An anthropologist's work is never done. Happy New Year @shivambhatt.bsky.social!

Just making sure that 2025 is definitely over

Happy New Year, everyone! From me and the lemurs of Madagascar!

Daycare centers were also the primary target of the Satanic panic, because fundamentally American religious conservatism is opposed to women having jobs outside the home.

Funny. I managed to lecture in a mask, teach over Zoom, show up to Halloween in a full Plague Doctor costume, and NOT get a 40 year tenured professorship from Harvard....

Aside from the sheer entitlement of a man who had a FORTY year career in Harvard and is whining about things changing, there is something about how much the pandemic has radicalized so many people. Simply being asked to mask seems to have broken some people’s minds entirely.

This is exactly where the whole damn thing was headed right from the start. Ads. Money. Complete monetization of every aspect of existence. Greedy ghouls the entire lot of them. Just really rubbish all around.

Happy New Year, everyone! From me and the lemurs of Madagascar!

There is no more “state of the humanities” as such. There is no condition in which the humanities are under attack in which the whole university is not under attack...We are all humanists now. /1

Fare thee well, South Africa! I am off to Madagascar.

In the dark grey at the end of the year, maybe it's time to explore the other side of the coin and read the tales that fairies tell about us. Hear the spirit of a dying swamp in "The Haunted Frog Pond" or the lost fae who seek the 'walking people' in "La Grande Roue"..... shop.the3littlesisters.com

Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."

Wealth should have a cap. Once you've made, I dunno, $100 million dollars, that's it. Congratulations, you won Capitalism. You benefitted from society so much, you'll never have a material worry again. We'll name a dog park after you. Everything past that goes into a "social benefit fund."

In the dark grey at the end of the year, maybe it's time to explore the other side of the coin and read the tales that fairies tell about us. Hear the spirit of a dying swamp in "The Haunted Frog Pond" or the lost fae who seek the 'walking people' in "La Grande Roue"..... shop.the3littlesisters.com

“it is illegal for you not to like me”

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One more day and then I head out to Madagascar. But before then, we decided to visit Hluhluwe National Park and do a safari drive. Can't come to South Africa and not see the wildlife!

Good morning! Hat and I would like to welcome you to Cave 13b off the coast of Mossel Bay, South Africa. A cave system with evidence of some of the oldest human habitation in the region.

I guess I didn't realize how prescient this post would be!

I cannot say often enough, there needs to be accountability for all these thugs

You will be visited by three spirits

I guess I didn't realize how prescient this post would be!

A set of Middle Stone Age tools going out from Cave 13b for community educational purposes. Including a red ochre hand-grinder (pictured at center).

A set of Middle Stone Age tools going out from Cave 13b for community educational purposes. Including a red ochre hand-grinder (pictured at center).

Well, it rained a whole lot today. But then I made an unexpected new friend.

Good morning! Hat and I would like to welcome you to Cave 13b off the coast of Mossel Bay, South Africa. A cave system with evidence of some of the oldest human habitation in the region.

This is the kind of thing that makes you realise how easy it must be to sell half-baked trainings to businesses

Rough seas off Cape Town today.

The “AI” has not read the book. Even if the book was in its training data, it has just absorbed it as a set of statistics. It will juggle you a “summary” that might or might not relate to the conclusions of the actual text. The only way you’ll know is to read it yourself.

Whole lot of academics in the quotes read this title about how LLMs are academic misconduct machines and still line up to defend them. Kinda showing where your priorities are. With alt

Even with funding, I ended up with now 80k in student loan debts. And no, they cannot just get jobs as high school teachers in the public school system--that requires specific education licensing which requires completely different classes and credentials.

This would be about as useful as simply reading the summary on the back of the book. AI CANNOT "summarize" a book or article because it cannot READ it. It does not not KNOW what it says. It only repeats what the author's abstracts and quotes already say.

Look a lot of people were at the Lucifer Foundation's annual Billionaire Vision Brunch in 2011. I didn't talk to all of them. Some of us just find the work the Lucifer Foundation does to be interesting.

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"and may the odds be ever in your favor, really, they're the greatest odds, believe me, the odds were terrible under Joe Biden, but now everybody says we have the best odds"

The problem isn't that we can't talk to each other The marketplace has heard the ideas Large supermajorities reject them Yet our anti-democratic political institutions allow the 20-25% that like those ideas to capture & control all the institutions The problem is the anti-democratic institutions

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The radicalization of young men isn't a strictly American phenomenon. Young guys across the world support far-right politicians and causes while Gen-Z women almost universally back progressive causes. It's a gap that doesn't exist in other generations. badfaithtimes.com/nothing-stan...

This, and at the end of the year, all of their past screen names are published in a gender-reveal-style explosion.

Seriously, Holly is one of the coolest people i've met on the hellsite, and she's worth supporting

this book genuinely rules, but i am exactly the target market for a deep dive into ritual, history, and lore about an obscure hindu tradition

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Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas, my Shaligram ethnography, has finally made it to paperback! This is excellent news and hopefully will open up this work's availability for a broader audience! www.routledge.com/Shaligram-Pi...

Convince all the people you can that they are "owed" nothing and this old chestnut will work every time. And by "owed" I mean, they are not entitled to the fruits of their own labor, the autonomy of their own bodies, or the safety of their own society. "Nothing" is the only thing that is theirs.

incredible that the oldest scam in the book — “look away from the greed and poor leadership that destroy your chance to make a career, it is the [blanks] that stole your job!” — still works

Schedules are weird, so Adam is having a WEDNESDAY drop of some new By The Way merch. And, full disclosure, I WANT this hoodie. The first in the line of FULL COLOR zip-up hoodies has arrived. Check it out: dillytodds-shop.fourthwall.com

Shaligram Pilgrimage in the Nepal Himalayas, my Shaligram ethnography, has finally made it to paperback! This is excellent news and hopefully will open up this work's availability for a broader audience! www.routledge.com/Shaligram-Pi...

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