Dan DiPiero
@dandipiero.bsky.social
Musician, writer, and teacher.
Site | http://dandipiero.com
Substack | http://dandipiero.substack.com
Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
Site | http://dandipiero.com
Substack | http://dandipiero.substack.com
Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
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Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
www.nytimes.com
February 4, 2026 at 10:57 PM
Professors Are Being Watched: ‘We’ve Never Seen This Much Surveillance’
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Scrutiny of university classrooms is being formalized, with new laws requiring professors to post syllabuses and tip lines for students to complain
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/04/u...
Speaking at the Rock Hall in April, would love to see ya. rockhall.com/event/ams-in...
AMS Lecture Series: Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
Join the AMS Lecture Series with Dan Dipiero as he explores the 1980s UK indie scene, where gendered dynamics often overshadowed indie-pop contributions.
rockhall.com
February 3, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Speaking at the Rock Hall in April, would love to see ya. rockhall.com/event/ams-in...
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Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
February 1, 2026 at 2:33 PM
Epstein’s economic power among academics was made possible by a capitalist system that makes higher education dependent on the charity economy rather than a public good supported by taxing the rich
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4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
4 Black journalists have been kidnapped by the federal government
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The Democrats ought to be blowing whistles up in the chamber, chanting f*** ice, and getting themselves arrested right in the middle of Congress. It's like they don't have the slightest clue as to how bad it is with a few very few exceptions. Be as brave as a poet or a nurse in Minneapolis
January 30, 2026 at 3:13 PM
The Democrats ought to be blowing whistles up in the chamber, chanting f*** ice, and getting themselves arrested right in the middle of Congress. It's like they don't have the slightest clue as to how bad it is with a few very few exceptions. Be as brave as a poet or a nurse in Minneapolis
AMS folks, do we have any idea what the status of our petition is at this moment? The letter listed demands at 90 day and 6–12 month timelines—do we know if any steps have been taken towards any of those goals?
January 29, 2026 at 4:56 PM
AMS folks, do we have any idea what the status of our petition is at this moment? The letter listed demands at 90 day and 6–12 month timelines—do we know if any steps have been taken towards any of those goals?
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If you have concerns about the production of your book manuscript or how a publisher is engaging with AI, *please* ask your dealbreaker questions well before you are holding a contract in hand. You will lose months if not years if you wait until after peer review (and likely won’t get what you want)
January 28, 2026 at 7:09 PM
If you have concerns about the production of your book manuscript or how a publisher is engaging with AI, *please* ask your dealbreaker questions well before you are holding a contract in hand. You will lose months if not years if you wait until after peer review (and likely won’t get what you want)
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Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely.
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2026 Junior Scholar Symposium – Call for Applications
2026 Junior Scholar Symposium – Call for Applications 2026 Junior Scholar SymposiumCase Western Reserve UniversityJune 16-18, 2026Application Deadline: February 16, 2026 The Popular Music Stu…
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January 20, 2026 at 4:31 PM
Junior scholars and late-stage graduate students in popular music studies! The AMS Popular Music Study Group is now accepting applications for our biannual Junior Scholar Symposium in Cleveland this summer! Read our full call here and please share widely.
amspop.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...
amspop.wordpress.com/2026/01/19/2...
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"@kirinmcelwain.bsky.social's exploratory album 'Youth' turns toward crystalline feedback, chaotic oscillators, and intentionally harsh tones to express the feelings of desire and shame occupying the same cognitive space." - @thetonearm.com
www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...
www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...
Kirin McElwain: Harsh Tones and 'Youth' | The Tonearm
Cellist Kirin McElwain's exploratory album 'Youth' turns toward crystalline feedback, chaotic oscillators, and intentionally harsh tones to express the feelings of desire and shame occupying the same ...
www.thetonearm.com
January 8, 2026 at 5:25 PM
"@kirinmcelwain.bsky.social's exploratory album 'Youth' turns toward crystalline feedback, chaotic oscillators, and intentionally harsh tones to express the feelings of desire and shame occupying the same cognitive space." - @thetonearm.com
www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...
www.thetonearm.com/kirin-mcelwa...
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Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
January 8, 2026 at 5:38 PM
Martin Peterson's creative response to being banned from teaching Plato (shared with his permission).
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You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
January 8, 2026 at 12:15 AM
You and your wife drop your 6-year-old off at school. You just moved here. You see ICE terrorizing your new neighbors. You film them, as is your legal right. Your wife complies with orders. She is then shot in the head. You still have to pick up your child later today.
This could be you.
This could be you.
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"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
On the first day back following the kidnapping of Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro & first lady Cilia Flores, 6 Senate Democrats vote yea to confirm Keith Bass as an Assistant Secretary of Defense by a vote of 50-35.
January 5, 2026 at 11:55 PM
"what do you expect dems, who have NO POWER, to do???" and then they do this 8 times a month
EMO CON 2026 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis in April. And you still have time to submit an abstract! Listen to my chat with @vcmusictheory.bsky.social about why you should.
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8 | Emo (Con) Special with Varun Chandrasekhar
A Conference...But It’s Midwest(ern) Emo
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January 2, 2026 at 9:57 PM
EMO CON 2026 will be held at Washington University in St. Louis in April. And you still have time to submit an abstract! Listen to my chat with @vcmusictheory.bsky.social about why you should.
dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...
dandipiero.substack.com/p/emo-con-sp...
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In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
New from me: The storied fiddler Ashley MacIsaac wanted to play a show at a Nova Scotia First Nation. It got cancelled because Google's AI search summary incorrectly called him a sex offender. Now he's worried for his safety www.theglobeandmail.com/culture/arti...
Fiddler Ashley MacIsaac has show cancelled over Google AI-generated misinformation
Cape Breton musician was set to perform in Nova Scotia before a search summary incorrectly described him as a sex offender
www.theglobeandmail.com
December 23, 2025 at 5:55 PM
In the past week, I've seen stories of AI:
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
- being used by middle schoolers to make porn of other students
- calling innocent people sex offenders
- shutting down highways with busted-ass self-driving cars
- emitting more CO2 than New York City
What the fuck are we even doing?
Something about public humanities discourse that’s always rubbed me the wrong way is how it tends to imply working from within the academy outward, beyond the academy: We (in here) do stuff to attract attention from you (out there). What I want to talk about is how to get back to a place where that
December 22, 2025 at 6:32 PM
Something about public humanities discourse that’s always rubbed me the wrong way is how it tends to imply working from within the academy outward, beyond the academy: We (in here) do stuff to attract attention from you (out there). What I want to talk about is how to get back to a place where that
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it's an excellent day to buy all the best presents at your fave independent bookstore!
this is mine, what's yours?
www.downboundbooks.com
(locals i'll be slinging books and wrapping gifts on site xmas eve, all things permitting)
this is mine, what's yours?
www.downboundbooks.com
(locals i'll be slinging books and wrapping gifts on site xmas eve, all things permitting)
Downbound Books
An independent bookstore in Cincinnati's Northside neighborhood.
www.downboundbooks.com
December 20, 2025 at 5:17 PM
it's an excellent day to buy all the best presents at your fave independent bookstore!
this is mine, what's yours?
www.downboundbooks.com
(locals i'll be slinging books and wrapping gifts on site xmas eve, all things permitting)
this is mine, what's yours?
www.downboundbooks.com
(locals i'll be slinging books and wrapping gifts on site xmas eve, all things permitting)
here is the picture of the wounded bird, i'm sorry for your future loss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLP...
here is the picture of the wounded bird, i'm sorry for your future loss - Aaron Quinn
YouTube video by Antoine T. Clark
www.youtube.com
December 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
here is the picture of the wounded bird, i'm sorry for your future loss
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLP...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DLP...
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If you stopped masking, you can just… start again. Indoors, public spaces at least.
COVID is kind of the social marker of how we're going to do, as a society.
It's still killing people. It's still causing mass harm. Yet so few of us mask. People are going to concerts & big gatherings unmasked. Reporting "worst cold of my life" 🙄 etc.
Well how far is anti vaxx from anti mask?
It's still killing people. It's still causing mass harm. Yet so few of us mask. People are going to concerts & big gatherings unmasked. Reporting "worst cold of my life" 🙄 etc.
Well how far is anti vaxx from anti mask?
December 20, 2025 at 1:05 PM
If you stopped masking, you can just… start again. Indoors, public spaces at least.
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I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
December 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
I’m sorry, but it is disgraceful to be an academic who uses this technology to conduct research. It should be prohibited in all of our scholarly institutions, including universities and journals.
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"My most daring idea is to refuse."
YES.
YES.
"This promise of an AI future, is really just a collective anxiety that wealthy people have about how well they're gonna be able to control us in the future."
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
- @tressiemcphd.bsky.social with an absolute mic drop moment about AI bullshit.
Incredible words.
Listen to all of it!
December 19, 2025 at 2:13 PM
"My most daring idea is to refuse."
YES.
YES.
I don't remember my 9th grade English teacher's name because he wasn't my favorite. But I do remember him saying "there's almost always a better word than 'thing.'" And that's still true.
December 18, 2025 at 2:27 PM
I don't remember my 9th grade English teacher's name because he wasn't my favorite. But I do remember him saying "there's almost always a better word than 'thing.'" And that's still true.
'let that sink in' is such a truly insufferable way to try to convey the significance of something that probably does matter a lot.
December 15, 2025 at 4:26 PM
'let that sink in' is such a truly insufferable way to try to convey the significance of something that probably does matter a lot.
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Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
The richest man on the planet has a pinned tweet that's just straight up white nationalism. I can't say I miss Twitter!
December 14, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Incredible, not in a good way, how many academics, journalists, and policy folks continue to actively attend the Nazi Bar on a daily basis.
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We are experiencing a more severe than usual flu season and COVID rates are starting to rise. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick, one of the most effective things you can do is wear a high quality mask. 🤫
December 13, 2025 at 10:45 PM
We are experiencing a more severe than usual flu season and COVID rates are starting to rise. If you want to reduce your chances of getting sick, one of the most effective things you can do is wear a high quality mask. 🤫