Armanc Yildiz

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"the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women"--Noam Chomsky

Jeffrey Epstein's Really Big Short In addition to his sex crimes, Epstein ran an obscure company that accrued billions in liabilities in the same dicey securities that led to the 2008 financial crisis. Know who bailed him out? You did!

Not only was Epstein a sex-trafficking monster, he was also a first class scam artist whose offshore shell company received a massive multi-billion dollar cash injection from the Fed and taxpayers after the 2008 Wall Street debacle:
craigunger.substack.com/p/jeffrey-ep...

British Museum Launches Farcical “Decolonizing” Loan Program Long-term loans to former colonies are not restitution. They do not acknowledge historical wrongdoing, nor do they restore agency to source communities.

“Decolonization cannot be conditional. It cannot operate on the assumption that Western institutions are the most competent custodians of non-Western heritage. Nor can it coexist with legal frameworks designed to protect the spoils of empire.” –Emiline Smith

"They went into hiding after Frank’s sister, Margot Frank, received and ignored a summons to go to a labor camp. They were hiding precisely because their existence in Amsterdam had become illegal the second that Margo failed to show up; they were all defying orders."

Screenshot of tweet from Huberman that reads: “The other is that dog breeds w/different shaped heads are predictive of their demeanor and intelligence. And while I don’t! believe in Phrenology I now do pay some attention to how the shapes of peoples heads relates to their intellect and steadiness, or lack thereof.”

In response to announcement that he will be a new CBS contributor, Andrew Huberman tweeted “I’ve always gone issue-by-issue on health & science, spoken to experts w/a range of takes & presented where I see the center of (data) mass pointed. I’ll do the same with @CBSNews”. In Sept he posted this:

This is so smart of the New York Public Library.

Birdshit, Bismarck and bogus victimhood: Thrilled that this piece (along many other insightful chapters) is out in the English edition of "Germany’s History Wars
Contesting Memory and Identity Today", edited by @juergenzimmerer.bsky.social

It's OA, so please have a peek: tinyurl.com/msky2wab

Oh it’s a new account, no worries, and thank you so much for putting all of this together!

What would it take to make #AnthroSky what #AnthroTwitter was?

And here's a starter pack (likely very partial and incomplete) of anthropologists:

Also, it'd be great if you could include @amanthro.bsky.social in this list, thank you!

I'd like to be added if there's still space, thanks!

Today’s Daily Cartoon, by Matt Reuter. #NewYorkerCartoons

Hello? Are you thinking of submitting to Culture and Religion journal? Please note we do not publish book reviews, thank you.

@armanc.bsky.social @tandfresearch.bsky.social

#Epstein

#EpsteinFiles

(S+) Corona-Masken: Händler soll 12 Millionen Euro Steuern hinterzogen haben Mit FFP2-Masken hat ein Münchner Unternehmer ein Vermögen gemacht, nach SPIEGEL-Recherchen steht er nun vor Gericht. Wie kam der schillernde Geschäftsmann an den Millionenauftrag von Jens Spahns Gesun...

Die CDU und CSU sind übrigens nicht nur selbst korrupt, sie arbeiten auch mit korrupten Leuten zusammen. Nicht überraschend aber wichtig, das immer wieder klarzustellen. Und wirklich keiner übernimmt politische Verantwortung. So zerstört man den Glauben ins System.
www.spiegel.de/panorama/jus...

My 3 year old is reading Foucault and asked me, tears in his eyes, "why is power in society only reified through force and surveillance?"

I told him to read more Fanon

A photo of teenage Claudette Colvin in glasses and a sweater.

Friends, Claudette Colvin—the 15-year-old who refused to give up her seat on a Montgomery bus in March 1955 & joined the federal case against bus segregation that went to the Supreme Court — died today at age 86. But there are lots of myths and mis-impressions about her. A short corrective thread:

HOCKEY PLAYERS KISS <photographs of one women in a coat kissing another woman on the cheek> The W.A. WOMEN'S HOCKEY team returned to Perth today. The picture shows Miss May Pearce who was one of the team's outstanding players being greeted by her friend, Miss Edna Keane. --The Daily News, 9 Aug 1935

Heated Rivalry (1935)

Wasn’t the worst terror attack in Australia’a history its foundation?

P141: Whiteness and the formation of racial hierarchies Whiteness is not only a matter of skin colour. Its complexities, however, are often lost in polarised discourses which ignore or essentialise it. This panel

Working on whiteness from an ethnographic perspective? Aleksandra Lewicki @aleksandralewicki.bsky.social, Armanc Yildiz @armanc.bsky.social and I welcome submissions to panel P141 at #EASA2026!

Deadline: 26.01.2026

@easainfo.bsky.social

Info and submisson via: nomadit.co.uk/conference/e...

Our Man for Tehran The U.S.- and Israel-backed campaign positioning Reza Pahlavi, son of the Shah, for regime change in Iran.

An impeccable summary by Alex Shams—long, but essential and monumental. When it comes to the Middle East, intricacies matter. You cannot be lazy about being informed; otherwise, by definition, you are not informed.

So, a must-read:

Greenlandic families fight to get children back after parenting tests banned - BBC News The Danish government has banned the use of parental competency tests on Greenlandic families after decades of criticism.

I hope this is in no way interpreted as any kind of support for Trump’s deranged Greenland plan but given there’s a conversation about the future of Greenland, it should be noted that Denmark has in many ways treated Greenlanders disgracefully.

Five ways to deny a genocide

OH MY GOD

it is literally none of these things

I also had a great time talking to @armanc.bsky.social for @newbooksnetwork.bsky.social about www.dukeupress.edu/on-the-semic.... He really pushed me to think on my feet.