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Political anthropology: #infrastructures, #extractives #politics and #climatechange, esp. in #Angola and #Mozambique; find me Allegralaboratory.net and at critical urbanisms @unibas D/F/E/P

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O Sistema O Sistema. Uma Etnografia Política da Nova Angola oferece uma importante perspetiva sobre a política do quotidiano nos regimes neoautoritários de partido dominante do século XXI em África, e noutros l...

falta pouco... www.ics.ulisboa.pt/livros/o-sis...
O #sistema: etnografia política da nova #Angola
informação sobre os lançamentos a seguir.

09.03.2026 09:43 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

surpris ET en colère

07.03.2026 12:33 👍 62 🔁 4 💬 5 📌 0
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People Are Calling Meta Ray-Bans "Pervert Glasses" On Bluesky, users quickly embraced the term "pervert glasses" to refer to Meta's Ray Ban smart glasses, following a shocking investigation.

Make it stick.

06.03.2026 18:25 👍 10201 🔁 2911 💬 176 📌 354
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Thinking through material incompletion In an era of accelerated urban development driven by future orientation—what does incompletion do and what are its social effects? Based on ethnographic work in Lobito, Zurich and Delhi, we push ba...

Very happy to see the first output of a particularly productive and joyful co-writing process out here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
with @nitin-bathla.bsky.social and @sabrinastallone.bsky.social
First (probably incomplete) thoughts on incomplete projects.

06.03.2026 13:11 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

some of you are looksmaxxing when you need to be booksmaxxing

18.02.2026 19:41 👍 14719 🔁 2447 💬 211 📌 192

People’s electric bills are tripling and quadrupling because of data centers.

We can’t buy RAM or Hard Drives because of data centers.

Black communities are suffocating in generator exhaust because of data centers.

And OpenAI is raising $100 BILLION in venture capital to accelerate it all.

19.02.2026 02:40 👍 229 🔁 156 💬 4 📌 10
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Ethnographies of Joy: A Definitionless Dictionary in the Shadow of Impending Global Fascism Invitation to join a series of (virtual and in-person) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour? Suffocated by the writing voice you’ve somehow adopted aga...

For those who want joy... deadline approaching with intent
easaonline.org/event/ethnog...

18.02.2026 16:13 👍 3 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
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Fight for Full State Funding of CUNY FY 2027 - PSC CUNY

There is a really obvious solution, and that requires TAXING THE RICH. Because, the people who know best where these funds are needed, and how best to spend them, are the people working to teach the students themselves. Those who, genuinely want to be a part of a special place of learning,

13.02.2026 19:38 👍 81 🔁 17 💬 1 📌 0

Ah FFS, VUB! what’s with the 0.1fte positions? 🙄

15.02.2026 13:07 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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What is Critique? EASA LAWNET - Allegra webinar series - Allegra Lab From February 13 to 29 May 2026 Co-organised by Allegra Lab and EASA LawNet. What is critique, and what might it still accomplish? This question

What is critique?
Starts tomorrow, 4pm CET: allegralaboratory.net/what-is-crit...

12.02.2026 18:21 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

Zu den zahlreichen bevorstehenden 🇨🇭 Kommunalwahlen:
Die SVP ist die Partei, die Kriegsverbrecher Putin unterstützt, dem kriminellen Trump nacheifert, bekennende Neonazis in ihren Reihen hat und mehr verurteile Straftäter beherbergt, als jede andere Partei.
Kein Vertreter dieser Bande ist wählbar!

12.02.2026 11:50 👍 0 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0

Man I'm so goddamn sick of ai. "Wahhh you can't have a reasonable conversation about ai on here," yeah maybe be mad about the two year parade of scam artists and financial charlatans and environmental ruiners who have radicalized everyone against the spell check that agrees with you

12.02.2026 02:45 👍 6538 🔁 1481 💬 72 📌 78
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Ethnographies of Joy: A Definitionless Dictionary in the Shadow of Impending Global Fascism - Allegra Lab Invitation to join to a series of (virtual/in-place) gatherings Exhausted by academic writing that mistakes joyless seriousness for rigour?Suffocated by

allegralaboratory.net/ethnographie...
We’ve cooked up something…

30.01.2026 19:39 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
AI Skills Boost - AI Skills Hub

I think I might take one of these "under 20 minutes" AI skills courses the UK Govt. seems very keen on everyone doing and live-post it here... Maybe we can all learn something together! The press release sends me to aiskillshub.org.uk/aiskillsboost/ - let's go and see!

28.01.2026 12:07 👍 1127 🔁 502 💬 43 📌 346

Also there are so many cool free learning resources yay. F AI slop forever, learn real shit from real people.

28.01.2026 09:58 👍 8 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0

Maybe @juliebillaud.bsky.social might have an idea?

26.01.2026 10:38 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

majorly crushing article reviews today... TGIF.

23.01.2026 15:36 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

9. We’ve become so used to all this that we hardly notice it. But isn’t it extraordinary? Almost everyone wants one thing, and almost everyone who represents us – whether in politics or the media – wants the opposite. Yet we tell ourselves we live in a democracy.

23.01.2026 11:37 👍 711 🔁 161 💬 5 📌 3
Macron in a hoodie.

Macron in a hoodie.

Macron with sunglasses in Davos.

Macron with sunglasses in Davos.

Left: writing the damn paper in the shadows of an archive nearby.

Right: presenting the said paper as a keynote at a fancy conference.

#academicchatter

20.01.2026 19:53 👍 461 🔁 99 💬 8 📌 8

Great article by Cory Doctorow ( #Enshittification) about why the #AI bubble will be collapsing...

19.01.2026 02:09 👍 28 🔁 15 💬 0 📌 0

Ces hommes prétendent (et depuis des années d'ailleurs) que la révolution FÉMINISTE portée par des FEMMES et dont les LEADEUSES sont bien identifiéEs, aurait pour objectif... De ramener au pouvoir un HOMME, un MONARQUE, dont le père a construit LA FUCKING PRISON DANS LAQUELLE ELLES SONT TORTURÉES

14.01.2026 22:33 👍 256 🔁 67 💬 1 📌 0

Oh yeah: submitted (yesterday, w 1 day to spare)

13.01.2026 11:46 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0

@davidbauer.ch vielleicht was fürs Filet?

13.01.2026 11:45 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Excellent stuff!

13.01.2026 11:44 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

Great schemes though sadly not (or only exceptionally) leading to permanent/TT positions.

12.01.2026 12:31 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0

seems I work best under pressure, eh? #almostdone

09.01.2026 10:59 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
An old cigarette advertisement with an illustration of a Doctor holding a pack of Lucky cigarettes. The text reads: 20,679
Physicians
SaY "LUCKIES
are
less irritating"
"It's toasted"
Your Throat Protection against irritation against cough” 

* The figures quoted have been
LYBRAND,
ROSS BROS AND
MONTGOMERY. Accountants and Auditors.

An old cigarette advertisement with an illustration of a Doctor holding a pack of Lucky cigarettes. The text reads: 20,679 Physicians SaY "LUCKIES are less irritating" "It's toasted" Your Throat Protection against irritation against cough” * The figures quoted have been LYBRAND, ROSS BROS AND MONTGOMERY. Accountants and Auditors.

An ad for camel cigarettes.not shows an illustration of a doctor smoking and a pack of Camels. There’s also an illustration of a woman showing her “T-Zone” of her mouth and chin. The text reads: 


He's one of the busiest men in town. While his door may say Office Hours 2 to 4, he's actually on call
24 hours a day.
The doctor is a scientist, a diplomat, and a friendly sympathetic human being all in one, no matter how long and hard his schedule.
According to a recent Nationwide survey:
MORE DOCTORS SMOKE CAMELS THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE
DOCTORS in every branch of medicine — 113,5%
in all-were queried in this nationwide stud of cigarette preference. Three leading research organizations made the survey. The gist of the query was—-What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor?
The brand named most was Camel!
The rich, full favor and cool mildness of Camel's superb blend of costlier tobaccos seem to have the same appeal to the smoking tastes of doctors as to millions of other smokers. If you are a Camel smoker, this preference among doctors will hardly surprise you. If you're not — well, try Camels now.

CAMEL
TURKISH DOMESTIC
CIOARI
BDA
CAMELS Carlier Tobaccas

Your "T-Zone" Will Tell You...
T for Taste...
T for Throat.
that's your proving ground for any cigarette.
Seo if Camels don't suit your
"T-Zone" to a "T."

An ad for camel cigarettes.not shows an illustration of a doctor smoking and a pack of Camels. There’s also an illustration of a woman showing her “T-Zone” of her mouth and chin. The text reads: He's one of the busiest men in town. While his door may say Office Hours 2 to 4, he's actually on call 24 hours a day. The doctor is a scientist, a diplomat, and a friendly sympathetic human being all in one, no matter how long and hard his schedule. According to a recent Nationwide survey: MORE DOCTORS SMOKE CAMELS THAN ANY OTHER CIGARETTE DOCTORS in every branch of medicine — 113,5% in all-were queried in this nationwide stud of cigarette preference. Three leading research organizations made the survey. The gist of the query was—-What cigarette do you smoke, Doctor? The brand named most was Camel! The rich, full favor and cool mildness of Camel's superb blend of costlier tobaccos seem to have the same appeal to the smoking tastes of doctors as to millions of other smokers. If you are a Camel smoker, this preference among doctors will hardly surprise you. If you're not — well, try Camels now. CAMEL TURKISH DOMESTIC CIOARI BDA CAMELS Carlier Tobaccas Your "T-Zone" Will Tell You... T for Taste... T for Throat. that's your proving ground for any cigarette. Seo if Camels don't suit your "T-Zone" to a "T."

When ppl are like “if AI is so bad for you why does everyone use it” I’m like oh ya why would that be 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

28.12.2025 15:02 👍 104 🔁 23 💬 1 📌 0
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Empire of Vice In a perverse twist on virtue signaling, the Trump administration is training Americans in the politics of raw domination.

"...the more one relies on vice signaling as a style of action and communication, the less relevant and powerful the in-group’s moral compass is as a practical constraint on anyone’s behavior."

latest for @bostonreview.bsky.social

www.bostonreview.net/articles/emp...

08.01.2026 16:15 👍 722 🔁 260 💬 16 📌 27
Yes/No guy meme: 
No: letting a new research idea mature over 6 months
Yes: speed-writing your B2 in two days

Yes/No guy meme: No: letting a new research idea mature over 6 months Yes: speed-writing your B2 in two days

living the life...

08.01.2026 14:53 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
A mountaintop in fading sunlight with an almost full moon just above the crest.

A mountaintop in fading sunlight with an almost full moon just above the crest.

Happy New Year!

01.01.2026 14:58 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0