Yeah, good point. Did not mean to imply either was still involved!
Geoffrey Hughes
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Teacher, Ethnographer, Arabist; Lecturer in Anthropology and author of Affection and Mercy: Kinship, Islam and the Politics of Marriage in Jordan ♥️🇯🇴♥️🇵🇸 (he/هو)
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=lLU0JwkAAAAJ&hl=en&oi=ao
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The question is not "why is the Atlantic platforming this guy?" The whole point of the Atlantic is to cut this sort of stuff with enough adulterants that seem vaguely "normal" that you don't realize what you're doing to yourself when you're imbibing their editorial line:
The author is a Peter Thiel acolyte and founder of Pirate Wires, a publication occupying the niche that includes odes to Kyle Rittenhouse; scorn for "legacy media," academia, and wokeness; exposes of anti-white discrimination; and robust defenses of masculinity.
Finally, a voice for the voiceless!
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Depressing to think that the billionaires behind this rag only employ people like Ed Yong and TNC so they can make this sort of dreck seem smart by dint of the company it keeps...
This is such a wild wild column. Like what the fuck is this guy talking about lmao.
The Abundance Delusion
I mean, what even is a Democrat at this point?
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Thanks to @brandonshimoda.bsky.social for pointing to Nour on twitter who's foregrounding innumerable ways to help Gazas directly—with water, food, medical care, rent. DM her there at @TF7_AAWLA if you want to help out. Honored to share this water truck delivery with @lalehkhalili.bsky.social
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They just think jargon like "high salience" makes them into strategic wizards!
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Even if we're being purely Machiavellian, a lot of this corner-cutting is so counterproductive. I got so much flak not making positions 1 year for a grant, but in practice that would mean the postdoc comes in and immediately begins applying for new jobs instead of doing the one they were hired to do
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Reminded of the Upton Sinclair line about people who are paid NOT to understand things...
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It sounds better than calling it "marking your own homework"...
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If there's one thing low information voters love to give politicians credit for, it's when they say they prevented bad things from happening. Especially when the bad thing is extremely convoluted and involves subsidies.
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I think it's the opposite.
I see Dawn of Everything as making the central point that human civilization was capable of anything, and it independently experimented with many different forms of organization before choosing hierarchy and capitalism.
It implies agency where the ET theory does not.
That said, I can't help but think of Dawn of Everything as a far more sophisticated and voluminously documented version of the 60s/70s-era books that explained the startling technological achievements of ancient civilizations using extraterrestrial deus ex machina interventions.
