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Kevin Joel Berland
@starfish1.bsky.social
Professor emeritus of English and Comp Lit (Penn State), Indexer, reader, writer, ADHD, drawsalot, guitar, mandolin. Disability history, history of versions of Socrates, physiognomy, poetry, Dr. Johnson, Book indexing. ALSOwords, words, words 🇨🇦✡☮📚
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Ben Katchor! Curses on AI spelling!

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Non- antisemites? Actually, the term "Judeo-Christian" implicitly frames Judaism as just the ancestor of Christianity. It's not a common tradition when one insists it's supplanting the other. It is Supercessionism: Judaism is supposedly obsolete, superceded by the "New Law." #Jewsky

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Ben Katherine is great.

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I was really disappointed when I visited the lobby of the Empire State Building. Turns out it's just an Art Deco chamber.

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Teaching is also great for learning new things about a subject at the moment of teaching it for the umpteenth time.

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Quédate callado y aprende otro idioma.

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#EchoChamber is another term mobilized to dismiss other people's ideas, especially when there exist multiple expressions thereof.

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Modern definitions 001 Echo chamber: Too many people agreeing with each other when they all (wrongly) disagree with me. The right opinions: mine. The wrong opinions: everybody else's misguided thinking.

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Bigotry is not "difference of opinion. "

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Sure. The shots always produce an achey biceps, but nothing unusual otherwise.

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Kevin Joel Berland
@starfish1.bsky.social
Professor emeritus of English and Comp Lit (Penn State), Indexer, reader, writer, ADHD, drawsalot, guitar, mandolin. Disability history, history of versions of Socrates, physiognomy, poetry, Dr. Johnson, Book indexing. ALSOwords, words, words 🇨🇦✡☮📚
190 followers354 following191 posts