Professor, attorney and writer - interested in: political irrationality, fashion law, global culture, international business, literature and basketball.
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Guillermo Jimenez retweeted
It's common knowledge that "almost all men are stronger than almost all women" but did you know that almost all men are more tolerant than almost all women?
If you're a libertarian, a male communist will be more tolerant of your views than a female libertarian.
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ある日、彼はUFOを目にした。それ以来、庭師だった彼の手は、宇宙からのメッセージをひたすら紙の上に描き出すようになった。
描いているのは、1970年ウルグアイ・モンテビデオ生まれのアレクサンドロ・ガルシア。美術教育も絵の知識も一切なく、定規やマーカー、ボールペン、鉛筆を使い、手元にあった暦の裏紙などに最初の作品を描き始めた。
「私は宇宙からのメッセージを吸収するチャンネルにすぎない」と彼は語る。UFO目撃体験――ラテンアメリカでは「アビスタミエント」と呼ばれる――が、彼の創造力に火をつけた。
描き出されるのは、重力を失ったかのように浮遊する幻想都市と、そこへ迎えに来る星座たちの舞踏。人類がもはや宇宙で孤独ではないという確信、そして新しい人類による植民の物語が、緻密な線の連なりの中に浮かび上がる。
2010年、パリのギャラリーで初めてヨーロッパの地に紹介されると、以後はアール・ブリュットの主要コレクションに次々と収蔵されていった。庭師の手が描いた見知らぬ都市は、いまも地球の各地を巡り続けている。
Not to mention, posts like this on X.
how can you not believe in God when octopuses DREAM and otters have a favorite rock they carry around in a little SKIN POCKET and cows have BEST FRIENDS and bees are out there communicating the coordinates of flowers through INTERPRETIVE DANCE and they have REGIONAL DIALECTS??
cats are PURRING at frequencies associated with bone healing??? forests get absolutely incinerated and respond by growing FLOWERS??? dolphins literally invent NAMES for themselves and yell them across the ocean??? penguins are waddling around Antarctica looking for the PERFECT LITTLE ROCK to give their beloved???
CROWS REMEMBER YOUR FACE. THEY TELL OTHER CROWS ABOUT YOU. THEY TELL THEIR CHILDREN ABOUT YOU. YOU CAN HAVE GENERATIONAL BEEF WITH A BIRD.
goats have ACCENTS. rats GIGGLE when you tickle them. elephants mourn their dead. whales make SONGS and then OTHER WHALES LEARN THE SONG and suddenly everybody across the ocean is singing the new hit single.
monarch butterflies are born knowing how to fly thousands of miles to a place THEY HAVE NEVER BEEN. sea turtles hatch out of an egg, immediately sprint toward an OCEAN they have never seen, disappear into it for like THIRTY YEARS and then somehow come back to THE SAME BEACH???
birds can see COLORS THAT WE CANNOT SEE. there are colors happening RIGHT NOW that we don’t even get to know about.
there are sea slugs that eat algae and STEAL ITS CHLOROPLASTS and then are just like great thanks I’ll be PHOTOSYNTHESIZING NOW. there are mushrooms communicating underground. there are seeds sitting in the dirt for DECADES like no actually I will wait.
squirrels plant MILLIONS OF TREES because they simply cannot remember where they put their snacks.
A CATERPILLAR GOES INTO A LITTLE BAG, DISSOLVES MOST OF ITS BODY INTO ORGANIC SOUP, REARRANGES ITSELF, GROWS WINGS AND LEAVES.
and you’re telling me a tiny acorn knows how to become a 70-foot oak tree??? nobody tells it what to do??? it just has TREE INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE IT???
your body started as ONE CELL. ONE. and that cell divided itself into a brain that can think about its own existence and eyes that can look at stars and hands that can hold somebody else’s hands and a heart that runs on ELECTRICITY without you even asking it to???
the iron in your BLOOD was made inside a STAR.
I’M SORRY?????
we are walking around on a wet rock covered in bioluminescent oceans and singing whales and laughing rats and birds holding lifelong grudges and flowers exploding out of FIRE and somehow we’re supposed to act like this is a normal place to live?????????
Guillermo Jimenez retweeted
Women hate inherent advantage more than they hate almost anything else. Not unfairness they can lobby against or some rule they can rewrite. I mean the kind of advantage you can't earn, vote out, regulate away, or workshop into “equity”. And there is probably nothing more inherently advantageous in a woman than being naturally beautiful.
That’s basically first principles. Female sexual market value is front-loaded, immediately visible, and brutally uneven. Beauty compresses status, attention, optionality and male investment into a single glance. It arrives before the résumé, before the politics, before the personality. You can get smarter. You can get richer. You cannot vote yourself a face. (They can TRY, but it's pure cope to think a filler-face has anything on a naturally beautiful one.)
So the woman who got it without even asking becomes a walking reminder that the game was never fair and, more importantly, never will be.
Men don’t hate the hot guy in quite the same way bc male competition isn’t organized around one unearned trait. Height helps. Looks help. Obviously. But men still have to do something. Male status is weirdly multi-axis: competence, dominance, money, humor, usefulness, physicality, whatever. A handsome man can be an opponent in one arena and your fucking bro in another. More importantly, men are competing for the beautiful woman, not against her existence. Her advantage is the prize, not the insult.
Women are competing against the beautiful woman. Directly. Same pool. Same men. Same scarce attention. Same social hierarchy. And beauty can be brutally zero-sum in a way male handsomeness often isn’t. You cannot cooperate your way around some woman walking into a room and rearranging the hierarchy without saying a single fucking word. That is real power btw and most women never get to experience it.
So the resentment gets moralized bc you obviously cannot just say “I resent that this bitch won the genetic lottery.” That sounds petty and insane. It has to become “she’s setting women back,” “she’s upholding the patriarchy,” “she’s catering to the male gaze,” “her body is a political resource she’s using incorrectly.” Or my personal favorite: “she's a pick-me.” Same impulse. Perceived better branding.
This is why Sydney Sweeney produces a specific kind of derangement that no equivalently hot man ever seems to. She didn’t cheat. She didn’t oppress anyone. She just showed up already holding the thing a lot of women spend their entire lives trying to approximate. Men look at that and compete harder. Women look at that and start drafting ethics codes for her gigantic wonderful undeniable knockers.
You can dress it up as theory all day. Women’s Studies literally taught me how. But underneath all the academic word salad, I think a lot of it is still the very ancient human experience of resenting an advantage you cannot redistribute. And beauty is particularly offensive bc it refuses to pretend otherwise.
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🇯🇵 Today, for the first time ever, I met a "woke white woman" in person. Growing up in Japan, I don't know many foreigners. My only interaction with foreign people was during my homestay in the UK and Canada but I was too young to understand politics at that time.
Since starting this X account, I'd always heard of this type of person. I see many memes of "insufferable leftist white woman" but meeting one in person made me finally understand what people mean.
I met this lady at a popular foreigner UK hangout pub called "HUB". I never go here usually but one of my friends took us there. She was here on vacation.
We got into a conversation with this white woman from Ireland. During our conversation, we got on the topic of riding the train in Japan. I told her that the train in Japan was very safe for all women. She responded by telling me:
"Back home, you can get assaulted by crazy racists on the train".
I told her that I'd seen videos of some minorities, such as Muslims, attacking people randomly. She responded with:
"No, only racists think that. White men are the most dangerous group in this planet. Muslims actually commit less crime than every other group". She then went on to insult Trump, Takaichi, the US and spoke about the importance of freeing Palestine.
My Japanese friend and I just stood there, acknowledging what she said and could just say "Oh... that's interesting". I didn't argue with her. Most of us Japanese do not like arguing in public, especially about politics.
After I took the train home I thought to myself: "Oh, so that's the type of woman people always talk about on Twitter. Now I get it".
Guillermo Jimenez retweeted
Still James Corbetts Finest work.
#9/11
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In the most significant study of its kind to date, published in Nature, scientists have identified 1,260 genetic variants associated with human personality traits, including more than 800 that had not been linked to personality before.
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1/ Massive new study involving over 1 million individuals: "We find that the genetic architecture of personality is robustly generalizable, minimally confounded and widely relevant to human experience."
1,260 genetic variants are identified.
nature.com/articles/s41586-0…
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Tier List of Religions by Their Alignment with Consciousness :-)
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Researchers at Fred Hutchinson examined the brains of 59 women after death. In 63 percent of them they found male DNA, almost certainly left behind by a son. The oldest of those women was 94, and the cells were still sitting there.
Around week four or five of pregnancy, before most women have told anyone, a handful of the baby's cells cross into the mother's bloodstream. Some of them never leave. Scientists call it microchimerism, meaning you are carrying a few of another person's cells inside you. Doctors at Leiden University in the Netherlands checked organs from women who had recently been pregnant and found the baby's cells in every single one. Liver, lungs, thyroid, kidneys, bone marrow, skin, heart.
They do not sit idle. When researchers in Ireland biopsied cesarean scars from 70 women, they found the baby's cells living in the skin as ordinary skin cells, making collagen and repair proteins right at the cut. The child helped close the wound its own birth made.
At Mount Sinai, scientists tagged fetal cells with a glowing marker in pregnant mice, then damaged the mothers' hearts. The fetal cells went to the injury. They became heart muscle and the lining of blood vessels. Nobody has proven the human version yet, but doctors have noticed for years that women who develop heart failure around childbirth recover better than almost any other kind of heart failure patient.
In a study of 177 women, fetal cells appeared in the blood of 85 percent of the healthy participants and only 64 percent of the women who had a very early, non-invasive breast cancer. Nobody has worked out yet whether the cells are doing the protecting. The same cells also turn up in Hashimoto's, an immune condition that attacks the thyroid, so this is a gift with complications.
A French team looked at umbilical cord blood in 2021 and found cells belonging to the baby's grandmother in 5 of 28 samples. Cells that crossed one placenta decades earlier had crossed a second one. Three generations of women, alive in a single bloodstream.
Which means the pull a mother feels toward her child has a physical form. It sits in her liver, her heart, and often her brain, and it stays there for the rest of her life.
journals.plos.org/plosone/ar…
Guillermo Jimenez retweeted
As a Chinese scientist, I find this episode deeply ironic. For decades, Western universities have presented themselves to the world—including China—as models of academic freedom. Yet an academic who publicly raised allegations of plagiarism has now been suspended while his university investigates his conduct.
Whatever one thinks of @nathancofnas or his other views, the principle at stake should be simple: scholars must be free to scrutinize scholarship and present evidence of academic misconduct without fear of institutional retaliation.
China has often been lectured by the West about freedom of thought. Perhaps it is time for Western academia to examine itself. Academic freedom means little if it protects only fashionable ideas and socially approved criticism. Its real test is whether it protects inconvenient inquiry, unpopular conclusions, and scholars whom the establishment dislikes.
If you are an academic with an ORCID account, please consider signing the open letter:
johnarmstrongmaths.com/openl…
Cool background on Ayutthaya
Note the presence of Ayutthaya in Thailand. Here is an interesting passage about the city at the time, taken from Baker and Phongpaichit’s A History of Thailand (2014).
“Ayutthaya again prospered as an entrepot between east and west. To the east, Tokugawa Japan conditionally opened up to trade. To the west, the Safavid and Mughal empires became rich markets and producers of fine goods. The portage route under Ayutthaya’s control gained in attraction for Asian traders after the Dutch dominated the more southerly route
through the Melaka Straits. Ayutthaya grew into perhaps the largest city in Southeast Asia, and certainly one of its most cosmopolitan.
The city was ringed by settlements of Chinese, Viet, Cham, Mon, Portuguese, Arab, Indian, Persian, Japanese, and various Malay communities from the archipelago. The Dutch arrived in 1604, competed for a share in the trade to Japan, and added their settlement to this ring. The French and English followed later in the century. The court made use of these peoples. It recruited Malays, Indians,
Japanese, and Portuguese to serve as palace guards. It brought Chinese and Persians into the official ranks to administer trade. It hired Dutch master artisans to build ships, French and Italian engineers to design fortifications and waterworks, British and Indian officials to serve as provincial governors, and Chinese and Persians as doctors. A Japanese, a Persian, and then a Greek adventurer (Constantin Phaulcon) successively became powerful figures at court. The kings, especially Narai (r. 1656–88), welcomed new knowledge, exchanged embassies with the Netherlands, France, and Persia, and borrowed dress and architectural styles from Persia, Europe, and China.
As part of the management of such a cosmopolitan centre, the kings allowed freedom of religion, even proselytization, which impressed the Europeans (who were busily killing one another over the interpretation of Christianity at home). But this openness tempted both the French and Persians to believe they could convert the Siamese king and thus the country. This folly sparked a crisis in 1688, in which Phaulcon was killed, the French were expelled, and the British fled.”
Guillermo Jimenez retweeted
10 reasons why leftists inevitably capture democratic institutions:
1. Humans want status.
2. Politics is primarily about self-interested attempts to redistribute status.
3. Status is roughly zero-sum and power-law distributed. A minority of people has most of the status. A majority is low-status.
4. The low-status majority wants status in exchange for votes. Leftists elites give economic (money) and social (DEI) status in exchange for power.
5. Leftists have more motivation to control institutions because their status depends on it. Meanwhile, the rightist business owner wants to be left alone.
6. A feedback loop forms. What’s left-coded is promoted; what’s right-coded is discouraged. Leftists are further encouraged to join or stay, and rightists are further discouraged from joining or staying (think proto-religious land acknowledgements, diversity training, etc.).
7. Rightists in institutions get increasingly outcompeted.
8. Ways to correct the leftist capture of institutions become personally costly (intimidation, job loss, cancellation, arrest, etc.).
9. Ways to get ahead in life involve reinforcing the leftist capture of institutions (publicly agreeing with DEI, promoting blank-slate-compatible explanations for persistent differences in outcomes, etc.).
10. In the end, everyone lies all the time because they know what’s best for them. This is where we are.
I realized there’s something enjoyable about all these fake internet quotes. Each one gives you a chance to test your ear. Would Nietzsche have said that? Obviously not.
So friedrich nietzsche has a quote, and it's arguably one of the most brilliant things I've ever heard. And I think you need to hear it. It goes like this, "most people do not think, they repeat, they adopt the opinions of those around them, wear them like borrowed clothes and call it a worldview. And when you dare to think for yourself, really think, they will not admire you for it, they will resent you because your refusal to conform is a mirror they did not ask to look into. The unexamined man does not hate you because you are wrong. He hates you because somewhere beneath the noise he suspects you might be right."
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