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Alessandro M. Angelini

@aangelini.bsky.social
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I think and write about cities, big and small. Professor @ Johns Hopkins University

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404 Media @404media.co · 14/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 Media.
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Inside ‘Project Lily’: The Humans Reading Your ChatGPT Chats
Humans are reading ChatGPT users’ prompts to improve OpenAI’s models, and those chats can include sensitive, personal information, according to leaked internal documents and real prompts seen by 404 M...
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Nature [Unofficial] @nature.com.web.brid.gy · 25/07/2026
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Bizarre CRISPR enzyme kills cancer cells by shredding their DNA
Nature, Published online: 24 July 2026; doi:10.1038/d41586-026-02268-z Early tests suggest the protein can be aimed at targets with tumour-causing mutations.
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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 23/07/2026
1. The new Trump / Kratsios plan for US science appears explicitly designed to destroy US universities. Diverting money to tech donors is probably just a bonus. Gift link.
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Trump’s Plan for Science: More Money for A.I., Less for Universities (Gift Article)
Michael Kratsios, President Trump’s science adviser, proposed overhauling how the government funds research. Democrats said Mr. Trump’s actions had weakened science.
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The New Yorker @newyorker.com · 12/07/2026
Elon Musk’s cuts to U.S.A.I.D. led to some 700,000 deaths, Atul Gawande says. www.newyorker.com/news/the-new...
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The Human Cost of DOGE’s War on U.S.A.I.D.
Elon Musk, Donald Trump, and the “public man-made death” that they’ve caused.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Northern Venezuela was struck by two devastating earthquakes on June 24. The full extent of the catastrophe is still unfolding. CORE is on the ground doing vital recovery and humanitarian work. Please donate to support this effort. I pledge to match any contribution. www.pledge.to/venezuela-ea...
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Baltimore Blaugrana Venezuela Earthquake Relief Fundraiser
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
The Great Red Scare of Mesopotamia was really something.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Real talk, World Cup edition: If I really wanted to rig a soccer competition, I wouldn’t rely on what might happen in the games themselves.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Attention all you cheapskates for democratic living: You can now get 40% off my colleague @anandian.bsky.social 's wild trip through these United(?) States, *Something Between Us* (discount at checkout, h/t @stanfordpress.bsky.social ). Get a copy, read it at the beach. www.sup.org/books/anthro...
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Jason Koebler @jasonkoebler.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
ChatGPT posters and flyers are polluting real life and driving me insane. Please respond to this with the worst ones you've seen irl. I'll post some in the thread www.404media.co/we-are-livin...
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We Are Living in a ‘ChatGPT Flyer Pandemic’
"Hey if this is your flyer, I’m not going, I’m not donating, I’m not sharing. Don’t ask me."
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404 Media @404media.co · 08/07/2026
AI lives and dies by its training data. Many of the leading LLMs have already scanned the entire internet and are still hungry for more. Meta’s patented system would give it unprecedented access to the movements, moods, and interactions of its users.
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Meta Patents AI Device That Tracks Your Emotions, Watches You Take Your Meds
Imagine a wearable device that records every moment of your day and makes suggestions based on your mood.
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Diedrich Bader @diedrichbader.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Well, we may have lost but at least we look like we cheated
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
A donation fund for disaster relief in Venezuela You don't have to be a fan of FC Barcelona or soccer to give. An anonymous donor has pledged to match all donations, so your contribution will effectively count as double if you give now. www.pledge.to/venezuela-ea...
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Baltimore Blaugrana Venezuela Earthquake Relief Fundraiser
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artisticpundit.bsky.social @artisticpundit.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
apnews.com/photo-galler... earthquakes strike Venezuela, in photos
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Twin earthquakes strike Venezuela, in photos
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Two powerful earthquakes struck Venezuela within about a minute of each other on Wednesday, causing buildings to collapse and damage in Caracas.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Venezolanos: Es una página sencilla para publicar si están bien, buscando a alguien, encontrar ayuda o reportar cosas, si quieren ayudar pueden compartirla es todo anónimo. reportaven.com
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Reporta - Reportes del terremoto en Venezuela
Plataforma comunitaria y anónima para reportar que estás bien, pedir ayuda o informar lo que ocurre tras el terremoto en Venezuela.
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Dr. Wendy Bohon @drwendyrocks.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
Ok you guys. Here’s the deal. The M7.1 in Venezuela was upgraded to a M7.2. AND it was followed shortly by a M7.5. Not good.
Location of the M7.2 and M7.5 in Venezuela
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Brandon Friedman @brandonfriedman.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
This is real
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Rest in power, Debbie hub.jhu.edu/2026/01/08/d...
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Renowned anthropologist Deborah Poole dies at 73
Her research yielded vital contributions to the understanding of language, affect, and practice through which racial ideology, violence, and law shape life in modern Latin America
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
There's gotta be a Centennial Edition in the works
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Physics In History @physinhistory.bsky.social · 05/02/2025
“Not only is the Universe stranger than we think, it is stranger than we can think.” - Werner Heisenberg
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Society for Cultural Anthropology @culanth.bsky.social · 24/12/2025
In “My Neighbor the Gringo,” @aangelini.bsky.social and Gareth A. Jones explore the different meanings of convivência in Rio de Janeiro’s self-built communities transformed into tourist accommodations over recent decades.
Header image from @culanth showing ‘Vol. 40 No. 4 (2025) – Articles’ and the article title in large text: ‘My Neighbor the Gringo: Commercialized Intimacies and Newcomer Hospitality in a Rio de Janeiro Favela.’
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 19/11/2025
Human authors! A little justice for you: search this database to find books that the tech company Anthropic has stolen to train its AI model. You're entitled to $1500 per work. Seems like authors deserve more - Anthropic is valued at $183bn... secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup/
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Submit a Claim
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Remember that time celebrities were rumored to be buying real estate in Rio favelas? I got an article officially out in the new issue of Cultural Anthropology! Special thanks to my co-author Gareth A. Jones and the editorial team at @culanth.bsky.social journal.culanth.org/index.php/ca...
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 30/10/2025
Both of these articles came out today in @chronicle.com Make it make sense.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 17/09/2025
www.gadgetreview.com/massive-atta...
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Massive Attack Turns Concert Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Experiment
Massive Attack used live facial recognition technology on concertgoers, turning surveillance into provocative art that sparked debate about privacy.
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Kim Kelly @kimkelly.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
When the Trump administration eviscerated the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health office in Morgantown, WV in April, they abruptly shut down life-or-death services for coal miners with black lung. One of those miners decided to fight back—and won. inthesetimes.com/article/west...
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A West Virginia Coal Miner Just Saved NIOSH’s Black Lung Program
A federal judge ordered the restoration of jobs in the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety’s Respiratory Health Division after a veteran coal miner filed a class action lawsuit argui...
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Awful headline wording but fair play to the students www.nytimes.com/2025/05/14/t...
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The Professors Are Using ChatGPT, and Some Students Aren’t Happy About It
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"Life is the adventure of molecules. And there’s nothing else." apnews.com/article/form...
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Q&A: Jose Mujica on Uruguay’s secular history, religion, atheism and the global rise of the 'nones'
In Uruguay, a small nation of some 3.3 million people, more than half identify as “nones” – atheist, agnostic or other religiously unaffiliated – the highest portion in Latin America.
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Revista Jacobina @revistajacobina.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.
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Os anos de Frantz Fanon na Argélia no cinema
Na Argélia sob domínio francês, Frantz Fanon era psiquiatra e membro ativo da Frente de Libertação Nacional. Agora, um novo filme retrata seu compromisso com a luta anticolonial.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 12/05/2025
One more item in the long list of stuff that amounts to a radical mass experiment on humans - yet there seems to be no control group www.livescience.com/human-behavi...
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The constant surveillance of modern life could worsen our brain function in ways we don't fully understand, disturbing studies suggest
We live in an era of constant surveillance. Psychology research shows how this might change how we perceive the world — even unconsciously
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
UnitedHealth is apparently claiming copyright ownership over images of Mangione and Deny, Defend, Depose on t-shirts and other merch. www.404media.co/email/49070e...
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Copyright Abuse Is Getting Luigi Mangione Merch Removed From the Internet
Artists, merch sellers, and journalists making and posting Luigi media have become the targets of bogus DMCA claims.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 19/12/2024
NEW: Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds themselves in the same position. ⤵️
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If You’re Pregnant, Here’s What You Should Know About the Medical Procedures That Could Save Your Life
Women experiencing pregnancy loss in states with abortion bans told us they wished they had known what to expect and how to advocate for themselves. We created this guide for anyone who finds…
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Phil Lewis @phillewis.bsky.social · 20/12/2024
For years, former Black Panthers have feared that the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after its notorious COINTELPRO program. Malik Rahim had never been able to prove he was targeted. Now, government docs show he was correct.
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When the Feds Are Still Watching
Former Black Panthers fear the FBI is still keeping tabs on them decades after COINTELPRO. In at least one case, they were right.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
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Ancient DNA Pinpoints When Humans Mated With Neanderthals
Researchers found that Neanderthals made babies with humans over a period of 7,000 years.
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
“[w]e are not witnessing a patriarchy or a matriarchy. What we are seeing is perhaps more interesting—a society in which, in many areas, the question of whether you were a man or a woman did not determine the life you could lead.”
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Çatalhöyük: Its Story Continues - JSTOR Daily
Our understanding of the Neolithic city of Çatalhöyük continues to evolve as archaeologists challenge inherited biases in the face of new material evidence.
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Nick Seaver @nickseaver.website · 06/12/2024
I am the kind of anthropologist who gets to the famous line from Malinowski's _Argonauts of the Western Pacific_ in here and notes that, no, it is not actually the first line of the book
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Jenny Hunter @jennyhunter.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
I wrote about UNION, the gripping and much-needed documentary about the Amazon Labor Union, and why it hasn't gotten a distribution deal (spoiler: Bezos has too much money/power). You can stream it on Gathr this weekend and you should! slate.com/culture/2024...
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Amazon Doesn’t Want You to Stream This Gripping New Documentary. This Weekend, You Can.
Union won raves and an award at Sundance, but executives have been afraid to make it available. Now it is.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
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Fifa ignores own report into Qatar World Cup over workers’ compensation
A long-awaited Fifa report into the legacy of the Qatar World Cup has finally been published, but only after its key recommendation was rejected by the organisation
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Prof Dynarski @dynarski.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
Holy crap this is an astounding piece of historical research Will post ungated link later today unless someone beats me to it www.nber.org/system/files...
The G.I. Bill, Standardized Testing, and Socioeconomic Origins of the U.S. Educational Elite Over a Century
Ran Abramitzky, Jennifer K. Kowalski, Santiago Pérez, and Joseph Price
NBER Working Paper No. 33164
November 2024
JEL No. 123, 124, N32
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We compile, transcribe, and standardize historical records for 2.5 million students at 65 elite (private and public) U.S. colleges. By combining these data with more recent survey and administrative data, we assemble the largest dataset on the socioeconomic backgrounds of students at American colleges spanning the last 100 years. We document the following: First, despite a large increase in the share of lower-income students in the overall college-going population, the representation of these students at elite private or public colleges has remained at similarly low levels throughout the last century. Second, the representation of upper-income students at elite colleges decreased after World War II, but this group has regained its high representation since the 1980s. Third, while there has been no increase in the economic diversity of elite private and public colleges, these colleges have become more racially and geographically diverse. Fourth, two major policy changes in the history of American higher education, namely the G.I. Bill after World War II and the introduction of standardized tests for admissions, had little success in increasing the representation of lower- and middle-income students at elite colleges.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 05/11/2024
Folks, hold onto those "I voted" stickers. They'll become collector's items if this turns out to be the last election.
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dorian @doriantaylor.com · 11/09/2024
he calls her a marxist but she's not the one getting publicly owned
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Shannon Mattern @shannonmattern.bsky.social · 26/08/2024
As we begin what is likely to be another tumultuous academic year, with administrators enacting strict policies to quell unrest, I thought I'd share — in case they're of use to others! — the 86pp of notes on campus surveillance + protest I collected for this article ⬇️ docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Surveillance space: urban infrastructures of control
On 10 May 2024, the Philadelphia Police Department and the University of Pennsylvania’s campus force...
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 31/07/2024
New article from @jasonhickel.bsky.social et al. calculating the appropriation of labor and wealth from the global South by the global North. "Southern workers contribute 90% of the labour that powers the world economy, they receive only 21% of global income." www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Unequal exchange of labour in the world economy - Nature Communications
Hickel and colleagues find that, in 2021, the economies of the global North net-appropriated 826 billion hours of embodied labour from the global South, across all skill levels and sectors. Unequal ex...
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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · 28/07/2024
"Ministers from the G20 group of the world’s biggest developed and emerging economies are meeting in Rio de Janeiro this weekend, where Brazil’s proposal for a 2% wealth tax on those with assets worth more than $1bn is near the top of the agenda." www.theguardian.com/world/articl...
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‘Morally, nobody’s against it’: Brazil’s radical plan to tax global super-rich to tackle climate crisis
A 2% global levy would affect about 100 super-rich families, says the country’s climate chief, but the $250bn raised could be transformative
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 11/03/2024
THE ANTISOCIAL NETWORK, a new documentary about the history of 4chan and how Internet shenanigans began to bleed into the offline world, just premiered at SXSW. Co-directed by my brother Giorgio Angelini and Arthur Jones. Here's the first review already out! www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/the...
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Is 4chan Malicious or Misguided? A Long-Overdue Doc Sees Both Sides
One of the most notorious places on the internet gets the biography it deserves in this fascinating documentary.
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