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

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.

Please consider signing this petition supporting union workers at the University of Washington Press & Libraries as they negotiate their contract. Academics need to do all we can to support union workers at academic presses. I am a proud supporter of UW Press's great union workers. #UWashingtonPress

"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."

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.

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.

Happy New Year

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.

Sights I saw in Washington DC today. National Guard at the National Museum of the American Indian.

America’s Far Right and the Further Right: the Klan and a Coup in 1920s Lumber Country - CounterPunch.org share.google/rlEwz3zIKDJx...

Camping along the Yakima River.

"In some ways, Palantir can be seen as an amplifier of people’s intentions and biases. . . .'It's a really powerful tool,' says one former Palantir employee. 'And when it's in the wrong hands, it can be really dangerous. And I think people should be really scared about it.'”

Meanwhile, we're now one step closer to living in a Marvel superhero movie...

I hope that some of you can help donate to a legal fund for this family under threat of separation by Trump. The person stepping up to organize this effort to help them is one of my oldest dear friends, Lisa Queen. Anything you can give helps gofund.me/5d7d6821

What could possibly go wrong with this plan?

American Idiocracy brought to you by Citizens United, Fox News, Coast to Coast AM, and American capitalism's refusal to acknowledge what it's doing to the planet.

Nulli reges sint!

No surprise here. Pentagon has used UFO buffs for years to divert attention from weapons programs at Area 51 and elsewhere.

Feeding the National Parks' Memory Hole.

Academic freedom in the United States has found itself periodically under siege, but the current attacks from the federal government raise a new level of alarm. nyer.cm/u405qvQ

Taking the ferry south from Tromsø.

Rule Number 8: Anyone not marching or not looking at their phone is suspicious.

Opinion | I was addicted to heroin for 20 years. Here's why I am eliminating federal funding for Narcan so that an extra 10,000 people can die each year from opiate overdoses. by RFK Jr.

“This is what we were always scared of,” said Kevin Bankston. . . a senior adviser on A.I. . . “The infrastructure for turnkey totalitarianism is there for an administration willing to break the law.” Infrastructure built with policies of Bush, Obama, Trump v1.0 & Biden.

This week marks the 70th anniversary of the historic anti-colonial 1955 Bandung Conference, when 29 nations from Asia and Africa gathered in Indonesia. “They all gathered together because they understood their unity was very important,” says @vijayprashad.bsky.social.

Jesus’s parents were unwed and undocumented. So he got what he deserved. by J. D. Vance

This Spy Talk podcast episode has one the best takes on the JFK record release I've heard. Wirth listening to.

As a lawyer, I can tell you why Abrego Garcia must remain in El Salvador. If he were free, he could sue me for defamation and win. by Pam Bondi

First light paddle on Salish Sea.