Diego ArispeBazán

Linguistic+cultural anthropologist. History is fake; coloniality, real.

[Darby Saxbe @darbysaxbe]

🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.

[Carolyn Hinds 🇧🇧 #FreePalestine #CongoInCrisis @CarrieCnh12]

People mocked Mark Zuckerberg for building a bunker and was doing a bunch of seemingly random things like learning how to fight, but he was very intentional.

Always pay attention to how the ulra wealthy move because it's always a red flag when they start liquidating assests

[Prof Julia Steinberger @JKSteinberger]

Every human population has a small percentage of sociopaths, people who just dgasf about others. Egalitarian human societies developed strong mechanisms to curb and expel them, due to the danger they posed to all. Neoliberalism and capitalism promote them to the very top.

[Daniel Steinmetz-Jenkins @daniel_dsj2110]

Forthcoming from Quinn Slobodian: “Following Hayek’s bastards from Murray Rothbard to Charles Murray to Javier Milei, we find that key strains of the Far Right emerged within the neoliberal intellectual movement not against it. What has been reported as an ideological backlash against neoliberal globalization in recent years is often more of a frontlash. This history of ideas shows us that the reported clash of opposites is more like a family feud.” https://t.co/vjz4OMiqjx

[Garrison Lovely @GarrisonLovely]

Seems like more people should be talking about how a libertarian charter city startup funded by Sam Altman, Marc Andreessen, and Peter Thiel is trying to bankrupt Honduras.

Próspera is suing Honduras to the tune of $11B (GDP is $32B) and is expected to win, per the NYT 🧵

[tern @1goodtern]

I met with a group of teenagers yesterday. One of their teachers had suggested that I talk to them about career paths because they're all anxious about exams, university choices and future work.
Instead of talking to them, I listened, and the actual problem was very different.

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

I still can't get over how bad AI has become. And this is coming from a computer scientist who spent over a decade studying and programming AI.

I fucking LOVE AI, but here are 10 reasons I absolutely fucking hate it now, a 🧵 ...

[Lauren Self @laurenlself]

The most overlooked part of the 2008 Great Financial Crisis was its cause.

Sure, The Big Short is one of your favorite movies, so you know it had to do with credit rating agencies assigning AAA and AA ratings to subprime mortgages.

But do you know why they were doing that?

[Jack Meyer 🏛️ @Jackbmeyer]

Recently discovered evidence that I am planning to do an industrial revolution:

[Vanessa Castañeda, Ph.D. (she/hers) @castanedaNessa]

Anthropologists and ethnographers: I’m trying to build a methodology course that focuses on collaborative, reciprocal, and community-based ethnography and methodologies. Could you please share suggestions with me? Thank you!

[Billy Binion @billybinion]

This is Sylvia Gonzalez. At age 72, she won an upset victory for city council after campaigning to oust the city manager. The mayor didn't like that.

So he had her arrested & jailed.

The Supreme Court is about to hear her case, which has largely gone unnoticed. A thread.

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

A thread on how I accidentally blundered into an invisible campaign to censor the internet, and remove inconvenient news stories from Google...

[Erin Reed @erininthemorning.com on Bsky @ErinInTheMorn]

1. In a stunning audio release, Michigan and Ohio Republicans are heard stating that the "endgame" of anti-trans legislation is to ban trans care "for everyone."

They discuss exactly how they plan to do it: "piece by piece, incrementally"

Subscribe to support my work.

[John Burn-Murdoch @jburnmurdoch]

NEW: an ideological divide is emerging between young men and women in many countries around the world.

I think this one of the most important social trends unfolding today, and provides the answer to several puzzles.

[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

Neoliberalism is the problem at the heart of the climate and ecological emergency. It involves extreme capitalism, and an obsession with economic growth, selfishness and competition, and a lack of empathy and compassion.
https://t.co/VHVOrfxLrG
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[Stephen Barlow @SteB777]

I largely agree with the overall analysis of the climate crisis.

However, there's a massive omission, an elephant in the room not being acknowledged. Who is in charge of the manipulation, and controlling it, the 1%.

See paper below.
https://t.co/fCF3r2VKQJ
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[Mike Hudema @MikeHudema]

"Dear friends, scientifically, this is not a #ClimateCrisis. We are now facing something deeper. Mass extinction. Air pollution. Undermining ecosystem functions. Really putting humanity’s future at risk. This is a #PlanetaryCrisis."

— Professor @jrockstrom

#ActOnClimate

[Adam Johnson @adamjohnsonCHI]

this same media company, it's worth noting, makes its journalists all sign a loyalty pledge to NATO, capitalism and Israel

source: https://t.co/QkFHH8f7pH

[Ben See @ClimateBen]

The horrific climate extremes once expected at 4 or 5°C of global warming (at which point scientists definitely have doubts about human survival) are now understood to hit at 2°C which we can anticipate between 2032 and 2046. Media remain totally silent about this grim reality.🧵