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November 14, 7:56 AM
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How do hunter-gatherer children learn to survive in the rainforest?
In this short film, I document the daily lives of BaYaka hunter-gatherer toddlers and children in the Congo rainforest, exploring how they acquire complex foraging skills through imitation, practice, and play.
I have worked with the BaYaka community for over a decade as an evolutionary anthropologist, and for this participatory filmmaking project, I teamed up with my friend, social anthropologist and trained photojournalist Selcen Küçüküstel. Together, we guided willing BaYaka children in using video cameras to capture their own perspectives on daily life.
The film is a compilation of footage from both the children’s and our cameras, highlighting the children's activities during the February fishing season—a time when the community moves deeper into the rainforest to set up riverside camps for dam fishing. It also includes past footage of the same children across different seasons, showing their skill progression in foraging activities like caterpillar collection and yam digging.
Through this film, I hope to showcase the remarkable autonomy of BaYaka children and the way childcare, learning, and play intertwine in a contemporary hunter-gatherer community. It’s especially relevant for those interested in education, child development, anthropology, and alternative child-rearing practices. It also opens discussions on participatory documentation techniques and the importance of capturing childhood through the children's own eyes.
Camera: Gül Deniz Salalı & Selcen Küçüküstel
Script: Gül Deniz Salalı
Editing: Aslı Ertürk
📚 Read our research papers on hunter-gatherer childhoods:
- Patterns of physical activity in hunter-gatherer children compared with US and UK children:
https://rdcu.be/ebwNf
- BaYaka children’s learning:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-47515-8
- BaYaka parenting:
https://psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/2024-21265-001.pdf
- BaYaka children's close proximity networks:
https://bit.ly/3TgJayW
📌 Subscribe for more insights into childhood, learning, and foraging in hunter-gatherer societies.
#BaYaka #HunterGatherers #ChildDevelopment #Foraging #CongoBasin #Anthropology #EthnographicFilm
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October 17, 1:54 PM
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Jan is building Open Superintelligence. It’s the open-source ChatGPT alternative that leverages the best of open-source AI.
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October 15, 7:41 AM
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“What’s happening now has, in fact, been happening since the very invention of language and writing.”
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September 26, 12:50 PM
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A collection of the world's best AI tools, all in one simple and easy-to-use platform. Discover, explore, and publish AI applications.
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September 10, 7:28 AM
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These groups are far apart in their enthusiasm and predictions for AI, but both want more personal control and worry about too little regulation.
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August 22, 8:36 AM
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What We Learned at CHAI 2025 Tutorial – by Inyoung Cheong, Quan Ze Chen, Manoel Horta Ribeiro, and Peter Henderson “I don’t feel, I don’t remember, and I don’t care. That’s not coldness—it’s design“ — Excerpt from a user-shared ChatGPT record As conversational AI systems become more emotionally expressive, users increasingly treat them not just as […]
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July 25, 5:10 AM
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Plus, OpenAI's absurd listening tour, top AI scientists say AI is evolving beyond our control, Facebook is putting data centers in tents, and the AI bubble question — answered?
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July 14, 8:34 AM
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"Sooner or later, we are all superheroes.
Superman wears a costume. As we all do.
He isn’t great at time management, always focused on the urgency at hand instead of investing in long-term planning.
He rarely works to change the foundational system he’s part of.
Supervillians exist in opposition to him and his work. Without him, they have no purpose.
He has a closely-guarded secret identity he doesn’t want the world to see.
Reputation, trust and good work are at the heart of his brand.
He misses home. In fact, his uniform is made from his baby blanket.
When technology evolves, he gains new powers.
In the official narrative, the Bechdel test is rarely passed. We can tell better stories than that.
His best exploits involve thoughtful strategy. The punching is boring.
When it counts, he shows up with bravery.
His most important relationships are based on mutual trust.
It turns out that bending steel with his bare hands is a distraction from the real point."
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November 14, 7:57 AM
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A Definition of the ancient Greek term Eudaimonia, sometimes translated as happiness, flourishing, or the good life, as well as views from the Stoics, Epicureans, Cyrenaics and Aristotle on what the good life meant.
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Information for this video gathered from The Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy, The Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy and more!
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November 10, 3:39 AM
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What the Ancient Practice of Ghostwriting Reveals About AI and Authenticity
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October 15, 7:42 AM
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Curiosity is often considered a personality quirk. Neuroscience paints a different picture.
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October 2, 11:39 AM
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There’s a word around AI you rarely hear at conferences – PRODUCTIVITY. If we fail to understand what is happening here, all the discussions around what we do ethically, politically and economically will misfire.
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September 26, 10:50 AM
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Community calls have been a cornerstone of my engagement and community building practice for well over a decade. I started a couple community calls at Greenpeace International, one of which continues a good 8 or 9 years later. Regular readers have probably heard of the Open Recognition is for Everybody
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August 22, 8:37 AM
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Three years in, one of AI’s enduring impacts is to make people feel like they’re losing it.
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August 2, 5:49 AM
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We must become undisciplined. The work we do requires new modes and methods of research and teaching; new ways of entering and leaving the archives of slavery. Christina Sharpe, In The Wake Over the past year, two intersecting crises have laid bare a hard truth: the Internet doesn’t always remember.
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July 18, 5:35 AM
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"I’ll be using the term ‘futurist’ and ‘futurism’ to describe the practice of futurology, futures study, and foresight strategy. Mainly because the former have become colloquial terms and are more widely recognised and accepted than their more formal cousins. This piece has nothing to do with Italian art movements.)"
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July 10, 2:46 PM
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A new report found students were most frequently concerned with balancing life and school. The kicker? These concerns were shared with an AI bot, no
