Mastodawn

thomkennon 1h ago

Radical Anthropology 3h ago

Megafaunal extinctions in relation to Homo sapiens early migrations around the world.

thomkennon 10h ago

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jonny (good kind)1d ago

reminder that anthropic ran (and is still running) an ENTIRE AD CAMPAIGN around "Claude code is written with claude code" and after the source was leaked that has got to be the funniest self-own in the history of advertising because OH BOY IT SHOWS.

it's hard to get across in microblogging format just how big of a dumpster fire this thing is, because what it "looks like" is "everything is done a dozen times in a dozen different ways, and everything is just sort of jammed in anywhere. to the degree there is any kind of coherent structure like 'tools' and 'agents' and whatnot, it's entirely undercut by how the entire rest of the code might have written in some special condition that completely changes how any such thing might work." I have read a lot of unrefined, straight from the LLM code, and Claude code is a masterclass in exactly what you get when you do that - an incomprehensible mess.

thomkennon 11h ago

Quds News Network 11h ago

Despite three years of continuous genocide, the people of Gaza took the streets in support for the Palestinian detainees and to denounce the Israeli Knesset's law of execution against them

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Genocide #Palestinian

thomkennon 23h ago

Quds News Network 23h ago

Israel’s Defense Minister Israel Katz has once again confirmed plans to occupy southern Lebanon after destroying “all homes in Lebanese villages,” similar to Gaza’s Rafah and Beit Hanoun, and preventing residents from returning.

https://qudsnen.co/share/67469

#Israel #Palestine #Gaza #Lebanon

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I don't pretend to be a great lawyer. I'll never have a billboard on the side of the highway and I'll never be a household name.

But I've been representing protesters facing charges since 2018 and in that time I've had one conviction and zero time spent incarcerated. And I'm proud of that, I admit.

thomkennon 1d ago

Radical Anthropology 2d ago

As usual pretty dumb coverage by the BBC!
Ice Age 'queen' theory, nah sorry. These are ritual artefacts, belonging especially to women's rituals in relation to reproduction and social reproduction, notably blood symbolism--menarcheal, childbirth. Not goddesses, not queens. Women with blood potency

https://www.bbc.co.uk/future/article/20240307-the-160-year-mystery-of-the-stone-age-venus-figurines

The 160-year mystery of Europe's Ice Age 'queens'

Despite more than a century and a half of speculation, these nude, faceless sculptures remain utterly enigmatic. Who made them? And what might they have been for?

BBC

thomkennon 1d ago

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Radical Anthropology 2d ago

And 'fatness' potency -- that is fat as 'phat'! The idea these are realistic depictions should be measured up to southern African hunter-gatherer rock art where women's phatness is an idiom of power, especially in first #menstruation ritual.

Why don't archaeologists bother to put these into contexts of hunter-gatherers?

thomkennon 1d ago

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Radical Anthropology 2d ago

These ritual icons thousands of years and thousands of miles apart show the structural similarity of grammar, phat woman holding up crescent icon/animal horn ochred with blood from her genitals. These are the 'venus' of Laussel (France, >25,000 years) and Bushman art from Matapos hills, Zimbabwe >2000 years?