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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 6d

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Pascale Boucicaut reviews // “Hoarding New Guinea” // By Rainer F. Buschmann, University of Nebraska Press, 2023

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American Ethnological Society // American Ethnologist (journal) @amethno.bsky.social · 4d

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Brent Crosson reviews // “A Region among States: Law and Non-sovereignty in the Caribbean” // By Lee Cabatingan, University of Chicago Press, 2023

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 42m

It's completely fair, imo. He chose to be photographed like that!

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 1h

"No."

(I'll leave it to others to fill in the context)

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Spencer Ackerman @attackerman.bsky.social · 1h

New from me @thenation.com: the farce at Sharm El-Sheikh displays the delusion that led to October 7 and the genocide Israel pursued after it — that the U.S. regional coalition can pursue normalization over the heads of the Palestinians, who are supposed to accept permanent subjugation.

Sharm El-Sheikh Shows That the US Has Learned Nothing From Gaza

Palestinans are expected to accept the same deal that led to October 7: permanent subjugation under the guise of “prosperity.”

www.thenation.com

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 1h

Know-your-place aggression as institutional policy, rendered as an intrinsic good.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 2h

As an anthropologist I feel this so hard because a lot of what I do is teach why it's so difficult to change people's minds about things because their beliefs are ultimately the product of decades of intensive socialization and heavily scaffolded by their social context.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 3h

I honestly don't even doubt her sincerity. I think it's a testament to how stem-brained narratives are more real to many people than their own lived experience. There's probably an argument in there for a broader, more humanistic education, but good luck getting anyone to listen!

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 3h

Would love to see Badenoch's code. Does she have a GitHub or Stack Overflow account?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 3h

This is an extremely funny thing for a lawmaker like Badenoch to claim.

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 3h

Paraphrasing: “My law conversion was not as worthwhile as my technical apprenticeship in computing. We should have more of that sort of thing.”

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

This is a big part of why I could see Trump being incentivized to let all of this fail fast and hard so he can walk away. He's gotten a bunch of sympathetic press so why bother with the hard part?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

Real danger here that Israel's war on Hamas transitions almost seamlessly into Israel's war on Hamas 2 (actual name TBD)...

www.newyorker.com/news/q-and-a...

As long as there is an active military presence, you’re going to have people with weapons who want to confront that presence. And I could see, in the future, a low-level indefinite insurgency that then becomes self-justifying, with Israeli leaders saying, “Well, there are all these attacks and the people still have weapons, and that’s why we have to stay.” And then the armed Palestinians saying, “The Israeli soldiers are on our land. Of course, we have to keep fighting them.”

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

Yeah, I think there's probably a somewhat admirable small-d democratic impulse to the idea that "everyone just wants the same things" belief, but it's both wrong and responsible for a lot of bad stuff being imposed on people!

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Louis Römer @lromeranth.bsky.social · 5h

In all seriousness, it's a common fallacy to assume that desert nomads and Amazonian communities would all prefer to live in Jersey suburbs if not for circumstance.

Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

It's certainly true that there are push factors that lead people to adapt to desert conditions, but in the case of the Bedouin they're generally quite proud of it. They consider themselves the aristocrats of the region because their adaptive strategies allow them to evade encompassment by the state.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

"It doesn't count because they're nomadic and small in number" is another way of saying that their notions of property rights are so illegitimate and threatening that they can't even be recognized as-such. It's a funny way to prove the OP's point!

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

It's certainly true that there are push factors that lead people to adapt to desert conditions, but in the case of the Bedouin they're generally quite proud of it. They consider themselves the aristocrats of the region because their adaptive strategies allow them to evade encompassment by the state.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 5h

Finding out that Bedouin don't count as people. Listening and learning...

Nute @nutedawn.bsky.social · 16h

Obviously this is a particular left-wing species of it, but I think this is a reflection of a very real Online trend found all over the political spectrum where people don't understand some aspect of the world and so assume their ignorance must reflect a conspiracy by The Powers That Be

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Ric Caric @riccaric.bsky.social · 13h

I'm surprised the NY Times doesn't demand that the Pulitzer people establish an award for euphemism. They'd win the Pulitzer Prize for Euphemism every year.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 19h

Oh I hadn't really thought about that. Either he's on the outs, thinks this is doomed, some combination or a secret third-fourth thing maybe?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 19h

It's wildly irresponsible but the guy is almost eighty. YOLO seems to be the mantra...

Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 20h

The thought is that he's already gotten the best headlines he can hope for and what's going to follow is gonna be bloody, boring, complex and it's gonna involve lots of insubordination. "Phase two" is just question marks (to me). Maybe walk away now and try to run the same scam again in nine months?

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 20h

The sobering thought that it might be in the Trump administration's short to medium term interest for this ceasefire to fail fast and hard, but with highly unpredictable long-term effects...

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Paul Fischer @pfischer.bsky.social · 20h

Choosing Marilyn Monroe as an example for this is a prime -- and dark -- demonstration of how AI slop's core purpose is the erasure of consent for everyone, from the artists whose work has been stolen to the performers the user turns into lifeless puppets

Scientific American @sciam.bsky.social · 2d

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

Want to See Marilyn Monroe in Game of Thrones? AI Could Make It Soon

Despite early, and familiar, copyright growing pains, Sora may be the prelude to AI-generated on-demand TV and movies

www.scientificamerican.com

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Drop Site @dropsitenews.com · 21h

🚨In blatant violation of the ceasefire agreement, Israel has announced it will slash agreed aid shipments in half and keep the Rafah crossing closed, after Hamas returned four of the 28 bodies of Israeli captives believed to be in Gaza.

Hamas officials had repeatedly told mediators...

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According to Reuters who cited three Israeli officials, the Rafah crossing will remain closed through Wednesday, and aid deliveries will be sharply reduced. And Israeli outlets are claiming Hamas violated the deal, with Channel 12 citing an official alleging Hamas is “in severe breach” by not releasing more bodies. Egypt has reportedly deployed teams in Gaza to help locate them.

In a formal COGAT communication, Israel tied humanitarian aid directly to the return of bodies — a move amounting to collective punishment of a famine-stricken population:

“Yesterday, Hamas violated the agreement… As a result, political leadership has decided to impose a number of sanctions related to the humanitarian agreement. Starting tomorrow, only half of the agreed number of trucks — 300 — will be allowed to enter, all belonging to the UN and humanitarian NGOs. No fuel or gas will be allowed into the Strip, except for limited humanitarian needs.”

Senior Hamas leader Mousa Abu Marzouk told Drop Site’s Jeremy Scahill last week that a prisoner exchange “would be impossible” while Israeli forces remain in Gaza’s population centers:

“We don’t know exactly where the prisoners are. Even the negotiators don’t know their locations. There cannot be an exchange if Israeli forces remain.”

Marzouk warned that Israel’s refusal to withdraw proves it “does not want Trump’s ceasefire plan to be implemented.”

As early as October 3, when Hamas first delivered its response to Trump’s plan, Marzouk said on television that locating remains “would take months” after Israel destroyed and blocked off delivery of desperately needed heavy machinery. It would be “impossible” in 72 hours.

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Geoffrey Hughes @geofffhughes.bsky.social · 21h

Regretfully, I suspect that for a not insignificant number of people who are into the "theory canon" that is like the second most notable thing about him (first is grounding politics in the friend/enemy distinction). Really makes you think!

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