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The Luigi (Mangione, that is) case is gonna update us all on how white Italians in fact are

The Jan 6th insurrection was 2021, FYI

Renowned anthropologist Deborah Poole dies at 73 Her research yielded vital contributions to the understanding of language, affect, and practice through which racial ideology, violence, and law shape life in modern Latin America

Rest in power, Debbie
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There's gotta be a Centennial Edition in the works

“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.”

- Werner Heisenberg

Congratulations, Lisa! I'll be teaching the book in a class this spring called "An Introduction to Reality" :)

Header image from @culanth showing ‘Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) – Articles’ and the article title in large text: ‘My Neighbor the Gringo: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela.’

In “My Neighbor the Gringo,” @aangelini.bsky.social and Gareth A. Jones explore the different meanings of convivência in Rio de Janeiro’s self-built communities transformed into tourist accommodations over recent decades.

Surprised you skipped past the gross origin of "Just Do It": Wieden was inspired by death row inmate Gary Gilmore's final words before his execution, "You know, let's do it." Wieden: "I was like, that's amazing... I didn't like the 'let's' thing... cause otherwise I'd have to give him credit."

Human authors! A little justice for you: search this database to find books that the tech company Anthropic has stolen to train its AI model. You're entitled to $1500 per work. Seems like authors deserve more - Anthropic is valued at $183bn...
secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/

Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas?

I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at
@culanth.bsky.social

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Both of these articles came out today in @chronicle.com

Make it make sense.

Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.

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A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...

When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung.

One of those miners decided to fight back—and won.
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It

Awful headline wording but fair play to the students

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Q&A: Jose Mujica on Uruguay’s secular history, religion, atheism and the global rise of the 'nones' In Uruguay, a small nation of some 3.3 million people, more than half identify as “nones” – atheist, agnostic or other religiously unaffiliated – the highest portion in Latin America.

"Life is the adventure of molecules. And there’s nothing else."

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Os anos de Frantz Fanon na Argélia no cinema Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.

Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.

The constant surveillance of modern life could worsen our brain function in ways we don't fully understand, disturbing studies suggest We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world — even unconsciously

One more item in the long list of stuff that amounts to a radical mass experiment on humans - yet there seems to be no control group

www.livescience.com/human-behavi...

Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.

UnitedHealth is apparently claiming copyright ownership over images of Mangione and Deny, Defend, Depose on t-shirts and other merch.

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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…

NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves.

We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️

When the Feds Are Still Watching Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.

For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program.

Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.

Ancient DNA Pinpoints When Humans Mated With Neanderthals Researchers found that Neanderthals made babies with humans over a period of 7,000 years.

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Çatalhöyük: Its Story Continues - JSTOR Daily Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge inherited biases in the face of new material evidence.

“[w]e are not witnessing a patriarchy or a matriarchy. What we are seeing is perhaps more interesting—a society in which, in many areas, the question of whether you were a man or a woman did not determine the life you could lead.”

I am the kind of anthropologist who gets to the famous line from Malinowski's _Argonauts of the Western Pacific_ in here and notes that, no, it is not actually the first line of the book

Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can. Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.

I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...

Fifa ignores own report into Qatar World Cup over workers’ compensation A long-awaited Fifa report into the legacy of the Qatar World Cup has finally been published, but only after its key recommendation was rejected by the organisation

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Interrogating one rogue rigatoni auguring Ragnarok through rug-pulling regulatory regression

The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price NBER Working Paper No. 33164 November 2024 JEL No. 123, 124, N32 ABSTRACT We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.

Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research

Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it

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