Elliott Prasse-Freeman

I comment here on the USA's ambiguous relationship with Myanmar (and the so-called developing world) more generally, including: "As the US continues to fund and support Israel’s genocide in Gaza today, it seems nothing less than absurd to recommend more US engagement in places around the world."

Yeah I got that. And you’re right it’s a totally different stat! Probabilistic reasoning rather than Bayesian, we could say? If I wanted probabilities I would watch, shudder, baseball. The whole point of good sports is that the mean changes! “It’s why you play the games.”

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Those stats are dumb. Sometimes the mean is not to be regressed to!

[But the fact that JB is the leader in the playoffs in offensive plus minus AND dead last in defensive plus minus is a wild stat that I wholly support (per Michael Pina’s Ringer article).]

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one could have watched that amazing game yesterday and just watched Dunn. I don’t think I’ve ever seen as intuitive or creative defender as this guy.

watch Dunn's genius here. He digs to help so must recover - which means Murray's about to dust him. But watch what he does next: He’s about to do a spin move to recover as JM drives, but then JM anticipates and steps back + so Dunn never flips his hips! He's playing d with his back to the player!

Easter season.

Dallas crowd during Luka's return: managed to pull off a celebration of their guy AND a biting condemnation of their betrayer (the regime who traded him). The love displayed in the former helped leaven the anger, producing something kinda lovely (or at least it seemed so on TV)

And as a syllabus adjustment

Not Amazon but yes!

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Depending on how this was edited, at the end you can hear the interview get interrupted by a student occupation of the university building I was in there in Paris. Apropos, given the book’s topic.

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I’ve taught college for 30 years so I am confident saying that the students being abducted by ICE from our campuses are our best. They are the ones we stay up late for, writing elaborate comments on their brilliant work, hoping they will feel our respect and gratitude

Cannot emphasize this enuf

academics right now?

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To wit is my kink

re-upping this, for your reconsideration.

i really like how Mattingly stresses the dialectical negotiation between abstraction and ethnography as imperative for making anthropological theory.

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The problem is that the NYT doesn’t produce news but hegemony. It basically asks itself, every day, “how do we create news for the UMC liberal who is terrified only by the mildest deviation from America’s baseline brutalities, as defined by the Clinton era?”

Coverage of Gaza War in the New York Times and Other Major Newspapers Heavily Favored Israel, Analysis Shows The New York Times, Los Angeles Times, and Washington Post skewed coverage toward Israeli narratives, according to a quantitative analysis.

unlike the accusations of "systematic" SA, the NYT is systematic in its bias against Palestine. As this analysis shows: theintercept.com/2024/01/09/n.... I've stopped reading NYT and i have to say, i'm less stupid for it.

The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé “Screams Without Words,” the New York Times story about sexual violence by Jeffrey Gettleman, Adam Sella, and Anat Schwartz comes under fire.

Here’s the expose:
theintercept.com/2024/02/28/n...

Fwiw, I stopped reading nyt bc of its shamefully biased Gaza coverage, punctuated by the indefensible and refuted story about mass SA carried out by Hamas.

When you get to Peirce, as one must, Kockelman’s 2007 article Agency has a good interpretation of CP using two or three cat examples

Long, very interesting (and informative) interview with two members of the Endnotes collective about the history of the journal:
chuangcn.org/2025/02/neit...