I read Kafka's Metamorphosis for the first time. Lost my mind a little and learned a great deal in the process...
like, how Evolutionary Science Needs Literary Criticism (which we learned in 1990 from Misia Landau but we could do with a lot more)
ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/03/the-...
“Every bombed village is my hometown”
James Baldwin
In the late 90s, I actually remember thinking how over-the-top "Don't be evil" sounded as a motto for "just" a search engine.
I thought so too!
www.youtube.com/watch?v=8U4z...
The talk to your friends app and the witness the horrors app being the same app is not great for the mental health is it
All I know is ... her vagina's why she fell out of that tree.
Because I miss it and just now had the misfortune of googling to see if there are any more seasons in the works...
Here is some "How To With John Wilson" fan non-fiction.
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The wildest thing about this article is that there are no men in it. It's as if women bear the utmost burden of the entire world.
But it's not meant to be constructive criticism of a 30 year old book. It's me processing why people on the internet hate Jared Diamond and seeing how amazing it is/was that he argued against race while doing race/ism right there from the beginning of the book. That's all.
Is it self-congratulatory or am I a woman with opinions?
American science had not, by the 1990s, figured out that race is the meaning people make of biological variation. Instead, they frequently (if not typically) equated race to human biological variation. You could be against racism and still be racist without knowing it. You could believe that people could be good and fair and just (that is they could be not racist), but still call skin color variation "race" or still believe that people are born white or born Black. Now, I hope things have improved. I think they have? I think that, now, fewer scientists hold that racist perspective. We know that you aren't born with a race, you're born into race. There's human biological variation and then there's race, which is a human invention with real-life power that, in America, includes the myth that it's not a human invention (high-five, Pirsig)!
In this text is a hyperlink that's relevant too: ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/02/you-...
Some day I hope I'll figure out a way to write so that I'm not misunderstood. Until then I depend on good faith and good reading comprehension on the part of the reader.
"there's the way he paints some contemporary peoples/cultures as isolated, atomized, and frozen in time, untouched by others. “Still” hunter-gatherers, he says, about people who have had complex histories including complex social hierarchies which he seems to only grant “modern” civilizations." 👇
This week's cover @thelancet.com
“There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying only the future will reveal its merits” - Hanna Arendt (The Origins of Totalitarianism)
i’m tired of every paper (even critical ones) on societal impact of AI starting by both-siding the “benefits” and risks/harms of AI
in academia, i would like us to arrive at a collective reckoning that we don’t need to play both sides. it's totally legit to clearly state just the harms. period
Conceivably!
screengrab of two grafs in the article: The findings, if they hold up, don’t clarify what sort of mating preference was at play. Conceivably, Neanderthal men used violence, even raiding other groups for women. But Dr. Nowell was skeptical of such explanations. “It is a possibility, but we don’t have any thing in the archaeological record that would support that,” she said, noting a lack of evidence for violence between groups of humans 50,000 years ago or 250,000 years ago.
"Conceivably" is the new way to write, "As they say on X".
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/26/s...
Alysa Liu with her gold medal
"I love struggling actually. It makes me feel alive." -Alysa Liu
Get out there and start falling on your ass!
Today’s Kurt Cobain’s 59th birthday. A few years back I got to write the "official" government dedication for Nirvana and grunge. Probably the one thing that I've done that'll still be read 200 years from now. www.loc.gov/static/progr...
great read
🚨EVOLUTIONARY SCIENTISTS 🦚
What are examples of nonhuman lineages that are, in some trait, limited? Point me to traits that are argued to be maxxed out (in any organism). Outside of human evol bio, where can I see scientists claiming that evolution is stuck!?
I found the whole body in my files, but I am clearly misremembering. This one could be but isn't obviously. I know I've seen an obviously pregnant one somewhere. Can't picture or source it though.
This one is pregnant, but I only see her face in searches.
"The Neanderthal woman was re-created and built by Dutch artists Andrie and Alfons Kennis. Research including fossil anatomy and a detailed study of DNA is present in the color of the skin and eyes. (Photo by Joe McNally/Getty Images)"
Wriggling free of the dominant, yet unscientific view of human evolution is hard work.
And the dogma has only grown more powerful with time. But...
What if wanting to distance ourselves from Jeffrey Epstein will finally spark an evolution revolution?
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Having poked through the DOJ dump, I've seen the correspondence between Epstein and Nautilus magazine, which seems to be gung-ho about evolutionary psychology--the reigning source of the evolutionary myths that Epstein and his circles believe. They wanted to put it in high schools. Maybe they did?
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No matter how kind or fair you behave towards people, if you believe the myth/lie of “race” then you are doing racism.
Thanks for reading.
This thread is based on this article, which contains a lot more than I pasted above: goodmenproject.com/featured-con...
