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Caravelle@caravellin· Jul 9

Honestly would 23 states even be enough to fix this

Map of the West Bank showing area C breaking up all the Palestinians enclaves of area A & B from https://www.palestineportal.org/learn-teach/israelpalestine-the-basics/maps/maps-1967-to-present/

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 27

Celles-ci?

Extrait du Lys Rouge d'Anatole France:

"Ils y doivent travailler devant la majestueuse égalité des lois, qui interdit au riche comme au pauvre de coucher sous les ponts, de mendier dans les rues, et de voler du pain."

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 22

One of the alien "markers" from Dead Space with a romaine lettuce pastede on.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 20

Great article, have to shout-out this factoid that I didn't know and is the funniest thing I've read this week

Screenshot of a paragraph from the article that says:

Tigers are orange because deer, their primary prey, can’t tell the difference between tiger orange and grass green. Of the two colors, orange is easier for melanin to make, and to a deer, both orange and green are the color of grass.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 20

I mean, they're just minor suicides Greg

Screenshot of the dad from Arrested Development in prison saying "There's a good chance I may have committed some light treason".

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 20

Right? I think my favorite might be this one

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 19

Allez, celle du CNRTL est pas mal non plus! www.cnrtl.fr/etymologie/c... Du bas latin pour "sorte de citrouille", du latin pour "citron" en raison de la couleur jaune citron de la citrouille mais oui bien sûr !

CITROUILLE, subst. fém.
Étymol. et Hist. 1256 citrole (A. de Sienne, Régime du corps, 51, 10 ds T.-L.), forme attestée seulement par cet auteur; 1549 citrulle ou citrouille (Est.); 1675 [1699 d'apr. Lar. Lang. fr.] fig. « femme grossière » (J.-H. Widerhold, Nouv. dict. fr.-all. et all.-fr., Bâle : C'est une grosse citrouille); 1713 « personne lourde, niaise » (Hamilton, Mémoires du comte de Grammont, p. 17 ds IGLF). Étant donnée l'orig. de la 1reattest. fr. et des 1resattest. lat., empr. au lat. médiév. du domaine ital. citrolus (1178 ds Du Cange t. 2, p. 345b) citrul(l)us (1176-87 ds Mittellat. W. s.v., 654, 3), latinisation du type de l'Italie du Sud (cf. la notoriété des médecins de l'École de Salerne) citrulo (corresp. au toscan citri(u)olo, xives. ds Batt.) dér. en -eolus (Rohlfs, § 1086) du b. lat. citrium « sorte de citrouille », du lat. citrus (citron*) en raison de la couleur jaune citron de la citrouille. La forme mod. en -ouille d'apr. les mots fr. affectés de cette finale.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 12

Wait, you don't know? That's confusing, he clearly has an immense respect for your field

Screenshots of the guy in question saying archaeology is the gold standard and we should LIDAR the entire Amazon and listing archaeology alongside logic as disciplines that lady doubt on the Out of Africa hypothesis.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 12

LMFAO are you trying to tell me you think it's not true? It honestly didn't occur to me given how easily searchable it is but if you didn't want to look it up yourself you just had to ask me for the source dude pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

Screenshot of the article abstract:

"Clothing use is an important modern behavior that contributed to the successful expansion of humans into higher latitudes and cold climates. Previous research suggests that clothing use originated anywhere between 40,000 and 3 Ma, though there is little direct archaeological, fossil, or genetic evidence to support more specific estimates. Since clothing lice evolved from head louse ancestors once humans adopted clothing, dating the emergence of clothing lice may provide more specific estimates of the origin of clothing use. Here, we use a Bayesian coalescent modeling approach to estimate that clothing lice diverged from head louse ancestors at least by 83,000 and possibly as early as 170,000 years ago. Our analysis suggests that the use of clothing likely originated with anatomically modern humans in Africa and reinforces a broad trend of modern human developments in Africa during the Middle to Late Pleistocene."

Melissa A Toups, Andrew Kitchen, Jessica E Light, David L Reed. Origin of clothing lice indicates early clothing use by anatomically modern humans in Africa. Molecular Biology and Evolution 2011 Jan;28(1):29-32

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 11

There is literally nobody you could have been quoting on this but yourself

bsky search for "black sahara shirt", sorted by "latest", showing an old 8month-old post header, then Adam Muraski's first "You see, you needed to be black to survive in the Sahara without a shirt." post, then my post pointing out he's the only person on bluesky who ever said this, and then the post where he claims to be quoting me.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 11

Wait... whaaaaaaaaaaaaat How is it possible, clearly they do know about shirts, I don't understand why don't they wear them doesn't everyone wear shirts when given the choice isn't that a human universal from back when Homo erectus wore unscraped hides the lice failed to notice

Photo of two other black men from the same blog linked above, one is wearing a sleeveless khaki t-shirt and a flowered bandana around his head and the other an unbuttoned button-up shirt (very unbuttoned, he's entirely bare-chested) with a tartan pattern as well as some kind of snazzy green felt hat.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 11

Here are some Dassanesh men from Ethiopia, a region mentioned in the paper as one people have particularly dark skin (not the Sahara), racistly not wearing shirts, presumably because they are too primitive to conceive of the idea www.beyondphototoursafrica.com/blog/dassane...

Three black young men from Omo valley sitting near a fence, apparently just hanging out, wearing a bottom that's like a short kilt or shorts, sandals, cool necklaces and no shirt.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 10

Who are you arguing against?

Bsky search for the phrase "You see, you needed to be black to survive in the Sahara without a shirt" that turns up only the above post.

Caravelle@caravellin· Jun 10

... than what Bari Weiss wrote about Refaat Alareer and look where that went. As an aside, when I was looking up what she'd written about him again I ran across this and OMG how bleak can things be

Screencap from Refaat Alareer's Wikipedia page, where a sentence says "In total, Israel killed more than 30 relatives of Alareer and his wife." with two citation references, the second of which is [needs update].

Caravelle@caravellin· May 22

international-review.icrc.org/articles/wat...

Thus, cutting off the water supply and other essentials necessary for the survival of civilians and restricting humanitarian access as a method of warfare may constitute violations of the prohibition, even if the measures were not taken for the specific purpose of starving civilians.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 22

Although I've got to say it doesn't change my overall opinion of the paper so I do get a kick out of all the pro-Israeli faction calling for people to cancel their subscription

Caravelle@caravellin· May 21

The popular cultural figure using marijuana today:

That photo of Elon Musk smoking a joint on Rogan's podcast and making a weird face.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 20

Interesting article, I had a question coming back again and again as I read it and then I found the article asked it too near the end: Like, what *is* your job? Fighting disinformation, or fighting persuasive communication from the enemy, and if it's the latter how's the enemy defined?

Screenshot of the article's penultimate paragraph. Highlighted sentence says: "That’s not a war disinformation experts can fight, and frankly, it’s not our job to."

Caravelle@caravellin· May 15

"Albeit now refined" in the paper I cited that's much more recent (2026 preprint) and discusses life starting from carbon metabolism, following a sequence that's more or less what alkaline hydrothermal vent hypotheses propose?

Screenshot from the preprint "Metrology of complexity and implications for the study of the emergence of life" with a highlighted section that says:

If one were to attempt to detail a cascade of phase transitions leading to LUCA, each mediating more assembled systems then the last, one might start with core carbon metabolism. Many theories for the origin of life begin with one or more of the six central carbon fixation pathways known in modern metabolism, which include acetate, pyruvate, oxalocetate, succinate and alpha-ketoglutarate as the standard universal precursors of all biosynthesis. Many, but not all, steps in these metabolic
pathways have been demonstrated to be possible in the absence of enzymes. These pathways lead to the synthesis of all 20 coded amino acids and the nucleobases. One set of ideas suggests a layered and scaffolded architecture for the early evolution of metabolism, where multiple nested autocatalytic loops of reactions eventually led to the synthesis of small oligomers (short polymeric sequences). With a self-sustaining system that can produce oligomers, one might next imagine
selection operating a new-hierarchical scale of interacting polymeric structures, where associations between nucleotide and amino acids sequences started to confer some advantage to persistence, perhaps due stereochemical associations. From here, the translation system would have been the next major transition in this cascade.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 15

The system described there has an energy source but has no entropy sink, no structured flux. No mechanisms to concentrate organic molecules so they'll actually react with each other, or remove products of a reaction so the disequilibrium that drives it is maintained. AHVs's physical structure do.

The Thermodynamic Dissipation Theory of the Origin and Evolution of Life [9,10,11,12,13,14] postulates that the first molecules of life (the fundamental molecules) were, at their origin, pigments dissipatively structured through photochemical and chemical reactions on the surface of the oceans from simpler and more common precursor molecules in water under the solar long-wavelength UVC (205–285 nm) light of the Archean. They were “designed” by Nature to carry out this thermodynamic imperative of absorbing light in this UVC region and then to dissipate it into heat (longer wavelength photons) released into the environment. This paper is dedicated to explain in simple terms how, and why, this happens.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 15

That's another good example for abiogenesis being a fractured field as pointed out in the Lane & Xavier paper you posted awhile back; this section talks about "these popular theories" as if it were all abiogenesis theories when it's mostly those in synthetic chemistry; AHV hypotheses don't do this

Even these currently popular, materialistic, and more science based theories for the origin of life, however, lack axiomatic foundations based in physical law and instead settle for describing only the chemical synthesis of as many fundamental molecules of life (common to all three life domains; archea, bacteria, eukaryote) as possible, as efficiently as possible, and from an as limited set of precursor molecules as possible. All such theories, however, share a similar characteristic of their mystical counterparts; they rely on the unsettling premise that Nature found an apparently unique, almost miraculous, chemical reaction set 3.9 billion years ago, endowing these molecules with Darwinian like characteristics of reproduction with small variation and selection based on either efficacy of molecular precursor sequestration or molecular stability. Suffice to say that no such fortuitous chemical reaction set has yet been discovered.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 13

This is a good complement to Kristof's article in NYT: "Rape and Torture in Palestine What Nicholas Kristof left out of The New York Times." matthewhoh.substack.com/p/rape-and-t...

Both times I was in Palestine, Judge, both times I was in the West Bank in 2017 and 2024, when I spoke with Palestinians, the things that they were most afraid of, the things that they were most fearful of, was what the Israelis would do to their children. And the Israelis will go into villages, they will go into towns. They don’t do it often, because they don’t have to do it often, but once, twice, three times a year they will come into a village and they will raid homes and they will take children away and hold those children for two or three or four days, and they will be tortured. They will be abused. They’ll be humiliated. They’ll be threatened. They’ll be forced to sign confessions in Hebrew that they cannot read because they’re afraid their parents will be tortured or killed — that’s what the Israelis threaten them with.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 13

FWIW, having read more of the article I think I found the answer to my question: the first sentence referred to this quote by Sari Bashi. Personally I think it's an empty technicality to focus on explicit orders when something's been normalised, but I'd guess that's where that sentence came from.

“Rampant sexual abuse of Palestinian prisoners is a thing; it’s been normalized,” said Sari Bashi, an Israeli American human rights lawyer who is the executive director of the Public Committee Against Torture in Israel. “I don’t see evidence that it has been ordered. But there’s persistent evidence that the authorities know it’s happening and are not stopping it.”

Caravelle@caravellin· May 13

A powerful piece that's still (sadly) relevant now, thank you for linking it This part makes me think of the people at the time of the DNC who couldn't imagine why having a Palestinian speak at the DNC would possibly matter to anyone.

A couple of weeks ago, in a professional space, someone called Palestinians by name and spoke of the seven decades of their anguish. I sat among dozens of co-workers and realized my lip was quivering. I was crying before I understood it was happening. I fled the room, and it took 10 minutes for me to stop sobbing. I didn’t immediately understand my reaction. Over the years, I’ve faced meetings, classrooms and other institutional spaces where Palestinians went unnamed or were referred to only as terrorists. I came of professional age in a country where people lost all sorts of things for speaking of Palestine: social standing, university tenure, journalist positions. But in the end, I am undone not by silence or erasure but by empathy. By the simple naming of my people. By increasing recognition that liberation is linked. By spaces of Palestinian-Jewish solidarity. By what has become controversial: the simple speaking aloud of Palestinian suffering.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 12

That strikes me as another abiogenesis idea that's more about "what could happen" than "is there any reason to think it did happen". Its description of AHV is a bit out-of-date (there is now exploration of heredity, translation etc in those hypotheses) but mostly I'm struck by passages like this:

While creating a biological code of information displacement between chemical polymers (i.e., the genetic code), FUCA populations allowed the emergence of the first peptide-coding genes: stretches of RNA that organized the order and quality of amino acids in a peptide. It is within this interface that the concept of chemical symbiosis takes shape: RNAs and peptides co-evolved in a mutually beneficial interaction that incrementally increased molecular complexity

Caravelle@caravellin· May 12

On the controversial art direction of Mulan, in particular why it looks like they conflated Japanese and Chinese styles: (as always the answer is "did we forget who the Japanese cribbed half their stuff from")

Excerpt of article that says:

He knew that this direction could be controversial. Sure enough, even in the ‘90s, stuff like Mulan’s hanfu and white makeup drew criticism from people unfamiliar with the ancient past. Her fashion was Japanese, some argued. But, as Taiwan Panorama reported in 1999, Chang:

… can’t help taking issue with such comments. He explains, if you look at facial portraits of women from the Sui and Tang dynasties and the Five Dynasties era, you will see that in ancient times women made up their faces by first applying white powder and then applying rouge. This form of appearance was common down through the Qing dynasty. The fashions and apparel of traditional Japanese culture were originally adopted from Tang Chinese culture. Today, most people have turned cause and effect on their heads, and that is why they think Mulan has a “Japanese” flavor.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 12

So much great stuff in this article!

Exerpt from the article that says:

You find that type of research in action across the film. Take Mulan’s armor, based on the intricate lamellar armor of the Tang dynasty. Chang had trouble stripping it down for animation — until he saw a mural from the Kumtura Caves, in which the same gear appears in almost symbolic form. “Oh, this is how ancient artists see it,” Chang said. “And I thought, ‘Wow, that’s a really good way of doing it.’ ”

The Kumtura mural (8th or 9th century) that inspired the armor designs in Mulan

It's a half-erased mural showing two soldiers attacking or pushing a man on a platform (a house?), wearing armor stylized with horizontal lines representing the rows of rectangular plates lamellar armor is made of.

Caravelle@caravellin· May 6

Here it was, it was Group B Strep web.archive.org/web/20110818...

It's now been a year since our beautiful boy Wren was born, lived, and died. At first, I was surprised at just how few people knew about Group B Strep, and I latched onto it as a "cause" that could bring some meaning for me to the events that transpired. However, it quickly became obvious that it wasn't GBS that was the real problem… although our friends and relatives hadn’t heard of it, it is well-known throughout the medical world, and the reason there isn’t much heard about it is that we have a completely safe, 99.8% prevention method for it.

Caravelle@caravellin· Apr 30

Bien essayé Microsoft Teams, mais peut mieux faire

Capture d'écran de Teams suggérant "Send a message when their work hours start on Friday, May 1 at 9:00 AM?"

Caravelle@caravellin· Apr 29