Ostracism: exclusion by general consent from common privileges or social acceptance (eg you say something normatively nuts) ≠ Banning Free Speech: an act, where speech, including the right to association, is restricted by government or authority (eg you block a comedian from mocking you)

Honestly… I cannot comment on this quality of the research, but there’s a lot of papers with observational research published about this association. I’d need to study more to figure out what it all says. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1...

I’m going to be controversial. A link between autisms/Tylenol is not a bad thing to explore. There’s a problem with saying “autism”. But the notion that exposures should be ignored defacto because a few meta studies say so isn’t by itself sufficient to ignore the claim. It seems farfetched, but

I know I disquiet people by being rational, but: It may be authoritarianism, but you don’t have to go along with it. I’d suggest you laugh at it.

Both of my grandfathers were Antifascists? Does this make me a suspect? One of them got a couple of Purple Hearts and was sick in a military hospital when his mother died. He never really recovered from the experience of being an Antifascist either.

What would be the worst technology fail since texting a journalist on Signal about your secret bombing campaign? Tweeting your DM is definitely up there.

@tomlevenson.bsky.social FYI

I have been saying this for some time. I’d be happy to learn about his links to actual Leftwing militia groups; radicals; or whatever.

#vss365 Each date a #catastrophe. bright ideas but expected to be…. an aggressor (at least a little) The prowl… assumed seductive, I found it… confusing. A bit like spilling ice water all over a table which I also did. Why hunt for love? I asked… Because free love is a myth, each replied.

So there still remains scant evidence that Tyler Robinson was radicalized as a Leftist. If anyone has seen anything at all that indicates otherwise, I’d appreciate it.

Here is my best guidance, rendered beautifully by the great John Lithgow. I first published these lessons nearly nine years ago, in late 2016. They open the twenty chapters of "On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century." snyder.substack.com/p/twenty-les...

You know. Public protests. About now. Might. Might. Make sense.

When will people awaken to the fact that what they see on social media is a product of explicit tactical algorithms. Here Ross says: “Like most people with an internet connection, I have seen many more people than I would like justifying assassination”. Meanwhile I have seen none. Coincidence?

It’s saying something that the response to the growing challenges for faculty in universities in various states isn’t seen as a wonderful opportunity to directly market “academic freedom” by other universities. I’d think there are 18 year olds who might like to know their Professors won’t be fired.

I would say the perhaps urgent issue of our day is whether Heidegger was an unrepentant Nazi, a self-aware and reflective idealist, someone surviving as an accommodationist and thus accomplice, confused and lost, or surviving in a complex context.

#vss365 There goes Grace. All mellow Smooth skin. Dimples. And big brown eyes. A basket, Jean Jacket, Cowboy boots Like she’s just hopped & skipped in from breaking broncos or breaking hearts, a #style all her own. With rope bracelets Dragon spurs A tattoo of a cow moon jumping.

I remember the way Rwanda happened. I feel in my bones we are close to an event like this — and we need to stop ourselves from plunging in. I’m not certain that foreign adversaries aren’t trying to push us.

A moving essay by Joan Scott, addressing our current predicament. Her parents remind me of my own, though in Australia, a more democratic country, the consequences of their politics were less severe.

I feel despair. I suspect that about 98% of American historians are right there with me. I have this sense that regardless even of our political differences, historians feel in their bones these family resemblances and realize where we are heading. How soon? When? No idea. But we feel it.

I know that context is very poor taste… but I am very opposed to guns on college campuses for a whole ton of very common sense reasons.

Consider this: As we rush to conclude we know who did this… what if we had foreign adversaries who really liked the consequences of fractured populations who hate each other so much they would not defend each other as brothers and sisters?

I’m having a very distinct sense of- call it the vibes - that freedom of speech is pretty clearly under attack this morning.

A ton of kids have been killed by active shooters in schools. Please stop preaching that some forms of violence are political and others aren’t. I don’t accept the premise.

Curious we created a whole HBO special that warned that lies eventually demand repayment and then decided to ignore that. m.youtube.com/watch?v=5aNx...

I slouch. Posture poor. I lean into #doorways, stretching muscles that never yield, not wanting in, wishing I’d been born another way into another life where I didn’t hold a weight of a world of childhood sadness in eyes that stare down. Stretch. Look up. Try. It’s all that’s left. #vss365

Should I compare thee to a #vss365? Thou are more lovely but less short Rough #chance does shake the screens of apple, And money glass lease on art is tap and tap and autocorrect, Sometimes too hot too is the battery as the blue light shines And often it dims into my annoyance. So long as this lives

I just finished the list of artifacts for the “virtual museum” my scientific revolution class (in lowercase—they can force the syllabus-of-record course title but I will take away its power by removing the capitals) is “curating” and there are some BANGERS. Watch this space in a couple months!

I think postmodern fascism is going to be the ideology of the 21st century. Killing for the sake of killing, because everybody vaguely remembers that killing is what important people, and we all want to be important. Acting out a cargo cult of the 20th century, without reason or meaning.

As a governor who cares about the well-being of my people, I can’t live in a fantasy land where I pretend Trump is not tearing this country apart for personal greed and power.

“genAi doesn’t work” Reality: “you don’t know how to write the prompt” Fight me.

But hey it makes for great pearl clutching!

#vss365 Illusions Elision Delusions Avoidance Isn’t the key to #elude locks and finish walks Elliptically With finesse.

#vss365 I drag my pen across a road of paper, wondering at the way prose folds, into encounters #past and present, of ink as yet unread and probably never bothered with by even my eye again.

Teaside Steel Works c 2008

Heaven Cockaigne No place, New place. Nowhere or erehwon #yearn forever Got The Road, Android Sleepless Sheep Fascist babies #yearn for never Never never lands of dreams Peter Pan Pixie or Pirates #yearn whatever Dust to dust Ash all around Made by ignoring — treading on dreams we sever #vss365

Ai works very well. Is there a bubble? Very likely. The bubble with Ai is going to be three fold. CEOs won’t understand it. It will create crazy bottlenecks. Vast amounts of the market are predicated on consumers having capital to buy things.

Start always on lower heat, onions hit and sizzle browning butter, carrot, and celery, fine chopped. Layer fat now with oil, add garlic only once a #constellation of aroma fills the nose gentle, gentle vinegar canned tomatoes and real ones too And give it hours. Then rest for a day. Eat #vss365

Serious question. Words cannot communicate how much I hate fascism. Does this hate itself have a fascist face?

Long I have held onto a theory of immortality; long has it proved wise. Malice & #malignity are the fountain of youth. Hence a month now feels a century; and our most vicious seemingly live forever. Consider that evil people die fast. But malice endures, eroding, corrupting, eating. #vss365

#vss365 My Crush Notices @ The Same Time Jumping rope! Overjoyed criss-cross Violent boxer step as I smile into butt kick, A real double under, and Last a pushup, pop. Jumping rope! OMG what a hottie Very…whoa! I think that was a smile And what the hell was that? Like that body popped. #acrostic

#vss365 “Is anyone #sentient still listening to the AM radio?” I shout this on a CB to rile up drivers down near your town. In the hopes that them being awake and angry will keep you safe As they cruise on down at 90 Machines of death, in dozing hands.

Things I’m old enough to remember: (1) Originalism was a serious idea (2) Tariffs didn’t work and were bad (3) Republicans were pro small government (4) Republicans loathed corruption (5) States Rights and local control mattered (6) Moral leadership mattered All Republican Claims

#vss365 If you read… eventually no one will understand your wisdom or long-forged thought. It is left to the #audacious student, or communicator, to shape your meaning. Never mind the details. Simply learn or listen, and one day, if you become well-read, no one will understand you either.

The presumption of innocence is a decent idea, and like Habeas corpus Dear Leader finds it wanting. As we purge all honest men and women from the halls of power, the more capricious slime that replaces them will simply say “trust us” or “fear us.” Do neither. Life is too long and too short.

Schiff on the Bolton raid: "They're essentially going after any critic, any opposition in an effort to intimidate them. That's what this is about. It's not about Bolton per se. It's about anyone else that like Bolton might stand up to the president."

Seriously. When words like dodo are unknown, I’m going to go with the problem is the listener not the communicator.

Sigh…. Lewes Hunt Morgan and Edward Hunt Tylor used the notion of “patriarchy” to claim that male order was a sign of non primitive society. These Victorian Conservatives effectively defined what MAGA construed as “normal”. As is so often the case, the Left has been reacting ever since.

This is true story. I played my double #bass on our dock on Gull Lake around 6:30am. My little hands doing 2 and a half octaves, boom, whom squeak. At first only large mouth bass came to listen. Eventually sunfish, crappies, walleye came to listen. Then Ms Adler next door asked me to stop. #vss365

#vss365 Ode to a carrot Oh my dear #malformed vegetable Your roots incline, suggestive, slow How odd the swollen bulbs that cling To stalks like legs in gentle pose Oh my dear malformed vegetable I fear I’ve read a touch too much A line of Freud drifts through my mind As I behold your supple shape

As an historian, I can only say with significant frustration that the fight about Ai should be about vacation time and parental leave, not about adoption.