OK, I'm putting 'content' out there, and you don't need it. Back to Duolingo.

It was the best of times
It was the worst of times
It was the rest of times
It was the burst of times

When I have something really important to say, I post it on, I guess, 'X'. It's been a while.

Problems. If it isn't a gallbladder it's a hard drive.

Majlis: a new-old speech event for solving problems nytimes.com/2023/12/15/opi…

'We must find new ways to communicate. But what kind of communication understands killing babies and children? [...] when mass killing is the norm? [...] when both   are labeled morally unacceptable by the other?' peaceandconflictpolitics.com/2023/11/12/322… via Don Ellis

Polarization: Or, How We Came to Distort Reality So Thoroughly peaceandconflictpolitics.com/2023/08/16/pol… via Don Ellis

Women’s ‘Weak Language’ Is a Secret Source of Strength nytimes.com/2023/07/31/opi…

by me!

Four ways to have hard conversations with your friends – without making things worse theconversation.com/four-ways-to-h… via The Conversation

The ABS special issue on “Deliberative Play” is out! Six articles explore the forms and functions of playful interaction in deliberating groups. journals.sagepub.com/toc/absb/67/8

'This study is the first to simultaneously investigate country-level and platform-related context factors of toxic outrage, that is, destructive incivility, in online discussions.' journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.11…

'There’s a constant throat-clearing among many left-leaning young people — “as a queer person,” “as a woman of color”— phrases used to assert epistemic authority or dodge accusations of wrongthink.' nyti.ms/3mIu7k3

Your Email Does Not Constitute My Emergency nyti.ms/3Kx3iag

'Democracy is a conversation, conversation relies on language, and when language itself is hacked the conversation breaks down and democracy becomes untenable.' nyti.ms/3lJ1NNJ

{meta} discourses: Beyond the seven traditions of communication theory: Otávio Daros Interviews Robert T. Craig metadiscourses.com/2023/03/beyond…

Residents’ Right to Be Rude Upheld by Massachusetts Supreme Court nyti.ms/400gQl9

Brain Awareness Week.
It's a no-brainer.

can I just say, after 2 weeks of participant observation—twitter is not “too online,” at least not here. it may be more local but as far as I can tell, socially & politically & interactionally, pub conversations are really not that different from online conversations.

How the Language of Therapy Took Over Dating nyti.ms/3jUclIX

'Censorship determines what we can’t say. Propaganda provides what we can, and has seeped into the speech patterns of ordinary people' nyti.ms/3YmGwaI