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I like musical instruments, interesting rocks, stand-up comedy, and owl cams.

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@hannahspierMD What does emergent borderline look like in a young girl?

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Asians have ruined SF and I stand by it.

We have to be honest: there is a certain Asian threshold, that once crossed, drains the joy & organic social chemistry out of a city or institution. Life becomes dull & mechanical, lacking the energy that inspires straight men.

[Tom Rowsell @Tom_Rowsell]

Just some of what the British did in India to enrich native understanding of their own history and culture:

Charles Masson first described the ancient ruins of Harappa in the 1840s.

Alexander Cunningham founded the Archaeological Survey of India in 1861. He and later archaeologists mapped, surveyed, and excavated hundreds of ancient sites across South Asia.

H. C. P. Bell discovered/excavated the old capital of Sri Lanka, Polonnaruwa, which was forgotten since the 13th c.

The Dravidian language family was first discovered/ identified as a distinct, non-Indo-European group of languages in 1816 by Francis Whyte Ellis, a British civil servant. Dravidian was later properly identified by Robert Caldwell.

In so doing the above distinguished the Indo-Aryan language family as a unique subgroup of Indo-European, first identified in 1786 by the British judge in India, Sir William Jones.

Jones' linguistic work also looked at mythology and contributed to the idea of a unified “ancient Indian religion” - this was popularised by Max Müller who formalised the idea of a single “Hindu religion” based on Sanskrit texts - and he used the term "Hindu" " which first appeared in a 1787 letter by Charles Grant, a British East India Company official.

After 1871, British administrators defined “Hindu” as a separate religious category distinct from Muslims, Christians, Sikhs, etc. The unified modern Hindu identity depends on these events.

James Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script in the 1830s which unlocked forgotten knowledge of the Ashokan inscriptions and early Indian historical chronology

Henry Thomas Colebrooke rediscovered the Yoga Sutras of Patanjali lost since 16th century. Helped establish academic Sanskrit studies in Europe

Buddhism mostly disappeared in India during medieval times, but ancient literature was rediscovered in Nepal, Tibet, Sri Lanka etc by Brits;
Brian Houghton Hodgson collected the Mahāyāna sutras and Vinaya (monastic rules).

Charles Henry Allan Bennett introduced Buddhism to the West and fostered its growth in Burma and Sri Lanka.

A. H. Fox Strangways made important early contributions to documenting Indian classical music traditions - recording and systematising observation of Indian music.

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@schorn_stephan This is what happened to the American high school diploma, which is certainly a „Teilnehmerirkunde des Schulsystems.“

[Fugitive Caesar @ThomBrady5]

one of the keys to understanding the Ireland riots is that the Ulster loyalist paramilitaries were allowed to remain wild and feral because they operated as a deniable branch of the British government to counter Irish insurgencies. Now the British government has betrayed them

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@Pat_Stedman Illuminating, insightful and beautifully articulate piece.

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@Lorcanmac @kjose2012 @visegrad24 whoa!

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@jeremykauffman you‘ve discovered a general truth about how the periphery cannot occupy the center or else things destabilize.

[Westside L.A. Guy @WestsideLAGuy]

Asian Americans contributed mightily to SF’s economy but destroyed it culturally & socially. Their ancestral culture is borne out of suffering & scarcity and hence optimized for material success. A sharp contrast from the joyful organic spontaneity of American culture.

[Colin Wright @SwipeWright]

ANNOUNCEMENT: WE’RE SAVING SCIENCE!

We’re often told that science is “self-correcting.”

But that’s not really true.

Science doesn’t correct itself like a thermostat adjusting the temperature in your house. Science is a human institution run by human beings. And human beings are vulnerable to career incentives, groupthink, moral fads, political pressure, and fear.

And when those forces capture academic journals, peer review stops being a filter for bad ideas and starts becoming more of a credentialing system for fashionable nonsense.

This isn’t exactly new.

In 1996, the physicist Alan Sokal managed to publish a totally gibberish article in the journal Social Text full of trendy postmodern jargon. His point was simple: if you flatter the ideological commitments of certain academic editors, nonsense can pass as real scholarship.

Two decades later, @ConceptualJames, @HPluckrose , and @peterboghossian pulled off the “grievance studies” hoax, placing over a half dozen absurd papers in peer-reviewed journals. One paper used dog parks to analyze rape culture and queer performativity. Another rewrote parts of Mein Kampf in the language of feminist theory.

The problem wasn’t just that fake papers got published. It was that they were completely indistinguishable from the real thing.

And today, the problem is even worse.

We now have serious SCIENCE journals publishing papers about feminist lesbians marrying brine shrimp. We have disturbing papers that aim to “queer” and sexualize infants. We have scholarship on “lesbian-queer-trans-canine relationalities” and “trans-dog intimacies.”

But while Clown World papers are concerning because it makes a complete mockery of academia, the same broken, ideologically captured system is also publishing research in legitimate science and medical journals that pushes sex and gender pseudoscience, relies on deeply flawed data, and influences policies on the medical transition of children and young adults.

That’s not funny. That affects real people. It affects medicine. It affects law. It affects children.

And when critics try to respond, they often discover there’s no serious mechanism for correction. Submitted Letters to the Editor often go completely ignored. Contrary evidence is rejected without comment. As a result, the best critiques are often relegated to personal blog posts, social media threads, or newspaper op-eds, while the original paper remains in the literature wearing the armor of “peer review.”

That is untenable.

So Kevin McCaffree, editor-in-chief of Theory and Society (@Theory_Society), and I decided to do something about it.

Today, in the Wall Street Journal, we announced a first-of-its-kind article type called “Peer Review.”

The idea is simple: publication should be the beginning of academic scrutiny, not the end of it.

A Peer Review article can critique a paper from any scholarly journal. It can address problems with methods, evidence, logic, definitions, theory, or interpretation. But it has to focus on the claims and arguments, not personal attacks.

Submissions are capped at 2,500 words and go through a straightforward merit review instead of endless gatekeeping and ideological screening. We ask just one basic question: Is this critique coherent, serious, reasonable, or even popular enough to deserve scholarly attention?

If yes, it gets published.

And the authors of the original paper get a built-in right of reply, so readers can see the critique and the response in a legitimate academic venue.

That’s how science is supposed to work.

Science becomes self-correcting only when real people build the mechanisms that allow correction to happen.
That’s what we’ve done.

Now it’s time for academics to use it.

Read our announcement on the @WSJ below.
🔗https://t.co/gqkDE7aaDC

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@itsme_urstruly someone else did all the scheduling and enforcement (carrot of good grades / college admissions / approbal and family harmony, stick of failure / disapproval) for you. minimal large-scale personal self-management.

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@jakozloski true of every decision you make.

[August Bembel @AugustBembel]

gibt wenig majestätischeres als diese möwen, die die ganze zeit chillig auf dem aufgeblähten toten wal abhängt

[tmuxvim @tmuxvim]

I put a prompt injection into my LinkedIn bio and recruiters are messaging me in Old English and calling me Lord.

[John Carter @martianwyrdlord]

You tend to see dowry in cultures in which the value of male labor is high, and suitable grooms are scarce. Having to pay down a woman's debt is effectively bride price, which arises when female labor is valuable (precisely the condition created by affirmative action girlbossery, with women now tending to out-earn men) and/or when there is a scarcity of suitable brides (precisely the condition created by feminism rendering an entire generation of women unmarriageable). There's also a correlation between bride price and polygyny, which, Tinder.

[anecdeedy @anecdeedy]

@NomosEvents @eugyppius1 sorry 😩

[Ceryad 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 @Ceryad1]

Seit vielen Jahren kaufe ich mir jedes Jahr einen Fuchs-Kalender der Seidel-Edition.

Bisher waren dort immer echte Fotos von echten Füchsen drin, für die Tierfotografen sich viel Mühe gegeben haben.

Dieses Jahr nur KI-Schund.

Ohne Kennzeichnung.

Betrug am Kunden.

[come into my tent @boom_tentpeg]

In Germany, a case was recently closed on a cabal of Chinese men orchestrating drug-based rapes of girlfriends, neighbors, and colleagues via a thousands-strong Telegram group, where they coordinated and shared pictures/videos.

All high-status, elite professionals.

[Dr. Ricardo Duchesne @dr_duchesne]

https://t.co/UAsnExERZY

[Charles Wing-Uexküll @CWingUexkull]

The Anglo-Teutonic hybrid frontier that stretches through the American Midwest produced some of the most remarkable specimens of the first half of the 20th century, when modernity brought isolated ethnic farm populations into closer contact with each other.

German communities also faced increased pressure to assimilate & hybridize during & after WW1.

Here we have Neil Armstrong (Scottish + German, born Wapakoneta Ohio); John Glenn (British + German, Cambridge Ohio); Deke Slayton (English + Norwegian, Sparta Wisconsin); & Charles Lindbergh (Swedish + British, Detroit).