December 26, 2024

The Indo-European-ness of Ashkenazi Hanukkah, Rosh Hashanah, etc.

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I'll get to Christmas and New Year's posting later. For now, to get a new post started, I'll begin with a narrower topic. Earlie...
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November 21, 2024

AI slop is stylistically schizo and contradictory, human art is coherent and unified in style

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A recent post from Scott Alexander on AI slop vs. human art asked respondents to guess whether certain images were made by AI or a person. ...
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November 7, 2024

Unstolen election mega-thread

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Just re-posting two initial comments here for now to get the ball rolling, will add to it in the comments as usual. * * * Why didn't Dem...
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October 9, 2024

Halloween mega-post / thread: horror movies, music, video games, sublime aesthetics, vtuber recommendations, ancient Indo-European origins of trick-or-treating, etc.

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Let's just get the Halloween season ball rolling by thanking Holo honey Raora for hosting a watchalong for a classic horror movie, The T...
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August 14, 2024

Judaism as a Third Way / Non-Aligned religion arising on the faultline between Christian and Muslim empires during the Dark Ages

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Second post collecting together related ideas from an earlier comment section, building a model for why there as an explosion of conversion ...
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The non-Judaean origins of Medieval and modern Jews, who were local converts

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Collecting together all of the evidence and conclusions from the previous comment section, on the general topic of the origins of Medieval J...
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