Derek Gottlieb
@derekgottliebphd.com
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I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
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This is why the anti-trans political project is a form of hyperpolitics: only rarely is there an explicit articulation of What Is To Be Done, Who Will Do It, and To Whom. The almost-always implicit conclusion is the long arm of the state must crush trans people in both body and spirit, completely
There's a question here that I don't think a lot of people want to ask, because the answer is just too grim to contemplate, and that's how is this murder not a policy victory for the British government? Is this not the intended outcome of smearing trans people as dangerous predators?
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This is why the anti-trans political project is a form of hyperpolitics: only rarely is there an explicit articulation of What Is To Be Done, Who Will Do It, and To Whom. The almost-always implicit conclusion is the long arm of the state must crush trans people in both body and spirit, completely
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A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
Dismantled by DOGE, a Foreign Policy Center Finds New Life
www.nytimes.com
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 AM
A little piece of good news. There will have to be more like this: institutions of civil society, academia, and expertise separating from the state.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/10/u...
@lastpositivist.bsky.social A couple weeks ago, you posted a new(?) journal article that maybe referenced your own work, but whose main thrust was to say that an epistemological standpoit was an achieved thing rather than a passive inheritance, I think. I cannot remember author/title. Can you help?
November 11, 2025 at 12:10 PM
@lastpositivist.bsky.social A couple weeks ago, you posted a new(?) journal article that maybe referenced your own work, but whose main thrust was to say that an epistemological standpoit was an achieved thing rather than a passive inheritance, I think. I cannot remember author/title. Can you help?
I had this EXACT thought when I read JCO’s thing the first time. From Book 4:
![And like a devillish Engine back recoiles
Upon himself; horror and doubt distract
His troubl'd thoughts, and from the bottom stirr
The Hell within him, for within him Hell [ 20 ]
He brings, and round about him, nor from Hell
One step no more then from himself can fly
By change of place: Now conscience wakes despair
That slumberd, wakes the bitter memorie
Of what he was, what is, and what must be [ 25 ]
Worse; of worse deeds worse sufferings must ensue.
Sometimes towards Eden which now in his view
Lay pleasant, his grievd look he fixes sad,
Sometimes towards Heav'n and the full-blazing Sun,
Which now sat high in his Meridian Towre: [ 30 ]
Then much revolving, thus in sighs began.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:aq3fbtkejgdsygy75f522kju/bafkreica55je53wevwe6xhlss6jjwm6wpgtzqbdes4uo4k4dkinvuafzji@jpeg)
November 11, 2025 at 11:51 AM
I had this EXACT thought when I read JCO’s thing the first time. From Book 4:
You don’t stand up to Trump because it WORKS. You do it, at the very minimum, simply because this horseshit is the alternative.
November 10, 2025 at 2:28 PM
You don’t stand up to Trump because it WORKS. You do it, at the very minimum, simply because this horseshit is the alternative.
In the form of Nietzsche’s “There is only one true Christian, and he died on the cross,” I just want to say
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
November 10, 2025 at 1:08 PM
In the form of Nietzsche’s “There is only one true Christian, and he died on the cross,” I just want to say
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
There is only one true performative reader, and it’s Gavin Newsome
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“at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026—and often beyond—based on a review by The Pew Charitable Trusts of news reports, budget documents, and communications with city officials.” www.pew.org/en/research-...
Big Cities Face Deficits: Should States Worry?
Fiscal stress in the U.S.’ largest cities is widespread. In a five-month span from December 2024 to April 2025, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Washington all experienced credit rating downgr...
www.pew.org
November 10, 2025 at 1:36 AM
“at least 20 of the nation’s 25 most populous cities have reported budget gaps for fiscal year 2026—and often beyond—based on a review by The Pew Charitable Trusts of news reports, budget documents, and communications with city officials.” www.pew.org/en/research-...
Called Tammy Baldwin, the literal least I could do
Sens. Jeanne Shaheen (N.H.)
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Maggie Hassan (N.H.)
Sens. Jacky Rosen (Nev.),
Tammy Baldwin (Wis.), Mark Kelly (Ariz.),
Jon Ossoff (Ga.),
Gary Peters (Mich.) Dick Durbin (Ill.)
the Democrats who are are considered by R's as possible “yes” votes for the deal.
Call the United States Capitol switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and they will connect you with your senator's office.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
If you're represented by one of the squishier centrists, be sure to make a call. Now.
November 10, 2025 at 1:10 AM
Called Tammy Baldwin, the literal least I could do
Whewwwww
Trump and Hegseth booed mercilessly for 2 minutes straight tonight by Washington Commanders fans.
November 10, 2025 at 12:57 AM
Whewwwww
New life purpose
Loving today's news that the mysterious "fedora man" outside the Louvre heist was actually a 15-year-old museum visitor who dresses like a 1940s French detective all the time, just because. apnews.com/article/louv...
Fedora man unmasked: Meet the teen behind the Louvre mystery photo
Fifteen-year-old Pedro Elias Garzon Delvaux has become an internet sensation after an Associated Press photo captured him outside the Louvre on the day of a crown jewels heist.
apnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 2:00 PM
New life purpose
My dad has childhood stories involving snakes in the outhouse
15 percent of American homes lacked indoor plumbing in 1960.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
The idea that everyone in 1955 America lived in a split-level suburban home with two cars and three kids and one income is, quite simply, a fantasy borne of media consumption.
November 9, 2025 at 1:58 PM
My dad has childhood stories involving snakes in the outhouse
My sicko haul of @princetonupress.bsky.social books showed up yesterday!
November 9, 2025 at 1:40 PM
My sicko haul of @princetonupress.bsky.social books showed up yesterday!
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It's official, Wisconsin is the real UW until further notice.
November 9, 2025 at 12:52 AM
It's official, Wisconsin is the real UW until further notice.
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"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Mahmood Mamdani Doesn’t Want to Talk About Zohran
The Columbia scholar, and father of the mayor-elect, on politics, academe, and antisemitism.
www.chronicle.com
November 9, 2025 at 11:09 AM
"The administration ballooned, and inside the administration the financial technocrats took over. There was less and less sympathy with Columbia as a place of thought. It was more about Columbia as an enterprise..."
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
www.chronicle.com/article/mahm...
Snow covering the yard in Milwaukee this morning
November 9, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Snow covering the yard in Milwaukee this morning
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LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
Call for two or more open-rank academic positions in Sociology
jobportal.ku.dk
November 9, 2025 at 8:08 AM
LAST CALL! #Sociology Professorships in Copenhagen, Denmark!
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
We're hiring 2+ open-rank profs (Asst/Assoc/Full). Any area.
Deadline: this Saturday, Nov 15!
Join a leading European sociology department. Please repost!
jobportal.ku.dk/videnskabeli...
This is more or less what Coviello is saying about the NYT, too — really, the parallels are striking.
“Large Language Models (LLMs) cannot do anything else but create plausibly sounding text with no concern for truth”
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
Print and hang on your bed and on your desk 🧐
AI slop and the destruction of knowledge irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2025/08/12/a...
November 9, 2025 at 10:18 AM
This is more or less what Coviello is saying about the NYT, too — really, the parallels are striking.
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Almost like it was never about the kids.
40 years ago we’d have congressional hearings falsely accusing metal bands of putting backwards messages in their songs that told kids to kill themselves & now we have a planet-killing chatbot that’s all like “bet you won’t commit suicide chickenshit bitch” & the government is like here’s $5 billion
November 9, 2025 at 4:23 AM
Almost like it was never about the kids.
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I’m not bailing out the only people in the world who can actually afford to lose $13 billion. Go fuck yourselves.
“OpenAI is getting ready to run hat in hand to the taxpayer for subsidies.” After losing more than $13 billion this year, OpenAI officials are angling for a bailout. From @ryanlcooper.com:
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OpenAI Is Maneuvering for a Government Bailout - The American Prospect
For artificial intelligence to ever pencil out, some truly enormous revenue streams will be required. And if you need trillions of dollars for data centers forever, there’s only one entity to turn to: Uncle Sam.
trib.al
November 9, 2025 at 1:07 AM
I’m not bailing out the only people in the world who can actually afford to lose $13 billion. Go fuck yourselves.
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"Being surrounded by sychophants 24/7” is actually not a bad summary of the experience of talking to LLMs, and the results seem similar.
November 8, 2025 at 4:04 PM
"Being surrounded by sychophants 24/7” is actually not a bad summary of the experience of talking to LLMs, and the results seem similar.
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Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025
November 8, 2025 at 1:54 AM
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA — 2025
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Great news! Because of a recent court order, November SNAP benefits for Wisconsin recipients were made available overnight. Members should feel free to use the funds as they normally would.
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
Great news! Because of a recent court order, November SNAP benefits for Wisconsin recipients were made available overnight. Members should feel free to use the funds as they normally would.