.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

I think The Odyssey should have had a culturally appropriate cast IE all Greek IE every character played by Jason Mantzoukas.

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Michelle Chappell @michellechap76.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

The decision about whether out-of-state National Guard troops remain deployed here does not actually belong to DOD, it belongs to the governors who deployed their troops here. Tell every governor to recall their troops: freedcproject.org/guard

freedcproject.org

National Guard Out Now — Free DC

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Gender Census @gendercensus.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

The 13th annual international Gender Census 2026 is now open until at least 13th August 2026! survey.gendercensus.com It's for anyone whose gender (or lack thereof) isn't described by the M/F binary. It's short and easy, and results are useful in academia, business and self-advocacy. #LGBTQ

Promotional image. Title: Gender Census 2026. Text: If you can't easily put yourself into just one of these two boxes, you are invited to take part. Images: On the left, a box with a Venus/female symbol on it, patterned with tree bark. On the right, a box with a Mars/male symbol on it, patterned with grass.

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daniele g @nemaveze.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Goffman GENDER ADVERTISEMENTS is essentially one long shitpost, change my mind

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