Donald Mitchell

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@western_bester My impression is R1 dominates European Y haplogroup, because the Indo-Europeans may have slain conquered men, but not women. So a lot of R1 doesn't necessarily mean a lot of Indo-European mt and autosomal genes. In India, a lot of Brahmins are R1 but not so much other castes.

Is this a high amount of Western Hunter Gatherer?

@western_bester @TheCinesthetic As was _Outlander_

@TheCinesthetic Based off Beowulf

The 13th Warrior (1999) leans into its own myth and makes it work. A stranger learning the language, stepping into a legend, and that slow build into something primal and brutal. Just a really fun watch that knows exactly what it is.

@coreyspowell @TheGlobeIsDead Sam Hyde did a long interview with a major flat-earth guy, politely questioned and humored him for an hour, and then delivered a scathing epilog -- 'Flat Earth is weaponized stupidity that demonstrates how weak and vulnerable modernity is'

@TheGlobeIsDead Your pinned post is a visual hoax! I really don't get the point of this nonsense, unless you are making a nice income fleecing the gullible.

Are you sure the Earth is a sphere? You can see otherwise for yourself.

@Cernovich China doesn't need US satellite images. Their Earth surveillance satellite constellation is first rate. Realtime 4K video, multi-spectral imaging, synthetic aperture radar.

The U.S. government has forced satellite imaging sites to delay or not publish new data. We have no idea how much (or how little) damage has been done. The claim is that this is needed to prevent Iran and China from knowing what targets have been hit.

NVIDIA DLSS 5 is getting mocked, but I think this is the future direction for game realism. Basic rendering of the game animation, and then AI enhancement. Decades of SIGGRAPH research out the window? Maybe. This is a completely different path to photorealism.

Welcome to X! Let's go! It gets stuck on that for hours at a time now, if you use "Following" instead of "For you".

Just outside the court, some tourists from The Netherlands came up to us and (unironically) thanked is for invading Iraq. Haha. We had an interesting discussion about politics.

My brother and I visited the Nuremberg court during a vacation trip to southern Germany. I recalled that trip when I watched the excellent new movie _Nuremberg_. Russell Crowe and the rest of the cast did an impressive job.

I’m 100 percent convinced the Art Deco design of Hoover Dam is America’s greatest ever public project and we’ll probably never come close again

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Matter, Energy & Intelligence

@MarioNawfal Rail guns and laser weapons. Genuinely interesting and infinite sinks for research money.

🇯🇵 Japan just pulled off a world-first: fired a ship-mounted electromagnetic railgun from the JS Asuka and nailed a target vessel at sea. The gun uses massive electricity to hurl projectiles at nearly 7 times the speed of sound, insane kinetic punch with no explosives needed. The US spent a decade and billions trying to build one, then quit. Japan kept going... and just succeeded. Why this matters: - Railguns could revolutionize naval warfare: cheap shots, huge range (100+ miles), unlimited magazine (just power), deadly vs ships/drones/missiles. - Gives Japan a serious edge in the Indo-Pacific against saturation attacks or hypersonics. - Revives the “sci-fi” weapon race, China’s already deep into railguns too. The future of naval guns might be Japanese. Source: Forced News YT

@RDEIL @memcculloch Did you know Ed Stone by any chance?

@RDEIL @memcculloch I spent more years in grad school that many PhD's but twice bailed out to accept good jobs (Bell Labs, and Microsoft Research). No regrets at all. Princeton was nice enough to give me an MS in computer science.

A PhD just means your scientific curiosity is stronger than three years of poverty & causing uncomfortable silences at parties.

@CasmelOne @BryceMLipscomb Yes. I think it's more accurate to say that the oligarch Khodorkovsky had an intimate business relationship with Jacob Rothschild.

It’s just clickbait. The Rothschild family, although involved in banking and financial activities related to Russia since the 19th century, never established a direct, on-the-ground presence there. Their business faced setbacks in the late 19th century after the assassination of Tsar Alexander II in 1881 and the wave of anti-Jewish policies that followed. With the fall of the USSR, the Rothschilds explored re-entering Russian markets. Despite new opportunities, they encountered political instability, corruption, and the complexities of a transitioning economy. As a result, they did not pursue large-scale operations in Russia as they did elsewhere, instead maintaining limited involvement through partnerships and advisory roles. The bottom line is that Putin never “kicked the Rothschilds out” of Russia.

The Rothschild’s got the boot in Russia 🇷🇺 by Vladimir Putin. So did many Jewish oligarchs who questioned the direction Putin was taking Russia 🇷🇺 in. This is why the West is against Putin. He told the Zionists to get the F*CK OUT. Yet another reason why I support Putin.

@pati_marins64 3000 rounds per minute

Good footage.

@DavidSacks @jacobin @BayAreaCurrent @grok, how many people did the Jacobins kill in France?

@jacobin @BayAreaCurrent 🤣

Silicon Valley is openly embracing antidemocratic and reactionary ideas. Far from being isolated to tech billionaires, such ideologies are now commonplace in Bay Area tech culture: jacobin.com/2026/03/tech-f… (via @bayareacurrent)

You are supposed to start with more words and winnow them down to fewer. Posting is not a term paper in high school. AI posts are obvious on their face and unpersuasive. Ain’t no one reading all that shit.

@seanonolennon I see a lot of servo-motor theater, robots dancing or doing martial arts moves. But almost no demonstrations of them doing something useful.

I still think bipedal robots are unnecessarily awkward. Why not domestic arachnids?

Seattle provides many lessons in how not to design an urban freeway. youtu.be/DeFY9u69tkE?si…

@RDEIL @alexboge It's typical though, a lot of these nutty guys are narcissists. They are high on the idea that they have a deeper understanding than regular people.

@alexboge Their assumption that they understand how GPS works better than the people who created it is both funny and sad.

People sometimes ask me why should anyone bother engaging with flat earthers. “You know you’re not going to change their minds.” Correct. Changing their minds isn’t the point. There’s actually a practical value in engaging with them. It’s one of the best ways to sharpen your basic debate skills. Because here’s the thing: Earth is objectively a globe. That part is already settled, 2300 years ago. So if you ever find yourself losing the exchange, it isn’t because the Flerf suddenly discovered new physics. It means you made a mistake in your debate technique. Maybe you missed the fallacy. Maybe you let them shift the burden of proof. Maybe you followed them into a rhetorical trap or a misrepresentation. Flat Earth arguments are basically a live-fire training exercise in spotting and dismantling bad reasoning. You learn to detect nonsense faster. You learn how people try to sneak it past you. You learn how to shut it down cleanly. What you will never get from them is better science or new knowledge about the universe. That’s not on the table. But as a place to practice recognizing logical tricks and intellectual sleight-of-hand? Flat Earth is basically the sparring gym for bullshit detection.