@eiremaz.bsky.social
anthropologist, poet, & postdoc in disaster studies @harvardcmes.bsky.social | work on disability & bodies, labor, resource extraction, agricultural transformation, disasters website: www.lnk.bio/eiremaz
“AI can never be AI without humans. It is not artificial intelligence. It’s African intelligence...We are training our own death. We train ChatGPT and it’s killing us slowly.”
www.404media.co/ai-is-africa...
Workers are busy harvesting bok choy in Arvin CA. #WeFeedYou
Trabajadores están ocupados cosechando bok choy en Arvin, California. #SoyEsencial
How did the COVID-19 pandemic lay bare and also exacerbate tremendous changes in labor around the world? Check out our new series rethinking work: www.culanth.org/fieldsights/...
In his new book, the celebrated author explains why we need ‘consciousness hygiene’ to defend ourselves from AI and dopamine-driven algorithms
Study finds ChatGPT Health did not recommend a hospital visit when medically necessary in more than half of cases. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Gen Z is reviving DVDs and Blu-rays, with local video rental shops reporting record months and membership numbers as young people embrace physical media.
Read more: www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Fellowship Opportunity!
Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition, Yale University - 2026-2027 Gilder Lehrman Center Fellowships
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Spinoza died on this day 349 years ago. Here is what I wrote about his famous claim that a "free man thinks of nothing less than of death," and we can learn and not learn from our finitude.
www.unemployednegativity.com/2025/01/noth...
Winning their first contract is another major landmark for Volkswagen workers in Chattanooga, Tennessee, who made history in 2024 by becoming the first auto plant in the South to unionize through an election since the 1940s, and the first foreign-owned factory in the South to do so 2/2
#cfp We are seeking papers for both a pre-conference workshop for New England-based anthropology PhD Students and early career faculty (March 27) and paper proposals for two panels (all ranks) (March 28). Due by 02.23.2026. docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
“I hope that the other plants here in the South are watching,” said bargaining committee member Yolanda Peoples, who works on the engine assembly line. “We now have our seat at the table, and it’s going to be life-changing for a lot of people in our plant.”
labornotes.org/2026/02/majo...
An advocacy group leader says regulators now rely on farmworkers to report abuse.
But she said many workers are too scared to speak out for fear of retribution or loss of future work. “It creates an environment that’s ripe for abuse,” she said.
It's appropriate on #BlackHistoryMonth we uplift Kevin's voice. He's been a Jamaican H2A worker for the last 10 yrs & is excited over the implementation of his UFW contract at NYs Wafler Farms. He's looking forward to getting the benefits his contract provides. #UnionsForAll
"Students with a 504 Plan in high school for psychiatric disabilities, such as those related to ADHD, autism, depression, anxiety, OCD, learning disorders, etc., might not always realize they are eligible for accommodations in college."
www.greatlakespsychiatryandpsychotherapy.com/post/underst...
‘A life gets its shape not only through memory and expectation but through the strong and enduring attachments that are its most important content.’
Thomas Nagel on how we understand our lives within temporality.
www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
Once again, it turns out “fully autonomous” means “a guy in the Philippines.”
NEW: Experts say there aren’t enough state and federal inspectors to adequately vet whether labor contractors who oversee farmworkers are following the rules.
Nor is there broad political support to invest more resources to protect foreign workers.
Many diseases were once called “psychological” or “all in the mind”.
Again and again, biology later proved otherwise.
This thread shows clear cases where medicine got it wrong, then changed its mind once real mechanisms were found.
Since the @sbworkersunited.org strike began, 16 more stores have voted to unionize, bringing the total number of union Starbucks stores last week to 666—a figure that echoes CEO Brian Niccol’s pay: 666 times that of a barista. Our editor Jenny Brown reports labornotes.org/blogs/2026/0... 1/4
A crew in Mettler, Ca are pruning grape vines. They are glad to be back at work as many companies didn't did not have them working from late November until January. They share not having work made it very difficult to feed their families. #WeFeedYou
Advocacy, Inc. argues that as advocacy organizations are pressured to act like businesses, they risk ignoring the root causes of forced labor, allowing corporations to claim "hero" status while practices of labor exploitation continue unchecked in the global economy.
https://ow.ly/zZTg50Y7PJk
How people have reimagined the story of the ten plagues of Egypt, from antiquity to our own era of relentless catastrophe.
Disasters of Biblical Proportions by Steven Weitzman is out now (31 March UK pub).
Learn more: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#ReadUP #History
Cultural anthropology latest Hot Spots Series, “Where have all the workers gone?” is both "an empirical question that ethnographers often encounter in the field" and "an epistemological reflection on where anthropologists today locate labor, work(ers), and their struggles"
When Worlds Quake by Hrvoje Tkalčić reveals how quakes can help scientists to understand the mysterious inner architecture and ongoing evolution of our planet, as well as worlds beyond our own.
Out now (10 March UK pub).
Explore a free preview: press.princeton.edu/books/hardco...
#EarthScience
How did the picture of time as a line come to be so entrenched in Western thought, and what effect does it have on how we experience reality? This Essay by professor of philosophy Emily Thomas takes us on a jaunt through history to find out more
ProPublica has identified at least 15 major disasters since 2016 in which officials in the most-harmed communities failed to use a federal system to send emergency alerts to residents — or waited until it was too late.
(Published Aug. 2025)
I would love to teach a class on the ethnographic film, but I doubt it'll happen at SU since we don't have a big anthropology department and it probably wouldn't be a good one for undergrad film students. *Sigh!* Maybe one day. Anyways, what would you all add to that syllabus?
In 2024, we convened a group of 25 workers and organizers across the transportation supply chain. They traveled over 3 days and 600+ miles across Nevada to tour the frontlines of new lithium mining in the US. Watch our new documentary that follows their journey. climateandcommunity.org/nvfilm
PoLAR DEF Anna Kirstine Schirrer's research with CARICOM appeared in the PoLAR this year. And her edited series on reparations is free to read on PoLAR Online: polarjournal.org/2020/07/31/s...
