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 5 Apr 2020 02:17

the Silicon valleys think they’re weirdo mavericks but they’re flattering themselves. No. They’re really bland & corporate & it takes a literal mad scientist to do this stuff. I was thinking of writing a movie script about the space race 2/

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Sun 5 Apr 2020 02:16

I’ve said it before, I’ll say it again. Corporate bureaucracies can’t organise space exploration. Big state bureaucracies could because they were willing to put up with weirdos 1/ https://t.co/Q7Bafa4iy8

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Sat 4 Apr 2020 22:41

is there a phrase “class narcissism.” It’s when members of a certain social class – say, the PMC in the case of Starmer – assume their collective tastes & sensibilities naturally are or obviously should be those of everyone else.

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Sat 4 Apr 2020 17:50

it was the single most cynical media campaign I’ve ever witnessed, and that’s saying a lot. I have no respect whatsoever for any individual or any institution that supported in it. https://t.co/4juj4VDytj

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Sat 4 Apr 2020 13:33

well that was really smart: just at the moment that capitalism is at the brink of total collapse, & the entire world will be debating what’s to come next, the UK has decided to no longer have an anti-capitalist opposition party. Good move. You’re now officially irrelevant.

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Sat 4 Apr 2020 12:25

Here’s how my neighborhood adjusts: socially distant free rock concerts for the people waiting on queue 3 meters apart in front of Tesco on Portobello road https://t.co/Xqpv3akkbN

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Fri 3 Apr 2020 22:30

yup, just because there’s a killer pandemic that’s causing rich countries to go into economic free fall, that doesn’t mean poor countries will be cut a break on their “debts.” Not if the IMF has anything to say about it anyway. https://t.co/fKjBk8kapf

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Fri 3 Apr 2020 15:29

can we please stop doing capitalism now? it had a good run. But at this point it’s just getting kind of silly. https://t.co/ruUxUafS8D

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Wed 1 Apr 2020 21:25

bear in mind this was me translated into German, edited, then translated back to English. Still not bad. Except the translator left out the part about the train heading at us! https://t.co/66OY4Kvp3F

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Wed 1 Apr 2020 21:18

mental crisis social crisis – weekly show I suspect a lot of us could especially appreciate around now https://t.co/6fA9tGBXce https://t.co/Ba5mzRlT6L

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Wed 1 Apr 2020 16:30

astoundingly, WHO refuses to supply Rojava with medicine or protective gear because they’re not a state. Any life-saving material can only be delivered to the torturers, rapists & murderers in Damascus to be dispensed as they sit fit https://t.co/G5HPsgaigT

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Tue 31 Mar 2020 13:35

Tories cheering when they voted to block a pay rise for Nurses In 2017. All but one Tory MP voted against the nurses. #NeverForget https://t.co/9DVLclTcgB https://t.co/FL4ucrMuIw

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Tue 31 Mar 2020 13:01

not only that they actually applauded and cheered themselves voting down the pay increase https://t.co/YN30Mak705

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Mon 30 Mar 2020 16:02

in theory, stock markets exist to guide investment towards meeting future demand. Can its proponents make a plausible case that it is 1. doing this at all, 2. doing it at all well, 3. if it is doing it, is it the primary thing it does, 4. there isn’t a better way to do this 3/

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Mon 30 Mar 2020 15:56

it occurred to me when I noticed the debates over whether to temporarily shut down Wall Street never even tried to make a case doing so would cause economic harm to anyone else. So why does Wall Street exist? Does it just exist for the sake of itself? 2/

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Mon 30 Mar 2020 15:54

this might be an interesting project if anyone want to take it up: a web page, perhaps, called JUSTIFY YOUR EXISTENCE. All cultural institutions will be excluded: music, knowledge, exists for its own sake. All economic or political institutions on the other hand … https://t.co/ismOmPe1LF

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Mon 30 Mar 2020 13:10

biggest piece of evidence PM is not just faking coronavirus to get sympathy & avoid work: here’s Dominic “so what if somepensioners die” Cummings running as fast as he can to escape Downing Street, two days before being tested positive. https://t.co/oPeWzAdcl7

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Sun 29 Mar 2020 10:38

what if we wish he had the clap instead of COVID19? That would be merciful but still express strong feelings. https://t.co/a27WyiJe7j

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Sat 28 Mar 2020 12:31

by this I mean, every research hospital in the world is presumably working now either on how to prevent COVID-19 from turning from its initial fluish stage, to the deadly pneumonia-like stage. I know I’m an optimist but it seems unlikely they won’t come up with something 2/

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Sat 28 Mar 2020 12:29

articles like this that assume more or less permanent social distancing & waves of lockdown note a vaccine will take c. 18 months. True. But isn’t the real issue not the existence of the disease, but its deadliness? 1/ https://t.co/a0atRlFcjI

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Wed 25 Mar 2020 22:49

I’m really worried for my friends in New York. Several have already tested positive. Normally, a US city where most people don’t drive everywhere in private cars but walk & take public transportation is a rare and good thing …

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Wed 25 Mar 2020 22:39

I especially liked the anecdote about the administrator pulling the mask off the doctor’s face & the one telling a doctor “oh so you think you’re special just because you have cancer.” These are people who decided to devote their lives to managing the healthcare industry. Huh? https://t.co/Z8tTsz92Bk

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Tue 24 Mar 2020 22:39

piece on discussions of whether to shut down Wall Street. Fascinating part for me: nowhere does it even suggest that shutting down WS will have any negative effects on … well, anything. That is, that Wall Street exists for any purpose except itself https://t.co/cwwQe2JXYW

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Tue 24 Mar 2020 10:52

well that’s just in terms of air pollution, the author says; he notes there are undoubtedly other negative side effects that more than compensate for the positive ones. Still, if we could afterward maintain the lowered industrial rate without the threat of horrible death … https://t.co/LBo9CEm75C

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