I remember watching a documentary on ancient Carthage in the 2000s and they made a point to say (I don't know if it's true) they hadn't discovered public spaces in Carthaginian settlements like they had in Rome, and kinda implied this made them less civilized
Just thinking about that for no reason
That is a good answer!
Gottheimer *has* to know these talking points sell by date was in like 2018
Yeah, should've said human instead of animal to bette underline the cosmic horror angle. But thank you for the interesting article!
Who are our animals?
Would plants being able to perceive animal movement be at all useful to them? Or would it just burden them with the cosmic horror that they're helplessly at the mercy of beings able to hack them down while they stand paralyzed without recourse?
Do plants perceive animal movement as super fast? Would a plant intelligence be able to perceive animal movement at all or would we be moving so quickly as to kind of be in a different phase of existence? I promise I haven't been smoking.
This is such a hopeful project, but one that's struggled to gain support. A great place to drop some money, if you have some to spare.
In the early 1900s, the Royal Irrigation Department built a lock on the Saen Saep Canal on the outer edge of Bangkok to regulate water levels.
This caused the place to be called Pratunam (literally: "Watergate")
The lock's long gone, but there is still an area in central Bangkok called Pratunam
Screenshot of a social media post by Brianna Wu (@BriannaWu) that reads: "One of my biggest hopes for the future is that we can come up with some sort of test in utero to determine if a child is going to grow up to be transsexual, and then opt them out of the gene pool. It's, I can tell you firsthand, it's a horrific way to grow up, one that no ethical person should want to inflict on a child. The reason the trans community is so unstable online is the developmental damage that we invariably get. It's like a house being built where every floor is leaning, and by the time you get to the top, the entire structure is unstable. Repairing that damage has taken me a lifetime."
Brianna Wu advocates for the extermination of trans people by engaging in eugenicist selective abortions of fetuses determined to be trans.
China was one of the central cases. He got his start as a sinologist.
In the early 1900s, the Royal Irrigation Department built a lock on the Saen Saep Canal on the outer edge of Bangkok to regulate water levels.
This caused the place to be called Pratunam (literally: "Watergate")
The lock's long gone, but there is still an area in central Bangkok called Pratunam
This is strangely reminiscent of Soviet policy during the same period!
Bolshevism as a regional variant of technology-obsessed high modernism remains undefeated
Can't wait til the Primitive Technology guy gets to pottery-based robots
Did anybody else's choir or other school extracurricular fundraise by getting their kids to strong arm community members into buying citrus they didn't need? Still need to read the article but maybe that business model was telling us something was wrong.
Keep seeing ads for trips to Chongqing (it's a very big, relatively close tourist destination for the Thai market) hyping all these high-tech Insta places and all I can think is they should be hyping Dujiangyan over in Chengdu
It is objectively bad for democracy that both blue and red states are doing extreme gerrymanders.
But the only feasible solution — a national ban on partisan gerrymandering — has only been endorsed by one party. And it's not the one complaining about Virginia right now.
Hydrogen-filled dirigibles (cuz of the helium shortages) also seem delightfully possible as VC pitches that will never see the light of day
Now is the time to float your long-awaited startup dedicated to harvesting algae for jet fuel
Excited for all the crazy shit we're gonna consider during this energy crisis I'm sure someone back home in West Virginia has already brought up coal liquefaction (a process that, I shit you not, was seen as the common sense future growing up in WV in the 2000s)
Naked mole rat Game of Thrones when
Disciplining politicians to do the right thing is an incredibly long, blunt process you gotta take your wins when you get em
Ok I don't like to give Hakeem Jeffries credit but based solely on the principles of operant conditioning gotta give him kudos here
its absolutely incredible watching people not realize the stakes watching DOJ being weaponized against SPLC and not realizing that its basically an existential fight for the republic now
I'm basically Elian's age so it's not like I was closely following the specifics of this when it happened but I remember this seeming more controversial than it is
Elian was elected to Cuba's National Assembly in 2023 if folks were wondering if he turned out alright
In retrospect this entire crisis was an absolute non-issue of course the 6-year old unaccompanied minor should've been returned to his father rather than held in the US by extended family whom he had never met
I have absolutely zero ability to distinguish between Pretty Little Liars, Big Little Lies, and Little Fires Everywhere
As a West Virginian increasingly obsessed with the Tennasserim Range, great thread!
The mountains of Myanmar, beautiful, bountiful, terrain that has protected some of the ethnic resistance groups for decades. Threatened by explotation.
Edith in her latest #WhatsHappeningInMyanmar history thread gives a great overview of the part mountains have played in Myanmar's past & present.