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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 1m

Especially for big topics like this. There is a nonzero amount of people that got GGS and Sapiens and then went down the rabbit hole and learned all the faults - but the issue with pop-sociology is that the vast majority of people that get these books have no interest in that - so they don’t.

Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 2m

Side note, I love that Wood is genuinely chuffed that this is the only reason anyone knows his name outside of history circles.

Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 3m

Something something “Guhahhdan Wood”…

a man is talking to a woman in a crowd with the words were you gonna plagiarize the whole thing

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Senate EPW Democrats @epw.senate.gov · 3d

Because of Trump’s Big Crypto donors, the data center bomb is falling on families who are suddenly watching their electric bills skyrocket.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 8m

I remember using it in ninth grade world history classes to explain development and concepts of environmental determinism.

But even then I’m like - ITS NOT JUST THIS KIDS.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 9m

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 11m

You are fucking me with these names.

That is some fucking achewood level organization name.

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Stephen Lurie @luriethereal.bsky.social · 12h

Time to tune in to some analysis from Antifa expert…Chef Andrew…Gruel?…founder of…American Gravy Concepts?

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 12m

It all makes sense. Sapiens is just this generations GGS.

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 12m

I think that was the secret of its success. It was smart sounding stuff that was basic-level knowledge to a trained person, but sounded like remarkable truths to a lay person.

Much like Guns, Germs, and Steel and holy shit

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 15m

I mean, I’m no sociologist nor anthropologist - so Sapiens presented stuff to me in a way that was accessible and memorable. Scanning Hallpike’s critique on Wikipedia- “whatever facts are broadly correct they are not new,” and he gets things very wrong when he ventures out on his own.

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · 32m

Literally can’t say how much these guys constantly repeat segregationists. Those Christian citizens councils who just wanted to make sure Black people kept stepping off the sidewalk when they saw a white person just like god wanted.

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John Rogers @johnrogers.bsky.social · 1d

“No Kings” is great , but we really don't get a functioning democracy back until we internalize, bone deep, the instinctive response to this and every other statement like it: “I don’t care what that rich guy thinks.”

Make it your morning affirmation. Say it ten times at the top of every hour.

The Independent @the-independent.com · 1d

Elon Musk calls for US troops to be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs: ‘It’s the only solution’

Musk demands US troops be sent to San Francisco for war on drugs

www.independent.co.uk

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 42m

Definitely felt different about him as he got into history I was trained in and I was like ohhh —-

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 47m

This is one of those things I remember reading and having the same take as OP here. “The ancient stuff was a interesting take but I could see how someone who spent their lives doing this would be enraged”

I believe this is called the Jarod Diamond effect.

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Frank, Utopian Marxist @frankgothic.bsky.social · 5h

Jesus fucking Christ!
I read Homo Deus and Nexus of his, both which are horrendous. And while I didn’t find much scholarship directly tackling them I did find one on Sapiens that criticised his early views of humanity, might be worth a look!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 8h

"Sapiens" is so normal for the first 70,000 years of human history but then goes absolutely buckwild as soon as it gets to colonialism

Had the Aztecs and Incas shown a bit more interest in the world surrounding them - and had they known what the Spaniards had done to their neighbours - they might have resisted the Spanish conquest more keenly and successfully.

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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.bsky.social · 7h

This is exactly right: it's real violence, but a performance at the same time

Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 12h

You need to see this:

“The show of force is the point. They want these images to be out…The Department of Homeland Security is walking around Chicago with a film crew.” @jacobsoboroff.bsky.social

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 6h

youtu.be/AHipVDMR1zQ?...

Goodfeathers - Scorsese's Head

YouTube video by J Wood

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Eldritch Millennial @bmorebaker42.bsky.social · 12h

Bobcat Golthwait stars in ….

Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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Razzball @razzball.bsky.social · 14h

If I send you this, know I’ve lost my shit

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Andrea Pitzer @andreapitzer.bsky.social · 16h

It's actually good to point out Bari Weiss's shitty inaccuracies, her lack of any real journalistic experience or original ideas, and the fact that she's failing upward, promoted by antidemocratic oligarchs who have no interest in reporting the truth.

The middle-aged white guy standing up in a crowd from Norman Rockwell's "Freedom of Speech" painting.

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Sickos Committee @sickoscommittee.org · 16h

If you ever wondered what these fur coats were made out of, wonder no more.

THE MACCOON WAS HUNTED

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AAUP chapter @UT Austin @utaustinaaup.bsky.social · 1d

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