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Applied Anthropologist researching how people promote, manage, resist, and endure change; and how they, algorithms, and ethics coexist. (Or not). Social Systems/Culture. Sometimes write for Fast Company.
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Amazing. Respect the lede.

"Shocking," said no one, ever.

“Lawmakers want to crack down on college students’ pro-Palestinian protests so badly that they literally passed a prohibition on talking” www.houstonchronicle.com/opinion/outl...

“It marks the second case this year of law enforcement pointing to the use of AI in assisting with a bombing or attempted bombing.”

#anthropology

The dumbest part about this is that Harv3y M1lk *was* a warrior. " “alignment with pr3s1d3nt and S3CD3F objectives and S3CN@V priorities of reestablishing the warrior culture.” www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

whenever i encounter people who say they can't understand shakespeare verses I always send them this clip from the 2019 Shakespeare in the Park production of Much Ado About Nothing

NOT @theonion.com

A 23-Year-Old Crypto Bro Is Now Vetoing NSF Grants While Staring At His Water Bottle Picture this: You're a researcher who has spent years developing a grant proposal, gone through layers of expert review, and received National Science Foundation (NSF) approval. Then some kid barely out of college…

Well this isn't going to end well. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

Just admiring these ancient Egyptian glass tiles featuring beautifully-detailed Nilotic birds (3rd-1st century BC) www.christies.com/lotfinder/lo...

And they actually think they are HELPING society with this nonsense.

🔥 take: rampant ChatGPT use among students will move the academy back to 18th century style oral exams

We have destroyed the bombers that were on the airfield and which you were probably saving for attacking us Forgive me they were irresistible so exposed and so flammable

Honestly the most impressive part isn’t the actual strike, but 18 months of planing, sourcing FPVs and explosives, building the container launch pads and network all inside of Russia without anyone noticing or some official leaking it to the press.

That's what @anthropunk.bsky.social and @liedra.net said as well in: doi.org/10.1016/j.jr...

www.fastcompany.com/91087484/how...

Some of the worst people on the planet are in charge of this tech, and they are telling you it should be your friend, coach, therapist, and tutor.

I kind of wrote about this in 2016. The idea that automation doesn't culturally scale. It isn't just an accent. People have regional ways of making meaning, too. posr.org/w/images/c/c...

When climate information becomes an elite asset.

Stunning details now emerging: this was an operation planned a year and a half in advance, involved smuggling drones into Russia, placing them in containers on top of trucks, arranging for them all to open simultaneously and to strike.

There are many interesting things in Sun Ra's reading list from his 1971 course at Berkeley; one I'd like to read is 'Black fire: an anthology of African-Americans writing' (1968).

There are 2 previous historical cases of countries destroying their science and universities, crippling them for decades: Lysenkoism in the USSR and Nazi Germany. The Trump administration will be the 3rd. It's not just budgets but research, institutions, expertise, and training the next generation.

Word ranking based software that has no notion of either privacy or society is not going to be able to discern either. Meta/Facebook is such an epic failure. What absolute idiots.

OMFG. Palantir?? They’re one of the few companies that make you think “sure Musk is really evil, but at least he’s not palantir”. There could not be a worse idea than this.

🎵La di da di dee, La di da di da. And the beat gors on...🎵

Thanks to the ubiquity of automated female voices, people are becoming “habituated to speaking louder to a female voice than is necessary" and to "a female response that doesn’t convey annoyance or irritation or even confusion but simply accepts all with equanimity.” www.nytimes.com/2025/05/05/t...

🎵You gotta fight, For your right, To be ARTY....🎵

Baskets are a keystone technology.

Everyone is in on the defence game these days. But I just want to leave this here www.vice.com/en/article/p...

Hey folks, without baskets, we would not have evolved. Material Culture matters.

This is the grandiose niche that "AI" seems to attempt to be filling...

Doesn't most of New York move to Florida eventually? Seems like they are missing that point.

Oh FFS. gosh Sarge, I'd love to do more combat but my batteries just ran down. Hey other enemy solider - I can see through FR that the last movie you saw was Karate Kid: Legands and that your favorite brand of coffee is Chernaya Karta. Oh and that you have 3 cavities and a sister living in Moosejaw.

Great except for the fact that there are less and less employed scientists at the moment...

We told you so. In 2012. posr.org/w/images/a/a... And in 2015. ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/731...

Getting most of my news here this week: owlsintowels.org

Aside from the fact that anyone can get seriously ill from COVID, a key point they are deliberately hiding when removing access is that COVID vaccines reduce transmission. People choose to get vaccinated to protect other people. It is wrong and harmful to take that choice away.

Went to look up a white paper in the NEH award database and it seems like white papers just... aren't accessible any longer. Clicking on a white paper link takes you back to the project page, over & over. Another reminder how the attack on funding orgs is ultimately about restricting information.

But what about DOORS? Applin 2018: www.vice.com/en/article/d...