Short note and link
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They make Nazis look good
A comment on the New Yorker’s withdrawal of Steve Bannon’s debate invitation, noting that most objectors opposed debating white ethno-nationalism itself rather than the platform.
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Indian Textbooks, Fascism, Western (liberal) Gaze..
Embeds Alex Traub’s tweet announcing his report, now outside the paywall, on Indian textbooks that he says question democracy, celebrate violence and stoke communal tensions.
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How Bengalis rejected “genetic improvement”
Quotes an article on how Bangladesh made abortion safer for Rohingya rape victims, notes its figures on sexual violence in 1971, and adds a personal remark about his parents’ friendly…
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Was the nation-state inevitable?
After a podcast with Varsha Venkatasubramanian that he found unremarkable, the author turns to her view of the part British colonialism played in the emergence of Pakistan and India.
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Corrections and qualifications to commenters
A fragment, cut off mid-sentence, observing that discussion on Twitter and the wider internet is declining, partly because greater popularity means less selection for intelligence.
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newsletter
A pasted Insitome email newsletter, mostly stylesheet code, promoting discounted ancestry apps and an essay on the settling of Scandinavia, plus a podcast episode in which Razib discusses Scandinavian prehistory…
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Moon Landing
A short personal recollection that the family bought its first television in 1969, a few months before the moon landing, and so watched it live, though not just for that…
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Pigmentation SNPs by population
A technical note on using plink’s clustering and frequency feature to get pigmentation SNP minor allele frequencies in 1000 Genomes plus Sintashta samples, with a caution that frequencies may need…
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How to understand a people
Points to a long post on his other weblog arguing that a group should not be reduced to an agent in another civilisation’s history, and says this bears on views…
