I've seen the media repeat Nicola Willis' comparison of the number of ministries & public service here vs other countries and not one of them has pushed back on that narrative more than... two random people in the letters of the Herald. Why are the paid journalists doing less work than the public?

I saw this picture of (a younger) #WalterBenjamin for the first time today, and now my longstanding intellectual crush on him has turned into... something else.

The Ku Klux Kourt

Feels flippant to use the term Streisand Effect here, but that's what happened. Japan ensured a statue very few people would've seen and even fewer would've understood won't be put up, and instead people all over the world are going to read about their system of sexual slavery during WWII.

Supreme Court Overturns ‘Right v. Wrong’ https://theonion.com/supreme-court-overturns-right-v-wrong-1819573211/

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Incredibly long free puff piece in Herald today about potential ACT candidate for Tāmaki, James Christmas. Hundreds of words about his ex-Nat candidacy and constitutional expertise. Imagine writing this many words and not mentioning the Labour candidate is constitutional expert Max Harris!

I walked 20km this ANZAC holiday weekend! Here are the highlights. The video shows photos, video clips, and maps of three walks I took around Kohimarama, St Heliers, and Glen Innes on 25, 26, and 27 April. Highlights were Churchill Park, Glover Park, and the bike path from St Johns to Merton Road.

That US journalists are shaming anyone online for not being sufficiently somber about the nerd prom while they’ve been silent about the actual assassination of hundreds of journalists is a bigger disgrace than the WHCD itself

more people probably died from diarrhea, malaria and typhoid during the civil war than actual fighting

Thanks to @kopyor.bsky.social for inviting me to contribute this piece to @amethno.bsky.social's next issue! We offer a primer on publisher expectations for the disclosure of AI use and consider local adaptations for a field like anthropology. anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

late stump peaches, painted by mary daisy arnold, 1913

You absolutely SHOULD NOT go around telling people that data centers are full of gold, silver, palladium, copper, and that the data centers are almost entirely unstaffed.

Connecting cool research to work done in the 70s to the Trump admin funding cuts to the Iran conflict - this video covers a lot of ground in under 2 minutes.

Does it feel good to punch down instead of looking inward? #Auckland #recycling #nzpol

RNZ simply copy-pasted a condescending technocrat’s report that is all too eager to blame consumers, celebrate the penalties put upon them, and give marching orders to do it their way or no way instead of investigating how #recycling in #Auckland works and leads to such poor outcomes. #nzpol

This ridiculous Luxon govt is not informing us about anything during the fuel crisis. Pharmac are already showing shortages of some medicines due to the fuel crisis and no-one is saying anything, not media, not Luxon. Keep on top of your prescription meds people.

So, thing that is apparently better understood inside academia than outside of it: International students pay sticker price. Most domestic students do not. International students are subsidizing the education costs for domestic students, as per student governmental funding drops.

NASA isn't why the US doesn't have universal healthcare, or a social safety net. The US doesn't have those things because politicians with the power to provide them choose specifically not to (with varying levels of support from voters). Enthusiasm for human spaceflight doesn't drive that choice.

Federal prosecutors in L.A. have lost every assault on a federal officer case they’ve brought to trial against immigration protesters.

This is her time

I want the kind of food that makes a therapist nervous and all I’ve got is coleslaw and pears. 🍽️ 🍐

Current NZ coalition messaging: "The recovery from the economic downturn caused by our incompetence has been set back by the actions of a US president whose policies we completely support." #NZpol

National lamenting $60 billion Covid spend while they are on track to borrow $120 billion with no pandemic. Labour saved 20,000 lives. National are saving landlords and tobacco

Ardern is a national asset & remains extremely popular in #NZ. Unfortunately death threats & vitriol fanned by right wing accounts & media as far as Fox News meant her family isn't safe Australia's gain is NZ's loss. NZ has also lost ~3% of its citizens since the right took over #nzpol #auspol

Critiquing Israel is not Anti-Semitism: The American Psychological Association

Announcing the launch of the Sydney STS network, bringing together more than 50 science and technology scholars across the city - thanks to @sonjavw.bsky.social Friday March Feb 27, 3-5 pm, at USyd, + reception events.humanitix.com/sydneystsina... @aussts.bsky.social @4sonline.bsky.social #sts

Getting shown up in the arena of elite impunity by *the British monarchy* is an incredible “America at 250!” achievement

wealth concentration is already 200% as bad at is was in 2020. think about that

Supreme Court: Colleges can't use race as a factor in college admissions. Also the Supreme Court: ICE can use racial profiling to stop people on the street. The underlying legal principle: The concept of race can only be used as a tool of oppression, as it was intended to be.

I made a map of 3.4 million Bluesky users - see if you can find yourself! bluesky-map.theo.io I've seen some similar projects, but IMO this seems to better capture some of the fine-grained detail

The half time show showed the importance of walkable mixed use neighbourhoods. House, bodega, nail salon, Ricky Martin… all in walkable distance.

No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition. Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...

Democracy dies in broad daylight under billionaire ownership

📢📢📢 New Article Alert 📢📢📢 Jianmin Shao's 'The geobiopolitics of trans medicine: Kinship, recalibrated care, and difference-making amid China-US tensions' is now available in AE 53.1 Early View. Access here: anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Precisely why I canceled my subscription.

As we open Black History Month, we honor Zora Neale Hurston—an anthropologist who refused to treat Black life as a problem, an absence, or an object to be explained.

Academics vying for a spot in Epstein‘s world. There are so many. I feel the need to make a thread, so I don’t keep confusing them. 1/

10/10 ICE protest sign

Ros Sereysothea - If You Wish To Love Me [Cambodia,Psychedelic Rock] (1960s-70s) https://redd.it/d7miwi https://youtu.be/0KqvtkKSMCk

My colleagues at University of South Pacific (Fiji), National University of Samoa, Griffith University (Australia), University of Auckland, and I wrote this short reflection on the use of #VisualMethods for understanding #ClimateMobility in the #Pacific. #APN www.apn-gcr.org/perspective/...

like human terrain systems

yeah at this point i'm pretty convinced the new york times is a recipe and puzzle company that also launders fascism

The Earth is also terrible, and dark, and cruel. The rabbit shrieks dying in the green meadows. The mountains clench their great hands full of hidden fire. There are sharks in the sea, and there is cruelty in men’s eyes.

The depth of his hate for disabled people is and always has been breathtaking. It’s born of an arrogance I’ve rarely seen-he believes that he is some kind of ubermensch, and the only way he could ever become disabled is if some insidious conspiracy did it to him. Evil, evil man.

it’s so wild when you read Black theorists all throughout the 1900s literally predicting all of this… you cannot maintain a white supremacist, patriarchal state without those same genocidal logics being visited on its own people… it’s only a matter of time.

minneapolis is doing community care & mutual aid while exercising constitutionally protected legal activities