Some excellent stuff and beautiful writing here: thewire.in/politics/twi...

There are worse ways to give into the (relatively) slow month between teaching terms than dipping into @sturdyalex.bsky.social's truly excellent, deeply moving, and hugely enjoyable @alexpodyssey.bsky.social #Podyssey. And that's just the music! Pure gold. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...

Fully funded PhD studentship (for UK or international candidates): AHRC Collaborative Doctoral Partnership (CDP) studentship Imperial Intimacies: Portraiture and the East India Company, c.1757–1857, with Tate and the Courtauld courtauld.ac.uk/jobs/

We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth

Sobering.

You could not make this up... neither the use of the tech, nor the use of the law..

A powerful and pernicious global myth that prevails well beyond Silicon Valley.

Happening tomorrow: Join us for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

old Soviet joke for our times: Guy stops by the newsstand every day, scans the front page, doesn’t buy the paper. One day the vendor asks what he’s up to. Guy says: “looking for an obituary.” Vendor says “those are towards the back of the paper, comrade.” Guy says: “not the one I’m looking for.”

Join us on March 5 for a seminar with @kritikapila.bsky.social on 'The Bombay Phenotype: Descent, Heredity, and the Physiology of Difference' Dr Kapila will speak on the accidental discovery of a rare blood group. Sign up to attend: www.kcl.ac.uk/events/the-b... @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social

One more week to apply for our permanent Lectureship in the Anthropology of Music @kingscollegelondon.bsky.social Please share.

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Always worth listening to Professor Wendy Brown. This, especially today, is salutary.

Hell is empty, And all the devils are here.

Caltech UC Riverside study finds that tech companies report ai carbon consumption but diesel and other particulates data centers generate go unreported. Public health costs from cancers, asthma, other diseases, and missed work and school days approach ~$20 bil a year. news.ucr.edu/articles/202...

An incredibly literal exchange of food for thought.. How American university libraries came to have rich South Asia collections..

Ok, now that I'm rested it's time to talk about AI, writing & the Black Radical tradition! I grade like a copy editor, which benefits my students in the long run but can be a shock to them at the beginning. Lately students have turned to AI to "fix" their writing, rather than struggle to revise.

Last year at the Institute for Advanced Study, I had the great pleasure of convening an amazing group of multidisciplinary scholars on the topic of the platform in society. One of our collective efforts was "5 Theses on the Gravity of Platforms" www.ias.edu/stsv-lab/fiv...

Intrigued by the People’s Bookshelf at the National Library of Latvia. Each book in the collection has been donated by a member of the public and is inscribed by its former owner, telling a personal story relating to the book.