Derek Gottlieb
@derekgottliebphd.com
Researching | Indexing | Writing | Skiing
I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
I wrote "A Democratic Theory of Educational Accountability," I work at School Perceptions, and I live in Wisconsin.
Sub zero wind chills outside but I just put the pernil in the oven at 275, so tomorrow morning, damn
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 AM
Sub zero wind chills outside but I just put the pernil in the oven at 275, so tomorrow morning, damn
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In 2016, McBob’s hosted a Thanksgiving meal for about 40 Milwaukee-area veterans. Since then, the tradition has grown into something much larger and deeply meaningful.
Read more about McBob's community Thanksgiving: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/mcbobs-pub-community-thanksgiving
Read more about McBob's community Thanksgiving: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/mcbobs-pub-community-thanksgiving
November 27, 2025 at 1:08 AM
In 2016, McBob’s hosted a Thanksgiving meal for about 40 Milwaukee-area veterans. Since then, the tradition has grown into something much larger and deeply meaningful.
Read more about McBob's community Thanksgiving: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/mcbobs-pub-community-thanksgiving
Read more about McBob's community Thanksgiving: https://onmilwaukee.com/articles/mcbobs-pub-community-thanksgiving
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my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
My dissertation turns 10 next month and I've been dipping in to see if there's anything in there worth pulling out and working with, and each chapter is effectively about a different emotional struggle that would be familiar today.
November 26, 2025 at 11:12 PM
my dissertation was about the history of Catholic converts in the US and every day something makes me remember how often I was told it was too niche
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Kant's moral philosophy
November 27, 2025 at 12:03 AM
Kant's moral philosophy
Yeah! Congregating with strangers around sometimes-parochial interests or niche experiences is NOT what the internet is for! I agree!
November 26, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Yeah! Congregating with strangers around sometimes-parochial interests or niche experiences is NOT what the internet is for! I agree!
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This essay by @johannawinant.bsky.social is beautiful on what can happen in the classroom, and on the importance of *argument* to literary studies. I especially like how she writes about helping students to "believe in their own significance"
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
The Claims of Close Reading - Boston Review
Literary studies have been starved by austerity, but their core methodology remains radical.
www.bostonreview.net
November 26, 2025 at 4:47 PM
This essay by @johannawinant.bsky.social is beautiful on what can happen in the classroom, and on the importance of *argument* to literary studies. I especially like how she writes about helping students to "believe in their own significance"
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
www.bostonreview.net/articles/the...
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you should support liberal currents!
November 26, 2025 at 4:02 PM
you should support liberal currents!
I would page @libankerdc.bsky.social to say something about Ugly Freedoms, but I’m pretty sure it’s all in plain view, here.
this extremely fashy Trump cult of personality ad featuring Kristi Noem ran this morning on Fox & Friends
November 26, 2025 at 2:23 PM
I would page @libankerdc.bsky.social to say something about Ugly Freedoms, but I’m pretty sure it’s all in plain view, here.
Happy Thanksgiving Eve blizzard to all who celebrate
November 26, 2025 at 2:21 PM
Happy Thanksgiving Eve blizzard to all who celebrate
SIGN ME UP!
Really looking forward to this event. www.wisconsinnetwork.org/events/prese...
Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters: A Conversation with the Authors - Wisconsin Public Education Network
Join us for a conversation with the authors of a new study, Preserving Rural School Districts from the Threat of Vouchers and Charters, to discuss the impacts of privatization on rural schools in Wisc...
www.wisconsinnetwork.org
November 26, 2025 at 12:49 PM
SIGN ME UP!
I am going to make “vibe hater” t-shirts, who wants one
I reject the AI booster insistence that you must understand any and everything about the tech to make even the tiniest critique, if they can be vibe coders I can be a vibe hater
November 26, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I am going to make “vibe hater” t-shirts, who wants one
New Sven Beckert dropped, is what I hear in this!
Here is a review I wrote of Sven Beckert’s impressive new book, *Capitalism: A Global History*, for the New York Times.
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/b...
How Capitalism Took Over the World
www.nytimes.com
November 26, 2025 at 12:38 PM
New Sven Beckert dropped, is what I hear in this!
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The same people who have been having their heads cryogenically frozen at death in the hopes that we might someday have the tech to resurrect them when we don’t even have the tech now to properly keep their heads frozen
This is the same phenomenon
This is the same phenomenon
The desire to treat AI as having a soul is based on the same pathological terror at their own mortality that drives these same men to invest in life extension foundations.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
If the AI has a soul, then consciousness is code and their own consciousness can be uploaded and thus they can live forever.
November 26, 2025 at 6:08 AM
The same people who have been having their heads cryogenically frozen at death in the hopes that we might someday have the tech to resurrect them when we don’t even have the tech now to properly keep their heads frozen
This is the same phenomenon
This is the same phenomenon
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Another Madison landmark, Lombardino's Family Restaurant. Delicious food in an atmosphere frozen in amber in 1955. Interestingly, the family that owned and ran Lombardino's between ~1965-95 lived in our house!
November 26, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Another Madison landmark, Lombardino's Family Restaurant. Delicious food in an atmosphere frozen in amber in 1955. Interestingly, the family that owned and ran Lombardino's between ~1965-95 lived in our house!
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LET’S GO!!!!
HUGE rally here folks, let's make it to $70k tonight, where we'll hit a matching threshold that nets us another $35k on top of that! gofund.me/525131968
November 26, 2025 at 2:09 AM
LET’S GO!!!!
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Medical debt should not exist - and yet it’s one of the top reasons Americans file for bankruptcy.
Any healthcare plan that doesn’t start with the recognition that medical care is a basic human right grossly misses the mark.
Any healthcare plan that doesn’t start with the recognition that medical care is a basic human right grossly misses the mark.
November 25, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Medical debt should not exist - and yet it’s one of the top reasons Americans file for bankruptcy.
Any healthcare plan that doesn’t start with the recognition that medical care is a basic human right grossly misses the mark.
Any healthcare plan that doesn’t start with the recognition that medical care is a basic human right grossly misses the mark.
This reads like Grok’s 3rd effort. “Now make it even less cool."
I just found this old picture of a poster that was on the wall at the school my friend taught at and there’s some incredible stuff in there
November 25, 2025 at 2:32 PM
This reads like Grok’s 3rd effort. “Now make it even less cool."
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This is what happens when you give Republicans three branches of government.
Quotes on the economy, last few days:
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
* WSJ: “Life felt more doable a year and a half ago.”
* CBS: “Paying for the house, the car — I just couldn’t do it anymore.”
* FT: “scraping for crumbs.”
@financialtimes.com
www.ft.com/content/cfa6...
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
This is what happens when you give Republicans three branches of government.
Every single member of this administration is, deep down, Troy from the Goonies
When you draw a platoon leader like Hegseth, it’s your worst nightmare. You just ride it out until he’s gone and gets replaced by someone who isn’t a complete jackass. Only a fool like Trump would put one of them in charge of the entire defense department.
November 25, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Every single member of this administration is, deep down, Troy from the Goonies
When the BSA is too woke, you’re in huge trouble. No Republican administration can afford to lose the Unit 41 vote.
Hegseth is very very terrified, deep deep down of something to do with maleness www.npr.org/2025/11/25/n...
U.S. ready to cut support to Scouts, accusing them of attacking 'boy-friendly spaces'
Documents show the U.S. military is planning to sever all ties with the organization formerly known as the Boy Scouts.
www.npr.org
November 25, 2025 at 1:11 PM
When the BSA is too woke, you’re in huge trouble. No Republican administration can afford to lose the Unit 41 vote.
Since I started grad school, I have indexed hundreds and hundreds of books. I love it, and I have learned so much.
Every time I write a book, though, I hire someone else to index it. Because indexing one’s own book is a madness-inducing nightmare.
Every time I write a book, though, I hire someone else to index it. Because indexing one’s own book is a madness-inducing nightmare.
I'd rather eat broken glass than index another book... It's well worth the thousand bucks or so. #academicchatter
November 25, 2025 at 1:04 PM
Since I started grad school, I have indexed hundreds and hundreds of books. I love it, and I have learned so much.
Every time I write a book, though, I hire someone else to index it. Because indexing one’s own book is a madness-inducing nightmare.
Every time I write a book, though, I hire someone else to index it. Because indexing one’s own book is a madness-inducing nightmare.
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Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
Nike co-founder Phil Knight makes record-setting donation to help elect Republicans
It is the single largest donation Knight has made to an Oregon candidate or political action committee.
www.oregonlive.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:31 AM
Phil Knight is almost single handedly funding the OR GOP, one of the more extreme state GOPs in the country. Keep that in mind next time you’re in the market for sportswear or sneakers. www.oregonlive.com/politics/202...
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Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
November 25, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Larger media outlets have wavered since the first Trump term, but we've remained steadfast in our categorical rejection of MAGA in all its aspects and our affirmation of liberal democracy and the principles that it rests on.
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...
In the second Trump term, we are growing: www.gofundme.com/f/the-libera...