Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
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This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
December 30, 2025 at 9:53 PM
This is why they want us talking about day care scams.
"Fear of an educated proletariat and a resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education since the late 1960s and early 1970s."
"Anyone who tells you that the recent wave of antagonism and demolition is a proportional reaction to some kind of progressive overreach, to too much DEI, to wokeness, to “blueskyism,” to police abolitionists and Free Gaza encampments, is full of it."
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
www.chronicle.com/article/the-...
The ‘Crisis of the Humanities’ Is Over. That’s Not a Good Thing.
All of higher ed now suffers the attacks of politics and technology.
www.chronicle.com
December 30, 2025 at 5:33 PM
"Fear of an educated proletariat and a resistance to secular, integrated public schooling have been the central motive for defunding public education since the late 1960s and early 1970s."
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for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
December 29, 2025 at 4:24 PM
for the love of god, AI systems aren't "just tools that are neither good nor evil in and of themselves". AI systems *are* tools of capitalism. they exist as tools of capitalism. there is no AI system "in and of itself" outside of capitalism
I have been listening to Gil’s podcast since 2013 or 2014, back when podcasts were still a relatively new and unfamiliar format. Over the years, it has become a constant presence in my life, a unique project sustained not by an economic venture but by genuine curiosity and generosity. Thanks, Gil!!!
I'm putting The Virtual Memories Show on hiatus, so this is my last #podcast for a while! I talk about that decision and wrap up 2025; GO LISTEN: chimeraobscura.com/vm/episode-6...
Episode 669 – Indefinite Hiatus
Virtual Memories Show 669: Indefinite Hiatus For his 2025 year-end wrap-up, Gil’s putting The Virtual Memories Show podcast & newsletter on hiatus (!): talk about your crazy New Year̵…
chimeraobscura.com
December 29, 2025 at 11:02 PM
I have been listening to Gil’s podcast since 2013 or 2014, back when podcasts were still a relatively new and unfamiliar format. Over the years, it has become a constant presence in my life, a unique project sustained not by an economic venture but by genuine curiosity and generosity. Thanks, Gil!!!
"I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me to take my job more seriously."
Excellent essay.
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance; they reciprocated my trust many times over.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
“When offered a poem, and time, and attention, and good faith, my students offered their own arguments back as if they had been waiting their whole lives for the chance; they reciprocated my trust many times over.”
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
December 29, 2025 at 8:59 PM
"I learned about close reading when I asked them to take their own thinking seriously—to take themselves seriously. Doing so, I found, forced me to take my job more seriously."
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Publicamos nuestro número 12, con autores de Brasil, España, Argentina y Suecia. @laurarevolta.bsky.social @davidavidserranin.bsky.social
revistarefraccion.com/numeros#trece
revistarefraccion.com/numeros#trece
December 29, 2025 at 9:05 AM
Publicamos nuestro número 12, con autores de Brasil, España, Argentina y Suecia. @laurarevolta.bsky.social @davidavidserranin.bsky.social
revistarefraccion.com/numeros#trece
revistarefraccion.com/numeros#trece
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WSJ said 50% of GDP growth in US in first half of 2025 related to AI yet over 50% fear it. Has there ever been a boom with a greater gap between market commitment and popular buy-in? This is a dreaded technology.
Fact is our students are worried too. Strong majorities of people under 30 think AI will make people worse at thinking creatively and forming meaningful relationships. www.pewresearch.org/science/2025...
December 28, 2025 at 4:55 PM
WSJ said 50% of GDP growth in US in first half of 2025 related to AI yet over 50% fear it. Has there ever been a boom with a greater gap between market commitment and popular buy-in? This is a dreaded technology.
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Wondering if anyone would be willing to share their “Language, Culture and Society” & "Spanish ins the US" syllabi. I am trying to create more interdisciplinary courses that are cross-listed with Linguistics and Spanish. someone using Fuller & Leeman for "Spanish ins the US"??
December 18, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Wondering if anyone would be willing to share their “Language, Culture and Society” & "Spanish ins the US" syllabi. I am trying to create more interdisciplinary courses that are cross-listed with Linguistics and Spanish. someone using Fuller & Leeman for "Spanish ins the US"??
"Do not fall into the trap of irony. The peasant brain cannot process irony; it reads it as vague malice. You must be post-ironic. You must inhabit the role so fully even you aren’t sure if you’re serious anymore."
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain in a post-literate society
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
hegemon.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 7:25 AM
"Do not fall into the trap of irony. The peasant brain cannot process irony; it reads it as vague malice. You must be post-ironic. You must inhabit the role so fully even you aren’t sure if you’re serious anymore."
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
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"The peasantry feels sick and low-energy because they eat seed oils and doomscroll. But do they know that vitamins are an Ancestral Vitality Stack? Leverage your elite vocabulary to write that TikTok script. Remember it’s not magnesium it’s Mineral of the Stoics.
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
How to monetize the rise of Medieval Peasant Brain in a post-literate society
a short guide for the downwardly mobile elite
hegemon.substack.com
December 18, 2025 at 5:13 AM
"The peasantry feels sick and low-energy because they eat seed oils and doomscroll. But do they know that vitamins are an Ancestral Vitality Stack? Leverage your elite vocabulary to write that TikTok script. Remember it’s not magnesium it’s Mineral of the Stoics.
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
hegemon.substack.com/p/how-to-mon...
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🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
December 17, 2025 at 2:16 PM
🚨 THE FINAL EIGHT 🚨
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
We’ve made it to the quarter finals — only two days away from crowning a winner for Worst Person in Tech 2025.
Don’t miss your chance to vote!
🗳️ Cast your ballot: twsu.forms.app/wpit2025-qf
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This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
December 15, 2025 at 1:52 AM
This remains one of the most important articles to understand what is happening to higher ed. Open access! academic.oup.com/ser/article/...
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Crucial on how ChatGPT detectors imperil “non-native” writers of English. Esp if these were trained in colonial or colonial-like systems based on making you sound like the perfect “authoritative” “native speaker” who doesn’t even exists. Truly, you can’t win. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
I'm Kenyan. I Don't Write Like ChatGPT. ChatGPT Writes Like Me.
I'm calm. I'm calm. I promise.
marcusolang.substack.com
December 16, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Crucial on how ChatGPT detectors imperil “non-native” writers of English. Esp if these were trained in colonial or colonial-like systems based on making you sound like the perfect “authoritative” “native speaker” who doesn’t even exists. Truly, you can’t win. marcusolang.substack.com/p/im-kenyan-...
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one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
My humanities dept was relevant. Majors were up. Courses were 100% enrolled. Revenue positive, GE serving, etc etc. We were still eliminated.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
The problem is ideological administrative destruction. Couldn’t write a report, a self study, or a spreadsheet against that.
'For humanities departments to continue to matter, they must challenge the modern world rather than accommodate it. Indeed, the most useful lesson the humanities have to offer today is a profoundly countercultural one: Difficulty is good, an end in its own right.' 2/2
December 15, 2025 at 1:37 PM
one of the great, pernicious myths perpetrated about higher ed—which media, higher ed administrators, politicians, and a number of faculty are complicit in spreading—is that humanities departments close due to some combination of cratering student demand and unjustifiable cost. It’s not true
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La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto. Así se mata una universidad
Así se mata una universidad
La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto
social.elpais.com
December 14, 2025 at 8:07 AM
La Complutense, el mayor centro universitario presencial de España sufre una asfixia económica cada vez más paralizante: todos los departamentos y facultades deben sobrevivir con un 35% menos de un presupuesto. Así se mata una universidad
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2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in
If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
December 12, 2025 at 9:05 PM
2025 was the year AI hit hard in education after a long lead in
If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
If anyone's left with a job in the social sciences and humanities to keep studying it critically in the future, here's a reading list I've been compilung all year to get you going
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When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
"I was forced to use AI until the day I was laid off." Copywriters reveal how AI has decimated their industry
Copywriters were one of the first to have their jobs targeted by AI firms. These are their stories, three years into the AI era.
www.bloodinthemachine.com
December 12, 2025 at 6:47 PM
When the AI boom began, copywriters were singled out as one of the jobs most vulnerable to AI. Now, three years later, I wanted to hear from workers on the frontlines of the industry, to hear what had actually taken place on the ground.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
For many, it was even worse than they'd feared.
Escuchando esta maravilla:
December 12, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Escuchando esta maravilla:
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"I do not 'believe in' liberal education. I know it’s real [&] I have seen it happen. I don’t have to believe in something that exists. Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that."
Permission Structures
How AI-skeptic Professors Can Still Help Students Write Papers
open.substack.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:41 PM
"I do not 'believe in' liberal education. I know it’s real [&] I have seen it happen. I don’t have to believe in something that exists. Insofar as LLMs are used to avoid reading, thinking, and writing, their use is incompatible with liberal education. It is not more complicated than that."
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Juan Carlos I se pinta víctima incomprendida y Faber radiografía la genealogía borbónica de impunidad, nostalgia franquista y cero autocrítica. No es mala suerte: es un rey que confunde su caída con la de la democracia
✍🏼 @sebasfaber.bsky.social
✍🏼 @sebasfaber.bsky.social
¿Por qué no aprenden los Borbones?
Según las memorias del emérito, a su familia le ha tocado, por pura mala suerte, un pueblo ingrato, maleducado y… ¡republicano!
ctxt.es
December 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Juan Carlos I se pinta víctima incomprendida y Faber radiografía la genealogía borbónica de impunidad, nostalgia franquista y cero autocrítica. No es mala suerte: es un rey que confunde su caída con la de la democracia
✍🏼 @sebasfaber.bsky.social
✍🏼 @sebasfaber.bsky.social
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I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
"Last month marked the third time since 2008 that layoffs in November exceeded 70,000, with the other two times being in 2008 and 2022."
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
@paigemcglauflin.bsky.social reports.
www.hr-brew.com/stories/2025...
Employers seemingly disregard etiquette, laying off employees right before the holidays
The once common ritual fell out of fashion following the Great Recession, until this year.
www.hr-brew.com
December 9, 2025 at 3:35 PM
I had a long talk with someone yesterday about how all prior logic and norms about the labor market have been called off because capital is in the final push to finally casualize white collar workers the way they’ve long wanted to do. From AI to non-competes to this. They smell blood in the water.
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We wrote a thing about the chasm between the promises of technology and its so often dreadful real effects. Check it out 👇
For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.
Don’t Believe the Hype — or Doom — About AI
For America’s VC-dominated tech industry, AI hype isn’t just a crazy by-product — it’s a structural part of the US economy in which capital tries to write our destinies. We shouldn’t let it.
jacobin.com
December 7, 2025 at 2:32 PM
We wrote a thing about the chasm between the promises of technology and its so often dreadful real effects. Check it out 👇
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Best title ever.
December 5, 2025 at 3:35 PM
Best title ever.
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Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.
December 4, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Or better yet: make GenAI about an assault on civics. Because if you are selling a product that necessarily attempts to con one person into believing they are engaging with another person when they are not, you’re not just ruining education. You’re dismantling society’s foundations in social trust.