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@maureenkosse.bsky.social
PhD in linguistics from the University of Colorado Boulder. Research: far right and "alt right" discourse, semiotics, syntax. she.
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apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
November 7, 2025 at 8:53 PM
apropos james watson’s death i had an idle thought today about how stupid race/iq stuff sounds. “buh if your skin is darker you are biologically less smart” is a thing only a dumbass can believe
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The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
AI Is Supercharging the War on Libraries, Education, and Human Knowledge
"Fascism and AI, whether or not they have the same goals, they sure are working to accelerate one another."
www.404media.co
November 6, 2025 at 4:21 PM
The long-running ideological war on libraries, education, and government workers is not separate from AI boosterism. It is the same ideological war on human knowledge and expertise. In some cases AI is being used to directly supercharge this effort:
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
www.404media.co/ai-is-superc...
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Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender” | Signs and Society | Cambridge Core
Introduction to “Chronotopes of Gender”
www.cambridge.org
November 6, 2025 at 3:32 PM
Our (with @cat-tebaldi.bsky.social) introduction to the special issue is now available! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
applied for two positions today please do blood rituals for me
November 5, 2025 at 9:33 PM
applied for two positions today please do blood rituals for me
everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities
Taking up the trinomial “fat, Black, and ugly” as a discomforting point of departure, this piece explores several ways fatness and Blackness are discursively constructed as social comorbidities for f...
anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
November 5, 2025 at 6:26 PM
everyone should read Smalls (2021) Fat, Black, and Ugly: The Semiotic Production of Prodigious Femininities: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...
hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out
November 3, 2025 at 5:38 PM
hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out
new gender triad: fellows, fellas and fellers
November 1, 2025 at 2:19 AM
new gender triad: fellows, fellas and fellers
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Reading about “the persistent link between contemporary far-right politics and ‘alternative’ health and wellness” while watching the MAHA agenda unfold in real time and cannot recommend this paper enough, even if just for the incredible lit review on masculinity, the body, and fascism
The Science of Desire: Beauty, Masculinity, and Ideology on the Far Right
Author(s): Tebaldi, Catherine; Burnett, Scott | Abstract: Scores of male right-wing influencers offer advice to young men online on fitness, diet, and bodybuilding. Representations of the “right” kind...
escholarship.org
October 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Reading about “the persistent link between contemporary far-right politics and ‘alternative’ health and wellness” while watching the MAHA agenda unfold in real time and cannot recommend this paper enough, even if just for the incredible lit review on masculinity, the body, and fascism
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So a socio- #linguistics paper I wrote with Joe Walther (UCSB) just went live in Social Media + Society on how different social feedback signals feed subsequent #hatespeech on #Twitter. I wanted to take a moment and write about what that paper, and the older paper Rick Dale and I worked on, show 🧵
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October 30, 2025 at 2:40 PM
So a socio- #linguistics paper I wrote with Joe Walther (UCSB) just went live in Social Media + Society on how different social feedback signals feed subsequent #hatespeech on #Twitter. I wanted to take a moment and write about what that paper, and the older paper Rick Dale and I worked on, show 🧵
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Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Progressives really hope, and maybe even believe, that there is some magic thing they can hijack to attract conservative voters.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
The focus on this mythical quest is the central reason they lose.
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Yes. All the empirics on misinformation indicate that the way to defeat bad ideas is to mock and marginalize them. Constantly declaring "hey the far right isn't so bad" is a terrible strategy both morally and electorally.
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
Dems should be way more comfortable saying "look at these fucking psychos"
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I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I found this piece sad too, but mostly because it is part of a years-long effort by progressives to understand what "really" animates Trump voters.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
We already know! It is racism, misogyny and misinformation. I know that sounds condescending or whatever but it's simply what all evidence suggests.
apnews.com/article/erik...
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
Erika Kirk's words spotlight forgiveness in a divided nation
Erika Kirk, the widow of conservative activist Charlie Kirk, has sparked a conversation about forgiveness after forgiving the man accused of assassinating her husband.
apnews.com
October 30, 2025 at 10:02 PM
apnews.com/article/erik...
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
bummer to see @apnews.com taking money from the conservative Christian Lilly Endowment to launder Erika Kirk as a sympathetic public figure
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This is one way incepted bullshit about trans equality is invoked rather than anything real: students can absolutely tell you what a pronoun is, both in grammatical and social usage. It’s out of touch bigots like Emmanuel who either can’t or pretend they can’t to pander to other old bigots.
Emmanuel explicitly says he wants to shift the topic away from trans rights but he does so in the worst possible way.
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
The solution is to vocally affirm trans rights and immediately ask why Republicans are so laser-focused on the genitals of 13-year-olds. Don't shit on college students instead!
October 30, 2025 at 3:59 PM
This is one way incepted bullshit about trans equality is invoked rather than anything real: students can absolutely tell you what a pronoun is, both in grammatical and social usage. It’s out of touch bigots like Emmanuel who either can’t or pretend they can’t to pander to other old bigots.
anyone else tracking sexuality discourse on Reddit? trying to decide if I want to write a paper or actively intervene on terfification (or both, if my heart can handle it)
October 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
anyone else tracking sexuality discourse on Reddit? trying to decide if I want to write a paper or actively intervene on terfification (or both, if my heart can handle it)
someday people will see that CupcakKe is an s-tier genius and lyricist and not just a tiktok exploitable
October 29, 2025 at 8:22 PM
someday people will see that CupcakKe is an s-tier genius and lyricist and not just a tiktok exploitable
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you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
October 29, 2025 at 11:02 AM
you can't talk about US politics and polling honestly without having a conversation about how the American news and information diet is comprised of infotainment sewage and agitprop.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
Yet you could pluck literally any news story from the feed and find ZERO mention of Republican propaganda successes.
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The language that politicians always use to respond to allegations of racism, such as "I'm not racist in my heart," is always premised on the idea that there is a pure, stable interior self that can be abstracted from the way it acts in the world. We are all post-Enlightenment Protestants.
October 26, 2025 at 4:00 PM
The language that politicians always use to respond to allegations of racism, such as "I'm not racist in my heart," is always premised on the idea that there is a pure, stable interior self that can be abstracted from the way it acts in the world. We are all post-Enlightenment Protestants.
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A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
"ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds." www.wired.com/story/chatbo...
Chatbots Are Pushing Sanctioned Russian Propaganda
ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek, and Grok are serving users propaganda from Russian-backed media when asked about the invasion of Ukraine, new research finds.
www.wired.com
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
A major front of the current information war: getting your facts, frames, propaganda, disinformation, etc. into the AI systems that create so much of the content we see and are rapidly becoming the de facto “ground truth” of the internet.
in good news the Denver Nuggets halftime show featured an all-dad dance crew
October 26, 2025 at 3:01 AM
in good news the Denver Nuggets halftime show featured an all-dad dance crew
it's so fucked up that you can't ever fully know if the shitty things you read online are written by normal people or by well-poisoners
October 26, 2025 at 1:58 AM
it's so fucked up that you can't ever fully know if the shitty things you read online are written by normal people or by well-poisoners
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“But how can genAI be used for good” is not actually a responsible question when the context and historical baggage in so inherently cursed.
October 23, 2025 at 4:15 AM
“But how can genAI be used for good” is not actually a responsible question when the context and historical baggage in so inherently cursed.
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Before you start making jokes about this - the reptilian conspiracy theory is deep, rabbit hole-level antisemitism.
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
October 21, 2025 at 3:54 AM
Before you start making jokes about this - the reptilian conspiracy theory is deep, rabbit hole-level antisemitism.
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
www.nbcnews.com/think/opinio...
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Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it
Tattoo lady: How about something Norse?
Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that
Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome
Me: I like the way you think
Tattoo lady: How about something Norse?
Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that
Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome
Me: I like the way you think
October 22, 2025 at 6:54 PM
Me: So apparently there’s something wrong with this German tattoo and I need to change it
Tattoo lady: How about something Norse?
Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that
Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome
Me: I like the way you think
Tattoo lady: How about something Norse?
Me: Yeah I see nothing wrong with that
Tattoo lady: Or Imperial Rome
Me: I like the way you think
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Please read Nate‘s piece. It is most excellent.
„One question remains: why is academia a discipline that, when contrasted to other areas of work, treats the unscholarly statements of a crank as worthy of unique protection and our collective attention? Don’t fall for their misdirection.“
„One question remains: why is academia a discipline that, when contrasted to other areas of work, treats the unscholarly statements of a crank as worthy of unique protection and our collective attention? Don’t fall for their misdirection.“
October 21, 2025 at 5:54 PM
Please read Nate‘s piece. It is most excellent.
„One question remains: why is academia a discipline that, when contrasted to other areas of work, treats the unscholarly statements of a crank as worthy of unique protection and our collective attention? Don’t fall for their misdirection.“
„One question remains: why is academia a discipline that, when contrasted to other areas of work, treats the unscholarly statements of a crank as worthy of unique protection and our collective attention? Don’t fall for their misdirection.“
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