Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars.
OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
James Ferguson - one of the most influencial Anthropologists in Anth of development, from Expectations of Modernity to the Anti Politics Machine... His later work on dependence was critical to my own ways of thinking about emergent hierarchies and how people often seek out dependence
A brilliant article detailing the deliberate dismantling of the US State. - "The heartlessness, of course, is the point." - "Now the whole country gets the experience of what it's like when private equity buys the place you work" -
prospect.org/power/2025-0...
My article on David Graeber's Anthropology of Human Possibilities is now published by @Boundary2:
read.dukeupress.edu/boundary-2/a...
