Machines of Loving Grace: How AI Could Transform the World for the Better
‘[A]n astonishing 44 percent of [matriarchal, horticultural] societies engaged in frequent warfare and over 50 percent in intermittent warfare (which effectively challenges the notion that the Great Mother societies were “peace-loving”); 61 percent had private property rights; 14 percent had slavery; and 45 percent had bride price. And let us delicately ignore the fact that many horticultural societies practiced ritual human sacrifice, which was required, among other things, to insure crop fertility (one such site revealed eighty one-year-old girls sacrificed to the Great Mother)’ Link
“The Professors are the enemy,” said JD Vance. And more besides. Pay attention
Let This Radicalize You: Organizing and the Revolution of Reciprocal Care
In Small Plastic Things Forgotten: The Contradictions and Consequences of Biopower
‘‘none of [the greatest] philosophers … had any experience of living with women or children’ Link
A lovely review of Slouch: Posture Panic in Modern America by physical therapist Beth Linker
‘[W]we are all in agreement that universities, at this point, are where intellectual passion goes to die, buried under mountains of pointless grant applications imposed on us humanists by the insane and suicidal cargo-cult of STEM worship, which in the end is just a poorly disguised worship of money and power (to name only one of several conjoint threats)’ Link
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Enjoyed the Patriarchy article 👍🏼