@abruzos.bsky.social
Applied Linguist, Director of the Spanish Language Program at Princeton University. https://abruzos2023.scholar.princeton.edu/
This is America, speak SPANISH
08.02.2026 20:53 — 👍 119 🔁 22 💬 3 📌 1
Today @cato.org published our report providing the first look at the fiscal effects of the wave of legal & illegal immigration over the last 3 decades. It shows immigrants created surpluses every year, by a combined $14.5 trillion, even as deficits grew www.cato.org/white-paper/...
03.02.2026 16:28 — 👍 152 🔁 78 💬 2 📌 9
What a surprise, this interview with Daniel Clowes buried in the website of the Museo Nacional de Arte Moderno Reina Sofía: www.museoreinasofia.es/en
(You'll have to scroll down a bit to find it.)
New interview with @doughenwood.bsky.social sky.social for the Behind the News podcast about my new book, The Story of Capital.
podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/b...
A murmuration of starlings creating amazing shapes in the sky.
I discovered a new vantage point for the murmuration in Limerick and the starlings put on a great show this evening.
07.02.2026 18:48 — 👍 305 🔁 51 💬 8 📌 4
📨 CARTA A LOS DONANTES | La decepción Chomsky
"El patronato de la Fundación Contexto y Acción decide retirar la presidencia de honor de CTXT al mítico referente intelectual tras conocerse su apoyo al violador en serie Jeffrey Epstein."
✍🏼 Escribe @mikelemora.bsky.social.
ctxt.es/es/20260201/...
07.02.2026 09:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“There's not a single existing textbook on the market that could be used that would qualify under state law?”
Mind blowing interview with FIU @grundrza.bsky.social about the insanity going on at Florida universities. 🤯
We have another exciting CFP! "Noisy Systems: Aesthetics, Epistemology & Computation examines noise across technical, social, and cultural domains, bringing together machine learning, critical AI studies, media theory and archaeology, art history, philosophy, and practice-based research."
06.02.2026 20:22 — 👍 22 🔁 14 💬 3 📌 0
A comic showings cartoon man degrade into a bubble with eyes and a mouth saying that comic work no matter how well drawn they are.
Posting this again to remind you you dont have to be an amazing artist to draw comics!
06.02.2026 15:38 — 👍 2918 🔁 989 💬 20 📌 24
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
06.02.2026 15:37 — 👍 22216 🔁 6766 💬 624 📌 1084
El último n.° del Boletín de la Academia Peruana de la Lengua (78, 2025) incluye un interesante artículo de M.A. García Aranda (@ucm.es) sobre la enseñanza del español en EEUU y el método Pestalozzi
revistas.apl.org.pe/index.php/bo...
#histlx
Looking forward to seeing the interview with Wendy Brown at Södertörn University today. This is an interesting interview from October 2024.
05.02.2026 08:02 — 👍 15 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1I think it's best for everyone to understand that the unified class project of billionaires right now is to do to white collar workers what globalization and neoliberalism did to blue collar workers.
04.02.2026 19:41 — 👍 12861 🔁 3416 💬 238 📌 240
1. Noam Chomsky's response to the first tranche of Epstein docs - arrogant, high-handed, obfuscatory and, we now know, dishonest - reminded me of something: his response to my questions about genocide denial, 15 years ago. 🧵
www.monbiot.com/2012/05/21/2...
"Authoritarianism has always targeted public education, the free press, and other institutions of unsupervised knowledge production. (...) If authoritarians are afraid of education and academic publishing, it must not be as powerless as it sometimes seems."
03.02.2026 19:06 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
¿A quién demonios se le ocurre encargar un evento sobre el 36 a A. Pérez-Reverte? Y ¿a quién se le ocurriría aceptar su invitación? ¿Qué nos dice de la esfera pública y de quienes hablan en ella del pasado?
Escribo con Pablo Sánchez León en @elsaltodiario.com.
www.elsaltodiario.com/el-leon-dorm...
The octopus conference is back! 🐙
"Influence, Manipulation & Seduction 3: Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Persuasive Language", Nov 19-20, 2026, Tampere University, Finland
#LanguageAndPersuasion #Linguistics #OctoConf
"Institutions that once proclaimed their commitment to humanistic inquiry now appear eager to embrace a set of tools whose leading use cases—predictive policing, military targeting, advertising, and porn—stand in profound contradiction to the values they claim to uphold."
03.02.2026 06:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Hugo eligibility post!
“The Cuddled Little Vice,” my book-length essay on the poison legacy of Sandman, is eligible for Best Related Work.
Again, no-one is ready for the clusterfuck that is coming our way. Look, folks, the conditions for "Science as we knew it" are completely gone. These are uncharted terrains and my prediction is that things won't end well. At least for us.
pardoguerra.org/2025/07/15/e...
“Most hazardously, their portrayal of the current state of affairs obscures a long arc of neoliberal restructuring that, over several decades, has transformed universities into corporate brands and data-driven service enterprises”
02.02.2026 13:48 — 👍 15 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
Encuadre predicativo: quién actúa. Encuadre dialógico: a quién se da voz.
02.02.2026 10:33 — 👍 4 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0I really wish #OpenAI would stop releasing free stochastic parrots in every community they can think of.
They sure look pretty but they are shitting all over the place and you can't have a decent conversation between humans anymore.
The Dig you’ve been waiting for to understand the political economy of AI as it becomes fulcrum of global contests and conflicts over economic and military dominance. My interview w/ @nsrnicek.bsky.social on his book Silicon Empires: The Fight for the Future of AI www.thedigradio.com/podcast/sili...
26.01.2026 23:43 — 👍 140 🔁 47 💬 1 📌 13On being brought back to life by students’ projects.
27.01.2026 22:27 — 👍 14 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0Bien hecho.
27.01.2026 14:20 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I think a lot about Parmy Olson's observation that AI companies actively push everyone to talk about existential risk, because it distracts from more prosaic current day concerns like copyright theft, conditions for data workers, energy & water use, and their financial situation
27.01.2026 12:26 — 👍 823 🔁 297 💬 17 📌 12
Agentic AI in education is a "ruse" - its promises of efficiency and productivity will really lead to an intensification of educators' work. Great to have @carloper.bsky.social on here now, and this is a smart short conversation with @neilselwyn.bsky.social www.buzzsprout.com/1301377/epis...
27.01.2026 13:46 — 👍 13 🔁 7 💬 0 📌 0
But, as I see it, just as the current collision between authoritarianism and democracy, whose epicenters include Minneapolis, Gaza, Caracas, Tehran, and Kyiv, is correlated to the Web 2.0 media revolution, the unfurling of that collision in the coming decade will be directly correlated with the cycle of speculative investment, consumer uptake, and government subsidization of AI which is already underway. As such, paying attention to the statements made by billionaires heading up tech companies and private equity funds, however performative they may be, is an essential part of clear-eyed confrontation with our present conditions.
My version of close reading for the 21st century.
open.substack.com/pub/theameri...
