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Oct 23, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Been reading about it lately, and IMO the failed Mongol/Chinese Yuan invasion of Java is perhaps a more interesting story overall than their invasion of Japan (which gets more notice). Would make a great tv series. The conflict began when Kertanegara, a colorful Javanese king who styled himself an avatar of both the Hindu god Shiva & the Buddha, responded to Kublai Khan's demand to accept his sovereignty by branding his envoy's face w a hot iron, cutting his ears, & sending him back.
Aug 29, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
The more I read of Prostasia, the more like a boutique pedophile advocacy org it seems, even if for non-offending pedophiles (though even that seems less & less clear), & the more the stuff about protecting kids seems like an afterthought or a convenient framing for other goals.
Aug 28, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
By their own admission, Prostasia is not merely a child protection org. They fight "the abuse of human rights in the name of children," "bigotry" & "unchecked government surveillance." They don't mean bigotry against or surveillance of children. Image All feelings re: NB, puritan panics, uncritical disgust reactions, etc, aside, IMO it's clear that one of their main goals is advocacy for the rights of pedophiles, even if just non-offending ones, & not just as a way to make kids safer. They should just be explicit about this.
Apr 15, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Not only did the prosecutor make the false claim that 13 year old Adam Toledo had a gun, which they are now trying to downplay, the video, which is genuinely horrific (be warned) makes it clear he had his hands up when they shot him. I'm already regretting watching the video. Don't really have the stomach to watch a 13 year old gunned down. Also not sure if sharing it is right or not, except that it clearly shows the cops murdered him, contra whatever they say.
Dec 20, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
Revisiting this several years on. I still think Boyer and Atran are largely correct about how to understand religion. The divide between "elite" and "popular" religion, in particular seems more and more salient to me all the time. Roughly, elite religion, which researchers previously considered representative out of their own bias, is the product of sociological & psychological outliers, & gains broader social purchase primarily through coercion, but quickly loses its hold without that. It's where most of
Dec 19, 2020 • 6 tweets • 6 min read
One of the most stunning exchanges I've ever seen on here, branching out into multiple, simultaneous threads, quote tweets, etc. Can't capture it all, but here are some of the main branches. Politics twitter has nothing on engineering twitter. If you've got a few min, be amazed. ImageImageImageImage ImageImageImageImage
Oct 27, 2020 • 14 tweets • 12 min read
Some scans of harder-to-find Japanese art book images to dispel feverish and monotonous election vibes. Starting off with some Amano. Some of the more explicitly Klimt-y Amano
Aug 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
If I'm getting this right, a White woman who started a failed MeToo org for people in STEM only to be accused of racist harassment herself was exposed as having created an account where she pretended to be a nonexistent queer Native American professor at Arizona State University. And she was exposed after trying to ditch the account by claiming the prof died of COVID and doing this bizarre eulogy thread to her.

Jul 25, 2019 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
The ex-cop (who was locked up for drug trafficking and murder) w/ phone access who may have had something to do w Epstein's injuries was from Briarcliff Manor, a town a north of NYC known for its wealthy estate-owning families, including the Vanderbilts, Astors, & Rockefellers. "Briarcliff Manor has a number of wealthy residents, and was rated 19th on CNNMoney's 25 Top-Earning Towns in the U.S."