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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Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
November 8, 2025 at 11:02 PM
Tech guys six months ago: haha yes we’re cutting all this WASTEFUL spending by eliminating medical research and USAID
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
Tech guys now: yes I think taxpayers will be excited to bailout my non consensual pornography machine
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Excellent read 🔥
“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
Maybe Don’t Talk to the New York Times About Zohran Mamdani
It’s remarkable, the people you’ll hear from. Teach for even a little while at an expensive institution—the term they tend to prefer is “elite”—and odds are that eventually someone who was a studen…
lithub.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:26 AM
Excellent read 🔥
“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
“Climate change is increasingly lethal, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Israel is murdering journalists in Gaza at historically unprecedented rates, though critics say… it is not.” Or, “Trans people claim to be real, though critics say…”
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
We Used to Read Things in This Country | Noah McCormack
Technology changes us—and it is currently changing us for the worse.
thebaffler.com
November 2, 2025 at 5:12 PM
“The elites are ecstatic about imagining a vast, uneducated, and unproductive population forced to pay companies like OpenAI to access the written word and to approximate thought.”
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
Must read piece by Noah McCormack with too many quotaboe lines to select one! thebaffler.com/salvos/we-us...
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A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
February 9, 2025 at 12:00 AM
A social sciences and humanities reading list on AI in education 🧵
"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good."
Bit late to this but it's such a clever piece of AI criticism, developing a literary critique of Sam Altman's auto-metafiction story as a way to explore the grave threats to the "intellectual infrastructure" of the humanities - and HE more broadly - posed by AI lareviewofbooks.org/article/lite...
Literature Is Not a Vibe: On ChatGPT and the Humanities | Los Angeles Review of Books
Rachele Dini discusses OpenAI’s “A Machine-Shaped Hand” and an academic sector in crisis.
lareviewofbooks.org
November 7, 2025 at 12:02 PM
"The collapse of the institutions where young people learn to make and critique art stands to greatly benefit companies like OpenAI, which, in the absence of human artists and critics, can both make the stuff and tell us it’s good."
Tres libros fantásticos, llenos de claves para entender el presente.
📚 SORTEO 📚
Sorteamos tres clásicos del CCCS [Centro de Estudios Culturales Contemporáneos]
📕 Rituales de resistencia
📘 Gobernar la crisis
📙 El imperio contraataca
📝 Cómo participar:
1️⃣ Síguenos
2️⃣ Cita este tuit
🗓️ Hasta el 30 NOV
Sorteamos tres clásicos del CCCS [Centro de Estudios Culturales Contemporáneos]
📕 Rituales de resistencia
📘 Gobernar la crisis
📙 El imperio contraataca
📝 Cómo participar:
1️⃣ Síguenos
2️⃣ Cita este tuit
🗓️ Hasta el 30 NOV
November 7, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Tres libros fantásticos, llenos de claves para entender el presente.
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I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
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"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
Zohran Mamdani Just Gave American Politics a Raciolinguistic Reality Check
Zohran Mamdani just won the New York City mayoral race, and it’s a big deal for reasons that will no doubt be dissected for years to come. But what really stands out to me is how this moment shifts…
educationallinguist.wordpress.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:50 PM
"He essentially said, 'I’m not going to hide who I am to make you comfortable.' In doing so Mamdani delivered a raciolinguistic reality check that refuses the idea that politicians of color need to translate themselves into whiteness to be viable."
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
educationallinguist.wordpress.com/2025/11/05/z...
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Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
November 4, 2025 at 1:09 AM
Very proud to have worked on this statement of the Modern Language Association with @annamillsoer.bsky.social and other colleagues on the MLA’s task force on AI in Research and Teaching. It is a direct call for faculty input into Ed Tech decision-making, especially AI: www.mla.org/Resources/Ad... 🧵
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France should have kept its language at home then.
The Ivory Coast is changing the way French is spoken and France is mad about it.
October 31, 2025 at 11:12 PM
France should have kept its language at home then.
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A thoughtful and generous review of "Why We Fear AI" from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social 👇
In happier news: for Critical Inquiry, I reviewed @hagenblix.bsky.social and Ingeborg Glimmer’s WHY WE FEAR AI, which has just lately been catching some deserved hotness. 🔥 Read my take here: criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu/matthew_kirs...
Critical Inquiry
A journal of Art, Culture and Politics, Published by the University of Chicago
criticalinquiry.uchicago.edu
October 30, 2025 at 10:28 PM
A thoughtful and generous review of "Why We Fear AI" from @mkirschenbaum.bsky.social 👇
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Italian Neofascists of the 70’s and 80’s were very into Tolkien, specifically identifying with the Hobbits. The latest round of Musk / DHS discourse has a history harpers.org/archive/2024...
Leggete Tolkien, Stolti!, by Hari Kunzru
harpers.org
October 29, 2025 at 9:33 PM
Italian Neofascists of the 70’s and 80’s were very into Tolkien, specifically identifying with the Hobbits. The latest round of Musk / DHS discourse has a history harpers.org/archive/2024...
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This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
Vance says it is "totally reasonable and acceptable" for people to not want to live next door to people who speak a different language than they do
October 29, 2025 at 4:43 PM
This is exactly the same argument — and, in parts, even the same language — that segregationists advanced to argue that white people had a “right” not to live next to people who were different from them.
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Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky
The prehistory of generative grammar and Chomsky’s debt to Emil
Post | John Benjamins
Summary
Generative linguistics has a longer prehistory than most
linguists realize. The rewriting systems that Chomsky brought into linguistics
as generative grammars were explicitly defined more than...
doi.org
October 28, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Great new article by Geoff Pullum on Post, Chomsky, and the roots of generative grammar, written with his customary verve, depth, and precision. doi.org/10.1075/hl.0.... #histlx #Linguistics #LangSky
Leyendo a Habermas, sin duda el autor menos "page-turner". Como no puedo leerlo en alemán, no sé si la dificultad se debe a su peculiar registro filosófico de una exactitud maniática y singular (hasta el punto de que a menudo bordea la parodia de sí mismo), o a la violencia de traducirlo al español.
October 27, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Leyendo a Habermas, sin duda el autor menos "page-turner". Como no puedo leerlo en alemán, no sé si la dificultad se debe a su peculiar registro filosófico de una exactitud maniática y singular (hasta el punto de que a menudo bordea la parodia de sí mismo), o a la violencia de traducirlo al español.
Combine this with what @melindacooper.bsky.social said recently in @thedigradio.bsky.social about a fiscal regime designed to suppress wage growth and inflate asset values through a combination of austerity measures and tax expenditures that operate as hidden public spending to benefit asset-owners.
from "The Second Estate: How the Tax Code Made an American Aristocracy" by Ray D. Madoff
October 27, 2025 at 7:08 PM
Combine this with what @melindacooper.bsky.social said recently in @thedigradio.bsky.social about a fiscal regime designed to suppress wage growth and inflate asset values through a combination of austerity measures and tax expenditures that operate as hidden public spending to benefit asset-owners.
"Some Latinos are now afraid to speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music in public."
Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Opinion | Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime
www.nytimes.com
October 27, 2025 at 3:49 PM
"Some Latinos are now afraid to speak Spanish or listen to Spanish music in public."
Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
Being Latino in the United States Should Not Be a Crime www.nytimes.com/2025/10/27/o...
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"The most troubling prospect of all is what might be called constitutive de-skilling: the erosion of the capacities that make us human (...). Judgment, imagination, empathy, the feel for meaning and proportion—these aren’t backups; they’re daily practices."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
The Age of De-Skilling
Will AI stretch our minds—or stunt them?
www.theatlantic.com
October 26, 2025 at 8:07 PM
"The most troubling prospect of all is what might be called constitutive de-skilling: the erosion of the capacities that make us human (...). Judgment, imagination, empathy, the feel for meaning and proportion—these aren’t backups; they’re daily practices."
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...
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Private tech companies feeding at the trough of taxpayer-supported public institutions
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
Big Tech Makes Cal State Its A.I. Training Ground
www.nytimes.com
October 26, 2025 at 11:31 AM
Private tech companies feeding at the trough of taxpayer-supported public institutions
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/t...
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I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
How Do Scholars Take Notes?
How do scholars take notes? I like seeing examples of different people’s notetaking, so I asked scholars to show me how they take notes for research.
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October 25, 2025 at 4:14 PM
I made my students a little “book” (just using Google slides) to show them how you all answered my question about how you take notes for research. Just to show the variety.
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“students increasingly are choosing to study fields such as art history, modern and ancient languages and literature, philosophy and religion, visual and performing arts, and film and media studies…
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/new-story-ar...
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/new-story-ar...
A New Story for the Arts & Humanities | Division of Arts & Humanities
artshumanities.berkeley.edu
October 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
“students increasingly are choosing to study fields such as art history, modern and ancient languages and literature, philosophy and religion, visual and performing arts, and film and media studies…
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/new-story-ar...
artshumanities.berkeley.edu/new-story-ar...
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"Born out of ... now-distant federal research projects, ... AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy." Depressing but true beyond the US too.
October 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
"Born out of ... now-distant federal research projects, ... AI returns to the university as part of a broad effort to further corporatize universities, vocationalize higher-education instruction, and diminish both research and research-based pedagogy." Depressing but true beyond the US too.