I’m an anthropologist, sometimes I occupy things & such.

I see anarchism as something you do not an identity...

...so don’t call me the anarchist anthropologist

Twitter was David’s public platform and tools for practicing a new language – clear and understandable for everyone, it was a space where he made friends and enemies.

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Sun 19 Apr 2020 10:14

so Tory gov’ts under May and Johnson had reports that detailed just how much austerity was going to render NHS unable to respond to a pandemic, & decided to proceed with cuts anyway, & prioritise Brexit planning instead https://t.co/4gXPinvxLU

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Sat 18 Apr 2020 13:00

“as long as we’re collectively driving our car into a cliff, let’s take everyone else with us! Climate denialism! Bozo for President!” Now Trump is obliging them by encouraging protests against anyone trying to stop a disease that kills, who? mostly old people 5/

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Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:57

voting for Trump was the ultimate finger in the eye of the political class, a way of saying “when we look at politicians, what we see is what *you* see when you look at Trump: a loud, obnoxious, corrupt, narcissistic asshole. Now you’ll have to deal with a cartoon of yourself” 4/

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Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:55

You have to admit it’s not entirely unreasonable from their point of view: there are now myriads of Americans post-retirement age with no pension or savings living in their cars going from one job to another. Given that prospect, I’d consider doping myself to death too 3/

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Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:52

after all, who were his core supporters? Old people. Rural people. Middle aged small town working class males. The very profile of the people who were so determined to kill themselves with opiates that the death rate for males in the US was approaching post-Soviet Russia 2/

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Sat 18 Apr 2020 12:50

so Trump is calling on his followers in Democratic led states to rise up & demand an end to lockdowns. This confirms my suspicious that Trump was basically elected as a last fuck-you to the governing class by Americans already in the process of committing mass suicide 1/

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Fri 17 Apr 2020 15:15

this is interesting: the “Jewish Labour Movement” is threatening legal action to suppress a reports about institutional bias within the Labour Party that caused Jewish members complaints about AS within the party to be unaddressed https://t.co/t07X1lzRRf

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:59

this obsession with going after the whistleblower is relatively new. But it marks the almost complete abandonment of democratic sensibilities for PMC proceduralist ones. The fact it makes moral sense to so many people shows just how far public discourse has fallen 9/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:55

I kept thinking ‘they’re mostly already senior professors what do they think is going to happen to them?’ But sure enough when I finally gave up & went public myself, the instinct of almost everyone in the media I encountered was to put ME on trial for going public 8/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:54

I have had some experience of this myself, when I discovered absolutely horrific abuse of workers & others going on in a journal in which I was on the editorial board. Everyone else who knew about it was terrified to do or say anything about it. 7/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:52

perhaps its not bizarre, since governments’ response to the scandals of the ’70s was simply to institutionalise official leaking, so reporters no longer have to report at all, who do have to stay on the good side of the powerful. Leaks by the “wrong” people are thus scandalous 6/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:50

the bizarre thing is the media goes along with this principle, increasingly – which if you’re wondering why there’s so little investigative journalism any more, that’s it. Their instinct is to investigate the unauthorised leak as if it’s as much a crime as whatever’s revealed 5/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:48

Snowden and Assange are symbols, but the instinct is generalised, and seems deeply rooted in professional-managerial culture: abusing power is bad, but rarely punished; REVEALING that someone abused power is much much worse, and invariably punished. 4/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:47

back in the ’60s and ’70s investigative reporters were the models for journalism, & people like Daniel Ellsberg were heroes. Since Obama, especially, there’s been a trend in the US to prosecute any potential Ellsberg’s using the espionage act, unthinkable at the time 3/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:45

one of the surest signs of creeping authoritarianism in our media & culture more generally is the total normalisation of going after whistleblowers. It’s a peculiarly PMC form of authoritarianism, but just as toxic for that reason. 2/

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:43

this is just utterly shocking: after we discover that Labour Party staff were actively trying to lose elections, actively refusing to act on antisemitism claims to damage the party… who’s going to get fired? The whistleblower, of course! https://t.co/4JCqucF0Wd

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:33

When the Spanish government used to shut down anarchist papers, anarchist printers unions used to just substitute their editorials for the ones in the mainstream papers instead

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:28

I wonder if it would be possible to create a giant “find/replace” function and go through all news sites and do this. It would be the greatest political stunt of modern times https://t.co/WYWTg58guX

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 21:06

if only Jeremy Corbyn had understood this – when the media first raised issues of AS in the party, all he’d have had to do was to say “oh, we’ll I’ll commission a report to look into that!” Then everything would have been fine & there’d be no scandal. (#irony)

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 16:32

Remember: these are the people the press calls the “moderate” (implied message, nice, reasonable) Labourutes: Abbot is supposed to be the scary extremist. In fact they appear to be the most extreme and hateful human beings imaginable https://t.co/Ghxf4WA4mv

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Thu 16 Apr 2020 01:59

I sometimes think maybe the way to justify communal ownership is not to invalidate the principle of inheritance but to validate it. We are all equally heirs to the people who invented language. Or cheese. Or mathematics

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Wed 15 Apr 2020 23:09

I tried restart control R 3x, each time have to enter my wifi code, & it expects me to reinstall… says it’ll take 6 minutes, makes me wait 26 minutes, then says there was an error, try again. Tried “help” and the chat guy never showed up. I’m dead in the water.

Wed 15 Apr 2020 23:08

can’t believe this is happening. Nika generously contributed her MacBook as mine is rapidly dying. So I dared to try to restore factory settings. Restarted, control R … erase? ummm (fear), ok. Erase. Reinstall OS? Yes. “Nope sorry didn’t work! haha! you have a dead laptop now”

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Wed 15 Apr 2020 10:13

You know that the professional-managerial class has taken over the Labour Party when they think people will find it acceptable to respond to the release of a report detailing internal sabotage, by declaring they will commission a report about the report .@KeirStarmer

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Wed 15 Apr 2020 10:07

actual leader of the opposition Pier Morgan tries to get “Care Minister” to answer a yes/no question and stop laughing at his persistence https://t.co/ziXV4l1gi3

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Tue 14 Apr 2020 16:34

since that last AS video, I’ve seen some people on twitter announcing I’ve never said anything supporting Palestinian rights. Just to clarify how I feel about these issues, here’s something I wrote a few years ago: https://t.co/TXRiuNPHOs

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