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Meat honey: The strange secret of vulture bees
If I were to ask you to think of a bee, what do you think of? For most of you, the images of flowers, nectar, and golden jars of honey immediately come to mind. But, if you were to look deeply inside the tropical forests of Central and South America, you might be lucky enough to see a rather unusual type of bee. A bee
Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously
“Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.
The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They’re charming! They’re funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn’t show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.
And I’m—look. I’m not saying don’t watch it. I watch it. I’m ON it right now. I’m saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers’ room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.
…Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?”
Brennan clears throat, adjusts glasses, makes prolonged eye contact with everyone in the room simultaneously
“Okay. OKAY. I have been sitting with this for six hours and I cannot physically contain it anymore.
The Thin Blue Line narrative—and I mean this with my whole cardiovascular system—is one of the most effective and insidious propaganda apparatuses in the history of American mass media. And it works because the characters are GOOD. They’re charming! They’re funny! They have FEELINGS and RELATIONSHIPS and they are genuinely trying to do the right thing, and that is EXACTLY how hegemony sustains itself. It doesn’t show you the institution. It shows you Tim Bradford, and you love Tim Bradford, and now you have quietly absorbed an entire framework for how crime and punishment and community and safety are supposed to function in a civilized society WITHOUT EVER BEING ASKED TO CONSENT TO THAT LESSON.
And I’m—look. I’m not saying don’t watch it. I watch it. I’m ON it right now. I’m saying watch it awake. Watch it with the part of your brain that remembers that the writers’ room is making choices, that the network has relationships, that the genre itself has a politics that predates everyone in this room.
…Does anyone want to do a Cop Cuties bit with me?”
Vice News covered this more than a decade ago in “This Is What Winning Looks Like.” They literally filmed a conversation where a US soldier tried to explain to an Afghan police chief why raping children was bad. His response was “who else are we going to fuck?”
If Israel hadn’t recognized them, would Somaliland be that bad? They do seem to operate mostly independently from Somalia. They have an actually functioning government, their security situation is better, and self determination seems an important value.
Swahili has 10 different “genders,” called “noun classes” or “ngeli,” and none of them correlate with sex. Instead, the third-person singular pronouns are:
- he/she and him/her: yeye
- his/her: wake
Inspired by this post, I just created a phishing test for my staff with a malicious URL in a “report this as spam” link, complete with a required training for those who click the link.
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