Alberto Bruzos
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Alberto Bruzos
@abruzos.bsky.social
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
"Only when you stand a little closer (...) do you notice (...) that there is zero, less than zero, stress put on the relation between those two “sides,” or their histories, or their sponsors, or their relative evidentiary authority, or any of it."
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
"Like so many other bits of Times coverage, the whole of the piece is structured as an orchestrated encounter. Some people say this; however, others say this. It’s so offhand you can think you’re gazing through a pane of glass."
November 9, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Reposted by Alberto Bruzos
“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...
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
Reposted by Alberto Bruzos
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