Hoo boy, lot of Anthropology Discourse on the Skyline today.

The Hebrew Bible is very pro-Persian! It shows up explicitly in a whole bunch of books!

“Rape is about power, which is good” is certainly a set of beliefs a person could have. I don’t think it’s a good idea to give a person like that an enormous amount of power, though.

To be fair, there’s a fifth word in the song they also like.

This is very unlikely to happen, I think, but it does show political courage and helps reframe the debate in a more honest way. Credit to Walker for proposing it so we can have an honest debate about whether we want no dividends and no taxes or dividends and taxes. www.adn.com/politics/202...

Lincoln:Elephants::Davis:Camels

Yes. The conflation of "masculinity" with "patriarchy" is one of the most important problems of our era (though of course not remotely new).

Miller deriding Talarico as having less testosterone than Jasmine Crockett is a real nest of essentialist bigotry resting upon idea that Black women are uniquely unfeminine/strong/don't feel pain/are unrapeable and that's all rooted in rationalizing endemic sexual violence. That's another thread.

I'm not really a D&D Guy or a Movie Guy, but I did see this movie and it is indeed very good. Just totally works as cinema independent of the implicit references to the gaming experience which it apparently contains.

Seems like the campaign management side of this is starting to get more attention.

I recently bought a new laptop that is a much lower-end product from the same manufacturer as my previous one, and the differences are interesting.

Interesting how Platner is splintering the left.

Haggadah work station.

Trump’s reaction to all the d-listers backing out of the concert when they learned it was for him being to do it himself is so perfect.

This is very cool.

Per this article there are nine Dan Sullivans in Alaska, so buckle up. www.adn.com/politics/202...

I can't read the article because my work network blocks the Post (which, lol), but it's hilarious that this is the best they've got on him.

For those keeping track at home, this is actually the *third* Dan Sullivan in Alaska politics.

OMG. I thought he'd be one of the last to bail, but then, I guess he actually is. Vanilla Ice abides.

Despite its reputation Bluesky does have a lot of young people who may not be aware of this history. So to expand on this: Until about 15 years ago, browsers routinely had two fields at the top in which users could enter text: one for URLs, and one for search.

Google pivoting from the no-bullshit search engine to the all-bullshit search engine is, uh, certainly a choice.

It's so emblematic of our bonkers reality that "the president of the United States is building a golf course on a cemetery in Vietnam" is like a third- or fourth-tier news story.

Mark Twain. When the Civil War broke out he immediately joined a company of Confederate volunteers then immediately deserted, thus instantly becoming a traitor to both sides.

Glad to see Larry Persily bringing some real talk to the gasline nonsense.

Nah, man. You had your chance. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

She's such a good director. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FVF...

Was just learning about the Ottoman Fiscal Calendar, a bizarre hybrid of Christian and Muslim calendrical principles. Basically it was a Julian solar calendar but pegged to the Hijra era, with occasional skipped years to keep the year numbers consistent with AH years. www.jstor.org/stable/23060...

Great choice.

This is really interesting to me for several reasons, most notably the interaction between the Very Jewish Stern and the Very Quebecois Lavigne. Personally I am both Quebecois and Jewish, a very uncommon combination. There are many Jews from Quebec, like Saul Bellow. www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VvN...

The bait-and-switch between the intro and main content here is fascinating. www.youtube.com/watch?v=vynG...

Changes to YouTube have led to the song title captions disappearing but this remains a classic. www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pid...

LOL. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxqe...

LLMs do this because they're trained on human writing, including science fiction about how computers should talk. This should be obvious (what else would they train on?) but it seems to catch a lot of people by surprise (not the OP, who is just making a joke).

I try not to be a "what, you're surprised?" guy, but I'm a little surprised myself at how shocked some people seem to be by the magnitude of Cornyn's loss to Paxton. This is just what it's like to live in Trump's America, as we have for ten years now.

Great thread on Nigerian textile traditions and fashion.

I feel like the trajectory does feel positive lately, even though the current state is grim.

Good article on an important problem. More to come on this. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

This is a really good interview.

Really interesting video that combines the symbolism of two female-coded fields (nursing and textiles) in a fascinating way. www.youtube.com/watch?v=B402...

a good portion of what people mean by “crime” is “visible homeless people, some of whom are behaving erratically“

The funniest part of that bonkers Taylor Lorenz cream cheese post is that she apparently expects the Mayor to fix this alleged problem.

The first real rock concert I attended was the Red Hot Chili Peppers at the Pit in Albuquerque in maybe 2000 or 2001. The Foo Fighters were the opening act and they were *incredible*. Grohl *really* knows how to do a live show. That talent comes across well here. www.youtube.com/watch?v=wxaX...

Translated from... Arabic?

Thomas is one of the most interesting characters of the Civil War, along with Longstreet on the other side.

In addition to the Hopi Reservation being an enclave (actually 2) within the Navajo Reservation, there's an enclave of the Navajo Reservation within the Hopi Reservation. So it is possible to do a drive entirely within the state of Arizona during which the time changes eight times.

@dsquareddigest.bsky.social did it better. crookedtimber.org/2007/05/10/i...

My American Christian neighborhood: The Episcopal Church (TEC) (Mainline Anglican · inclusive orthodoxy's American home). My closest five: The Episcopal Church (TEC), United Church of Christ, Cooperative Baptist Fellowship, Roman Catholic, Presbyterian Church (USA).—'Where Does Your Taste Live?'

Good article on some recent relatively good news. The overall homelessness numbers are down slightly, but the really big change is a big drop in unsheltered homelessness coupled with a big rise in sheltered. www.adn.com/alaska-news/...

Charles A. Murray working on his tight 5 for the late show with bari weiss

I am generally in favor of colonialism as an analytical framework, but this seems to be taking it too far.