My writing process involves publishing and sharing so that I can FINALLY see all that's wrong with it and attempt to fix what I can before anyone reads it (which I did these 22 mins). Pls enjoy my blog post on this Taco Tuesday which reminds me of someone you should follow: @tacobellquarterly.org
Still in Ch. 1, p. 12-13. Dying to get to some pages in the 100s. The only way is through.
It's taco Tuesday and we're onto cooking. There is a source! "Beliefs" are conveyed instead of 100% fact-sounding fictions! Let's get fired up.
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so, so good.
High five!
So far we've had some hints, but today's pages tell us WHO YOU ARE.
You are a bone-smashing carrion-eating underdog, and not the good kind.
Calm down. It's probably just more metaphors...
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Thank you! Love a good "huh?"!
So far we've had some hints, but today's pages tell us WHO YOU ARE.
You are a bone-smashing carrion-eating underdog, and not the good kind.
Calm down. It's probably just more metaphors...
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We already KNOW how to make super babies, you eugenicist creeps! And it's all the things you fucking fucks are fucking up! THREAD!
fffffff yessssssssss thank you!
The photo shows a wooden model of a cow giving birth accompanied by two men. One man calms the cow while the other ensures a proper delivery.The calf emerges from his mother, licking the hand of the man.
Models of everyday life were deposited in #Egyptian tombs. They were supposed to support the deceased in the afterlife. One of the most charming examples is the model of a #cow giving birth.
Carved in wood, painted.
Probably from Meir, #Egypt, dating c. 2040-1985 BC.
📷 Royal Ontario Museum
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Yes and Thank you for this thread!
Oh my gosh… this was me. And it’s why I was the first to smell the fart spray that time.
I didn’t know I was doing it either, until I was doing it.
Page 10 of my page-by-page review of Sapiens starts with the perfect quote from @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social 's essay "Woolf's Darkness" (in Men Explain Things to Me). It's looking back over the pages we've read so far and it's wisely guiding those to come: ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2026/04/sapi...
Imagine, if you will, trying to orgasm in the conditions (for so many) for birth...
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this is beautiful. Will use for intro classes and nudge many of my colleagues to read it... @dunsworth.bsky.social has done so much good work in this area, and this is an awesome, pithy, and effective synthesis.
Harari says "women paid extra" when our ancestors evolved bipedalism + big brains. The story he's telling is about our physical inferiority. I say we paid extra by having to argue against that stupid 'scientific' belief instead of doing cool shit.
xo,
Holly
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Thanks right back!
Maybe by "like this" they meant "make it an international best-seller". Easy peasy!
Agustin... thank you so much, as ever. 💚
Thank you, Liz! 💚
Harari says "women paid extra" when our ancestors evolved bipedalism + big brains. The story he's telling is about our physical inferiority. I say we paid extra by having to argue against that stupid 'scientific' belief instead of doing cool shit.
xo,
Holly
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Hurt apes hurt apes.
I should have put "hallucination" in scare quotes. Not a good metaphor, I've learned, because it anthropomorphizes AI! Love a good metaphor take-down...
Thank you! Going straight into one of my courses in the Fall!
Awesome! I’m looking forward to read this @marspidermonkey.bsky.social
And then I crawled back under this lovely rock which is too real for AI to know exists...
I've had the pleasure of being invited to co-author a paper that cited a paper of mine that was a 100% AI hallucination. I said no thank you.
Yes!
It’s also like if he spoke to the American people through a kazoo.
Scientists!
Is a scientific hypothesis a story?
If so, do you or would you ever think of science itself as “storytelling”?
Please include an explanation for your answer.
(These questions were inspired by someone else’s mind that I am curious about.)
Thank you for your feedback!