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Shane Scaggs

@sascaggs.bsky.social
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anthropology, ecology, and complexity

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026
The original "Tragedy of the Commons" paper was a racist hoax perpetrated by an academic fraud who wanted to make the case for the expulsion of black and Brown people from America and their mass extermination abroad: memex.craphound.com/2019/10/01/t... 85/
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“The Tragedy of the Commons”: how ecofascism was smuggled into mainstream thought – Cory Doctorow's MEMEX
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Shane Scaggs @sascaggs.bsky.social · 12/08/2026
A very kind commentary by Ole Mertz about our recent paper www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...
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Shifting cultivation as a self-organizing social–ecological system | PNAS
Shifting cultivation as a self-organizing social–ecological system
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Joe Bak-Coleman @jbakcoleman.bsky.social · 26/01/2025
I find it funny that, for whatever reason, humans are seen as intractably complex compared to ecosystems.
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Chris Bertram @crookedfootball.bsky.social · 21/07/2024
James C Scott, has died. One of the most interesting of thinkers. Defied disciplinary categories. Gave many on the left pause in their reflexive statism. Original, readable, someone who changed how I think about things.
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Shane Scaggs @sascaggs.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
Do you ever think about the many mysterious kindred spirits with whom you’ve shared a communal hot sauce?
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Shane Scaggs @sascaggs.bsky.social · 06/07/2024
First post here to say that I’m finished with the Complex Systems Summer School at @sfiscience.bsky.social I had a marvelous time. 4 weeks of non-stop mind-melting discussions.
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