This Beanie Is Designed to Read Your Thoughts California-based startup Sabi is developing a thought-to-text wearable that could usher in the cyborg future.

Dystopian dreams of authoritarian government or corporate mind reading coming closer to reality.

Soviet and US cold war borderlands This paper discusses how geographical and ideological borders impacted anthropological practices in the East and West during the Cold War. Examples from the Baltics and Soviet Estonia and the Unite...

This article just came out that I co-authored with the late Estonian anthropologist Kristin Kuutma thinking about Cold War impacts on the development of anthropology in the Baltics, Soviet Estonia, and Dr. Strangelove's America.

Day three, Library of Congress research.

The main reason that anyone pretends Iran won't be a Forever War is that everyone knows Trump's attention span is shorter than his tiny hands. But we're all going to be dealing with Trump's damage long after his boredom sets in and he's left the scene of the crime.

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How to Organize Safely in the Age of Surveillance From threat modeling to encrypted collaboration apps, we’ve collected experts’ tips and tools for safely and effectively building a group—even while being targeted and tracked by the powerful.

"TLDR: Use Signal for as many texts, calls, and video chats as possible, and set up disappearing messages. Just remember that encryption isn't magic. Consider the security of the devices on each end of the conversation—and how much you trust everyone in it."

The Asia Foundation and the CIA w David Price | Uncontrolled Opposition Live Recording for WBAI 99.5 YouTube video by Pasta 2 Go

Recorded feed from an hour long broadcast this week on NYC's Pacifica WBAI radio show "Uncontrolled Opposition," talking about the history of The Asia Foundation and the CIA.

"Kung Fu practice" needs a new entry in Urban Dictionary.

Why can't you learn that abolishing ICE is the only viable option?

Indeed. It was clear in 1952. It was clear in 2014. It's clear today. I just hope that there are people left to battle this in 2035.

We should expect nothing less in a country where our public schools' history classes are seldom more an afterthought delivered by videos and peppered with the impressionistic ramblings of football coaches.

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My piece forgotten roots of techno-feudalst movement.

"It should concern all of us who dream of a world where Americans have universal health care, food security, and meaningful work, that our oligarchs dream of a world where they have unchecked power and we are chattel."

Covert Action Mag's review of my book on The CIA and the Asia Foundation.

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I get that the news cycle is packed right now, but I just heard from a colleague at the Smithsonian that this is fully a GIANT SQUID BEING EATEN BY A SPERM WHALE and it’s possibly the first ever confirmed video according to a friend at NOAA

10 YEAR OLD ME IS LOSING HER MIND (a thread 🧵)

Salmon running the Deschutes River a few blocks from my home.