Jacob Shell

Can't stop staring at this GIF of the lower mantle's anomalous slow-wave mega-blobs...which might be last remnants of the paleo-planet Theia which collided with proto-Earth 4.5 billion years ago to create "our" Earth and the Moon.

@DeutschPlc What if youre a smart kid and dont like this method/straightjacket? They put you on meds?

@JacobAShell The idea is to explicitly teach dumb kids one of the ways that smart kids play inwardly.

Yes but I very much doubt this is the one “correct” mental process…seems like this is a way to get dumb kids to do something besides just memorize, but at cost of smart kids being allowed to do it in their own inwardly playful way.

@mrbobman15 Im just passing along what Embiid said

The Sixers' star center has to plead with Philadelphians not to sell their tickets for the Sixers-Knicks series to Knicks fans who plan to come down on the train + try to dominate all the seats in Philly. The fact that he has to say this tells you something about PHL

Deeply moved by this pair of lions in the Assyrian frieze in the British Museum. There is more in the eyes and the expressions than there is in most art made today.

@ofreacharound You should hand drawn it and made some stuff up to fill in gaps

@JacobAShell I kept thinking there would be more news and findings! Also my map making skills aren’t very strong

Reminder I did serious work on the ancient DNA revelations for a while

@rruetigger Proud until offered a wad of cash anyway

@JacobAShell I assumed Philly fans were pretty committed based on how rowdy they've been after big wins

@ofreacharound not too late, the stuff you talk about on that topic hasnt permeated general public consciousness at all

@ofreacharound You were on top of the "Out of Africa isnt really right" story, but never made a nice eye-catching map of what probably happened instead, that could have gone vriyal

I'm guessing schools that adopt this "way to make ten" pedagogy (or is it theology) don't produce superior mathematicians, but do produce many frustrated parents needlessly alienated from their kids' education.

A lot more interesting than Part II even if there are many glaring flaws, lack of FFC's younger perfectionism.

@SaveTheLibs Oh I assume there'd be more heat around the voter ID fight or something.

@JacobAShell In that scenario, what would they replace EC with to call a barrier to democracy?

In this scenario GOP hones its message to the suburbs and Dems to the inner cities (rurals ignored). They still get 51-49 splits over and over and over. That's it. How exciting.

It might be a good idea. Sure, maybe it is. But people fired up by the idea are telling themselves a confused alt-timeline story about how Gore and HRC could have won...when in fact Bush and Trump in those elections would have just campaigned differently.

Fascinating things happening in print media rn

@soncharm My theory of the D mind is really accurate and good. He's not going to be beat Harris

I’d make a prediction, but my predictions about politics are always wrong, especially D politics. Theory-of-mind issue

What's actually notable here is Piker's psychologistic and thereapeutic language. When he starts talking about "white supremacy," he instantly slips into the idiom of the DiAngelo-style DEI consultant, where people need to be "healed" of their "implicit biases."

Education is big! I think Liu writes about the NGO complex explicitly. You're right there's no part of the socialist left where they're holding conferences railing against intersectional NGO leftism. Like I said I think many economic leftists are seeking some kind of escape from that where they're not winding up just voting for tax breaks for Musk and more Middle East wars

@JacobAShell @feelsdesperate Come on, I literally paid money to DeBoer, he deviated from progressivism on education, but otherwise he falls in line.. Reed and Zizek are different, but have they written about the NGO-racial spoils issue?

Ok. This is an interesting clip. This is one of the first times I’ve seen a politician running explicitly against the progressive NGO kleptocracy. He’s wrong that these people are ‘socialists’ (they’re kleptocrats who use leftist rhetoric to legitimize themselves) but that’s fine. It’s still very effective rhetorically. The right needs to bring this attack up to scale: the purpose of the DSA is not ‘socialism,’ it’s to maximize public revenue extraction so that upper middle class jobs doing fake work can be doled out to political allies (surplus elites, failed creatives, etc.). It’s important for the public to understand what’s going on here and where their money is going and not only can this be an effective cudgel against the left, but smashing these rice bowls can have all sorts of other positive externalities for our politics.

@Hotshot_Movie @feelsdesperate Yeah maybe you're right. I guess he's calling her socialist in a neg way to scare off centrists

@JacobAShell @feelsdesperate This isn’t red meat for MAGA voters. Who wants to see their tax dollars wasted while their own neighborhood crumbles? Literally the most universal, non-partisan thing imaginable.