Janice M. Eisen

Beginning of article from Scientific American sowing a lovely orange-toned painting of a naked woman running with a spear

Beginning of an article reading "Even if you're not an anthropologist, you've probably encountered one of this field's most influential notions, known as Man the Hunter. The theory proposes that hunting was a major driver of human evolution and that men carried this activity out to the exclusion of women. It holds that human ancestors had a division of labor, rooted in biological differences between males and females, in which males evolved to hunt and provide, and females tended to children and domestic duties. It assumes that males are physically superior to females and that pregnancy and child-rearing reduce or eliminate a female's ability to hunt. Man the Hunter has dominated the study of human evolution for nearly half a century and pervaded popular culture. It is represented in museum dioramas and textbook figures, Saturday morning cartoons and feature films. The thing is, it's wrong."

You will be shocked, shocked to hear that "The Theory That Men Evolved to Hunt and Women Evolved to Gather Is Wrong"! 🙄 Duh! OF COURSE IT'S WRONG. But now there's a cool article listing the biological and evidentiary reasons, along with nifty diagrams.

www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-...

"as a jazzman" - here West, the master improviser, seamlessly connects the suffering of Palestinians to Harlan Crow's political donations.

I very much agree that it's important not to conflate Jewish people and Israel.

but also...there are definitely Jewish people and Jewish institutions that want to conflate all Jewish people and Israel. 1

If Shaun be White, you’re snowboarding all right
If Shaun be King, buddy it’s a whole fucking thing

Tibetan monk apologizes for Jimmy Eat World.

Mood

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Bluesky wouldn't let me use an underscore in my username, fwiw.

I can't decide if this display means my library is very funny or has completely given up

Right now, Jews and our allies face an enormous test of bravery, but probably not the one you’re thinking: We have the opportunity to be brave enough to imagine an option other than violence. We can look at the prospect of mass murdering innocent Palestinians as a means to bring us the peace we’ve spent our entire history chasing and say No. Not in my name. Not ever.

i was nervous to publish this for so many reasons, but i did it anyway. as i write, it’s time to be brave.

i hope you’ll read it.

www.thehandbasket.co/p/we-can-cho...

It's also the exact argument conservatives made 85 years ago to oppose letting Jewish refugees settle here

Overheard

A lot of feigned hand-wringing over online and youth-led expressions of disapproval (so-called “cancel culture”) worked to overshadow actual successful censorship efforts that have now overtaken schools, college campuses, and the battle over the future of the internet

Trump Fined $5,000 for Breaking Gag Order by Leaving Abusive Post Online The former president used social media to attack a clerk for the judge in his civil fraud case, and left a copy of the post online for weeks.

Five thousand dollars. That'll teach 'em.

I don't know this guy, but this remains the funniest lede I've ever read in my life. It's been five years and I still think about it.

I can never leave the hellsite while it still has guys like this:

Dude starts with “I can certainly believe JFK Junior is a time traveler,” follows with: listen, buddy, I don’t just believe ANYTHING I read on the internet, & segues to “I used to be rich but now live in a shack. Honor my sacrifice.”

Exactly this. It's horrible, it's dysfunctional, it's proof that everything is completely broken, it's the culmination of two generations of the Republican Party trying to break government, and it is also absolutely fucking hilarious because if you can't laugh you'll start screaming

Full sequence of the annular solar eclipse at Shiprock, New Mexico. This was a dream composition of mine. So much time, energy, and money went into making it happen. I'm forever grateful to the Navajo for letting me shoot it from sacred ground. An experience I'll never forget.

This guy sat in the Speaker Chair longer than Jim Jordan did.

Tomorrow my baby, who is Jewish and Palestinian, turns one. I have too many thoughts and not enough words.

SpaceX successfully buffaloed federal agencies to permit a launch which failed to use standard technology in place since before Apollo, resulting in giant chunks of concrete being throw thousands of feet into wetlands.

Now the agencies are sort-of doing their jobs, so SpaceX is really mad.

The Onion is singlehandedly keeping me sane. The Onion headline reads “Biden Urges Americans Not to Let Dangerous Online Rhetoric Humanize Palestinians”

The Onion is singlehandedly keeping me sane.

Paul Ryan's most revealing line, from the day that an effort to repeal the Affordable Care Act failed : "We were a 10-year opposition party… being against things was easy to do."

Thinking about this quote today.

Reproduction of excerpt from Timothy Snyder's book ON TYRANNY: "1. Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do."

As well-meaning publishers try to navigate the coming storm of state laws against diversity, I hope they'll consider Timothy Snyder's Rule #1 (from his slim book ON TYRANNY).

Analysis | The perils of never questioning what Jim Jordan says Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.) declared that Jim Jordan had absolute integrity and was inherently credible. He might want to be careful with those assumptions.

There are a lot of things one can fairly say about Jim Jordan. That his honesty is beyond reproach is not one of them.

Even by the abysmally-low standards set by Heritage this is deeply racist and disgusting

More and more Republicans turning their back on Jim Jordan like he’s a sexually assaulted college student.

Look I know you have a lot on your plate right now and it’s stressing you out but I’m gonna need you to abandon it all to lie still and become unconscious for about eight hours and if you can’t relax enough to do that your brain will destroy itself and everything will be so much worse. Sweet dreams!

For those of you who read misinformation and were wondering…

Simpsons shot of Republican Convention Inside, modified. Banners read "We Want What's Worst For Everyone" and "We Can't Govern"

Updating half the Simpsons meme in light of the current House.