Dr. Holly Walters

Anthropologist 💀 • Ethnographer of Shaligrams ⛰ and Robot Religion 🤖 • Novelist of "The Way By" 🦄 • TTRPG Storyteller ✨ • (Genderqueer 🤷‍♀️ She/They)

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2024-08-17 12:24:30

Truly exciting news!
My second academic book, "Outward Spirals: A Guide to Shaligram Interpretive Traditions" goes on pre-order in just a few weeks.
My second novel has been accepted for publication!
"By the Way: An Anthology of Short Stories in the Way By."
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2024-08-11 13:39:15

To be in the service of humankind is, I think, to be dedicated to improving the lives of people you will never meet and who will never know you.

2024-06-28 23:34:01

There's, uh....no return address.....
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2024-06-27 14:05:00

Which is why I will never not post this paper:
https://www.academia.edu/42655704/The_Things_We_Believe_Anthropology_and_Feminism_in_the_MeToo_Era
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2024-06-15 18:56:58

I've always wanted a Wrath Flag. Something that symbolically encapsulates my approach to Pride. So, I've started to design one. Here's my initial sketch and a graphic of my #PrideMonth #WrathMonth flag idea.
#prideinpractice2024
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2024-05-16 13:42:05

Well this is cool! The Way By now has a universal book link! When you click on it, it tells you every platform where the book is available, either in print or as an ebook.
https://books2read.com/TheWayBy

2024-03-22 14:08:44

7 years ago today, I went "officially" missing in the Himalayas for nearly two weeks due to a sudden, unexpected, and devastating snow storm. Now, I was fine (obviously) but with no contact to the outside world, I was, essentially "dead." 🧵
(Kagbeni, during the storm and after)
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2024-01-25 00:43:57

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2024-01-18 14:25:31

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@npub1fwl…6a65 Antacids. :)

2024-01-17 18:19:20

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@npub1fwl…6a65 I am currently running on terror, excitement, and Tums!

2024-01-16 15:09:54

@npub1fwl…6a65
It's here!! It's finally here!!!
https://shop.the3littlesisters.com/products/the-way-by-1?_pos=1&_sid=d764aaead&_ss=r
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2024-01-08 18:20:07

Remember, AI can predict, but it can't think. Engaging with native speakers is a vital part of language learning because they can account for context, shifts in meaning, and the incorporation of new words.
Learning to speak is not just reading a dictionary.
#duolingo #languagelearning #AI

2024-01-08 18:18:25

Honestly, the real story should be about billionaires conducting a plagiarism panic against non-white, female university presidents all the while they remain completely invested in the Plagiarism Machine. (h/t to Ben Collins)
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/jan/08/ai-tools-chatgpt-copyrighted-material-openai

2024-01-05 16:09:56

Soon.
#TheWayBy
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2023-12-31 15:07:41

2024 is nigh.
Remember, "moving the goalposts" is an informal fallacy where someone changes the rules of a claim in order to demand ever greater evidence that cannot be satisfied.
It's bad. So, don't do it to yourself either.
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2023-12-23 19:43:43

Fishing this morning and caught my first barracuda! We've got dinner tonight!
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2023-12-10 22:20:31

Serious question to readers out there. If you were to get a book of short stories, how many would you like there to be?
As soon as fall classes are done, I am going to make one more big push on this collection of short stories. I think I can get four of them done (at least) before spring classes resume.
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2023-12-03 02:19:50

Buy physical media.
Do not allow corporations to have complete control over what you can watch or when.
Furthermore, do not allow corporations to decide what media gets to continue existing and what they can just take away.
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2023-11-25 22:27:00

So there I was, teaching class. My Divine Madness was course discussing the history of Victorian hysteria and the witch panics that came before it. And one of my students, in the midst of asking a question, says, in complete seriousness, "....but because they were expecting the Spanish Inquisition..."
And, of course, I say: "Anna. Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition."
Friends. Colleagues. Kinfolk.
There was only silence.
Deafening silence....
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2023-10-16 17:58:02

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And for those of you encountering the ideas of Hyperdiffusionism or Unilinealism for the first time, I wrote all about the problem of Ancient Aliens and Pseudoscience here!
https://thefamiliarstrange.com/2022/11/21/victorian-pseudoscience/
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2023-10-16 17:57:06

The inability to imagine how ancient peoples completed highly technical projects without advanced machinery is indicative of worker's alienation, not aliens.
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2023-09-19 13:19:39

I am both an American and a Cultural Anthropologist who specializes in semiotics and religion.
I do not understand what is going on in this flag.
At all.
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2023-08-18 12:32:38

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2023-08-10 14:12:08

Chlorine gas mocktails, rat poison sandwiches, and turpentine-flavored french toast.
This dystopia is coming along nicely I see.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/aug/10/pak-n-save-savey-meal-bot-ai-app-malfunction-recipes
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2023-08-10 00:16:57

PragerU is not an accredited university nor is it a valid educational vendor. It is a YouTube channel with the explicit purpose of indoctrinating kids into American Christian nationalism.
And now it can be shown in Florida schools.
https://wusfnews.wusf.usf.edu/education/2023-08-09/what-parents-should-know-prageru-kids-videos-florida-schools
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2023-07-27 21:31:36

Anthropology isn't so much a profession as it is a pathology.
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2023-07-19 14:44:05

"Profitability" is now starting to look like microtransactions for completing homework, expensive courseware to replace pedagogy, and paying for surveillance software during tests.
My students learn nothing this way.
I won't teach like this.
https://www.chronicle.com/article/the-homework-tax

2023-07-19 01:34:28

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@npub15x4…3p3l I wish we had them as well to be honest. Quoting is really what drives a lot of context and conversation. Granted, it can be misused (like everything) but the difference in terms of engagement is deeply noticeable.

2023-07-18 13:46:10

Civility is not care, but it pretends to be; civility is the affective shape of administrative violence.

2023-07-16 00:56:55

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Let's be clear. Those "low value" degrees are all the degrees were you learn how power works. How knowledge is made. Where hierarchies and ideologies come from. And why all of that is considered "low value" and by whom.

2023-07-16 00:56:32

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"Courses will be capped that do not have a high proportion of graduates getting a professional job, going into postgraduate study or starting a business"
From now on, philosophy, language, religion, politics, and culture will be exclusively the purview of the very rich.
For everyone else, college is where you will acquire specific skills that you will trade for wages on the capitalist market. Nothing else.

2023-07-16 00:55:55

"Rishi Sunak will announce on Monday that he will CAP the number of students wanting to study "low-value" degrees."
Want to know what I think?
https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/jul/14/rishi-sunak-force-english-universities-cap-low-value-degrees

2023-07-05 20:39:43

Some days, my life is like a fairy tale.
A German fairy tale.

2023-07-01 14:32:28

It also continues the underlying cultural ethos that certain ways of human existence are something that can be "disagreed with." That "worry" (not reality) is enough of a legal basis to justify discrimination.
It's feelings that don't care about facts.
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2023-06-30 19:36:24

Two SCOTUS seats were stolen so that today would happen.

2023-06-20 14:08:53

They go after the teachers. And we know why. Extremists know that their ideas are fragile. They know that reproducing their worldview requires the complete control of kids who can be prevented from seeing or learning anything that might show them other possible worlds. Because it is possibility alone that can cause their fear and hatred to crumble.
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2023-06-14 15:47:46

Well, the cat is fine, the fish were completely obscured by algae, several of the house plants are dead, and sparrows hatched babies in the fuchsia on the porch.
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