Jamon Halvaksz
@jamonhalvakszphd.bsky.social
Anthropologist looking for sanity...
Georgetown University | Oceania/Moana | Climate Change | Mining | Urban Environments
www.Jamonhalvaksz.com
Georgetown University | Oceania/Moana | Climate Change | Mining | Urban Environments
www.Jamonhalvaksz.com
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Ta-Nehisi Coates: "Haunt. You've heard me say this word a lot. it is never enough for the reader of your words to be convinced. The goal is to haunt -- to have them thinking about your words before bed, see them manifest in their dreams, tell their partner about them the next morning, [...]
Can’t get a better metaphor than climate talks on fire. Glad no one was hurt. www.bbc.com/news/article...
COP30 evacuated after fire breaks out
Thousands of people are attending the UN climate talks in Brazil.
www.bbc.com
November 20, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Can’t get a better metaphor than climate talks on fire. Glad no one was hurt. www.bbc.com/news/article...
Quiet! Quiet Piggy!
Trump: "When I left, which was a rigged election by the way. They used to go crazy when I'd say 'rigged election.' Nobody complains anymore because now they realize it was and it's been proven and it continues to be proven."
November 19, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Quiet! Quiet Piggy!
Reposted by Jamon Halvaksz
Then Toad poured a glass of water over his head.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
Then Toad poured a glass of water over his head.
Onion continues to report the actual news.
EPA To Monarch Butterflies: ‘Count Your Fucking Days’ https://theonion.com/epa-to-monarch-butterflies-count-your-fucking-days/
November 10, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Onion continues to report the actual news.
who is this person????
MTG: "I'm trying to lead by example to talk to everyone in kindness. We don't all have to agree but that's being an American. And thank goodness for that. Our freedom of speech, our 1A rights, allows us to do that. My personal belief is that I need to set an example by speaking nicely to everyone."
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
who is this person????
That's no Death Star! That’s a ballroom!
October 28, 2025 at 4:32 AM
That's no Death Star! That’s a ballroom!
Priorites.
Leavitt: "At this moment in time, of course, the ballroom is really the president's main priority."
October 23, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Priorites.
Spent the week in Christchurch New Zealand for the Adaptation Futures conference. Nice to be surrounded by people with an understanding of indigenous knowledge, science, and reality.
October 17, 2025 at 4:51 AM
Spent the week in Christchurch New Zealand for the Adaptation Futures conference. Nice to be surrounded by people with an understanding of indigenous knowledge, science, and reality.
Reposted by Jamon Halvaksz
Recognized with 2025 MacArthur "genius" grant, archaeologist and Columbia Climate School associate professor Kristina Douglass weaves together the fragmentary strands of knowledge and history buried in Madagascar to understand how communities and environments co-evolve and adapt to climate. Via NPR.
A MacArthur 'genius' gleans surprising lessons from ancient bones, shards and trash
Kristina Douglass wanted to find out the truth about how past communities adapted to environmental change. Her revelatory work has earned her a MacArthur award.
www.npr.org
October 9, 2025 at 1:41 PM
Recognized with 2025 MacArthur "genius" grant, archaeologist and Columbia Climate School associate professor Kristina Douglass weaves together the fragmentary strands of knowledge and history buried in Madagascar to understand how communities and environments co-evolve and adapt to climate. Via NPR.
Fun
Antimicrobial resistance is projected to cause 39 million deaths worldwide over the next 25 years
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
go.nature.com/42x5KHD
The rise of ‘nightmare bacteria’: antimicrobial resistance in six charts
Data reveal how the global challenge to reduce deaths and infections from drug-resistant bacteria is not going according to plan.
go.nature.com
October 7, 2025 at 4:29 PM
Fun
Birds are cool, pass it on.
September 26, 2025 at 8:40 PM
Birds are cool, pass it on.
So there was a Rapture? oh well.
September 24, 2025 at 2:51 AM
So there was a Rapture? oh well.
Reposted by Jamon Halvaksz
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
September 22, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Trump: "We've got a lot of stupid people in this country running things."
So most of what I have written is in this. Another reason to avoid all things Zuck when possibl.
Tech companies have trained their AI models by pirating LibGen, a database that contains more than 7.5 million books and 81 million research papers, Alex Reisner wrote in March. Use our search tool to see which works are in the collection:
The Unbelievable Scale of AI’s Pirated-Books Problem
Meta pirated millions of books to train its AI. Search through them here.
bit.ly
September 6, 2025 at 4:06 PM
So most of what I have written is in this. Another reason to avoid all things Zuck when possibl.
Reposted by Jamon Halvaksz
ugh. "At one intersection, a minor traffic accident between a car and a moped brought at least two dozen agents running, some wearing masks and one carrying a rifle. Local D.C. Metropolitan police were also on scene."
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
Trump asserts control of Washington D.C. police, will deploy National Guard in nation's capital
President Trump promised a weekend crackdown on Washington, D.C.'s homeless population and criminals. Trump activated federal agents to also be a show of force across the district.
www.npr.org
August 11, 2025 at 5:54 PM
ugh. "At one intersection, a minor traffic accident between a car and a moped brought at least two dozen agents running, some wearing masks and one carrying a rifle. Local D.C. Metropolitan police were also on scene."
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
www.npr.org/2025/08/11/n...
As a new resident of the area, this is still absurdly goofy and disturbing.
Drug Enforcement Administration officers patrolling the National Mall.
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
If you know DC you understand how tremendously goofy this is
(h/t @lorenzohall1.bsky.social)
August 11, 2025 at 2:29 PM
As a new resident of the area, this is still absurdly goofy and disturbing.
This is on point. The latest executive order doesn’t understand science it undermines it.
1. Federal funding for research promotes tech, biomedical, and scientific discovery in the US, and provides training for the sci/tech workforce that has brought immeasurable wealth to the US over the past 75 years.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Today's executive order includes a provision that will obliterate both functions.
Improving Oversight of Federal Grantmaking
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to improve the process of Federal
www.whitehouse.gov
August 8, 2025 at 12:45 PM
This is on point. The latest executive order doesn’t understand science it undermines it.