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Eric Knowles
@ericdknowles.bsky.social
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Social and political psychologist. NYU professor. Music appreciator. Californian in Manhattan.

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 17h
He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/21/o...
Opinion | He Was The Times’s Moscow Chief. My Grandmother Was His Censor.
Somehow the story got through.
www.nytimes.com

Reposted by Michael E. Mann, Rebecca Solnit, Nandita Sharma , and 24 more

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 20h
LMFAO -- Trump is holding an event at the White House right now but there's no audio because the press pool isn't there. The Newsmax host notes that this is an example of Trump's attacks on the press "backfiring just a little bit"

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 21h
Luca Rentier, who makes ambient music from analog recordings of nature sounds, altered and superimposed in ways that (some say) resemble human vocalizations.

Reposted by Samuel L. Perry, Eric D. Knowles

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Emily Nussbaum @emilynussbaum.bsky.social · 1d
I truly don’t understand this “transplant” nonsense. The whole THING about NYC is that ppl come here from other places to mutate into New Yorkers! TO SEE IF THEY CAN BE KING OF THE HILL, TOP OF THE HEAP! Imho a rando who moved here a year ago is the MOST NY person. Welcome Ohio rando, have a bagel

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d
Courtney Barnett has done a lot of great things musically and lyrically, but turning “emphysema” into a verb ranks near the top.

Reposted by Adrian Daub, Nazita Lajevardi, Eric D. Knowles , and 2 more

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#StupidSuez @diplomatofnight.com · 1d
WARNING WARNING WARNING

AN ARAB MUSLIM MIGHT RECEIVE CLASSIFIED INTEL???
Michigan Senate nominee Abdul El-Sayed could become eligible for access to classified information if elected in November. Members of Congress generally are not required to obtain a formal executive-branch security clearance, though classified access is still subject to need-to-know rules. The issue is drawing scrutiny from national security and policy experts, who point to El-Sayed's past associations and statements. His campaign disputes the criticism.

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d
Yes. There’s a real and probably unavoidable tension between rigorous scholarship and Pinker-style academic stardom. You can’t do the slow and laborious intellectual work if you’re busy building a brand. So you get folks like Pinker taking half-assed pot shots at work they don’t fully understand.
tedmccormick.bsky.social Ted McCormick @tedmccormick.bsky.social · 3d
There’s more to be said about the relationship between Pinker-style stardom and the state of academia. Not because academia is Woke, but because star systems loosen rigor at the top while solid scholarship becomes a dead end lower down. Shoddy celebrities and broke PhDs proceed from the same machine

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Eric Knowles @ericdknowles.bsky.social · 1d
@michellegoldberg.bsky.social pinpoints something critical to understand Trump: he doesn't care if the world were to end with him, and may even find satisfaction in the notion that it might.