Adia Benton
@ethnography911.bsky.social
Quick! Somebody call an anthropologist! Assoc prof @ Northwestern. MedAnthro. African studies. Pop culture. Politics. She/her. book: https://www.upress.umn.edu/9780816692439/hiv-exceptionalism/
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Scary. Imagine you have 4 kids and all of 'em are hospitalized at the same time. Struggling to breathe, need oxygen, and have high fevers. This photo shows just 3 of the siblings.
Photograph: Carrollyn Timmons
Photograph: Carrollyn Timmons
December 24, 2025 at 12:01 AM
Scary. Imagine you have 4 kids and all of 'em are hospitalized at the same time. Struggling to breathe, need oxygen, and have high fevers. This photo shows just 3 of the siblings.
Photograph: Carrollyn Timmons
Photograph: Carrollyn Timmons
This is how I feel when I watch Sweet Magnolias
The Hallmark aesthetic is always replicating all of the things we like about cities but pretending they are in small towns. Like I'm sorry a town of 2,314 people cannot sustain an independent boutique, a book store, a brewery, and an art gallery.
December 23, 2025 at 11:11 PM
This is how I feel when I watch Sweet Magnolias
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You know that scene in finding Nemo, when she gets all those flashbacks in about 2 seconds and she remembers? When I found out I had cancer, I had that same experience, only it was a full body experience. I knew it was ‘the fight’ that got me cancer, and I had to lay my weapons down.
Ben Sasse says and knows he is dying of advanced stage pancreatic cancer (but says he’s gonna fight anyway, because cliche). Sigh.
December 23, 2025 at 8:54 PM
You know that scene in finding Nemo, when she gets all those flashbacks in about 2 seconds and she remembers? When I found out I had cancer, I had that same experience, only it was a full body experience. I knew it was ‘the fight’ that got me cancer, and I had to lay my weapons down.
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“These new charges are in addition to five already issued to Mr Brand in April 2025 involving four women, which included two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault.”
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
“These new charges are in addition to five already issued to Mr Brand in April 2025 involving four women, which included two counts of rape, one count of indecent assault, and two counts of sexual assault.”
Ben Sasse says and knows he is dying of advanced stage pancreatic cancer (but says he’s gonna fight anyway, because cliche). Sigh.
December 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Ben Sasse says and knows he is dying of advanced stage pancreatic cancer (but says he’s gonna fight anyway, because cliche). Sigh.
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Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
Russell Brand charged with further counts of rape and sexual assault
The alleged offences took place in 2009, the Crown Protection Service said
www.independent.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Just want to point out that this man was leading the whole Turning Point USA crowd in prayer last week.
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...
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One of my pedagogical beliefs is that it’s been a big mistake to devalue content and think that we can teach the core skills we’re teaching, in a way that will transfer across domains, quickly or wholly directly (in a single class, say). But Colin is right that we are teaching transferable skills +
You can argue that long-term, what most undergrads get is skills, and a transferable crit-think capacity to scrutinize claims and evidence.
However, you get there through some kind of domain knowledge, something chewy enough that you can't just say believe whatever you want.
However, you get there through some kind of domain knowledge, something chewy enough that you can't just say believe whatever you want.
December 23, 2025 at 7:18 PM
One of my pedagogical beliefs is that it’s been a big mistake to devalue content and think that we can teach the core skills we’re teaching, in a way that will transfer across domains, quickly or wholly directly (in a single class, say). But Colin is right that we are teaching transferable skills +
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“Leaving behind over 3 million followers” is a crazy thing to write lol
December 23, 2025 at 7:50 PM
“Leaving behind over 3 million followers” is a crazy thing to write lol
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December 23, 2025 at 3:43 PM
on a brighter note, my Mother's Day meyer lemon tree is bearing fruit.
December 23, 2025 at 5:44 PM
on a brighter note, my Mother's Day meyer lemon tree is bearing fruit.
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$50M to Notre Dame for . . . “faith-based” approaches to AI news.nd.edu/news/notre-d...
Notre Dame receives $50 million grant from Lilly Endowment for the DELTA Network, a faith-based approach to AI ethics
The University of Notre Dame has been awarded a $50.8 million grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. to support the DELTA Network: Faith-Based Ethical Formatio...
news.nd.edu
December 23, 2025 at 3:54 PM
$50M to Notre Dame for . . . “faith-based” approaches to AI news.nd.edu/news/notre-d...
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Congestion pricing for all
Year 1 data on congestion pricing in Manhattan…
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
* Vehicle traffic: -11%
* Foot traffic: +3.4%
* Storefront vacancy: -0.9%
* Pollution: -22%
* Revenue for mass transit: $548M
So YES this has been a huge success.
December 23, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Congestion pricing for all
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Putting this piece of libertarian drivel out there to respond to "no one ever says that zoning reform or regulatory changes can solve homelessness or deeply affordable housing problems by themselves".
And for a takedown of such a "take" I would recommend a piece by Alan Mallach (see 2/2 below) 1/2
And for a takedown of such a "take" I would recommend a piece by Alan Mallach (see 2/2 below) 1/2
Cure homelessness with more housing, not more subsidies
Do that, and abundance will grow again, not by miracle, but by the freedom that allows creativity to flourish.
www.ocregister.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:21 PM
Putting this piece of libertarian drivel out there to respond to "no one ever says that zoning reform or regulatory changes can solve homelessness or deeply affordable housing problems by themselves".
And for a takedown of such a "take" I would recommend a piece by Alan Mallach (see 2/2 below) 1/2
And for a takedown of such a "take" I would recommend a piece by Alan Mallach (see 2/2 below) 1/2
Which you already knew, and also her saying this on camera, along with her allowing them to share and circulate her shitty paper? (I don’t believe it only took her 30 minutes, actually. She’s trying to play it cool). She’s an absolute tool. In two senses.
Worth noting that the student admits that she just threw the thing together in 30 minutes without reading the paper she was supposed to be responding to.
December 23, 2025 at 3:38 PM
Which you already knew, and also her saying this on camera, along with her allowing them to share and circulate her shitty paper? (I don’t believe it only took her 30 minutes, actually. She’s trying to play it cool). She’s an absolute tool. In two senses.
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"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
Impfen | Es wird noch viel schlimmer werden
Podcast Episode · Pandemia · 22/12/2025 · 40m
podcasts.apple.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:52 AM
"It is going to get so much worse."
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
For the first of two end-of-the-year episodes of @pandemia.bsky.social, I talked to @drdemetre.bsky.social about what happened in 2025 at the CDC and how he thinks about the future of vaccines and public health in the US.
A quick 🧪🧵
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So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine.
If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine?
British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.
If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine?
British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.
Greta Thunberg has been arrested on terrorism charges for speaking out in support of the Palestine Action hunger strikers.
FUCK this British government.
https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842
FUCK this British government.
https://news.sky.com/story/greta-thunberg-arrested-at-a-protest-supporting-palestine-action-hunger-strikers-13486842
December 23, 2025 at 2:08 PM
So in the UK, they'll arrest you for supporting Palestine, and now we find they'll also arrest you for supporting those who support Palestine.
If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine?
British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.
If you hold a Free Greta sign, will they arrest you for supporting someone who supports those who support Palestine?
British Matryoshka doll-ass fascism.
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Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 23 - 28: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 23 - 28
open your gas tank and let what's left fizzle out into the sky
www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org
December 23, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Oakland Review of Books calendar of (not just) literary events, December 23 - 28: www.oaklandreviewofbooks.org/calendar/
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Since I'm learning to write décimas, I made this one about my favorite topic: lazy bears.
December 23, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Since I'm learning to write décimas, I made this one about my favorite topic: lazy bears.
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While procuring big raises for themselves, these presidents were dismantling entire departments, firing faculty en masse, and signing expensive contracts with the epistemicide company in defiance of shared governance. Abject betrayal of the university mission.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
December 12, 2025 at 5:08 AM
While procuring big raises for themselves, these presidents were dismantling entire departments, firing faculty en masse, and signing expensive contracts with the epistemicide company in defiance of shared governance. Abject betrayal of the university mission.
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
www.currentaffairs.org/news/ai-is-d...
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$17M for Sam Altman, 20% raises for Cal State presidents, and selling out students by dismantling the university itself.
December 23, 2025 at 2:56 PM
$17M for Sam Altman, 20% raises for Cal State presidents, and selling out students by dismantling the university itself.
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2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.
From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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December 23, 2025 at 3:01 PM
2025: Web pages vanished. Links broke. Public data disappeared. But the Internet Archive kept the receipts.
From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
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From investigative reports to video features, these stories show why preserving the web became one of the year’s defining information battles.
➡️ blog.archive.org/2025/12/22/t...
🧵
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This is a list of people who are going to have to pay to repair the damage they have done to a historic structure.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
SCOOP-1: The @nytimes.com has confirmed the following previously unreported donations/pledges to the WH ballroom:
▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5
Here's a gift link.
There's more in the story 🧵…
▶️Miriam Adelson’s foundation: $25m
▶️Lockheed Martin: $10m
▶️Palantir: $10m
▶️Ripple: $5m
▶️Parsons: $2.5m
▶️Roblox CEO: $2.5
Here's a gift link.
There's more in the story 🧵…
Hundreds of Big Post-Election Donors Have Benefited From Trump’s Return to Office (Gift Article)
Well into his second term, the president and his allies have continued aggressively raising money. Many donors have interests before his administration, The Times found.
www.nytimes.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:03 PM
This is a list of people who are going to have to pay to repair the damage they have done to a historic structure.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
I would run on that, I would impose that.
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The other reason I knew what was coming down the pike re OU and this instructor, was that I’d see this pattern play out so many times over the years I was there. The one thing you could always rely on was that the administration would abandon you or sacrifice you for the Christian right.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
Graduate instructor who gave failing grade to Samantha Fulnecky no longer teaching at OU
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university.
www.koco.com
December 23, 2025 at 4:29 AM
The other reason I knew what was coming down the pike re OU and this instructor, was that I’d see this pattern play out so many times over the years I was there. The one thing you could always rely on was that the administration would abandon you or sacrifice you for the Christian right.
Yes. And her paper was shit.
This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
December 23, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Yes. And her paper was shit.
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Absolutely shameful. This is a witch hunt: against trans people, against higher education, even against the very foundations of our democracy.
This was entirely about purging a trans instructor from the school and they succeeded. It was aided by a lot of dumb liberals taking it at face value arguing the minutia of grading rubrics while ignoring the obvious bad faith efforts behind this.
A graduate teaching assistant who gave a University of Oklahoma student a failing grade on a psychology essay will no longer be teaching at the university
December 23, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Absolutely shameful. This is a witch hunt: against trans people, against higher education, even against the very foundations of our democracy.