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Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
November 20, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Somehow I spoke to more anthropologists for my silly little podcast than Yuval Harari did for his bestselling book
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Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Really enjoyed chatting with @michaelhobbes.bsky.social for this episode! In addition to being a delight to talk to, Michael was _extremely_ committed to getting the facts right & engaged very earnestly with our feedback. A scientist's dream.
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B L M F Literary Saloon, Pine Books, and Left Bank Books in Seattle now have signed copies of my novels. And, of course, Third Place in Forest Park. Really loved all three, but BLMF is a particularly live wire, eccentric, cool.
November 20, 2025 at 5:41 PM
B L M F Literary Saloon, Pine Books, and Left Bank Books in Seattle now have signed copies of my novels. And, of course, Third Place in Forest Park. Really loved all three, but BLMF is a particularly live wire, eccentric, cool.
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Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
Sapiens
Podcast Episode · If Books Could Kill · 11/20/2025 · 1h 38m
podcasts.apple.com
November 20, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Episode 46: Sapiens
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
It's an ambitious goal to write the entire history of humanity in just 400 pages. It's even more ambitious to do it without reading any research.
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Remember that time when Ireland rerouted an entire highway to avoid pissing off the fairies that truly nobody believes in but we’ll just in case
Oh definitely. Kinda like going to Iceland and having it explained that no, people don’t REALLY believe in elves. Also, don’t fuck with the elves.
November 19, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Remember that time when Ireland rerouted an entire highway to avoid pissing off the fairies that truly nobody believes in but we’ll just in case
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If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
November 17, 2025 at 11:09 PM
If you're posting tributes to Alice Wong but aren't wearing a well fitted respirator indoors when sharing air with people outside your household AND outdoors when it's crowded than I think you misunderstood the assignment.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
You care about others?
Prove it.
Wear a mask.
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When you've read too many posts
November 18, 2025 at 4:21 AM
When you've read too many posts
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A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
November 15, 2025 at 6:16 AM
A real loss. Rest in power, Alice Wong.
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Not me watching Alien: Earth and thinking, "I'd love to be a hybrid."
Sounds like I'm about to be sold a better option
November 14, 2025 at 4:46 PM
Not me watching Alien: Earth and thinking, "I'd love to be a hybrid."
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Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
![4-panel vertical comic. (1) 100 Years Ago [two people standing next to bicycle with small car nearby] PERSON 1: It’s too dangerous riding a bike with these cars around. I should get a car, too. (2) 50 Years Ago [two people between smaller car and bigger car] PERSON 2 with short hair: Small cars are less safe in collisions with larger vehicles, so I should get a bigger one. (3) Today [two people between big car and even bigger car] PERSON 1: Everyone has huge SUVs now. If I don’t get the biggest one, I’m putting my family at risk. (4) Soon [two people next to large armored car with spiked clubs attached] PERSON 2: If I don’t install more whirling spike clubs, I’ll be destroyed by all the other drivers who...](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreiby6can6k76yzfmv2czxs4pu2l7zie7bqbrpswi7h3ifmiadkuqvu@jpeg)
November 14, 2025 at 9:51 PM
Love to bike to work through the middle of the vehicular manslaughter arms race
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If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
How is AI *really* impacting jobs?
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
Henley Chiu, the CTO of Revealera, a jobs data analysis firm, analyzed 180 million jobs listings in 2024 and 2025, in an effort to find out. Chiu found an:
-8% drop in all jobs postings
-~30% drop in art, photography, writing jobs
-22% drop in journalism jobs
What’s really going on with AI and jobs?
Record-breaking layoff reports, Amazon's mass firings, and a slump in entry level employment. Is AI behind it all?
www.bloodinthemachine.com
November 13, 2025 at 9:31 PM
If you ever wonder why your artist friend is so pissed off whenever they see AI slop used instead of real, human-created art, it's exactly what you think:
I didn’t think we’d see anything, but early this evening we got lucky❤️
November 12, 2025 at 3:52 AM
I didn’t think we’d see anything, but early this evening we got lucky❤️
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yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
November 11, 2025 at 3:12 PM
yes yes we all know about the Edmund Fitzgerald, rest her soul, but did you know about the ship laden with explosives that sank in the mouth of the Thames in 1944 and could explode at any minute and which attempts to disarm keep failing
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my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
November 11, 2025 at 6:24 PM
my patience has increased but I will say, it is ok to have trouble reading, it is not ok to scream at people for things you imagined they said because you can't read what they actually said
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Saw this article in my feed earlier. Saw Dr. Loftus's name in it, which I recall from grad school.
You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams.
The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵
You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams.
The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵
Why Everyone's Talking About MDMA & Recovered Memories
Can MDMA help retrieve lost memories? This year’s hottest memoir, Amy Griffin's 'The Tell,' has reopened a thorny debate.
www.bustle.com
November 11, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Saw this article in my feed earlier. Saw Dr. Loftus's name in it, which I recall from grad school.
You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams.
The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵
You can't trust "recovered memories" only experienced while on psychedelics, which make memories malleable and may be more akin to dreams.
The body DOES keep score, but not all trauma is CSA. 🧵
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My first publication was a letter to the editor when I was six or seven. What a thrill, to be heard and valued.
“I emerged from that experience with a better understanding of the widening gulf between what our readers expected from us and what our owner and leaders wanted the paper to be. That clarity contributed to my decision to leave The Post this summer.”
www.notus.org/perspectives...
www.notus.org/perspectives...
The Washington Post Got 21,000 Emails After It Didn't Endorse. I Read Them All.
Reading and editing letters gave me a theory about what is wrong with America — and how it could be fixed.
www.notus.org
November 9, 2025 at 4:30 AM
My first publication was a letter to the editor when I was six or seven. What a thrill, to be heard and valued.
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He: You spent money on an AIR PURIFIER?
Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed]
He: You really should be in sales.
Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.
Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed]
He: You really should be in sales.
Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 PM
He: You spent money on an AIR PURIFIER?
Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed]
He: You really should be in sales.
Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.
Me: [erupting into a 15-minute talk on air pollution in cancer and dementia, confidently citing studies I once skimmed]
He: You really should be in sales.
Me: That's half my job, using vague recollections of science to convince people to fund more science.
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*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
November 8, 2025 at 2:36 PM
*whispers* It is a faithful adaptation of an early 1800s novel by a woman about an arrogant self centered man
Why are people
Why are people
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"Oh, I've got a consistent moral compass, how fucking bizarre."
But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.
But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.
November 8, 2025 at 7:43 PM
"Oh, I've got a consistent moral compass, how fucking bizarre."
But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.
But, truly, my inability to just quietly accept injustice - even in the short term, just to get through the day - is absolutely maladaptive. It's not great for my mental health, in a world with so little fairness.
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This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
November 8, 2025 at 4:40 PM
This entire piece is very, very good and well worth your time to read — but this bit had me rolling
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
lithub.com/maybe-dont-t...
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This person would likely label themselves a progressive. They volunteered, they cared about their causes, they could talk circles around others on so many topics
But they lost all humanity when faced with something they couldn't understand, they hadn't had to do, that their family didn't live
But they lost all humanity when faced with something they couldn't understand, they hadn't had to do, that their family didn't live
November 8, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This person would likely label themselves a progressive. They volunteered, they cared about their causes, they could talk circles around others on so many topics
But they lost all humanity when faced with something they couldn't understand, they hadn't had to do, that their family didn't live
But they lost all humanity when faced with something they couldn't understand, they hadn't had to do, that their family didn't live
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New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
The Age of Anti-Social Media Is Here
The social-media era is over. What’s coming will be much worse.
www.theatlantic.com
November 5, 2025 at 4:12 PM
New from me: I went deep on the way that generative AI and chatbots act as wormholes, pushing us deeper into our own minds. They threaten to compound the problems of algorithmic targeting that have festered unaddressed for years and years—what comes next may be even more alienating and isolating (🎁)
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running out of ways to say they keep making him sound cool
Another abominable editorial from the Wash Post
November 3, 2025 at 5:15 PM
running out of ways to say they keep making him sound cool
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Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
November 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Your art isn’t bad just because it’s not selling right now.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
We’re in a recession and people don’t know when they’re gonna eat next, nobody can afford fun things because the economy is crumbling. It’s going to be hard a while.
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I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
November 3, 2025 at 2:10 PM
I really love this Vincent Van Gogh quote:
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.
"To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one's fling from time to time, smoke one's pipe, and drink one's coffee in peace."
No romanticizing the starving artist. Van Gogh said UBI all the way.