Tlatoani 🏳️⚧️
@tlatoani.bsky.social
Linguist - phonology, formal theory, computation ling (welcomes the demise of LLMs). 🏳️⚧️ she/her in Florida
Main for @nazarre.bsky.social
Main for @nazarre.bsky.social
Pinned
The Mother of All Tableaux - University of Toronto Press
Order, Equivalence, and Geometry in the Large-scale Structure of Optimality Theory
utppublishing.com
Excited to (re)announce that my book with Alan Prince has been released! (Our publisher has changed.)
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
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Really exciting that AOC is considering a run for president. Don't listen to the people who stuck us with Joe Biden. She can win — and she can do it for two terms.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
AOC built her own political machine. Now she’s deciding her next move.
Seven years after Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez leapt onto the national stage as an outsider, she’s learned an inside game and is considering a run for Senate or president.
www.washingtonpost.com
November 23, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Really exciting that AOC is considering a run for president. Don't listen to the people who stuck us with Joe Biden. She can win — and she can do it for two terms.
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
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It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
I know that at this point it's a subplot in the Epstein files drama, but I feel compelled to point out, once again, that Larry Summers HAS NO BUSINESS teaching students at ANY university ever again!
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
My latest cries into the abyss, in @thenation.com
www.thenation.com/article/soci...
Why Is Larry Summers Still Employed?
The revelations about the economist’s attempts to pressure a women into a “relationship”—with guidance from Jeffrey Epstein—should finally disqualify him from teaching students.
www.thenation.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:12 PM
It's not even a morality issue---it's an equity issue.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
In essence, about half the student body has to manage the prospect that approaching the professor for help, professional advice, guidance, or feedback is going to go sideways.
Women in his classes are not getting the same class.
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Einstein presented "Explanation of the Perihelion Motion of Mercury from the General Theory of Relativity" #OTD in 1915.
He used his nearly-complete theory of general relativity to explain the 43 arc-second per century anomalous precession of Mercury. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
He used his nearly-complete theory of general relativity to explain the 43 arc-second per century anomalous precession of Mercury. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
November 18, 2025 at 10:27 PM
Einstein presented "Explanation of the Perihelion Motion of Mercury from the General Theory of Relativity" #OTD in 1915.
He used his nearly-complete theory of general relativity to explain the 43 arc-second per century anomalous precession of Mercury. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
He used his nearly-complete theory of general relativity to explain the 43 arc-second per century anomalous precession of Mercury. 🧪 ⚛️ 🔭
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How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
November 18, 2025 at 12:51 PM
How do you land Vanity Fair west coast editor at age 32 after having affairs with two presidential candidates you were covering as a journalist. That is some prime white lady shit.
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2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
The Shocking Truth About Gen Z Voters Is That They’re Pretty Great
Stop panicking: They are the most progressive generation ever, especially on race. If that surprises you, you’ve been listening to the wrong story.
newrepublic.com
November 14, 2025 at 8:44 PM
2/🧵 New piece with @jakemgrumbach.bsky.social in @NewRepublic: We analyzed 60,000+ respondents in the 2024 Cooperative Election Study. Gen Z has the lowest racial resentment of any generation. The generational shift overwhelms the education divide that supposedly defines modern politics.
Excited to (re)announce that my book with Alan Prince has been released! (Our publisher has changed.)
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
The Mother of All Tableaux - University of Toronto Press
Order, Equivalence, and Geometry in the Large-scale Structure of Optimality Theory
utppublishing.com
November 14, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Excited to (re)announce that my book with Alan Prince has been released! (Our publisher has changed.)
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
Find it here (and everywhere books are sold):
utppublishing.com/doi/10.3138/...
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A great read from Jessica Winter excoriating facile ideas about the crisis of masculinity. Scott Galloway and his new book feature prominently, but it’s a broader takedown of a worldview that takes hierarchy, and men’s position at the top, as a given.
What Did Men Do to Deserve This?
Changes in the economy and in the culture seem to have hit them hard. Scott Galloway believes they need an “aspirational vision of masculinity.”
www.newyorker.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:37 PM
A great read from Jessica Winter excoriating facile ideas about the crisis of masculinity. Scott Galloway and his new book feature prominently, but it’s a broader takedown of a worldview that takes hierarchy, and men’s position at the top, as a given.
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Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
Trump to the Novo Nordisk CEO: "Maybe you should give us a piece of the company like I've been asking for."
November 6, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Let’s hear more of the dangers of democratic socialism under Mamdani
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I can't believe I'm saying this but this Breitbart dude captures *a portion* of Mamdani's appeal in a way I haven't quite seen elsewhere.
www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...
www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...
Zohran’s Park Slope Populists
Conservatives shouldn’t write off the economic pain of New York City’s downwardly mobile professional class.
www.commonplace.org
November 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
I can't believe I'm saying this but this Breitbart dude captures *a portion* of Mamdani's appeal in a way I haven't quite seen elsewhere.
www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...
www.commonplace.org/p/zohrans-pa...
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I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
November 5, 2025 at 2:08 AM
I’m just a small-town political scientist, & it’s still relatively early, but it appears that The Actual Democrats did not Need To Do any of the Things or Learn any of the Obvious Lessons that Ezra Douthglesias said they Must Do & Learn.
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New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
October 31, 2025 at 2:36 PM
New York Times editorial board has compiled "a list of 12 markers of democratic erosion." www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
This is what "not the odds, but the stakes" was all about.
During the 2024 campaign, those 12 markers could have been in place and operating to guide news coverage everywhere.
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So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
October 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
So you should really watch this. Just 2 minutes. But a window into the truly radical nature of the people Trump is nominating.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
When pressed today, the nominee to be Ambassador to South Africa refuses to oppose reinstituting laws to prevent black people from voting in America.
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I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
October 11, 2025 at 2:53 PM
I wrote a little about some of the little details you might have missed in this video and why it hit me so hard as a trans person this morning:
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
www.burnsnotice.com/you-have-to-...
How are these smart guys so dumb?
No, AI will not engineer a pathogen to wipe out humanity. FFS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
No, AI will not engineer a pathogen to wipe out humanity. FFS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
October 10, 2025 at 11:44 AM
How are these smart guys so dumb?
No, AI will not engineer a pathogen to wipe out humanity. FFS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
No, AI will not engineer a pathogen to wipe out humanity. FFS.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/10/o...
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Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
November 20, 2024 at 6:01 PM
Eventually you have to accept that no matter how many different notebooks you buy, they won’t make you a better writer. For that, you need to spend a lot of money on the right pen.
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"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
How Can We Live Together? - Boston Review
Ezra Klein is wrong: shame is essential.
www.bostonreview.net
September 23, 2025 at 5:09 PM
"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply."
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually
www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...
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There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE
I love the field of academic philosophy, it sure is producing some top-notch—
[putting a finger to my earpiece]
Oh dear.
[putting a finger to my earpiece]
Oh dear.
September 23, 2025 at 9:46 AM
There has never been a reckoning over a small group of analytic philosophers constantly publishing slop dressed up in neutral-sounding academese to push their right-wing political projects. They circumvent peer review, ride off of the prestige of their job titles, and act way outside their AOE
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there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
September 21, 2025 at 2:10 PM
there is a point here i want to amplify. the free speech defenders of the mainstream seem to have no awareness that actual free speech is often more fractious and destabilizing than civil and respectful. a society where speech is genuinely free isn’t the deferential space they want it to be.
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"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.
"All I can say for me in the work I do is that I want to create a space that takes our disagreements seriously, that takes the stakes of them seriously, the consequences for people seriously, but does so without deepening our divisions irreparably. We are going to have to live here with each other"
September 20, 2025 at 10:32 AM
"We are going to have to live here with each other" is the exact premise that Republicans do not agree about. Their proposition is mass immiseration, mass expulsion and mass murder. The only way to oppose political violence and avoid further political violence is to contend directly with that fact.
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Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
September 19, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Dam been writing a book about this and she just TikToked it in 90 seconds.
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AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
September 19, 2025 at 4:19 PM
AOC: We should be clear about who Charlie Kirk was. A man who believed that the civil rights act that granted black Americans the right to vote was a mistake… His rhetoric and beliefs were ignorant, uneducated, and sought to disenfranchise millions of Americans.
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*stepping out of a time machine in 2007*
I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice
I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice
September 18, 2025 at 11:51 AM
*stepping out of a time machine in 2007*
I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice
I come from the future - the most consequential men in society are the hosts of the Man Show, Fear Factor, and the Apprentice
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i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!
September 13, 2025 at 12:41 AM
i find the “maybe kash patel isn’t fit to lead the FBI” stuff to be very funny. yeah, no shit!
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i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social
September 11, 2025 at 6:41 PM
i just sent this email to @ezraklein.bsky.social