"Common decency stigmatizes people that do not participate in it—removes them from voluntary association. We indeed have to live with one another, but terms and conditions apply." me on why Ezra Klein should be ashamed / why shame is Good Actually www.bostonreview.net/articles/how...

“Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind.“

CFP for the new @roadsides.bsky.social issue, CRYOSPHERE. roadsides.net/call-for-pap... "Snow and ice have long served as vital resources for human and non-human inhabitants of this planet. Today the world is experiencing immense changes to the cryosphere."

Here's a detailed read on why they are occurring from @NepaliTimes nepalitimes.com/news/nepal-s...

Spread the news. #Pressefreiheit #FPÖ

Can’t say why exactly, but the phrase “once again refused a pierogi” made me laugh out loud.

Bye forever, WeTransfer.

“Donald Trump has guaranteed that Iran will be a nuclear weapons state in 5 to 10 years from now.” Iranian writer @tparsi.bsky.social tells @mehdirhasan.bsky.social that US bombing of Iran would push Tehran toward developing nuclear weapons. Watch the full conversation: zeteo.com/p/breaking-t...

‘‘On the last day of his life, God gave him a gift, which was an attack chihuahua all the way from Washington who bowed and scraped. Vance was like Mr Collins in Pride and Prejudice.’ Colm Tóibín on Pope Francis (and Pope Leo), on the podcast: www.lrb.co.uk/podcasts-and...

Anthropologists: please support @sapiens.org magazine and staff (who are trying to unionise!) by writing a letter to the Wenner-Gren Foundation that may choose to shut it down. At a time in which eugenics 2.0 is now debated in US politics, people need anthropology! actionnetwork.org/letters/urge...

We're hosting the next conference of the Swiss Anthropological Association in Fribourg next February. The Call for Panels is open now. Please send us your proposals!

One of the most important recent texts for me - by Masha Gessen. Held in honour of Hannah Arendt. Both Jewish, both defying categorisation. Today, more than ever, read this text. I say this as an anthropologist who knows how difficult comparisons are. #8May #May8 www.nplusonemag.com/online-only/...

Gold.

FMK: JD Vance edition.

Nikolaos Olma and Janine Hauer ask how infrastructures become instruments of slow violence in their introduction to the latest issue of roadsides. Out now!

Call for abstracts for our fall issue on foodways, edited by @dollykikon.bsky.social and @mattrest.bsky.social roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

Excited to be editing the fall issue of @roadsides.bsky.social on food and infrastructure together with @dollykikon.bsky.social Check out the CFP here: roadsides.net/call-for-pap...

roadsides.net is now on Bluesky :) bsky.app/profile/road...

Great to see Kathryn Yusoff's new book getting the attention it deserves (the good faith, engaged kind of attention, that is): www.theguardian.com/science/2025...

Tesla Dealerships Attacked With Molotov Cocktails theonion.com/tesla-d...

if you find yourself reluctant to support the guy at Columbia because you find some of the politics he espoused distasteful or even abhorrent, you should know that this is exactly the reaction that they hoped for in choosing him as a target for unlawful detention based on political speech.

#BlueskyResistance #Voices4Victory #ProudBlur Advertisement at a London bus stop. Ya gotta love the British…

The only sensible response to J.D. Vance‘s speech in Munich would be to shut down X in Europe. Because that seems to be the thing he was sent to fight, with threats and insults. He just said what Elon had told him to. If X loses Europe, it‘s decline to obsolescence gets steeper.

Spätzle mit Bechamel sind wie Carbonara mit Rahm