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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · Aug 12

For folks who don't know me, I am a complete idiot. All of my ideas are bad. You should definitely ignore me.

And I am fully aware my heterodox opinions infuriate you.

But here's the thing: I truly don't care if my opinions infuriate you.

You should be infuriated at Trump & Biden for this, tho.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

Like, I have PTSD and some MH issues besides, and I certainly wouldn't want me to be a Senator.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

That's true, but the key differentiator between development of technology and not is the presence of autism. doi.org/10.1371/jour...

Widespread signatures of positive selection in common risk alleles associated to autism spectrum disorder

Author summary Predisposition to psychiatric disorders is due to the contribution of many genes involved in numerous molecular mechanisms. Since brain evolution has played a pivotal role in determinin...

doi.org

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

My central thesis is that this is ignoring actual, major, and measurable genetic differences.

The "modern behavior" is simply the presence of autism. That's why it's genetically selected-for (see, e.g., doi.org/10.1371/jour...).

So you have to control for it. There aren't just one kind of human.

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when it could not be supported on anatomical grounds. In TRTW, Brooks and I argued for the cognitive unity of Homo sapiens -- that is, that early Homo sapiens indviduals were equally capable of complex and sophisticated behaviors as later members. It simply took a long time to invent them all. We concluded that the constellation of behaviors, techniques, and objects commonly agreed by archaeologists as signaling "modern" behavior accumulated over the course of the Middle Stone Age by normal processes of invention, communication, and cultural elaboration, similar to those described as cultural evolution by Henrich and McElreath (2003). In an age with a much lower population density than that of today, these processes might be expected to be slow and perhaps erratic. This situation has been illustrated by the demographic modeling of Powell et al. (2009). I would like to outline what seem to me the obvious major requirements that limit how archeaology can contribute to the debate concerning the origin of "modern" behavior.

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Preorder Read This When Things Fall Apart @mskellymhayes.bsky.social · 21h

If anyone's heard anything about troop movements out of Joliet, please let me know.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

I'm not sure why they're going after Lucy Mercer Rutherfurd.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 3h

I hope those invaders fall into the Quarry.

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Khashoggi's Ghost @urocklive1.bsky.social · 10h

Apparently the Texas National Guard is being deployed at the Chicago ICE facility tonight.

I hope everyone stays home, and the Guard is bored and feel foolish for being there.

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Imani Gandy Corn 🎃 @angryblacklady.blacksky.app · 12h

I wonder what was going on then that the antifascist movement was responding to. So weird I can't figure it out

Matt Novak @paleofuture.bsky.social · 13h

"Antifa has been around in various iterations for almost 100 years in some instances, going back to the Weimar Republic in Germany."

- Jack Posobiec at Trump's roundtable on antifa

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Lowell Thomas @lowellthomas.bsky.social · 5h

This

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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 7h

BREAKING: THOUSANDS of Americans have spontaneously taken over the streets of Chicago to protest Trump’s National Guard invasion. More and more coming by the minute! LET’S GO! 💪💪💪

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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 6h

White House Press Secretary Announces Trump Headed To Walter Reed On Friday ⬇️

polinews.org/trump-fights...

White House Press Secretary Announces Trump Headed To Walter Reed On Friday

Nothing’s ever just routine

polinews.org

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Barracks Life 🇺🇸🪖🌈 🎃 @barrackslife.com · 4h

BREAKING: The Chicago pastor intentionally shot in the head by masked ICE agents is SUING. 💪 He's being joined by journalists ICE targeted. "I invite ICE to repent." 👏 They won't, so suing them into the ground will have to do.

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 20h

If you’re not alarmed yet you’re not paying attention. 🇺🇸

www.mediaite.com/media/news/t...

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Schooley @schooley.bsky.social · 4h

It’s a running joke that Trump’s staff is manipulating him with AI videos, but that increasingly seems like the only way to explain what he’s talking about.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

Yes, not 100%. Not even 50%.

But football players with CTE don't turn into nicer guys.

And a United States Senator that went from a progressive to a hard core conservative basically overnight concomitant with his stroke?

I mean, yes. #notallTBIs

But these ones? absolutely.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

The thing she misses, understandably, is there is no controlling for autism. Without autism, humans don't have technology.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

It's kind of an amazing conclusion though. Now I get to read this paper; thank you!

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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 4h

I love it when academics publish papers that are like, "I checked and I'm still right"
www.jstor.org/stable/24393...

In this paper I review research since 2000 and conclude
that it has vindicated this view

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

"I'd like to habeas her corpus."

I'll show myself out.

Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

And yet he took it anyway.

You can't point to a piece of paper that failed to protect you and say "oh that guy is violating this piece of paper left right and center!"

There is no Rule of Law in America anymore. It's the Rule of Trump.

Rule of Law is gone. Totally.

darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 23h

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Oliver Willis @owillis.bsky.social · 12h

me: the democrats would be much better communicators if they took some notes from professional wrestling

jb pritzker: does the thing

Governor JB Pritzker @govpritzker.illinois.gov · 15h

If you come for my people, you come through me.

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Numbcat9 @numbcat9.bsky.social · 4h

The entire Constitution is meaningless.

Countries have Constitutions to create the "Rule of Law."

We don't have the Rule of Law in America anymore. We have the Rule of Trump.

The Constitution is therefore entirely meaningless. Including the Judiciary it created.

Sad to say, it's toast.

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 17h

Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson: "This president is unstable, unhinged, a double-minded individual that quite frankly is a threat to our democracy. It's certainly not the first time that Donald Trump has called for the arresting of a Black man unjustly."

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putawomanincharge.bsky.social @putawomanincharge.bsky.social · 11h

FYI ..
EPSTEIN used young boys too.
Yes. He. Did.
Another HUGE reason they are fighting this.

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Adrian Walking Dead 🧟‍♂️ 🦇 @adrianswalker.blacksky.app · 8h

“the girlfriend of one of the founders of antifa”

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