Dan DiPiero
@dandipiero.bsky.social
Musician, writer, and teacher.
Site | http://dandipiero.com
Substack | http://dandipiero.substack.com
Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
Site | http://dandipiero.com
Substack | http://dandipiero.substack.com
Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl | https://press.umich.edu/Books/B/Big-Feelings2
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Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
November 26, 2025 at 11:21 PM
Promoting my most recently published book, and the one that's most accessible to general readers. @dandipiero.bsky.social called it "a secret lesson in the philosophy of freedom" and that's basically what it is, disguised in the story of a modern rock radio station
uncpress.org/978146967345...
uncpress.org/978146967345...
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Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
AI’s water problem is worse than we thought
A new investigation reveals how Amazon is amplifying Oregon’s nitrate pollution crisis.
heated.world
November 25, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Everyone knows data centers use a ton of water.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
What hardly anyone knows: they can poison the water that remains.
And in eastern Oregon, Amazon is doing exactly that.
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ICYMI, this makes some great holiday/driving/food prep listening!
Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
6 | Resilient Pop and Alt (Right) Rock with Dr. Robin James
Something's going on with men!!
dandipiero.substack.com
November 26, 2025 at 8:43 PM
ICYMI, this makes some great holiday/driving/food prep listening!
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one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
November 25, 2025 at 4:15 PM
one of the coolest things about ChatGPT is how you can actually just never use it. you can fill your whole entire life with simply not once using it. it's incredible.
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In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
November 25, 2025 at 1:39 AM
In Morrow County, healthy adults were coming down with unexplained medical conditions, including diseases that usually afflicted the elderly.
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
In a survey of 30 homes, at least 25 miscarriages and a half dozen people living with one kidney were reported.
🔗 www.rollingstone.com/culture/cult...
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With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
With 2026 around the corner, I wanna pitch a like 3-5k word feature on the Telecom Act of 96 and what's happened to music and media in the 30 years since then, that's also kinda filtered thru my experience as a music writer who is also class of 96.
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Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
September 6, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Finally! 🤩 Our position piece: Against the Uncritical Adoption of 'AI' Technologies in Academia:
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
doi.org/10.5281/zeno...
We unpick the tech industry’s marketing, hype, & harm; and we argue for safeguarding higher education, critical
thinking, expertise, academic freedom, & scientific integrity.
1/n
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"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
Recently accepted by #QJE, “Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges,” by Chetty (@Oppinsights), Deming, and Friedman: doi.org/10.1093/qje/...
Diversifying Society’s Leaders? The Determinants and Causal Effects of Admission to Highly Selective Private Colleges*
Abstract. We use anonymized admissions data from several colleges linked to income tax records and SAT and ACT test scores to study the determinants and ca
doi.org
November 23, 2025 at 10:01 PM
"attending an Ivy-Plus college instead of the average flagship public college increases students- chances of reaching the top 1% of the earnings distribution by 50%, nearly doubles their chances of attending an elite graduate school, and almost triples their chances of working at a prestigious firm"
Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
6 | Resilient Pop and Alt (Right) Rock with Dr. Robin James
Something's going on with men!!
dandipiero.substack.com
November 23, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Episode 6 with @robinjames.bsky.social is out now for your holiday week! We cover the second edition of Resilience and Melancholy, what's happening at the top of the charts, why men left pop music for podcasts, and m o r e e e e
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
dandipiero.substack.com/p/6-resilien...
lord help me i'm writing about "male loneliness"
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 AM
lord help me i'm writing about "male loneliness"
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Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Submit a Claim
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November 18, 2025 at 7:39 AM
Hey authors! Check to see if Anthropic stole your book to train their slop generator on. You’re entitled to $1500 per stolen Work.
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
Look up your work, and if you’re in the database, file a claim
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
November 19, 2025 at 1:03 PM
Few things bug me more than higher ed leaders saying that we lost our mission and lost the trust of the public, when we have actually been the target of a decades-long smear campaign by the right wing that worked. The moment we’re losing our mission is right now, in capitulation.
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friends, please share widely, on & off social media. let’s get this in front of as many musicologists and AMS members’ eyes as we can. if you’ve ever been a member of the Society, in any capacity, please consider taking a look & signing (& you can sign anonymously!)
I urge all of you, friends & colleagues, to please consider signing this petition to restore transparent governance and accountability in the AMS -- with this action, we can make our voices heard & remind everyone of our mission as a member-led society docs.google.com/document/d/1...
AMS Petition 2025
Petition to Restore Transparent Governance and Accountability in the American Musicological Society To add your signature to the petition, please fill out the following form: https://bit.ly/Sign_AMS_2...
docs.google.com
November 16, 2025 at 3:27 PM
friends, please share widely, on & off social media. let’s get this in front of as many musicologists and AMS members’ eyes as we can. if you’ve ever been a member of the Society, in any capacity, please consider taking a look & signing (& you can sign anonymously!)
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A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!
POV: you are a young woman celebrating a recent academic success
November 17, 2025 at 9:02 PM
A reminder that I mostly left Twitter because I was getting so relentlessly sexually harassed on there that I basically couldn't do anything anymore & there are a group of women who all have similar experiences and we all talk about it with each other! This stuff sucks so much!
😈😈
November 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
😈😈
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in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
AMS Accountability Archive
Grassroots membership response to a professional society in crisis
amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
November 15, 2025 at 4:04 PM
in case this hasn’t made it over here yet amsaccountabilityarchive.carrd.co
FRIDAY IN PROVIDENCE:
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
November 10, 2025 at 6:14 PM
FRIDAY IN PROVIDENCE:
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
Bookstores, time taken to luxuriate in ideas, and a community of folks with resonant interests all feel to me endangered, precious, and magical. Here's a chance to help each other find them.
Tonight!!
AMS Crowd, please considering joining us for a fun conversation about indie rock, affective feminism, queer community, and big feelings!
subtextbooks.com/events/48598
subtextbooks.com/events/48598
November 5, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Tonight!!
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heteropessimism file: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6o...
Audrey Hobert - Don't go back to his ass (Audio)
YouTube video by AudreyHobertVEVO
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 1:49 PM
heteropessimism file: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gQ6o...
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They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
November 4, 2025 at 12:29 AM
They gutted the Washington Post. CBS. NYT. Now Teen Vogue.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
The point isn't to bring in more conservatives. They've reached that saturation point.
They are killing the fourth estate and buying up the social media to control the messages we see. These were all targeted to disarm the left of truth.
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This is so bad. Teen Vogue had some of the last quality political coverage in the mainstream media.
I was laid off from Teen Vogue today along with multiple other staffers, and today is my last day.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
certainly more to come from me when the dust has settled more, but to my knowledge, after today, there will be no politics staffers at Teen Vogue.
November 4, 2025 at 1:06 AM
This is so bad. Teen Vogue had some of the last quality political coverage in the mainstream media.
A few years ago I replied to a twitter thread about improvisation by recommending some other folks' work. Sheila, insightful, perhaps picking up my nervousness, inquired about my own. I was dead thrilled that she ended up citing me in her gorgeous book Hanging Out, and am now doubly grateful.
After several long years, I am thrilled to have this review of @dandipiero.bsky.social’s wonderful book, CONTINGENT ENCOUNTERS, finally appear in the African American Review
November 4, 2025 at 12:27 AM
A few years ago I replied to a twitter thread about improvisation by recommending some other folks' work. Sheila, insightful, perhaps picking up my nervousness, inquired about my own. I was dead thrilled that she ended up citing me in her gorgeous book Hanging Out, and am now doubly grateful.
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They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
November 3, 2025 at 8:01 PM
They just gutted Teen Vogue which had top notch political journalism. The media is continuing to purge any sort of political dissent to Trump and the oligarchs.
www.vogue.com/article/teen...
www.vogue.com/article/teen...