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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

My hot take: social media, short-form video, and the “you can be anything you set your mind to” mentality have been much worse for us than AI. It led us to it. Also, surprise! This is also a post about how I wish we would all stop talking about AI.

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Jeremy Noel-Tod @jntod.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Amazing detail I just learned from a discussion of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ student diaries: he once gave up looking at the sky for Lent

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

I used to spend an hour writing a good email, reading it over, organizing it, and then sending it, knowing that I would get a response because that's how emails used to work.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

It's hard to feel like anything matters.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 13/04/2026

Every day it gets harder and harder and I am constantly amazed by how alone I am. I'm incredibly grateful for my dog. He is the best of us.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

Every time I read a corrective contrast (“this isn’t X; it’s Y," where Y reframes X), I assume I’m reading an LLM output. People rarely make these blunt recategorizations, yet ChatGPT reaches for them constantly. This isn’t just a stylistic flourish. It’s a confession.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

Imagine how different commencement speeches would be if Frost just styled his words differently: I shall be saying this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence: 'tWo RoAdS DiVeRgEd aNd I-- I ToOk tHe oNe lEsS tRaVeLeD bY, ANd ThAt HaS mAdE aLl ThE dIfFeReNcE.'

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 03/10/2025

Apropos of nothing, I think one of the most interesting classes I've ever heard about was an elective argumentation class with Maria Gigante where students read self help books to catalogue arguments and argumentative strategies that make it so the author's untrained advice is perceived as authority

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 01/10/2025

I have been doing a lot of deep thinking about what a rhetorical scheme is, what a grammatical construction is, why these are not the same thing, but how they are theories of language use that focus on a similar interaction, albeit most often at different scales. I think I have ideas.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

I made this hot take in the late 2010s after listening to a visiting philosopher tell his audience that BLM showed that the youths were demanding change. All true and agreeable but why is this analytic philosophy?

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Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · 29/09/2025

Ohio State just advised all staff and students not to attend the SACNAS (Society for the advancement of Chicanos and Native Americans in Science) annual meeting of 6000+ scientists -- which is in Columbus, OH this year! -- saying it may be exclusionary, even though it is open to all.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 28/09/2025

I find it so weird that the Right constantly justifies their threats of violence with the second amendment but when someone says that trans people should be able to defend themselves, they get flagged for promoting violence. This is peak hypocrisy and it's driving me insane.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 22/09/2025

"Is your blue the same as my blue? We asked ChatGPT and the results blew away the scientific community." Why are you asking a text generator about qualia? What exactly would you think it would be able to show you that we wouldn't know? I just... What?

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 19/09/2025

I don't know why we even talk to each other when we can just feed past conversations into an LLM and ask for it to write future conversations that we can read and evaluate.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 17/09/2025

America’s two parties are just different managers of the same capitalist enterprise

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 14/09/2025

It probably wouldn’t be safe to publish right now, but @vtobin.bsky.social and @subcontrarian.bsky.social have an unpublished paper on the tabloid reaction to Hilary Mantel’s piece on the royals that's relevant right now

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Peter Singer @petersinger.info · 25/08/2025

I once thought there were no objective moral truths. Over time, I became persuaded that there are self-evident truths, axioms of ethics, that provide an objective foundation for morality. Recognising this was a turning point in my thinking. Credit: The Institute of Art and Ideas, 2024

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

Everything about this. He's a selfish clown. I don't wish ill, but I do wish he and all of his followers would kindly step down and let people who are more competent and less selfish take over because their ignorance is killing people and driving the rest of us insane.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I don't know what I would do if I didn't have my dog here. Everything is so bleak. Everyone is so malicious. Just try to be a better person. It's not hard. Figure out who to help and help them. Forgive if you can. If you can't, maintain your boundaries. But work towards helping people. It's not hard

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Haus of Decline @hausofdecline.bsky.social · 16/06/2025

I think a lot of the terror of the modern age can be understood by the fact that the Internet accelerated the development of the worst type of person, the "Anti-Intellectual Nerd."

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 06/06/2025

Is active listening a real thing, or is it just performative and interruptive back channeling?

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 05/05/2025

Donald Trump believes intelligence is the result of genetics and rich people are smart. Poor people are not smart because of bad genetics. People who threaten his money are also evil. But those people are also usually poor, and thus have bad genetics. This is how poor people are evil and subhuman.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 30/04/2025

I just... What? What is the source of anti-Semitism?

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

The Art of the Deal

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ryan cooper @ryanlcooper.com · 23/04/2025

one of the world's top cancer scientists, who works for Harvard, is at risk of deportation to Russia where she might be killed for criticizing Putin, because she allegedly failed to disclose carrying frog embryos at the border. it's upending American medical research: prospect.org/health/2025-...

Until now. For instance, the cancer scientist Kseniia Petrova, a Russian immigrant who worked at Harvard’s renowned Kirschner Lab, has been in a Louisiana ICE prison for two months now, and is facing deportation to Russia because she allegedly lied to a border control officer about carrying frog embryos for research purposes. Not only is this likely false—she told NBC News that she did tell the officers the truth—but the usual penalty for such a piddling violation is a $500 fine, knocked down to $50 for a first offense. Instead, ICE revoked her J-1 visa and threw her in prison pending a hearing to deport her back to Russia, where she might easily end up in prison or dead for criticizing the Putin regime.

Petrova is not just any cancer scientist—she is perhaps the world’s top expert on analyzing the images produced by a new cutting-edge, ultra-specialized microscope that is being developed to diagnose cancer cases. Leon Peshkin, Petrova’s manager, told NBC that the task “requires a unique set of skills because you have to both be able to work as an embryologist and do applied math, modeling, data analysis and bioinformatics—all in one package.” Nobody else in the lab could do what she does, he added.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 23/04/2025

Today was my class where we talked about labor abuse in tech and why labor unions are both on the rise and demonized by CEOs and investors. This is a conversation that undergrads in STEM need to hear before they graduate and likely won't from their professors.

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Eric Leonardis @ericleonardis.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Don’t forget to say please and thank you folks!

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Me: Oh cool, what do you study? People at this conference: I guess I kind of look at the whole idea of ...

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

How can attention to language help us to resist, mitigate, or adapt to the changing educational dynamics of our writing classrooms? Join the discussion on Friday from 3:30pm-4:30pm in Meeting Room 347 for the LLW Standing Group Meeting. #4c25

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 05/03/2025

Is Trump going to execute someone on live television by the time he is done with his first year, this is what's running through my head.

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Cameron Mozafari @world-on-a-wire.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

What happens to Spiderman's webs after he's done slinging? How bad for the environment are these webs? Can we say for sure that the rise of superheroes is not the cause of climate change? We need to go after the real culprits.

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