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Magnus Pharao

@magnuspharao.bsky.social
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- Linguist/Anthropologist - Scholar of Nahuatl/Mexico/Uto-Aztecan - Not an historian of ancient empire - Occasional folk musician in pubs of Old Zealand - Particularly invested in Danish politics magnuspharao.wordpress.com/home

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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Så er endnu en stor ansøgning indsendt til et meget spændende projekt jeg virkelig håber opnår en bevilling! Dengang gang ikke et forskningsprojekt men til business! Forhåbentlig følger mere info om nogle måneder....
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Ok, so I believe I now have the vast majority of my ducks in row, though there is one notable exception...
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Første undervisningsgang i dag. Ventede 4 studerende, men der var 25! Tilvalgsreformen på KU har uventede konsekvenser...
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Viden er afmagt
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Pieter T. L. Beck @ptrbck.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
We have written a statement in support of Ghent Uni's decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. We resist attempts to frame this as a punishment for "whistleblowing" or censorship of "controversial research". We invite all academics who share our views to sign our letter. forms.gle/qwN8xzEM5C7Q...
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Open letter on the suspension of Nathan Cofnas at Ghent University
We, colleagues of Nathan Cofnas - supported by many colleagues internationally - want to respond to the negative and incorrect framing of Ghent University’s decision to suspend Nathan Cofnas. With th...
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I don't share the rage at AIs having "stolen" intellectual property. Partly because I don't believe in the concept of intellectual property (I do believe in giving credit for ideas) and partly because I think the effect of AI "art" will be to demonstrate the irreplaceable value of human creativity.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My optimistic perspective of AI is that it is a new way for humans to accede what Umberto Eco called The Encyclopedia - the universal library comprising the total sum of (written) human knowledge.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
My practical view of AI currently is that it is a new kind of interface to interact with my computer and to seek and access information - not essentially different from a google search, and requiring the same degree of critical awareness of errors, biases and limitations.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
I have begun using AI a lot for work, but I do not and will not use AI to generate text for publication or for any other part of my work where my personal voice, creativity and cognitive style matters.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Første dag på Fanø: skulle vælge mellem to af mine yndlings fanøbands, og spillede sønderhoninger til jam i nordby og endte med at høre ULC i Sønderho. 10 stjerner ud af fem
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
Kommer slet ikke til at savne Tesfaye, Dybvad , Stoklund, eller Aagaard. At de er væk synes jeg også tegner i en vældig positiv retning. Og Maria Gjerding Reumert er et fint lille aftryk af enhedslisten i regeringen - og et kæmpe aftryk på fremtidens natur.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 24/05/2026
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Confession: I am ageist.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
My entire anthropology PhD Cohort at Browin University has now published books. - Rama Srinivasan 2020 "Courting Desire" - Yana Stainova 2023 "Sonorous Worlds" - me 2024 "Nahuatl Nations" - Mohamed Yunus Rafiq, 2025 "Religious Leadership for Family Planning".
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Man er ikke dansk bare fordi man er en partihoppende nepobaby
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Scientist Rebellion Denmark @scirebdenmark.bsky.social · 06/04/2026
Private jet fuel remains untaxed in Denmark. Meanwhile ordinary households are increasingly paying the price of an energy crisis - a political choice that protects luxury emissions while squeezing everyone else. The miniature airport at Legoland shouldn't be the only one grounded.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 03/04/2026
Racister kan ikke være demokratisk sindede, for demojrati kræver ligeværd, og dermed kan de heller ikke have "danske værdier", og dermed kan de ikke være "rigtige danskere".
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 03/03/2026
Hvad kom først misundelse eller grådighed?
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Højrefløjen i opposition: "Jeres eneste argument er at hvis de blå får magten 'så dør baby'" Højrefløjen ved magten: "jaja, men de børn kom fra en inferiør kultur og var sikkert blevet terrorister"
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
LA er så atomkraftliderlige at det er det eneste der kunne få dem til at stemme for højere skatter.
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Alex Wild @alexwild.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Really wish the asshole Europeans would understand that this isn’t the U.S. starting an imperial expansion. This is an eviscerated shell of a U.S. government being used as a weapon by *international* tech oligarchs to end traditional, democratic nations and replace them with a tech-run dystopia.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
Berlingske er sådan, "sikke en lettelse, Trump har lovet han ikke vil invadere Polen, sorry, Grønland"
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
Ironically, at this point an actual civil war breaking out in the US would be likely to make the world safer, rather than more dagerous.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
Alle burde kunne se at i forhold til Grønland er den sikkerhedsmæssige retorik ren afledning, det de vil have er uhindret adgang til Grønlands råstoffer.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
"subtil" dogwhistle fra SF...
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fkhaugan.bsky.social @fkhaugan.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
Does this mean that a foreign country can bomb the US, kidnap Trump and his wife, and let him stand trial in their own country? For crimes against humanity? Anybody?
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
I admit I am quite difficult to satisfy when it comes to discussions of linguistic relativity. This episode was close, but no. Malotki did not refute Whorf on Hopi time, he refuted a strawman of his own making. Because Whorf did not think Hopi had no concept of time. He just argued it was different.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
Nogle forskere har beskrevet oprindelige amerikanske skriftsystemer som"skrift uden ord". Det pudsige er at stort set ingen af de forskere har taget sig tid til at lære de sprog som skriftsystenernes brugere talte.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
"Romeo færdiggjorde ikke gymnasiet - en fælles beslutning mellem ham og skolen, lyder det." www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Hvert fjerde danske barn synes deres forældre har for travlt i julen! Og hvert fjerde barn er super glad for at deres forældre har tid til hjemmehygge. De to sidste synes forældrene skal chille the fuck out og lade dem scrolle i fred. www.dr.dk/nyheder/indl...
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Hvert fjerde barn synes, deres forældre har for travlt i julen: Tre råd til en mindre presset jul
27 procent af de 9-14-årige synes, deres forældre plejer at have for travlt i julen, viser en ny undersøgelse.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Best hotel and best view in Tsapara, Nayarit
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Maiz pinto del nayar
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 23/11/2025
A short interview with me and Christophe Helmke about or Teotihuacan writing work, on the archeology youtube channel of Rachel MacMullan. youtu.be/v2ENTQPIJPU?...
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New Archaeology Discoveries in October 2025
YouTube video by Inside Archaeology
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anthony k webster🐿 @ethnopoetics.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
On that time Johannes Fabian exchanged letters with Noam Chomsky. Obviously, in my own work, Fabian's language-centered anthropology has been far more influential on my thinking than Chomsky's linguistics
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Longtail News @longtail-news.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Feed: "Made in China Journal" By: Yukun Zeng on Tuesday, August 26, 2025
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In Praise of Hardship, or the Labour-Schooling Poetics of Chinese Youth
In January 2025, I was chatting online with a few friends about the ongoing controversy surrounding the construction of a factory for Chinese carmaker BYD in Brazil, which had just come under scrutiny after the country’s Public Labour Prosecution Office accused it of ‘slavery’, following an investigation into the working conditions of Chinese labourers at […]
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 06/11/2025
Morning in Holland
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 31/10/2025
Sproget i medierne, ik... Selv når de prøver at integrere noget fynsk dialekt gør de det galt. Det hedder "tijliere".
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
The rich are responsible for an outsized share of carbon emissions — the top 10% account for 48%. And the gap is growing. Since 1990, the richest 1% have increased their share of emissions by 13%, while the poorest 50% have seen theirs fall by 3%.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 25/10/2025
Enhedslisten Sorø plakatophængningsdag
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
Det bliver et spændende kommunalvalg i Sorø kommune - Enhedslisten står i en måling til at fordobles til 8,6%! Man kan f.eks. stemme på vores kanondygtige spidskandidat Eva Flyvholm eller nr 2 på listen den eminente Rebecca-Broholm Little. Eller hvis man skulle være i det humør evt. på mig...
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Le Monde @lemonde.fr · 10/10/2025
Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner
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Près des deux tiers des espèces d’oiseaux au monde voient leur population décliner
L’Union internationale pour la conservation de la nature publie, vendredi, une mise à jour de sa liste rouge des espèces menacées.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
The most powerful motivation to make me finish a task that is not particularly urgent and so has been waiting for a long while, is a looming deadline for an urgent and much more important but entirely unrelated task.
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Rune Møller Stahl @runestahl.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Wealth inequality in Europe keeps rising. A main reason is that income from wealth is taxed much lighter than wages, creating a tax system that is highly regressive at the top. This means that billionaires across Europe have lower taxes rates than normal working people.
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Det skal åbenbart forbydes at omtale plantebaserede pølser som pølser. Men det danske ord "pølse" er defineret af sin form ikke af et bestemt materiale. At pølser ikke nødvendigvis indeholder kød kan vi se fordi der findes noget der hedder "kødpølse".
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
news.ku.dk/all_news/202...
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Researchers on the verge of solving Mexican mystery
Christophe Helmke and Magnus Pharao Hansen have taken the first steps toward solving a major archaeological mystery surrounding the ancient Mexican city of Teotihuacan. Until now, the language of Teot...
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Marcello @jyskbeefcake.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Så har jeg set morgennyhederne på tv2. Ikke særlig opmærksomt, medgiver jeg. Men hvordan kan de overhovedet ikke nævne, at et dansk folketingsmedlem er blevet pågrebet af Israel?
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Magnus Pharao @magnuspharao.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Just back from raiding Ireland. Here's the loot:
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