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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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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
www.science.org/content/arti...
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‘Complete devastation’: How NSF gutted its social sciences research
Agency body that funds sociology, linguistics, and archaeology studies in U.S. gave 90% fewer new grants this year
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
This story totally tracks for a sport built on eugenics. Here's more on the "extensive crossover between elite horse breeders and wealthy 'scientific' thinkers interested in the improvement of humanity through eugenics": daily.jstor.org/fast-horses-...
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Fast Horses and Eugenics - JSTOR Daily
The breeding of race horses validated those aspiring to belong to an American elite while feeding into racist beliefs about genetic inheritance.
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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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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 18/07/2026
Worse, Trump will be on stage for the trophy ceremony, and will surely stand in the middle of the winning team's crowning moment
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
Yamal is not his surname. Lamine Yamal is a compound first name. So he goes by that or simply Lamine, but not Yamal alone.
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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 · 12/07/2026
To be clear, "we will get destroyed" refers to the Republican Party in the general election. It's all he cared about.
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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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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
Here are more dramatic examples - attackers fall, but none of these tackles are fouls. www.youtube.com/watch?v=9v0r...
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The Art of The Aggressive Tackle
YouTube video by All Football
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
You may not be familiar with how the game is played and officiated. If a defender makes a successful play on the ball and the attacker falls over his foot/leg, it's play on. Defender got ball, doesn't matter if Salah then fell over his foot. This happens all the time.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
The key detail is the defender dispossessed Salah, then Salah trips over his foot with the ball going behind him. No foul. Had Salah kept the ball in front of him and been tripped, it would've been a clear PK.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Similar plays but Egypt did commit a foul that lead directly to their annulled 2nd goal. Correctly called back. On this play in the video, the key detail is the defender dispossessed Salah, then Salah trips over his foot with the ball going behind him. No foul.
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
except the algae in that reflecting pool, they're doing great
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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
Credit to the always industrious and generous Coach Fish, President of the Baltimore Barcelona penya (supporters club) for setting up the donation page. www.baltimoreblaugrana.com
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Baltimore Blaugrana | La Liga | Baltimore, MD, USA
Baltimore Blaugrana is Baltimore's First and Only FC Barcelona Penya. Become a member today!
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
It all goes to CORE Response www.coreresponse.org, a disaster-relief humanitarian organization with teams already on the ground in Venezuela.
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CORE - Homepage
CORE (Community Organized Relief Effort): global crisis response organization bringing immediate aid and recovery to underserved communities.
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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 · 06/04/2026
The Luigi (Mangione, that is) case is gonna update us all on how white Italians in fact are
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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 29/03/2026
The Jan 6th insurrection was 2021, FYI
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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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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 05/01/2026
Congratulations, Lisa! I'll be teaching the book in a class this spring called "An Introduction to Reality" :)
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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 · 26/11/2025
Surprised you skipped past the gross origin of "Just Do It": Wieden was inspired by death row inmate Gary Gilmore's final words before his execution, "You know, let's do it." Wieden: "I was like, that's amazing... I didn't like the 'let's' thing... cause otherwise I'd have to give him credit."
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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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Alessandro M. Angelini @aangelini.bsky.social · 24/06/2025
media.tenor.com
a man wearing a blue headband says dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan
ALT: a man wearing a blue headband says dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan dylan
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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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