YourNetworkIsHaunted

@YourNetworkIsHaunted@awful.systems

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Rock and Stone⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  This is goin’ in tha book.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Linus Torvalds affirms expulsion of Russian maintainers⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  So when Ukrainians try to push for closer alignment with the EU it’s a Washington-backed color revolution and thus is no different than Russia rolling into the literal tanks.

  Like, even if you’re not a Russian troll you’re still adopting a conspiracy theory that completely ignores any agency the Ukrainian people have.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨It's a matter of perspective⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  But only the specific subset of anarchists that I read about first in my early 20s! All the others are just like those fascists in the Judean People’s Front!

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  I think the other important point to add is that evo psych in popular discourse is rarely used to explain alone. Instead it seems to always lead into the naturalistic fallacy as an explanation for why the world can’t or shouldn’t be kinder, more humane, or less authoritarian. Add on to this that the people making these arguments are usually pretty out of touch with the actual archaeological record about their supposed environment of evolutionary adaptiveness and it’s not at all surprising that whatever legitimate insights it may offer are buried under a mountain of bullshit.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Just So⁩ ⁨⁨5⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Honestly I think a lot of the worst evo psych takes don’t even get as far as hypothesizing or evidence. They fail at the first hurdle of “identify something about the world”. It’s the classic Freudian error of never once asking “hey wait is everyone like this or is it just me?”