Holly Dunsworth

Diddler on the Roof

Analysis | What humans can learn from some of history’s greatest zoo escapes When we looked for life lessons in some of the most successful zoo escapes, we found out why we’re so fascinated by these scaly, furry, feathery fugitives.

--“There’s nothing like a hero’s journey [...] those singular cases of the cow, the turkey, the pig — whatever it is — getting off of that truck somehow and making his or her way through a city? It’s everything that we need.”--
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AWESOME.

The absurd thing is that David Grossman could not say this at Columbia or else he would be accused of antisemitism.

Time’s ticking for American authors to get on the right side of opposing genocide.

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Cover of book FEMINISM IN THE WILD

I’m finishing up one with exactly what I wrote. Lots of good books critique the traditional narratives but few of those show a way to think evolutionarily without them. But Feminism in the Wild is great. mitpress.mit.edu/978026204963...

Another way out of the trap is to teach, in science classes, a legitimate evolutionary narrative of sex, gender, and sexual behavior that, by comparison, reveals the authoritative, dogmatic, “Darwinian” one that the manosphere wields to be tired, old, unscientific bullshit.

Another way out of the trap is to teach, in science classes, a legitimate evolutionary narrative of sex, gender, and sexual behavior that, by comparison, reveals the authoritative, dogmatic, “Darwinian” one that the manosphere wields to be tired, old, unscientific bullshit.

Why isn’t bell hooks’s writing around men and love not seen as a progressive text on how men can get laid, i.e., form healthy romantic relationships with people in their lives?

Bravo.
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Start your morning with two minutes of the testimony of Samuel Garcia, an average American who drove 3 hours to speak truth to power to the Texas legislature. Let’s decide that we are all Samuel Garcia. Get in their faces and make them listen. Mr. Garcia is a great American.

What’s a technology that you think is overhyped? I’m going to give a sideways answer to this, which is that the venture capital business model needs to be understood as requiring hype. You can go back to the Netscape IPO, and that was the proof point that made venture capital the financial lifeblood of the tech industry. Venture capital looks at valuations and growth, not necessarily at profit or revenue. So you don’t actually have to invest in technology that works, or that even makes a profit, you simply have to have a narrative that is compelling enough to float those valuations. So you see this repetitive and exhausting hype cycle as a feature in this industry. A couple of years ago, you would have been asking me about the metaverse, then last year, you would have asked me about Web3 and crypto, and for each of these inflection points there’s an Andreessen Horowitz manifesto. It’s not simply that one piece of technology is overhyped, it’s that hype is a necessary ingredient of the current business ecosystem of the tech industry. We should examine how often the financial incentive for hype is rewarded without any real social returns, without any meaningful progress in technology, without these tools and services and worlds ever actually manifesting. That’s key to understanding the growing chasm between the narrative of techno-optimists and the reality of our tech-encumbered world.

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Hammer on nail... this man is going viral.

More of this kind of path to the truth!

cavemen probably sucked at pickleball

Thread from March 2021 on how if Dems do not hold Trump and his cohort accountable and address structural problems, then all the Biden admin wil be is an interlude between autocracies. Someone with better eyesight is welcome to retype it all by hand but I'm not doing that; thus alleged altvtexr system with a tiny box of type is not designed for people who are vision impaired like me

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Everything happening now was obvious by March 2021. That's why I wrote about it *then*.

This matters because this is a planned autocracy. Feigned surprise at horrors is meant to rewrite history and present our plight as if it wasn't a plan obvious four years ago and countenanced by both parties.

"Like requesting the bullet points of grief. Like demanding the key takeaways about laughing until your stomach hurts. . . The early universities (Bologna, Paris, Oxford) were built around the radical idea that complex ideas required communal struggle. . .
Knowledge wasn't something you collected"

If you need a pick-me-up, read Sabrina's wonderfully bizarre and strangely touching story about chimps sticking blades of grass up their butts.

How does testosterone interact with the clitoris? Rather a lot, as it happens. Here's what you need to know about science, hormones, and the clitoris's relationship with testosterone...

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If the internet didn't exist, no one would walk up to a city or town news stand, point at all the dozens of magazines and newspapers, and say to the vendor: "Listen, I can't afford *all* these. Let me just leaf through a few of them for an hour and I'll give you, say, a buck."

It’s believed through faith in the unknown and unknowable evolved grab-em-by-the-pussy psyche. But talk of “a million years” lends it that air of science. Enough already.

natural and sexual selection and that is causing assault and rape. Even though ideas like Trump’s are shared by scholars, it’s all bullshit. But it’s a special kind isn’t it?

academics. Evolution is true but this view of evolved male behavior is scientifically untrue; there is no way to verify or falsify it. There is no scientific way to know if there is an innate male sexual psyche that’s been brought about by

No one can look over what remains from the last million years and see sexual assault. You’d have to watch a recording like a film. It’s never going to happen. So what’s he talking about? A mainstream but completely fucked up idea of evolution that he shares w/ the manosphere & influential …

I'm so glad you saw this, Patrick. I was going to send it to you, if you didn't. Ken was marvelous. He left a mark on me too.

Loss After Loss The Essence of the Thing As most often now, Ken was sleeping when I entered his room.  He opened his eyes, said hello, and dozed off again. ...

"Dementia is [] loss of the ability to reason, to evaluate, to put two and two together, it’s truly living in the moment, which brings the loss of the ability to read, or to appreciate baseball games, or" @annevbuchanan.bsky.social on Ken Weiss is about us all ecodevoevo.blogspot.com/2025/07/loss...

gray and black brain painting with curving lines and text - there is no such thing as artificial intelligence

There it is
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Saw a sign in England last week that said, "You aren't stuck in traffic. You ARE traffic." 🤯

do you ever think about the people who pulled 100 hour weeks to get those vaccines done who are now facing a massive job shortage because the public has decided to devote every moment to destroying them and their livelihoods

do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists