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My 2024 ReadingI challenged myself to read 52 books in 2024: One book a week. In 2023 this led to a lot of reading at the end of the year to...

My 2024 Reading

I challenged myself to read 52 books in 2024: One book a week. In 2023 this led to a lot of reading at the end of the year to keep up, but this year I did a much better job keeping an even pace, so reaching the goal was not as stressful. This year my goal is to read longer and more serious books while keeping up this pace.

http://alex.golub.name/2025/01/12/my-2024-reading/

Porgera update 18 Dec 2024 – 1 Jan 2025Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera....

Porgera update 18 Dec 2024 – 1 Jan 2025

Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2025/01/08/porgera-update-18-dec-2024-1-jan-2025/

Porgera update 11 Dec – 18 Dec 2024Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera....

Porgera update 11 Dec – 18 Dec 2024

Before we get started some small print: This is (ideally) a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/12/18/porgera-update-11-dec-18-dec-2024/

Porgera Update 15 Oct to 3 NovBefore we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get...

Porgera Update 15 Oct to 3 Nov

Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/11/03/porgera-update-15-oct-to-3-nov/

Porgera Update 6 Oct-15 Oct 2024Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get...

Porgera Update 6 Oct-15 Oct 2024

Before we get started some small print: This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/10/15/porgera-update-6-oct-15-oct-2024/

Porgera Update 22 Sep – 6 Oct 2024This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in...

Porgera Update 22 Sep – 6 Oct 2024

This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I’m not in Porgera and I’m only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/10/06/porgera-update-22-sep-6-oct-2024/

Porgera Update 22 Sep 2024This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I'm not in Porgera and...

Porgera Update 22 Sep 2024

This is a weekly update about events in Porgera. Before we get started a few caveats: I'm not in Porgera and I'm only relying on my own knowledge of the valley and open sources. I am not a lawyer. I do my best to keep the dates straight but they may get a day off due to my being in a different time zone than Porgera.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/09/23/porgera-update-22-sep-2024/

Porgera Update 16 Sep 2024For years I've been keeping bookmarks and links to news about Porgera for my own scholarly record. Because...

Porgera Update 16 Sep 2024

For years I've been keeping bookmarks and links to news about Porgera for my own scholarly record. Because there is another surge in fighting again I thought it would be useful to write a short post summarizing what appears to be happening in the valley. I am in the US, and get most of my news from social media and chatting with friends online, so I am not a good source of accurate information.

http://alex.golub.name/2024/09/16/porgera-update-16-sep-2024/

I wrote a blog post:http://alex.golub.name/2024/03/05/ai-search-a-way-to-do-literature-reviews-with-ai-that-actually-works/

I wrote a blog post:

http://alex.golub.name/2024/03/05/ai-search-a-way-to-do-literature-reviews-with-ai-that-actually-works/

'tis the season of vlookup.

'tis the season of vlookup.

@stuartelden do you know what connections, if any, existed between Dumézil and other Francophone PIE scholars and A.M. Hocart?

@stuartelden do you know what connections, if any, existed between Dumézil and other Francophone PIE scholars and A.M. Hocart?

Vale Harry Belafonte. Moral exemplar. Tireless activist. Exemplary...

Vale Harry Belafonte. Moral exemplar. Tireless activist. Exemplary artist.

https://www.democracynow.org/2023/4/25/harry_belafonte_legendary_singer_actor_activist

I don't mind that people have replaced the word 'tell' with the word 'share' but... ok, ok actually I _do_ mind. I'm...

I don't mind that people have replaced the word 'tell' with the word 'share' but... ok, ok actually I _do_ mind. I'm happy to go along with it, though, if that's what it takes to be in-register.

Time to buy all the new Verso ebooks! https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/80-off-ebook-sale

Time to buy all the new Verso ebooks! https://www.versobooks.com/blogs/news/80-off-ebook-sale

It's not unusual for me to be interviewed by reporters, but I was a bit surprised that the story that resulted from my conversation...

It's not unusual for me to be interviewed by reporters, but I was a bit surprised that the story that resulted from my conversation yesterday is JUST the interview that was done with me. Check it out over at Politico's Digital Future newsletter for 18 April 2023:

Sorry I can't find a permanent URL to this particular newsletter. Also, I have no idea if what I said made sense. So.... yeah...!

https://www.politico.com/newsletters/digital-future-daily

It took five years, but my review of Graham Jones's "Magic's Reason" is _finally_ available thanks to the good folks at...

It took five years, but my review of Graham Jones's "Magic's Reason" is _finally_ available thanks to the good folks at History of Anthropology Review, who rescued it from a previous, much more unsatisfactory publisher.

https://histanthro.org/reviews/invidious-comparison/

I thought decades of letting Google collect data on me would lead to high-quality, personalised search results. Worryingly, it knows me...

I thought decades of letting Google collect data on me would lead to high-quality, personalised search results. Worryingly, it knows me better than I know myself: A search for 'White Russian army deserters' just brings up cocktail recipe variations and not literature on twentieth century Russia.

I have not really mentioned the Twitter meltdown here b/c tbh I couldn't give a fuck. But I was struck recently when I tried to log on...

I have not really mentioned the Twitter meltdown here b/c tbh I couldn't give a fuck.

But I was struck recently when I tried to log on to read a tweet from a friend and it told me I had to turn 2fa OFF because I wasn't paying for it.

Sad. Who thinks making their platform insecure is a good idea?

My interview with Freddy Foks is online at New Books Network. Foks's book is about Malinowski, his students, and their impact on Britain...

My interview with Freddy Foks is online at New Books Network.

Foks's book is about Malinowski, his students, and their impact on Britain from ~1923-1970.

https://newbooksnetwork.com/participant-observers

I enjoyed reading the book and the more I thought about it... the more I liked it! You can't say that about every book you read.

Because the book is oriented to historians of Britain it has a refreshing and envivifying approach for History of Anthropology.... or at least my perhaps overly-clubby end of it.

#GLAM peeps, I'll be doing archival work for the first time in a long while -- since digital cameras were invented, in fact. Any advice...

#GLAM peeps, I'll be doing archival work for the first time in a long while -- since digital cameras were invented, in fact. Any advice on a travelling scanning kit or other digital capture methods? @DLeeTalbot@ausglam.space ?