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By now y’all’ve heard that there’s a lot of #Neanderthal DNA floating around in our collective genome but—#funfact—no Neanderthal DNA that’s been sequenced shows evidence of any crossover.
According to Ludovic Slimak, The Naked Neanderthal.
I’m reading his The Last Neanderthal now. About efforts to figure out how to place temporally some Neanderthal bone bits and teeth found in the Rh…

why is everything fucked up these days??
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I tried to write something up to talk about an idea, but it didn't quite work. I have a lot more I need to put into it. But I want to get an idea out, and, after talking with a person who pointed out some of the flaws in what I wrote, I think I can maybe write down the kernel of the idea here.
An acquaintance of mine did a deep dive on Operational Art and wrote his thesis (which prompted an earlier set of posts and an article I wrote for my professional-ish blog) on the intersection of the OODA loop and critical philosophy. I've been spending a lot of time thinking about Kilcullen's Three Pillars model (after watching Andrewism's wonderful video) and Beer's VSM. The TL;DR of it is that there's a much better insurgency model. Of course, the insurgency model also works for a bunch of other things, because cybernetics lets you do all kinds of cool abstraction like that.
So as I was reading the essay of a comrade the other day, that model popped back into my head and I'm going to try to share what I can of it.
When colonizers came to the Salish region, they saw what they believed to be an untouched wilderness. They failed to see the ways in which Salish people tended the land. Indigenous fire practices were common on the northwest coast, and the suppression of those practices remains a problem. There is an interrelationship between an environment and the systems within it. Systems, like people, animals, and cultures, adapt to the environment. In doing so, those systems will also change the environment.
Social technology was invisible, so colonizers defaulted to either some kind of Rousseauvian or Malthusian model of these people. They were not, for the colonizers, people who had developed advanced social technologies to live in harmony with their world. They were, rather, people in "a state of nature."
The European influenced left continues to draw this Rousseauvian model, which continues through a lot of Anarchist revolutionary thought. European anarchists were heavily influenced by observations and theories around the behavior of indigenous people. The remnants of this thought still exist in the idea that the system must only be destroyed for us to be free.
This is the same obliviousness to social technology, that social technology actually exists, often informs both early colonizers and modern radicals.
It is through this obliviousness that we fail to recognize how capitalism is a social technology that is managed into existence and maintained, and how changes in the environment can threaten institutions that have become over-adapted to a specific version of that environment.
We can extend Kilcullen's metaphor of a "conflict ecosystem" through cybernetics into a much more rich model, populated by viable systems. The ecosystem itself has a fitness function, which drives adaptation within the environment. But all actors in the environment also affect it. Some try to manage the environment. Revolutions are often over who manages a social ecosystem, over who controls the social technology and what it does.
Once we see this dynamic at play, calls of "riot" and "revolution" make a whole lot less sense. Rather, the question becomes, "how do we change the ecosystem in such a way that it cannot be 'managed' at all?"
Graeber/Wengrow talked about Turtle Island indigenous social technologies in Dawn of Everything, such as the system of moieties and clans described in the book. So I have a good reading list as I think through this model, but I hope the "ecosystem" model is helpful (if not completely fleshed out).
I'd be interested in any critiques or thoughts to help develop this idea more.

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Everything But The Girl:
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Next heat wave is hitting central Europe and again reading the same old stories in the media from there, "drink a lot of water", "open windows when it's only really hot instead of frying hot" etc.
You need air conditioning and it needs to be rolled out in a EU-wide initiative that does something like "everyone in the EU has a right to not die from heat, we're aiming at 100% coverage with 3 years or something"; it needs to be a serious, large-scale effort with governments (supporting laws, coordination), industry (production of AC units, making sure power grid is ready), and people (awareness campaigns, getting it to most affected people first) involved.
People are fucking dying.

What's weird is somebody evidently went to the trouble of READING the books, because they are, in fact, name-checking everything they can.
But then they apparently also didn't see the point to any of it.
They kept Doomed Galactic Empire,
They kept Guy With a Plan.
And that is ALL
I get that actually following the books or at least the intent of the books, and having the end product still be watchable would be Hard. Even though the books have been out …

I plugged the new set of power slugs into my inlines this morning, first time I’d had to in over a year of hard riding. Those things have morphed everything everywhere that needed power. But inline skates were my choice for getting around on my day job, delivering shit all over. Nobody knows where they came from either. Just showed up. Aliens is my bet. Sneaky bastards, they are.
#FlashFiction

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Ms. Lauryn Hill:
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Finished reading "The Trees" by Percival Everett.
Absurdist crime fiction as a vessel for some of American history's worst crimes.
In Money, Mississippi, a series of murders targets white residents, each leaving behind a corpse resembling Emmett Till. Two black MBI detectives investigate as the killings spread nationwide.
Detectives Jim & Ed's dry humor keeps it light enough for the horror to land harder. Haunting & thought provoking.
4/5 st…

The Trees
When a pair of detectives from the Mississippi Bureau o…

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Metronomy:
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