This woman is uniquely 0.01% ambitious and determined

Top tier Ballerina then MIT

But she dedicated herself to.... a Crypto Gambling

A sign of a suffering culture when our brightest use their talents on such things

https://twitter.com/notgustadev/status/1982205580904198432

Crypto Gambling does not produce anything in the real economy

It uses resources while being a fun distraction and activity for users AT BEST

And at worst it destroys the entire lives of a small but significant (because of the damage done to these people and their partners/children etc.) portion of users

486 American Indians in a mass grave.

But the year is ~1325. Pre-European.

What happened, and what it tells us about life before contact in North America - thread🧵 Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war, not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Are you a fan of ethnic slurs?

To make you a more informed slur-enthusiast, I am bringing you the History of all your favorite slurs

Starting with my favorite - WOP! Thread 🧵

(I'll even tell you where p*jeet) comes from Wop comes from the Italian word "guappo"

Meaning "bold, showy" - An American slur for Italian-Americans

....If you've met any Italian-Americans the reason is self-explanatory

It can be combined with another favorite of mine to make a rare compound-slur

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

Over 30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

By the time Columbus sailed the Chinese fleet was burned or left to rot. The records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭 Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power and engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed with him

Seven NEW Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

Stuff just keeps getting older

Thread 🧵, my favorite one from the Amazon at the end (Percy Fawcett & Francisco de Orellana vindicated)

But first, Peru But first, a Peruvian throneroom

Before the Incas the Moche thrived in Peru.

Archaeologists believe the throneroom belonged to a female ruler, ~700 AD

Also in Peru, an old find was expanded...

The First World War, 1914, was not really the first WORLD WAR

Aztecs, Incans, Spaniards, Somalis, Egyptians, Malays, Turks, and more all fought against eachother

...in 1578

Thread 🧵 on the Castilian War The Castilian War (or Spanish expedition to Borneo) was fought for a few months in 1578

The still expanding Spanish Empire was entering Southeast Asia

Pushing from the West into the Ottoman sphere of Influence

This man was the "Last Wild Indian"

In 1911, Starving and alone, the 50-year old emerged from the California Wilderness

The life of the man whose name could not be told in this thread🧵 He was called "Ishi", but this just meant man in the Yahi language

In his culture, he could not speak his name until he was introduced by another Yahi

When asked he said: "I have none, because there were no people to name me"

But how did he come to be the last?

How Well do you know Meso-American History?

Test yourself with this 10-question quiz on the cultures, people, and events of Central America from ancient to contact (key at the end)

1. What Culture were the Primary Allies of Cortes and his men against the Mexica? (Aztecs) 2. Which of the Following is NOT one of the "three sisters" crops grown by many Meso-American people?

Flint Dibble just MADE STUFF UP on Joe Rogan to discredit Graham Hancock

It's far worse than anyone realized

A bunch of new Ice Age and Maritime archaeology problems with what Fraud Dibble shared on Joe Rogan

Thread 🧵 Flint made all these claims and more

What is true? What isn't?

Who knows with Flint. He's a loose cannon with no integrity

Actually, I know

Seven NEW Archaeology Discoveries of 2024

Stuff just keeps getting older

Thread 🧵, my favorite one from the Amazon at the end (Percy Fawcett & Francisco de Orellana vindicated) But first, a Peruvian throneroom

Before the Incas the Moche thrived in Peru.

Archaeologists believe the throneroom belonged to a female ruler, ~700 AD

Also in Peru, an old find was expanded...

All humans outside of Sub-Saharan Africa descend from one group - Until Now

These mummies are as distant from Sub-Saharan Africans as they are from all other humans

Who they ARE related to, and why it's confusing - Thread 🧵 They have some relation to Berber populations - from later mixing

Majority of their DNA is from a split from SSAs - same time as other non-SSAs

They are as distant from SSAs and more distance from Europeans than Europeans are from New Guineans

DOGE has made cuts to Federal Humanities Grants

Many articles from mainstream news written about it, but few explain what those grants are

So in this thread 🧵I show WHAT grants are being cut (they're exactly what you think) First, just share the FIRST page.

From the gov website from the National Endowment from the Humanities, alphabetical by state (bookmark this thread for when someone brings up the cutting off grants)

All four are concentrated on Diversity....

A "US" tourist was just arrested for going to North Sentintel Island

....To give them a can of coke & a coconut

So a thread 🧵of the history of contact on this remote "uncontacted" island starting in 1771

And why the last guy who went called it "Satan's Last Stronghold"
The first siting was by the EIC Ship, Diligent, as she sailed the wider Andaman Islands

Captain John Ritchie noted only fire he saw on the shore & continued sailing

Nearly 100 years later, the first foreigners stepped foot on the island, under precarious circumstances

A century Before Columbus, a fleet of 300 ships sailed from China

30 years & 7 voyages, they visited Africa, Asia, India, & the Middle East

Only decades after the Chinese fleet was burned or left to rot. The records destroyed. Why?

Thread 🧵🧭 Unlike Columbus, the Eunuch Admiral Zheng did not seek discovery, Gold, or Conquest

He was tasked with projecting Chinese Maritime Power and engaging in diplomacy/trade with tributaries & Distant Rulers

30,000 sailors, diplomats, officials, & soldiers sailed with him

486 American Indians slaughtered. Their village burned.

But the year is ~1325 AD. Long before Europeans came.

What happened, and what it tells us about life before contact in North America - thread🧵 Even today, some people assert that Europeans brought the concept of total war, not true

The site of the massacre was found in the 1950s, reported on in 1978 by the SD Archaeological Society

The Famous Wounded Knee, by comparison, was *only 150-300 people

Anthropology is now Political Activism

PhD Anthrpologists now attack ideas like GENDER DIVISION IN HUMANS

If they supported the idea, it would be fine

But they are wrong. I explain specifically why in this thread 🧵 They begin by attacking the long-standing theory

Firstly, I reject the idea that males are "superior" to females

Both Hunting and Gathering are integral for subsistence in early cultures

Public school taught me that the Crusades were Evil

Christians killing innocents for religion with inhumane bloodlust

But learning beyond what I was taught in school made me rethink this entirely

Thread on why the Crusades were justified🧵 The most basic information changes the entire situation

Before the Islamic Expansion starting in the 7th c. the Holy Land was full of Christians and other religions

The Crusades were not a conquest but a RE-conquest

This map is not perfect, but a good representation

For over 𝟰𝟴𝟬 𝘆𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀, an Amazonian civilization was a pseudoscientific myth

Those who believed in it were mocked

De Orellana discovered it in 𝟭𝟱𝟰𝟮. Proven in 2024

The Discovery & what it means | Thread 🧵 This Recent Discovery of a large Civilization in the Amazon is possible because of the use of GPR & LiDAR

This newer technology allows for discovery of Archaeological sites formerly covered by jungle brush

the Archaeological features outline where buildings once were

There is still more to be found in our World

The SECOND Largest Mayan city known to exist was discovered just last year

Just a few miles from a highway in Mexico

Thread 🧵 on the Discovery of the lost city of Valeriana The city was found w/ LiDAR (a few years ago but just published on)

Surveyed without anyone physically going, an archaeologist looked through NASA ecological data

But it's only 15 miles from a major road - why was it not discovered? What else could be left to discover?

The Most Powerful Pirate Lord in History was a Chinese Woman

Born a Prostitute, she rose to command 80,000 Pirates

& Forced the Qing Empire to Negotiate

🧵thread Born Shi Yang, ~1775 in Canton, China. She would become Ching Shih

As a poor woman from a poor area she became a prostitute on a floating brothel, serving pirates coming to port (example pic)

But she provided more than services of the flesh

The Alamo, Thermopylae, Rorke's Drift, Custer

Stories of Last Stands are told for Millenia, but you haven't heard of this one

When the "Vikings of North America" fell to the Russians

Thread 🧵 The Tlingit & Haida were feared for hundreds of miles

They wrote wooden armor & raided the coasts for slaves

Instilling fear in all people they came in contact with. But this created false confidence