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recent bookmarks from robertogrecoThe 100 Greatest Bird Names of All Time - by Robert Francis2026-06-03T06:24:49+00:00
https://birdhistory.substack.com/p/the-100-greatest-bird-names-of-all
robertogrecorobertfrancis 2026 names naming birds animals language english humorhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:edd7997afc87/It doesn't have to be this way.2026-05-22T08:27:58+00:00
https://bayareacurrent.com/email/7316d30c-7a7b-41ff-b347-1884b072b18c/
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https://fritinancy.substack.com/p/stop-naming-buildings-and-streets
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https://www.coyotemedia.org/kill-the-hero-cesar-chavez-rene-redzepi/
robertogreco“Noma’s influence is essential to the story of the violations that took place there. A stint at Noma is the highlight of any cook’s résumé, the culinary equivalent to singing at the Met or dancing with the Bolshoi or interning at The Paris Review. It’s easy to understand why thousands of people clamored to work there, and why, once a lucky few made it in, they might have found it difficult to complain, or to criticize, or to leave.”
You put up with being shoved, with being threatened, all for the sake of surviving the experience and seeing the words “Noma alum” next to your name when you finally start your own thing. You stand outside in a circle with your fellow cooks, stonefaced as you watch your chef, this god among men, scream at your coworker for the sin of putting on music that he doesn’t like. You wipe your colleague’s blood off the sharp edge of a metal counter and continue on with dinner service. You do this for the prestige: your ticket to something better.
Over the past many decades, Chavez’s survivors, including labor leader Dolores Huerta, were forced into a similar calculation — but in this case, it was their pain versus the movement that gave them, their families, and their communities hope and a sense of greater purpose. Via the New York Times:
“Ms. Murguia, Ms. Rojas and Ms. Huerta said they struggled for years about whether to tell their stories publicly. Some of those closest to them begged them not to, arguing that it could not be a worse time to attack a Latino hero, when immigrants were facing widespread detention and deportation and the political rights of Hispanics seemed to many to be under assault.”
In an individualistic society, this is a tragically rational exchange, whether done consciously or not.
[image: "a black and white photo of Cesar Chavez, a Mexican American man, speaking into a microphone, with two men standing on either side of him in dark berets" / caption: "Cesar Chavez flanked by two Brown Berets, speaking at a Los Angeles peace rally in 1971. (Los Angeles Times, CC BY 4.0 via Wikimedia Commons)"]
Most of us have, at some point, looked away. We’ve kept buying the records, visiting the “important” restaurants, citing the books, attending the retrospectives, taken selfies with the cardboard cutouts. We’ve told ourselves that the art or the meal or the experience exists separately from the person. We have all, in some form, paid into the system that makes these men feel protected. That’s not a reason for guilt so much as a reason for honesty about what we're actually dealing with here.
It’s no coincidence that these men thrived while stepping on the necks of people that our system casts as readily exploitable: Latinas, immigrants, and members of the working class. These abusers relied on their victims caring so deeply about larger movements that they were willing to put up with being abused, dismissed, and disbelieved. And even with all of the evidence against Redzepi, there are still plenty of people in the food industry that are fine with publicly slobbering all over his boots. (Including the owner of San Francisco’s Birdsong! Hi!)
In the pursuit of justice, exposing the behavior of bad actors like René Redzepi and Cesar Chavez is an important start. But if our long-term goal is to prevent these things from happening again, it’s essential to question the institutions that made these men feel secure enough in their importance that they could hurt people with impunity. In a more collectively oriented society, charismatic egotists wouldn’t be so load-bearing that threatening them would be an existential catastrophe. They would just be parts of a greater whole.
The reminders of our system’s priorities live in the street names, the awards, the documentaries, and all of the everyday celebratory apparatus that surrounds us. A detail from the New York Times investigation that has stuck with me is one woman’s recounting of being propositioned by Chavez while sitting with him in his camper. “At one point, she said, Mr. Chavez pointed to a street sign outside bearing his name and suggested that he could use his influence to get something named for her if she slept with him.”
On social media, I’m already seeing calls to replace Chavez’s name with other people’s names on schools, parks, and streets. They’re missing the point.
We need to kill the hero — before the hero dooms us all."]]>soleilho heroes cesarchavez names naming streetnames idols 2026 idolotry power politics patriarchy renéredzepi helenrosna noma doloreshuerta abusehttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:6985e0cae2a8/Why these birds need a new name - YouTube2026-03-20T17:46:24+00:00
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OL4lCBPWUbs
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https://thefrisc.com/if-were-renaming-schools-and-it-looks-like-we-are-we-have-a-natural-suggestion-2fea9e36c548/
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https://www.experimental-history.com/p/the-decline-of-deviance
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https://www.niemanlab.org/2025/02/trump-wants-news-outlets-to-get-on-board-with-gulf-of-america-or-else-will-they/
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https://arcade.kofflerarts.org/article/if-statues-must-fall-taxonomy-must-also-fall/
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https://warnercnr.source.colostate.edu/elephants-have-names-like-people/
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https://carvin.github.io/sf-street-names/
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https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/08/30/us/native-american-boarding-schools.html
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https://yalereview.org/article/elleza-kelley-ordinary-allurements
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https://enicar.org/2017/12/08/signs-of-saturn-the-transition-of-the-enicar-logo/
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https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Footprints-of-history-on-the-streets-of-S-F-5551633.php
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https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/4/22960011/farewell-from-dieter-bohn
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https://futuress.org/magazine/named-after-men/
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https://anthropostures.substack.com/p/the-ever-given-matter-out-of-place
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https://www.teachingbooks.net/pronunciations.cgi
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https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2020-02-12/a-mexican-mans-fight-to-reclaim-the-name-california
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haruka_(given_name)
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https://www.theatlantic.com/education/archive/2019/09/college-freshmens-most-popular-names/597934/
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https://www.cca.qc.ca/en/events/71562/octobering
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https://www.kalw.org/post/how-many-bay-area-place-names-have-you-been-mispronouncing#stream/0
robertogrecoFor my nerves were racked to pieces
and I felt an awful jar
When I heard the Mispronouncer
Say my name was Portola.
Oh, but there was more. Like this selection from What’s In a Name?
We’ll sing his blows ‘gainst craven foes,
His parry, thrust and sortie;
And when we come to speak his name,
Oh, well — let’s call him Porty!
Only days before the festival was to officially open, a Stanford academic discovered a cache of Portola’s letters in Mexico City. He said, I have looked at the documents, there is an accent on the end of his name, it should be pronounced Portolà.
Finally, how he would have pronounced it. The long, lost accent! Portolahhh. But just as quickly as it was discovered, it was gone. Newspapers couldn’t print the accent mark.
“You would sometimes see it accented. A lot of it had to do with the printer and the type of font they were using. Having a font with the "a" accented was a rarity in anybody's print box,” said Freeman.
In a short time, the correct pronunciation of Portolà disappeared. Today, in the Bay Area, there’s no accent mark on any of the signs that bear his name. Not on neighborhoods, streets, schools or even the city named after him, Portola Valley.
Today’s young explorers can speak their names into voice recorders. But unlike Portolà, they will never have official papers to show where their accent marks should be. So, if we can learn anything from Portolà, it’s to put your accent mark wherever you can. You just don’t know if you’ll wind up in the history books.
A note on the accent on Portolà: Gaspar de Portolà was Catalan, so we are using the Catalan closed accent, not the Spanish accent grave."]]>names naming california sanfrancisco accents pronunciation spanish español portola neighborhoods italian accentmarks historyhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:robertogreco/b:61c25b85d2de/Why Do Some Hate the Nickname ‘Frisco’? | Bay Curious | News Fix | KQED News2018-11-08T19:25:01+00:00
https://www.kqed.org/news/11339599/why-do-some-hate-the-nickname-frisco
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https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/685235-give-your-daughters-difficult-names-give-your-daughters-names-that
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