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Anthropologist, 24|☭| EN/ES/AY | He/Him | Fulbrighter studying Aymara cosmovisions + the production/circulation of waste at Lake Titicaca | editor @negationmag
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my boss: *gestures at me* "he's a uchicago undergrad, he likes reading about things more than he likes doing things"
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starbucks is a union busting corporation that can be hated for that but this whole "starbucks funds genocide" thing is genuinely approaching being a case of mass psychogenic illness
Seen chalked on the boarded windows of the Starbucks Reserve:
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If the faculty at Columbia don't go on strike in protest you might as well close down the university
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starbucks isn't on the bds list!! if you want to boycott stuff boycott the things palestinian activists are asking you to!
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@zootgoon
what part of "starbucks is a union busting corporation that can be hated for that" is defending starbucks?
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the full force of the united states government is with israel i promise you they don't need money from starbucks (that they're not getting anyway)
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cholets deserve to go viral every so often because they're gorgeous, but this thread gets everything about them wrong. they're not public housing, they're multi-use buildings/personal homes built by wealthy Aymara families in a style created by architect Freddy Mamani
The single greatest and most fascinating “futurist” architecture movement in the world right now is happening in Bolivia, where national prosperity and a dedication to works for the poor and public housing led to an explosion of colorful styles inspired by Aymara Indian art.
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if i were the israeli or american government id be doing a villain cackle in my fuhrerbunker over a bunch of generally well meaning left inclined people becoming fucking obsessed with tilting at windmills
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@zootgoon
if you want to boycott starbucks for their labor practices then all power to you but just don't pretend it's directly helping palestine
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left twitter has a problem where people can just log on and make up whatever the fuck they want about bolivia
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i think it's actually quite anti-semitic and vile how often Zionist histories of Judaism erase the actual social history of Jewish communities in Europe before+just after the holocaust to excuse european anti-semitism + tacitly concede the point that Jews never belonged in Europe
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if your anthropology thesis isn't at least 50% just shredding its history as a discipline you're doing it wrong
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one time i shadowed a doctor at uchicago hospital when i was still interested in medicine and I'll never forget how before seeing one patient, a black woman in severe pain from sickle cell, she told me to be aware of how the patient was an angry and aggressive drug seeker
Yesterday, the
@wsj
editorial board published this offensive piece in opposition to
@AAMCtoday
’s (American Association of Medical College’s) release of a new diversity, equity, and inclusion competency document for medical students, residents, and faculty.
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the real joke here is that there are barely a handful of lithium miners in Bolivia because Bolivia has no lithium industry and these guys are just harvesting regular salt
You make coffees for investment bankers at the starbucks on wall street & think you are in the same class of proletarian labor as a Lithium Miners in the salt flats of Bolivia lol
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i'd bet anything that "havana syndrome" started as a "my dog ate my homework"-esque cover story for some diplomat who showed up to work with a raging hangover one morning before snowballing into a batshit insane and very funny propaganda line
Have read just about every word published on Havana Syndrome and still have absolutely no idea what to make of it.
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best tweet ive ever seen, real uchicago heads know, everyone else can pack it up and go home now
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in almost any other country the uvalde shooting would be an unprecedented national emergency and it's sort of impossible to get your head around how in the US nobody in power actually cares and nobody in general can credibly believe the problem will be addressed
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mom come pick me up from my first year of college there are too many gays here and im scared
1.) A staggeringly high number of them are LGBT+. I’m talking 20% to 30%.
Don’t believe me? At Yale, 23% of freshmen identify as LGBT+.
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the secret ingredient is illegal mining cooperatives destroying what's left of biodiverse rainforests and poisoning the water with mercury for "artisanal" gold mining
🇧🇴🥇 Bolivia's gold production is soaring! What's the secret behind their success?
a thread 🧵↓
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tw sexual assault / uchicago crime alert
5714 S. Woodlawn is DU's frat house and it makes my skin crawl that they put the address where the assault occured but didn't also mention that it's a frat house. UChicago can't keep handwaving it's sexual assault problem away
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if ur a uchicago kid ur either bored to death at home rn and bitching about it on twitter or traipsing around small countries and flaunting it on instagram
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one thing latin american countries get right and the united states gets wrong is giving the president a cool sash to wear
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@joolsd
isn't the point of op that his great grandparents fled europe because of the holocaust??
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you couldn't write a better satire of uchicago's conception of free speech and debate than this if you tried for 1000 years
one really jawdropping part of the campus-wide email just sent by UChicago's president
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here's a link to a cool documentary about freddy mamani and his cholets from 2018
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you always see conservatives saying more gun regulations would just make it harder for law abiding gun owners but I've yet to see them explain why anyone should care about that
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@modal_limit
haciendas weren't expropriated in Bolivia and Peru until 1952 and 1969 respectively, you can even find old newspaper ads of them for sale with the indigenous workers included. mind blowing how recent some of these transitions are
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this fascist goes to uchicago, keep a lookout and stay safe if you have the misfortune of seeing him
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anyway it's been inspiring to watch uchicago systemically destroy the vestiges of everything that its aggressively dishonest marketing made me think was cool and unique about the university when i was but a naive 16/17 year old
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every time a uchicago student makes anticommunist arguments based on their idea of some really existing universal human nature i die just little bit more inside
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@JulieTheThird56
and that is worthy of condemnation! starbucks' labor practices are very bad and I am not defending them! my point is that it doesn't follow from that that starbucks is funding genocide i.e. they aren't funneling money to the IOF
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we regret to inform you that he would like to speak to the manager about a frivolous lawsuit
this fascist goes to uchicago, keep a lookout and stay safe if you have the misfortune of seeing him
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@LegoRacers2
in aymara the future is referred to as being behind the speaker (because it's unseen) and the past is in front of the speaker (because it's been seen)
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for everyone misunderstanding me: boycott starbucks if you want to! they do plenty of bad things that can justify a boycott, they just aren't specifically funding Israel's genocide in Gaza. my only point is that your boycotting of starbucks has zero impact on Israel
starbucks is a union busting corporation that can be hated for that but this whole "starbucks funds genocide" thing is genuinely approaching being a case of mass psychogenic illness
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perhaps a controversial opinion i know but: this quarter fucking sucked lmao
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i love how the author of the new hideous thinker piece kept referring to herself as if she were a chicagoan to try and seem more sympathetic or whatever when she's from columbus and went to a $26k+/year private school before
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@lakeeater
lmao an anarchist assembly that is neither a meeting nor activist, great start surely
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it has been a very long year, but i am extremely excited to have finally completed and submitted my thesis :))
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settler colonialism is an ongoing process in amerikkka. at least 30% of the people who live in the diné (navajo) nation's reservation don't have access to clean running water. treaty obligations and tribal sovereignty matter
SCOTUS rules 5-4 against Navajo Nation in water and treaty rights case.
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Brazil under Bolsonaro and Bolivia under the MAS have almost identical policies towards conserving the Amazon. which is to say, burn baby burn
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thank you ashraf ghani for giving a definitive answer to the question of "what can you do with an anthropology degree?"
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as far as i can tell the "marginalized" members of the chicago thinker's brain trust include three people who went to $25k/year private schools and the daughter of a literal congressman, it really just parodies itself
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yet another attack on academic freedom which none of the reactionaries supposedly concerned about defending that will decry
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i wanna die
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anyway if you don't understand how medicine relates to systems of oppression you're either blind or stupid
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@lakeeater
saw someone posting here today about studies in china that show that COVID attacks and evades the immune system in a manner much like HIV, so that's fun. Apparently china is trialling HIV meds against COVID with decent results though
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being a college republican must be so much fun rn. you get to think that the climate and covid aren't problems and everything is mostly fine/going to get better because usa number one. life on easy mode no wonder I've never met a depressed one
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the campus free speech people are racist children part 225950
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idk seems kinda disingenuous that a statement signed by at least two orgs that sponsor yearly birthright trips and one called "uchicago friends of israel" claims to have an ambiguous "variety of views on the israeli-palestinian conflict"
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@oddNihilist
i have no idea where they got the idea these were public housing. no analysis at all just vibes.
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"people are inherently selfish" shut the fuck up and prove it! I'll save you some time too: you can't, the entire ethnographic and historical record says ur full of shit and that's probably why ur tryna debunk materialism with fake idealism
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thank you CNN I've never heard of a country electing its president once every four years
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if you think this is true you're incredibly and willfully stupid sorry
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nothing gets the inner fascist to jump out of an american faster than a homeless person looking at them
Happy hour:
Wine: $18 per glass
Crudités: $16
Crispy chicken sandwich: $23
Homeless man with severe mental illness hovering over you while you eat: Free
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haha i feel like I've spent this quarter learning nothing and disappointing my professors and my own expectations and all i can bring myself to care about is still getting good grades so my ~future~ doesn't implode but i have no idea how im doing
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peruvian security forces assassinated an unarmed man in ayacucho at point blank range for the crime of trying to help a wounded person outside his house
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professors cancel finals/make them optional challenge seriously how the fuck does this school expect us to be working on finals next week when we need to be packing our lives up
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i vote because socialism won't inspirus, but the Coronavirus will
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just got a vaccine appointment :))
if you're eligible rn and you've been a patient at a howard brown clinic before (even just to get covid tested once or twice) try calling 872-269-3600 the guy who scheduled me said they still have open appointments all day this Saturday (3/20)!!
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every first year
during first week: *insta story in harper* "omg can't believe i get to study at hogwarts"
like seventh week: *has depression*
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cool cool im glad this could happen in the class where the professor makes everyone pull their mask down to talk 👍👍
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we really did all of this election discourse just for sexual assault lite to win, incredible
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hot take that i want to develop into an article: plurinationalism (as constitutionalized in bolivia and ecuador) contradicts landback (as a political tendency/indigenous demand in north america)
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@Itmechr3
better than the time my revolutions in latin america class assigned a paper calling them maoists who faked being indigenous or something like that
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drives me insane when people say that 99% of humanity was living in extreme poverty before capitalism because it means they've never read even a single book about ancient civilizations
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the first chicago thinker article is out and it's as mind-bendingly stupid as you'd expect
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it's a good thing uchicago has a private army of police and admin who can get information about shootings out to us two hours after the fact and keep a heavy presence in the area after things happen. doing that and shutting out students and locals is how you get safety
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Union busting: $1 million
Zimmer's salary: $3.2 million
Cost of attendance: $80 thousand
Support for FGLI students: $2
Endowment: $8.2 billion
someone who is good at the usnews rankings please help me budget this. my social mobility score is dying
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@evitaduffy_1
lol you are a second year at the university of chicago and your parents are a prominent media figure and a former congressman, i don't really think the whole anti-elitism thing is your lane
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finally got a yes! staying in chicago to do a research metcalf at uchi hospital
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@Hezbolsonaro
i wonder why the most indigenous populated provinces are consistently the most anti Fujimorista lol
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tweeting good news into the quarantine void: i got the uchicago summer research travel grant today for my proposed research in Peru! (contingent on travel being allowed again, of course)
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sent this email a year ago today. pretty wild. and things are really good at the moment!
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shocked and disappointed that my mother reacted to the news of me getting a tattoo with love and support rather than anger and disapproval
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when i was like 9 i decided i wanted to be an anthropologist bc i saw a documentary about the turkana boy that convinced me human evolution was the coolest thing ever. in a circuitous way i think it's part of why i study anthro, albeit v differently, now. so i got a tattoo of it
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damn i think the uchicago meme page admins blocked me for the crime of spreading the word about a campus white supremacist
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if i was a professor teaching classes right now and my students were participating less in discussion i simply would not end class by passive aggressively saying that i hoped more people would get involved next time because who gives a shit, we're in a panini and it's freezing
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MY 68 YEAR OLD WHITE SUBURBAN MOTHER JUST CALLED THE POLICE PIGS FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER THIS IS NOT A DRILL 🐖
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anthropology would look a lot different and a lot better if publications were expected to engage most deeply with thinkers from the places and people ethnography was done in/with rather than the current style that's given us a lot of footnotes on foucault
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this is officially official! ill be spending this summer with a bolivian ngo studying how climate change is affecting land use/farming practice/social ecology in the altiplano region...estoy sonriendo como una idiota en harper ahora mismo
update: a more exciting opportunity than the one this tweet was about seems like it could be,,,happening??
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some day a maoist will learn one single thing about peruvian peasant movements or quechua culture and the world will finally know peace
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the combined syllabi for all three quarters of latin american civ have a total of one (1) indigenous author...make that make sense
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there’s a settler from long island squatting in my house lol
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this is the funniest description of a conversation that almost definitely didn't happen i have ever seen thank you whiteboard girl
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the biggest difference between dudes harvesting salt for themselves and starbucks employees is that only the latter is engaged in the capitalist process of production
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you can host a covid safe new years party in chicago as long as you kick everybody out by 10 (when covid wakes up)
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@Itmechr3
apparently the scientists entrusted to maintain Lenin's corpse have made major contributions to embalming science lol
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i soft launched this before but here's the hard launch: I'm not applying to grad school this year because I'm going to stay in Bolivia and go back to school to study agronomy and maybe also get a masters in social sciences. basically, I've decided to make my life here for now
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i have never met a conservative, even at uchicago where they could legitimately be reading leftist theory for fun, who knew enough about socialism or communism to critique them without getting basics wrong or just lapsing into mainstream anti communist propaganda
Conservatives devote a lot of time to studying lefty books, trying to work out lefty psychology, etc, so we understand very well where lefties coming from.
Lefties spend ZERO time studying conservative thought. They understand NOTHING about where you're coming from.
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