Dick Powis

We're all just dogs wearing shock collars in the background of God's Twitch stream.

Yesterday, my cat kicked a turd out of the litterbox and the robovac came and ate it up, so I'm kinda not worried about Skynet just yet

Anyway, I just had the silly thought that I was too "old" for a laptop, which is of course ridiculous. I just don't see the need for one anymore, and I find that sort of interesting--like, why?

This relatively recent distinction between home and work (or hobby and rest) is a deliberate resistance against the status quo of my PhD life, COVID lockdown, and my 30s--all of which blended everything together, and my work *was* my identity. I had fun, but god, that life was so toxic.

I switched from a desktop computer to a laptop in 2003 and earlier this year I've made the switch back to a desktop. It's been very freeing, but I'm not sure why. Maybe because I want work to stay at work, and studio to stay in studio, but even this is fairly new in my life (since 2021).

(and quite a few more that I assumed were on Bluesky but aren’t?)

Always a joy to see my Women’s Health students do class presentations on books by my colleagues like @kateclancy.bsky.social and @ratnagiri77.bsky.social

#AbolishBorders

Did people say "ess and tee ess?"

An excerpt of text from Jasanoff's "States of Knowledge" in which she refers to "the emerging field of science and technology studies (S&TS)..."

Well, this was jarring to read

Trump’s stupid hand covered in bad makeup, floating in a black void

This would go hard as an album cover

Wow I’ve always wondered what the early days of the Wars in Afghanistan and Iraq would look like if we had social media and AI and it is worse than I imagined

Good news! The intro article for our special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is now Open Access! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Medical Anthropology SURVEILLANCE-CARE. Volume 44, Issue 3 of Medical Anthropology

The full special issue on SURVEILLANCE-CARE is out now in #MedicalAnthropology! Both the introduction and my article are OA, but don't hesitate to reach out (email or DM) if you need access to the other articles.

Check it out here: www.tandfonline.com/toc/gmea20/4...

She applyin’ on my anthropology until I conference #sfaa2025

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Democrats Huddle To Decide How Best To Let Massive Republican Fuck-Up Slip Through Fingers

Loool same!

In 👏 this 👏 house 👏 we 👏 stan 👏 @jamieloftus.bsky.social

Definitely seems like something I would do :/

An event in my Outlook calendar that simply says “Something with someone but I can’t remember” and I don’t even remember putting it in my calendar!

Wtf, I don’t even remember putting this in my calendar. Was this you? Do we have a meeting???

Over-looked spaces: theorizing surveillance care in reproductive health At the 2022 annual meeting of the American Anthropological Association in Seattle, WA, we organized a session called “Landscapes of Surveillance Care in Reproductive Health.” This introduction to o...

New article just dropped with @adriennestrong.bsky.social

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An iOS notification reading “buttman9000 liked your review of Mickey 17”

My Letterboxd reviews are finally getting the recognition they deserve

Death by Data Erasure - The American Anthropological Association

A New Present Tense is out: pieces by anthropologists meeting this moment featuring @anthrofuentes.bsky.social, Carolyn Rouse, Rayna Rapp, Faye Ginsburg, Gregory Warner, & me.

My piece, Binary Desires, on gender/sex, EOs, & queer joy, & the whole collection here:

americananthro.org/advocacy/pre...

Why Techdirt Is Now A Democracy Blog (Whether We Like It Or Not) While political reporters are still doing their view-from-nowhere “Democrats say this, Republicans say that” dance, tech and legal journalists have been watching an unfortunately recogn…

Wrote up something about Techdirt's recent coverage, and why (whether we like it or not) we need to be a "democracy blog" now, rather than just a "tech" blog (not that we've ever been just a tech blog).

This story is *the* story and it impacts everything else.

www.techdirt.com/2025/03/04/w...

This is the “opposition party” 🤡

Damn, I was hoping for a David Lynch-inspired dance number

“The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth” George Lipsitz will discuss his latest book, “The Danger Zone is Everywhere: How Housing Discrimination Harms Health and Steals Wealth,” which ...

Gonna send my public health students for extra credit: events.berkeley.edu/bscm/event/2...

Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex Sex is not one single, simple, uniform biological reality, so biology cannot be invoked as a basis for “immutable” legal classifications

My latest with @sciam.bsky.social "Politics, Not Biology, Is Driving Legal Efforts to Classify Sex". Please do read the linked Executive Orders and HS statements that this piece is in response to. I am hoping of a better dialogue on this... www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

Analysis: Student Worker Unions Are a Force for Reproductive Justice In the post-Roe era, student unions are increasingly helping student workers secure access to reproductive health care.

hi! i wrote something for @rewirenewsgroup.com’s campus dispatch about student worker unions and repro justice!

it would make me very happy if you could read it and let me know what you think or, the greatest sign it was good: share it with others!