hunchback from sardinia
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i'm leading an informal course with some friends that's devoted to the entirety of human history in iberia.
here's a list of the coolest shit i've learned:
1) the "ivory lady" burial of the valencina de la concepción (outside of seville). dated to ~3,000–2,800 BCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
here's a list of the coolest shit i've learned:
1) the "ivory lady" burial of the valencina de la concepción (outside of seville). dated to ~3,000–2,800 BCE. www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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new newsletter today about the shortsightedness of political films and how we interpret them featuring One Battle After Another, Parasite, Civil War, Eddington, and a Marxist-Maoist essay from Jean-Luc Godard
goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-myopia...
goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-myopia...
The Myopia of Political Films
Looking at the message of One Battle After Another by examining Parasite, Civil War, and Eddington through Jean-Luc Godard's political film theory
goodones.beehiiv.com
November 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
new newsletter today about the shortsightedness of political films and how we interpret them featuring One Battle After Another, Parasite, Civil War, Eddington, and a Marxist-Maoist essay from Jean-Luc Godard
goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-myopia...
goodones.beehiiv.com/p/the-myopia...
do we think rosalía is reaching superbowl half-time show levels of stardom?
November 11, 2025 at 6:42 PM
do we think rosalía is reaching superbowl half-time show levels of stardom?
the ubermensch was woke. you heard it here first
November 11, 2025 at 3:16 AM
the ubermensch was woke. you heard it here first
the funniest thing about al qaeda using al-andalus as a rallying cry and the west using "reconquista" and "the crusades" as their reference point in battling the organization, is that al-qaeda and crusaders would have been on the same side, and same goes for "the west" and the muslims
November 10, 2025 at 9:04 PM
the funniest thing about al qaeda using al-andalus as a rallying cry and the west using "reconquista" and "the crusades" as their reference point in battling the organization, is that al-qaeda and crusaders would have been on the same side, and same goes for "the west" and the muslims
guess which country is run by a socialist prime minister who has passed laws against rent increases, against misclassifying workers as independent contractors, passed major increases to the minimum wage, and tried to shorten the workweek to 4 days?
I can't tell you how many interviews I've done where I've been asked: If Trump's policies are so problematic, why are U.S. stocks rising so rapidly.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
A bit of international context illustrates the real issue here.
U.S. stocks have dramatically underperformed other advanced economies.
November 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
guess which country is run by a socialist prime minister who has passed laws against rent increases, against misclassifying workers as independent contractors, passed major increases to the minimum wage, and tried to shorten the workweek to 4 days?
dick durbin after voting for the reichstag fire decree: "i have talked to people in my state and the thing they keep telling me is they want us to come together as a country and work with those from across the aisle."
November 10, 2025 at 7:58 PM
dick durbin after voting for the reichstag fire decree: "i have talked to people in my state and the thing they keep telling me is they want us to come together as a country and work with those from across the aisle."
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the electorate, in my view, has different expectations for each party, because they view one as the party of cultural values (GOP) and one as the party of material benefits (dems).
this is why i find the inflation story about the 2024 election both correct and misleading.
this is why i find the inflation story about the 2024 election both correct and misleading.
November 10, 2025 at 5:26 PM
the electorate, in my view, has different expectations for each party, because they view one as the party of cultural values (GOP) and one as the party of material benefits (dems).
this is why i find the inflation story about the 2024 election both correct and misleading.
this is why i find the inflation story about the 2024 election both correct and misleading.
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"What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing 'Abundance' over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from 'Pod Save America.')"
November 10, 2025 at 4:55 PM
"What some Democrats would prefer, it seems, is a centrist manosphere of their own. (One imagines a podcast studio attached to a well-appointed gym where a bunch of white guys are discussing 'Abundance' over beta-alanine smoothies and doing pistol squats to the theme song from 'Pod Save America.')"
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everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
everything is "performative" because we're in a social media panopticon where everything becomes free content for our tech overlords so they can be rich and we can get a strangely unfulfilling but addictive form of attention
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we fight for freedom
November 10, 2025 at 4:05 PM
we fight for freedom
keep harking back to the fact that there was also a "crisis of masculinity" during the interwar period
November 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
keep harking back to the fact that there was also a "crisis of masculinity" during the interwar period
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if you want a vision of the future, imagine 3-month CRs with 40 day shutdowns, forever
I know everyone is upset about the deal, but don’t worry. We’ll be doing this again in a month.
November 10, 2025 at 3:01 PM
if you want a vision of the future, imagine 3-month CRs with 40 day shutdowns, forever
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i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
If the Dems blink after all of this, for a deal that all but ensures no ACA subsidies in 2026 anyway, then what was the purpose of letting the shutdown go for 40 days in the first place?
November 10, 2025 at 12:56 AM
i think this is key. taking the deal would amount to taking the blame. it would turn a clear political victory into an unambiguous defeat.
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A few years ago, the NBA came out with its list of the 76 best players and 15 best coaches during its first 75 years of existence. The only guy who was on both lists? Lenny Wilkens.
November 9, 2025 at 11:56 PM
A few years ago, the NBA came out with its list of the 76 best players and 15 best coaches during its first 75 years of existence. The only guy who was on both lists? Lenny Wilkens.
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I feel like "WHat you just have made here is a list of shit that is good," has potential as a new dril idiom.
November 8, 2025 at 7:16 PM
I feel like "WHat you just have made here is a list of shit that is good," has potential as a new dril idiom.
it shouldn't be so hard to see that AI is an incredible tool that is and will be used for terrible and destructive ends
November 8, 2025 at 7:10 PM
it shouldn't be so hard to see that AI is an incredible tool that is and will be used for terrible and destructive ends
a win for theorists of the state that just see it as a protection racket?
Went back to the history of the Sicilian Mafia to illustrate something obvious but worth stating explicitly: The Trump administration behaves like an organized crime syndicate running a protection racket, not a representative government www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2025/1...
November 8, 2025 at 4:24 PM
a win for theorists of the state that just see it as a protection racket?
so are my kids just going to be spending hours each day wearing VR goggles, chatting and going on adventures with their group of AI friends?
November 8, 2025 at 4:22 PM
so are my kids just going to be spending hours each day wearing VR goggles, chatting and going on adventures with their group of AI friends?
me: you lost an election to a guy who was the best of friend of the world's most famous pedophile
them: right, but you have to remember the few months of moderately above average inflation...
them: right, but you have to remember the few months of moderately above average inflation...
November 7, 2025 at 10:07 PM
me: you lost an election to a guy who was the best of friend of the world's most famous pedophile
them: right, but you have to remember the few months of moderately above average inflation...
them: right, but you have to remember the few months of moderately above average inflation...
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🔻Job finding expectations has plunged in recent months -- mean perceived probability of finding a job if one’s current job was lost.
❗️Now at lowest since pandemic and 2014 before that.
❗️Now at lowest since pandemic and 2014 before that.
November 7, 2025 at 9:49 PM
🔻Job finding expectations has plunged in recent months -- mean perceived probability of finding a job if one’s current job was lost.
❗️Now at lowest since pandemic and 2014 before that.
❗️Now at lowest since pandemic and 2014 before that.
still dumbstruck by how, as a party, you lose to a candidate with this level of baggage.... newrepublic.com/post/202813/...
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
still dumbstruck by how, as a party, you lose to a candidate with this level of baggage.... newrepublic.com/post/202813/...
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bro are you fucking kidding me
![quote from the Economist article which says "[study authors] are now looking at whether AI facial analysis can give lenders useful clues about a person’s propensity to repay loans. For people without access to credit, that could be a blessing."](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:6ofjbklfvptnupad4lxumblw/bafkreia3yctiqd7ejumpd6novxjpiycphtfkc3bdgd573jw37faqdl7o7m@jpeg)
November 6, 2025 at 5:59 PM
bro are you fucking kidding me