Dave
@dmalinowski.bsky.social
🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
"Any person who[...]shall expose to public view[...]any article[...]upon which shall have been[…]placed a representation of the flag[...]to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor"
US Flag Code
US Flag Code
November 25, 2025 at 8:56 PM
"Any person who[...]shall expose to public view[...]any article[...]upon which shall have been[…]placed a representation of the flag[...]to advertise, call attention to, decorate, mark, or distinguish the article or substance on which so placed shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor"
US Flag Code
US Flag Code
Those of us in the U.S—call your reps today and remind them of a basic fact: we’re supposed to be on the side of democracy.
Support Ukraine!!
Support Ukraine!!
November 25, 2025 at 4:06 AM
Those of us in the U.S—call your reps today and remind them of a basic fact: we’re supposed to be on the side of democracy.
Support Ukraine!!
Support Ukraine!!
"A voice with no hunger. No grief. No gossip. A voice that’s never bitten itself trying not to speak.
"Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers."
- Maria B. Olujic on the hollowness of the words of ChatGPT and other machines, in this lovely @literaryhub.bsky.social essay
"Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers."
- Maria B. Olujic on the hollowness of the words of ChatGPT and other machines, in this lovely @literaryhub.bsky.social essay
Creating New Tongues: On Language as Adaptation and Resistance
Czesław Miłosz wrote, “Language is the only homeland.” I didn’t understand that sentence when I first read it. I was too busy trying to speak correctly—in English, in Croatian, in a blend that neve…
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November 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
"A voice with no hunger. No grief. No gossip. A voice that’s never bitten itself trying not to speak.
"Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers."
- Maria B. Olujic on the hollowness of the words of ChatGPT and other machines, in this lovely @literaryhub.bsky.social essay
"Real language stumbles. It hesitates. It remembers."
- Maria B. Olujic on the hollowness of the words of ChatGPT and other machines, in this lovely @literaryhub.bsky.social essay
AI to reach the most customers, and
AI to be the most customers.
AI to find the best candidate, and
AI to be the best candidate.
AI to design the bus stop ad,
AI to read it, and
wouldn’t you know it,
AI to drive the f*cking bus itself.
Not much room for humans in San Francisco today
AI to be the most customers.
AI to find the best candidate, and
AI to be the best candidate.
AI to design the bus stop ad,
AI to read it, and
wouldn’t you know it,
AI to drive the f*cking bus itself.
Not much room for humans in San Francisco today
November 23, 2025 at 8:07 PM
AI to reach the most customers, and
AI to be the most customers.
AI to find the best candidate, and
AI to be the best candidate.
AI to design the bus stop ad,
AI to read it, and
wouldn’t you know it,
AI to drive the f*cking bus itself.
Not much room for humans in San Francisco today
AI to be the most customers.
AI to find the best candidate, and
AI to be the best candidate.
AI to design the bus stop ad,
AI to read it, and
wouldn’t you know it,
AI to drive the f*cking bus itself.
Not much room for humans in San Francisco today
Since Republicans have such a hard time pronouncing the -ic in "Democratic," I made a simplified vocabulary list for them to navigate 10 other similarly challenging words:
1. arct
2. chaot
3. civ
4. ep (my personal fave)
5. iron
6. logist
7. lyr
8. pathet
9. psychot
10. sto
#language #langsky
1. arct
2. chaot
3. civ
4. ep (my personal fave)
5. iron
6. logist
7. lyr
8. pathet
9. psychot
10. sto
#language #langsky
November 21, 2025 at 7:54 PM
These posters started popping up ahead of next week’s We Ain’t Buying It boycott.
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
From Nov 27 - Dec 1, folks are stepping back from corporate chains like Target, Home Depot, and Amazon. People are done being squeezed, so they are using the leverage of their wallets 💥
November 20, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Reposted by Dave
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
Solange Opens Free Digital Library Of Rare Black Books
Solange has launched a digital library archive of Black and brown authors where readers can borrow books at no cost.
peopleofcolorintech.com
November 18, 2025 at 11:58 PM
Solange Knowles’ Saint Heron has launched a free digital archival library of literature by Black and brown authors, poets, and artists. Readers can borrow rare and out-of-print books for up to 45 days
I teach at SJSU. Because of this, many of my students are scared to come to campus today. I just wrote to them saying please prioritize your own well-being first, and that there will be no negative repercussions for missing class tomorrow.
I feel so angry and helpless. Who are we, America?
I feel so angry and helpless. Who are we, America?
Racist graffiti threatening mass shooting found at SJSU
Campus police are working to identify a suspect and hold them “accountable for their actions,” university official says.
www.mercurynews.com
November 19, 2025 at 4:35 PM
I teach at SJSU. Because of this, many of my students are scared to come to campus today. I just wrote to them saying please prioritize your own well-being first, and that there will be no negative repercussions for missing class tomorrow.
I feel so angry and helpless. Who are we, America?
I feel so angry and helpless. Who are we, America?
This is the way.
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
This is the way.
Thank you, Mary Bruce.
Thank you, Jamal Khashoggi.
Thank you, Jamal Khashoggi.
November 18, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Thank you, Mary Bruce.
Thank you, Jamal Khashoggi.
Thank you, Jamal Khashoggi.
Today may have been the first time since arriving in 2018 that I felt Fall in downtown San José
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#autumn #leaves #streetphoto on a #rainystreet by the VTA #lightrail with #puddles in #dtsj #hownice - iPhone #photo so maybe not real #photography
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#autumn #leaves #streetphoto on a #rainystreet by the VTA #lightrail with #puddles in #dtsj #hownice - iPhone #photo so maybe not real #photography
November 14, 2025 at 2:28 AM
Today may have been the first time since arriving in 2018 that I felt Fall in downtown San José
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#autumn #leaves #streetphoto on a #rainystreet by the VTA #lightrail with #puddles in #dtsj #hownice - iPhone #photo so maybe not real #photography
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#autumn #leaves #streetphoto on a #rainystreet by the VTA #lightrail with #puddles in #dtsj #hownice - iPhone #photo so maybe not real #photography
Nice lessons in British directness for mealy-mouthed, timid Americans in the media
November 13, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Nice lessons in British directness for mealy-mouthed, timid Americans in the media
Reposted by Dave
This new book examines diverse aspects of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice.
Download the Open Access PDF free on our website! buff.ly/5UaXS9W
Download the Open Access PDF free on our website! buff.ly/5UaXS9W
November 13, 2025 at 5:07 PM
This new book examines diverse aspects of advocacy for translanguaging as a legitimate educational practice.
Download the Open Access PDF free on our website! buff.ly/5UaXS9W
Download the Open Access PDF free on our website! buff.ly/5UaXS9W
Absolutely love this essay by Ross Benjamin, which counters the instrumentalist view of language as a transparent conduit of meaning.
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
"To translate is not simply to transfer meaning but to attend to differences—of culture, time, thought, expression—that evade perfect alignment"
Brilliant essay by Ross Benjamin on how AirPods & other automated translation tech eliminates what really matters in communicating across languages
Brilliant essay by Ross Benjamin on how AirPods & other automated translation tech eliminates what really matters in communicating across languages
The Costs of Instant Translation
AI might soon rob us of the thrill and challenge of cross-cultural conversation.
www.theatlantic.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:33 PM
Absolutely love this essay by Ross Benjamin, which counters the instrumentalist view of language as a transparent conduit of meaning.
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
“So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans…When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room”
- Jefferson Wiggins, 1st Sergeant, 960th Quartermaster Service Company: www.history.com/articles/bla...
Black Liberators: blackliberators.nl/en/
- Jefferson Wiggins, 1st Sergeant, 960th Quartermaster Service Company: www.history.com/articles/bla...
Black Liberators: blackliberators.nl/en/
November 10, 2025 at 6:51 PM
“So, there we were. A group of Black Americans confronted with all these dead white Americans…When they were alive, we couldn’t sit in the same room”
- Jefferson Wiggins, 1st Sergeant, 960th Quartermaster Service Company: www.history.com/articles/bla...
Black Liberators: blackliberators.nl/en/
- Jefferson Wiggins, 1st Sergeant, 960th Quartermaster Service Company: www.history.com/articles/bla...
Black Liberators: blackliberators.nl/en/
How can you express “Stay Strong” in other languages? We owe it to our neighbors to keep those words on the street, and to keep ourselves standing with them.
#StayStrong #SanJose #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Richmond #SanMateo #RedwoodCity #Fremont #Gilroy #BayArea #SouthBay #EastBay #NorthBay #noICE
#StayStrong #SanJose #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Richmond #SanMateo #RedwoodCity #Fremont #Gilroy #BayArea #SouthBay #EastBay #NorthBay #noICE
This mural, outside Ganado Feed on Lincoln Ave. in San Jose, urges the people who see it to find resilience in challenging times…in English. But some people in our community might really need to hear that message in another language, too.
#translate #sanjose #staystrong #murals #linguisticlandscape
#translate #sanjose #staystrong #murals #linguisticlandscape
November 8, 2025 at 7:05 PM
How can you express “Stay Strong” in other languages? We owe it to our neighbors to keep those words on the street, and to keep ourselves standing with them.
#StayStrong #SanJose #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Richmond #SanMateo #RedwoodCity #Fremont #Gilroy #BayArea #SouthBay #EastBay #NorthBay #noICE
#StayStrong #SanJose #SanFrancisco #Oakland #Richmond #SanMateo #RedwoodCity #Fremont #Gilroy #BayArea #SouthBay #EastBay #NorthBay #noICE
The lesson from this little episode in authoritarian idiocy seems clear: A sandwich is not a pipe bomb, a hand grenade, or a Molotov cocktail, so DO NOT TRY TO EAT THOSE OTHER THINGS
🚨NOT GUILTY! D.C. Jury ACQUITS sandwich thrower.
November 7, 2025 at 6:26 PM
The lesson from this little episode in authoritarian idiocy seems clear: A sandwich is not a pipe bomb, a hand grenade, or a Molotov cocktail, so DO NOT TRY TO EAT THOSE OTHER THINGS
Reposted by Dave
Day 2 of our learning challenge:
Amigos Auto Mall is one of many San Jose businesses with names that come from, or borrow from, languages beyond English. What does “amigos” say to the public that “Friends Auto Mall” might not?
#signs #linguisticlandscape #spanish #español #languages #translation
Amigos Auto Mall is one of many San Jose businesses with names that come from, or borrow from, languages beyond English. What does “amigos” say to the public that “Friends Auto Mall” might not?
#signs #linguisticlandscape #spanish #español #languages #translation
November 5, 2025 at 4:58 PM
Day 2 of our learning challenge:
Amigos Auto Mall is one of many San Jose businesses with names that come from, or borrow from, languages beyond English. What does “amigos” say to the public that “Friends Auto Mall” might not?
#signs #linguisticlandscape #spanish #español #languages #translation
Amigos Auto Mall is one of many San Jose businesses with names that come from, or borrow from, languages beyond English. What does “amigos” say to the public that “Friends Auto Mall” might not?
#signs #linguisticlandscape #spanish #español #languages #translation
“We take our oath to the Constitution; not to kings”
- Governor-elect of New Jersey @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 🎉
The #NoKings flag is flying tonight in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, PA, CA (go #Prop50!) & around the country. A well-deserved sigh of relief to all before tomorrow’s battles!
- Governor-elect of New Jersey @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 🎉
The #NoKings flag is flying tonight in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, PA, CA (go #Prop50!) & around the country. A well-deserved sigh of relief to all before tomorrow’s battles!
November 5, 2025 at 3:34 AM
“We take our oath to the Constitution; not to kings”
- Governor-elect of New Jersey @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 🎉
The #NoKings flag is flying tonight in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, PA, CA (go #Prop50!) & around the country. A well-deserved sigh of relief to all before tomorrow’s battles!
- Governor-elect of New Jersey @mikiesherrill.bsky.social 🎉
The #NoKings flag is flying tonight in NJ, VA, NYC, Boston, PA, CA (go #Prop50!) & around the country. A well-deserved sigh of relief to all before tomorrow’s battles!
Is the "place" in "I learn in this place" the same as the "place" in "Find your place"? You don't really have to think about it, unless you're standing there, trying to translate it.
...which, I think, is one way for human language learners to put AI (...wait for it...) in its place.
...which, I think, is one way for human language learners to put AI (...wait for it...) in its place.
Join us the next 2 weeks as we #TranslateSanJose one sign at a time!
Day 1: How would you translate these signs—located on the banners along 1st St in downtown SJ—into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or any of San Jose’s many languages?
#dtsj #translation #linguisticlandscape #learn #signs
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Day 1: How would you translate these signs—located on the banners along 1st St in downtown SJ—into Spanish, Mandarin, Vietnamese, or any of San Jose’s many languages?
#dtsj #translation #linguisticlandscape #learn #signs
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November 4, 2025 at 1:01 AM
Is the "place" in "I learn in this place" the same as the "place" in "Find your place"? You don't really have to think about it, unless you're standing there, trying to translate it.
...which, I think, is one way for human language learners to put AI (...wait for it...) in its place.
...which, I think, is one way for human language learners to put AI (...wait for it...) in its place.
I won’t say that I saw all this coming, but the sinister feeling that crept over me when I saw this front yard display last October, a few weeks before the election, was palpable.
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#halloween #AmericanDarkness
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#halloween #AmericanDarkness
November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
I won’t say that I saw all this coming, but the sinister feeling that crept over me when I saw this front yard display last October, a few weeks before the election, was palpable.
1/2
#halloween #AmericanDarkness
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#halloween #AmericanDarkness
I’m thankful and determined to be working on Translate San José, a project that’s trying to make multilingualism more visible in public space, precisely at a time when Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and other AMERICAN languages are being demonized in right-wing discourse. Diversity is our strength ⚡️
Great to see everyone who came out for our Language Learning Personal History workshop on Wednesday, and many thanks to Amy Russo of the SJSU Writing Center for her facilitation. We reflected and learned from each other’s histories in language...inspiring!
#multilingual #sanjose #academicsky
#multilingual #sanjose #academicsky
November 1, 2025 at 1:19 AM
I’m thankful and determined to be working on Translate San José, a project that’s trying to make multilingualism more visible in public space, precisely at a time when Spanish, Vietnamese, Mandarin, and other AMERICAN languages are being demonized in right-wing discourse. Diversity is our strength ⚡️