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somebody on the listserv misspelled "faculty" as "faulty" and suddenly all is revealed

in 2015 Cate Blanchett wore a silk McQueen to the 4th AACTA Awards and didn’t want it to wrinkle so she took the bus to the red carpet so she could stand and I think about it a lot

discovered this too late, but such a great list of very cool people!

this could be us but u playing

disturbing uptick in "we post tweets and talk about them." servile behavior tbh. bluesky is not the Greek chorus for the main character action of twitter, that's loser thinking, have some pride. twitter is dead. post bangers. thank you

i am sorry to say that nothing has since surpassed salman rushdie's iconic cameo in bridget jones' diary

puppygirl hacker polycule stepping tf up

“Torrenting from a corporate laptop doesn’t feel right”: Meta emails unsealed

A photo of Aaron Swartz (1986-2013) when he was 19.

Last month, Meta admitted to torrenting a controversial large dataset known as LibGen, which includes tens of millions of pirated books. But details around the torrenting were murky until yesterday, when Meta's unredacted emails were made public for the first time. The new evidence showed that Meta torrented "at least 81.7 terabytes of data across multiple shadow libraries through the site Anna’s Archive, including at least 35.7 terabytes of data from Z-Library and LibGen," the authors' court filing said. And "Meta also previously torrented 80.6 terabytes of data from LibGen."

Meta illegaly downloaded 80+ terabytes of books from LibGen, Anna's Archive, and Z-library to train their AI models.

In 2010, Aaron Swartz downloaded only 70 GBs of articles from JSTOR (0.0875% of Meta). Faced $1 million in fine and 35 years in jail. Took his own life in 2013.

there's a special hell for people who fetishize literacy, canonical literature, and reading but don't actually ever read

Trump’s Attacks on DEI Get Approval From Some in the Left Wing Many Democrats and activists are rallying to defend diversity programs, but others say they distract from deeper efforts to address inequality.

i'll be blunt, if you are someone who is vocal about the ways that diversity efforts "divide the working class" but silent about the ways that *actual racism and discrimination* divide the working class, then i think you're just an opportunist

the OTHER thing about the white house’s anti-diversity push is that like old fashioned segregation it is explicitly an effort to undermine unions! like c’mon! don’t be stupid!

I'm one such cascadian! 👋

fun fact, sara nelson got her anthropology phd from my department. her dissertation topic? women cops in urban brazil. the more you know 🌠

Elon Musk's mother moved to South Africa in the year Apartheid was created, and she and Elon left the year it ended. The last Apartheid Prime Minister, a man who refused to testify at the Truth and Reconciliation Committee, was a family friend who stayed at their home. This is not a crazy theory.

‘Headed for technofascism’: the rightwing roots of Silicon Valley The industry’s liberal reputation is misleading. Its reactionary tendencies – celebrating wealth, power and traditional masculinity – have been clear since the dotcom mania of the 1990s

D&S alum @beccalew.bsky.social writes about the early signs of “technofascism” in Silicon Valley. That history suggests this moment “isn’t a blip or an anomaly,” she argues. “It’s a crescendo of forces central to the tech industry.” www.theguardian.com/technology/n...

disheveled, ben affleck smokes a cigarette in seren resignation beside a half-empty bottle of beer

so does anybody have any productivity tips for working through yet another constitutional crisis or...

Simple, beige image with header "IBM slide, 1979". In centered, black, all capitalized text, the slide says: "A computer Can never be held accountable Therefore a computer must never Make a management decision"

We've known this is a bad idea for decades... 😔

list of banned keywords

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

This is already out of date, as Amazon just dropped $100K to support Prop 1B. Also, famed Seattle Glass artist Dale Chihuly and his wife also donated $2k to the campaign. Meanwhile, Prop 1A raised almost $15k, including 40 new donors:
gossipguy.net/who-is-fundi...

Worried about our nation’s descent into fascism? This one pot cacio e pepe will make you feel like you’re in 1920s Italy.

Here’s how to share sensitive leaks with the press Thinking about securely leaking information to news organizations? This guide will show you how.

We're just going to leave this here…

this is the bsky i signed up for

As we watch all mention of diversity actively get scrubbed from the NIH website in real time it's important to know that, we were not taking over anything, we were just trying to exist.
- Only 2% of NIH R01 grants are awarded to Black investigators.
The goal is total erasure/elimination.

Every month we hold a Zoom to discuss David Graeber's ideas.

The next one will be on February 12th and discuss Anarchism & anthropology! For those interested, you can register here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Announcing the launch of the NSF Cultural Anthropology Methods Program's International Curriculum & Community of Practice (methods4all.org/camp-interna...) 🧵

This represents 5 years of work led by our global team, building on our proud 50 year history of NSF-funded methods programs in anthropology

been here for 5 mintues and already been blocked by two people. i'm glad to be off-putting here, too. <3

Until very recently I was supervising two graduate students whose salaries came completely from NSF grants. I’m extremely glad right now that both have graduated and are no longer relying solely on those funds to survive.

i had students fill out their "getting to know you" surveys with AI on the first day of the term; the questions were about their interests, desires, and needs. so deeply depressing that these small self-reflections were too burdensome and does not bode well for the authoritarian present...

I'm not sure about this. I cannot help but observe that genre wars in literature, while entrenched in the politics of social differences, are still about books and audiences; slurs are leveraged against people and populations. books don't feel violence or safety, people do.