There’s a lot of vibe degradation too (duh). Position your attention wisely. On that note, I do not believe that most ADHD-centric mood board vibe accounts are doing good work. I think they’re working against us. Throwing this out there because I would like the masses to have the frameworks.

Niche “I have a PhD in this” comment: Very good things are happening on Instagram. Bad things too, I’m sure. Other places too, I’m sure. But they’re seizing the means on Zuck’s own algos. The youths are doing populism in ways you probably don’t even know about yet and you’re gonna know.

Mamdani going so hard for trans right and winning is some juicy proof that every dem that abandoned us didn’t do it for politically advantageous reasons. They did it because they’re transphobes and they will lose for it

Normal people are just sick to fucking death of the cruelty and meanness

Teen Vogue eliminated all their Black and trans staff today. It's resegregation in real time.

Teen Vogue took young people seriously. It's impossible to overstate how important, how rare, and how profoundly needed that is.

hollering into the void: OCD is not shorthand for your fun lil quirks or hangups around organization, it's an irrational and sometimes dehabilitating condition that destroys your quality of life from the inside out

"[Chicago mom] Andrea Soria... overheard her 6-year-old whisper to her dolls: 'We have to be good or ICE will get us.'" apnews.com/article/chic...

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This is a piece of the Mamdani campaign that I think is really underdiscussed—that in a moment of terror and despair, his premise is that standing up against fascism can be joyous.

worth applying to politics as well. when you're criticizing an action people take "taking the better action next time" is only one of the alternatives people will consider, and worth remembering that "not bothering at all" is another.

Purdue to the rescue of IU student newspaper, whose institution was attempting censorship. Details in alt!

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Gentrification font in the middle of the forest. Relentless!

E-bike autumn

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“Debate Me” culture is not organic, endemic, or apolitical. This mode of high jacking discourse is and has been central to a 30-year conservative training program that has produced untold numbers of people to do this for every reason but “civil discourse”

the Dems have invested nothing in understanding this political moment

Why is it that when people talk about “waves” of things there only ever seem to be three waves that doesn’t make any sense.

We’ve seen this going viral on other social media platforms and people aren’t citing @markthornton.bsky.social for his methods/labor/data viz skills 🙄. But actually it’s interesting how people will just share things and not care where it came from & if it’s legit. This is, unfortunately, legit 😭

I'm scared of what AI is going to do to youth (and adult) sociality but I'm more scared of the homeschooling movement.

As a scholar of youth & language and (social) media & stuff for a very long time I thought it was like good for youth to have phones and social media and at some point in the past few years I switched to I don’t think children should be around screens at all. Does this mean I’m ready for parenthood?

In two years, we went from having the first Black woman president of Harvard to having affinity groups defunded and support for minority students eliminated on campus. History will condemn the cowards in charge who capitulated to white supremacy and the pedophile rapist president.

Meet Rhubarb (Barb), Kiwi, Squash, and Echinacea (Eki)! They’re named after things in their future home in the garden 🐣

Just got back to New Hampshire (on the 🚌Dartmouth Coach🚌) and the leaves are already changing colors 😭😭😭😭

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Thoughts for a new school year: I’ve been interviewing people about pro-democracy movements during Chile’s dictatorship & former student activists have brought up that they made sure to have great grades so that admins wouldn’t be able to use ‘bad student’ as cover for expelling political dissidents

Being an anthropologist is so cool people tell you interesting things all of the time I can’t believe people choose other jobs.

I had a professor of Jewish Studies at UChicago who made the administration very angry because every year he made a proposal for the university to create an on-campus memorial to the worldwide victims of the UChicago economics department.

Salvador Allende, do seu túmulo (uma simulação complexa de consciência no Projeto Cybersyn enterrado sob Santiago), solta uma gargalhada ao saber que os economistas de Chicago estão indo à falência por causa de criptomoedas

NEW: Kilmar Abrego Garcia’s defense team says that the government is attempting to coerce him to plead guilty to his criminal charges. Per filing, the government promised to deport him to Costa Rica if he pleads guilty — and is now threatening to remove him to Uganda if he doesn’t accept the deal.

Canvas already stinks so it’ll be interesting to see private equity try to make it worse.

WASHINGTON (AP) — Trump administration says grants for Hispanic-serving colleges are unconstitutional and it won't defend them in court.

I came to a Santiago coffee shop that I haven't been to since I lived here/was dissertation writing two years ago and as soon as I started ordering the owners came running out of the kitchen like TY WE HEARD YOUR VOICE 🥲

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imo a university that lost tens of millions of dollars in crypto investments should probably consider suspending its Econ department PhD admissions first.

look I'm not myself a political scientist so I can't say what effects it would have for a spate of politicians to crop up saying "the enemy is the oligarchy" and "the enemy is billionaires" while swinging a kettlebell but I think we should try it for science and see what happens

i don't think most people want to hear PhD-level answers to their everyday questions, actually. i learned that from being on dating apps.

another day i'm glad i didn't go to a college prestigious enough to get targeted for extortion by fascoid thugs. there's at least a hundred institutions left to collapse before i have to be embarrassed about the University of New Orleans in this particular manner

nothing makes me feel more like an anthropologist than being in dude space (barbershop, lockerroom). youre not gonna believe this but these gentlemen are collaborating to mutually construct their and each other's masculinity

This morning, ICE rolled into a Home Depot parking lot using a moving truck loaded w/agents, like a Trojan horse, to snatch up Latino workers. Whoever they could find. No idea if they were undocumented or not. That’s not enforcement. That’s racial profiling, and violates a standing court order.

"A K-8 school adjacent to [an ICE] facility in South Portland [..] is moving." "[S]chool officials say federal agents' frequent use of tear gas on Portlanders protesting at the [ICE] facility endangers students." #Oregon #USA #Deportation #EthnicCleansing

Here are the first areal photos of Trump's immigration detention facility at Fort Bliss, El Paso. The first detainees started arriving on Friday. Here is my quick rundown of what we know about the site.

pay very close attention to Wikipedia to find a way out of the AI slop internet www.404media.co/wikipedia-ed...

U.S. soft power is so bleak right now that it’s literally just me buying postcards of Vermont pastoral scenes made by local artists to give to my friends abroad.

The academic job market is looking great this year for scholars of AI (Anthropology Ideas) 😃😃😃😃😃