YourNetworkIsHaunted

@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock and Stone⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  This is goin’ in tha book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a matter of perspective⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  But only the specific subset of anarchists that I read about first in my early 20s! All the others are just like those fascists in the Judean People’s Front!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other important point to add is that evo psych in popular discourse is rarely used to explain alone. Instead it seems to always lead into the naturalistic fallacy as an explanation for why the world can’t or shouldn’t be kinder, more humane, or less authoritarian. Add on to this that the people making these arguments are usually pretty out of touch with the actual archaeological record about their supposed environment of evolutionary adaptiveness and it’s not at all surprising that whatever legitimate insights it may offer are buried under a mountain of bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think a lot of the worst evo psych takes don’t even get as far as hypothesizing or evidence. They fail at the first hurdle of “identify something about the world”. It’s the classic Freudian error of never once asking “hey wait is everyone like this or is it just me?”

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Life imitates art?⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I feel like in this case it works out better. “Eat shit, Rene Magritte” is such a good line to have no context on.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Cheeky⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Horses were at least marginally less ridiculous before people got involved. Not quite to the same extent as dogs, but compare a steppe horse with a thoroughbred and you’ll see that they’re smaller and hardier. Much better equipped to live, slightly less able to carry fully armored people on their back.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Empires fall⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  Of course, some months later as fall approached, travellers saw stretched between the ruined pillars a banner proclaiming: Spirit Halloween Now Hiring!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Okay, two issues here...⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  I got all the way down on my one knee and nothing short of the second coming is gonna move me from this spot

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Caption this.⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s not that beauty is skin-deep, it’s that the subdermal tissues and structures are the stuff of eldricht nightmares and cronenbergian horror.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨MSc Mansplaining⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Given the /aiml URL they’ve got there I suspect that this is actually a picture of one of their real graduates pitching yet another terrible AI service that burns half a rainforest to badly summarize diet advice or something.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Spooky Internet⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Keeps me in a job, at least.