Dave Mazella
@davemazella.bsky.social
eighteenth-century scholar in Heatstroke, TX. let's see how this goes.
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Book: Making of Modern Cynicism, now in paperback from UVA press: https://www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
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The Making of Modern Cynicism
<div><p>Once describing a life of exile, self-denial, physical rigor, and mastery of one’s desires, cynicism now describes a life of political quietis
www.upress.virginia.edu
My book on ancient and modern cynicism, The Making of Modern Cynicism (2007, UVA press), is now available again in paperback!
Because cynicism never goes out of fashion.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
Because cynicism never goes out of fashion.
www.upress.virginia.edu/title/2793/
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On the new RDM page, you will find guidance on:
• Data collection, cleaning and preparation
• Data Management Plans
• Metadata and documentation
• Depositing and sharing data
• Managing sensitive data ethically
• The FAIR Principles and the data lifecycle
👉 mshl.is/en/research-...
#DH #FAIR
• Data collection, cleaning and preparation
• Data Management Plans
• Metadata and documentation
• Depositing and sharing data
• Managing sensitive data ethically
• The FAIR Principles and the data lifecycle
👉 mshl.is/en/research-...
#DH #FAIR
Research Data Management - MSHL
How to write a Data Management Plan Collecting or creating data Cleaning and preparing data Depositing research data How to make your research data FAIR Annotating metadata What to do with data at the...
mshl.is
November 10, 2025 at 8:10 AM
On the new RDM page, you will find guidance on:
• Data collection, cleaning and preparation
• Data Management Plans
• Metadata and documentation
• Depositing and sharing data
• Managing sensitive data ethically
• The FAIR Principles and the data lifecycle
👉 mshl.is/en/research-...
#DH #FAIR
• Data collection, cleaning and preparation
• Data Management Plans
• Metadata and documentation
• Depositing and sharing data
• Managing sensitive data ethically
• The FAIR Principles and the data lifecycle
👉 mshl.is/en/research-...
#DH #FAIR
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I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
I feel like we're in a weird world where the average Dem partisan, engaged voter is better informed than most of their representatives
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This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
The sooner we get past internal recriminations and back to fighting united, the better off we all are — the likelier our victory next November.
November 10, 2025 at 11:14 PM
This isn't "internal recriminations." It's voters expressing overwhelming opposition to what the people they elected to represent them are doing, and anyone--either in journalism or politics--who characterizes it as infighting is either not seeing and hearing what's right in front of them or lying.
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"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
Indivisible Launches its Largest Primary Program in Response to Senate Democrats Surrendering on the Shutdown Vote
indivisible.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:08 PM
"We’re done waiting for Dems to find their spine. We can’t afford a weak & cowardly Democratic Party while the authoritarians invade our cities, terrorize our communities, & threaten our democracy. We get the party we demand, & we intend to demand a Democratic Party that fights.” — @indivisible.org
The deal may or may not have bad effects, but the folks justifying the deal sound stupider than most Republicans, who know how to do extended fights
Durbin said critics of his vote “need to understand how the Senate works”
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 AM
The deal may or may not have bad effects, but the folks justifying the deal sound stupider than most Republicans, who know how to do extended fights
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UNC-Chapel Hill's chancellor says the university will not sign on to a higher education compact from the Trump administration.
www.wunc.org/education/20...
www.wunc.org/education/20...
After faculty raise concerns, UNC-Chapel Hill Chancellor says university will not sign Trump's higher ed compact
Lee Roberts called the "preferential treatment" proposal a clear infringement on academic freedom.
www.wunc.org
November 10, 2025 at 11:21 PM
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'𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭'
Time for change in some high places in the Democratic Party if we are to meet the greater challenges of the moment in this country. My latest. www.thedailybeast.com/why-these-vi...
Why These Vichy Dems and Their Spineless Boss Need to Go Now
We need courage and clarity from our leaders. Schumer and these eight in the Senate have shown they have failed that test. Time to turn the page.
www.thedailybeast.com
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
'𝐰𝐞 𝐧𝐞𝐞𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐠𝐧𝐢𝐳𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐧’𝐭 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐜 𝐏𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐮𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐥 𝐰𝐞 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐝𝐢𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐜𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐬 𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐭'
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Yeah this is it. Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party.”
I scribbled down all my shutdown-related intrusive thoughts and put them in a blog post.
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
open.substack.com/pub/davekarp...
The Shutdown Surrender
I just... I mean... Whatever.
open.substack.com
November 10, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Yeah this is it. Today in “neither our media nor our political system is designed to deal with a far right authoritarian party.”
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America’s chickenshit elites problem continues to be the biggest obstacle to fighting Trump www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
November 10, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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just discovered Ursula K. Le Guin's gorgeous interpretation of the tao te ching, the first i've read to fully convey the text's elusiveness, giving way to its meaning. her foreword outlines her philosophy in interpretation, and articulates why i love it so much
wesleyac.com/dao/refs/leg...
wesleyac.com/dao/refs/leg...
November 10, 2025 at 3:44 PM
just discovered Ursula K. Le Guin's gorgeous interpretation of the tao te ching, the first i've read to fully convey the text's elusiveness, giving way to its meaning. her foreword outlines her philosophy in interpretation, and articulates why i love it so much
wesleyac.com/dao/refs/leg...
wesleyac.com/dao/refs/leg...
my starship's default settings & programming are set to fly us straight into the sun; sorry about that!
November 10, 2025 at 3:45 PM
my starship's default settings & programming are set to fly us straight into the sun; sorry about that!
We have a lot of ppl with power who are not fit to serve, & maybe were never fit: they really need to get purged
November 10, 2025 at 2:39 PM
We have a lot of ppl with power who are not fit to serve, & maybe were never fit: they really need to get purged
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is to transform itself into a mass movement. It hasn't been that in a very long time (if it was ever that -- I will leave the US historians on my feed to debate that), and it has worked very, very hard to shed all remaining vestiges of mass politics since the DLC remade the party in the 1980s
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November 10, 2025 at 1:59 PM
is to transform itself into a mass movement. It hasn't been that in a very long time (if it was ever that -- I will leave the US historians on my feed to debate that), and it has worked very, very hard to shed all remaining vestiges of mass politics since the DLC remade the party in the 1980s
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[Bluto Blutarski, distraught]: I can’t believe it! They’re taking my HEMP!
NEW: Buried in 141-page text of the latest draft text of the Senate's ag appropriations bill is a restriction on hemp-derived THC products w/ >0.4mg per container—an effective ban on the existing market. Would go into effect 1yr from passage: www.appropriations.senate.gov/imo/media/do...
November 10, 2025 at 2:13 PM
[Bluto Blutarski, distraught]: I can’t believe it! They’re taking my HEMP!
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👇🎯 Andor was not a space opera
This and the "Then it will burn brightly" speech. Luthen gets one very important thing right: that people have to see how bad the Empire and its true intentions truly are, in order to rebel. It has to be allowed - provoked - to reveal itself, and they have to feel it.
November 10, 2025 at 1:40 PM
👇🎯 Andor was not a space opera
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been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
Nuremburg trials is the moderate position
He said that the agents would throw food at them to eat. The agents threatened to withhold food for a week and to beat him up if he didn't sign deportation papers. He said he saw others refuse and get beaten/receive no food. He signed because he was afraid.
November 9, 2025 at 6:14 PM
been doing some light reading about the aftermath of the korean dictatorship and I think it's really important that we repeat this to ourselves, to our friends, to our neighbors, to our politicians
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The best take on all of this shutdown came from @shannonrwatts.bsky.social who told me this would only end by Republicans killing the filibuster or Democrats caving. That’s it. But Schumer somehow broadcast that Republicans would cave when they never gave any indication they would.
November 10, 2025 at 12:33 PM
The best take on all of this shutdown came from @shannonrwatts.bsky.social who told me this would only end by Republicans killing the filibuster or Democrats caving. That’s it. But Schumer somehow broadcast that Republicans would cave when they never gave any indication they would.
Someone said that the only way to create mass backlash against fascism was through general acceptance that the old political world is gone & something new is required
a lot of the Democratic Senate caucus's calculus (as well as much of the discourse) seem to be predicated on the assumption that Congress will continue to be the central space for political confrontation and that the traditional electoral timelines will continue to shape our political life
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November 10, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Someone said that the only way to create mass backlash against fascism was through general acceptance that the old political world is gone & something new is required
Senate parliamentarian
November 10, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Senate parliamentarian
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seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
November 10, 2025 at 12:50 PM
seems to me that those democrats inclined not to fight perceive themselves as living through a somewhat ordinary cycle of presidential overreach and backlash and not something much more significant and dangerous
A large part of this comes from media repetition of Republican talking points
The American public has the memory of a tadpole. Nobody will give a damn come 2026.
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 PM
A large part of this comes from media repetition of Republican talking points
you never want to make Trump feel more confident, or trusted
To put things just slightly differently: Congratulations, Mr. Schumer, you just made Democrats part of the bums voters are going to want to throw out in 2026, if not sooner.
Great job, @schumer.senate.gov. You've changed the story from "GOP hurting millions of Americans to please unpopular, failing, delusional despot who's destroying his party" to "Dems are too weak and divided in the face of Trump's strength to take a stand and protect Americans"
November 10, 2025 at 1:33 PM
you never want to make Trump feel more confident, or trusted
You go to war with the army you have, in this case a bunch of useless ninnies
Not that he didn’t already know, but now Trump knows for sure he can roll the Dems every time and there’s no need to negotiate for anything
November 10, 2025 at 1:26 PM
You go to war with the army you have, in this case a bunch of useless ninnies
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(goes offline for 4 hours) boy i hope the government didn’t do anything stupid
November 10, 2025 at 12:31 AM
(goes offline for 4 hours) boy i hope the government didn’t do anything stupid