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To celebrate the 200th post of my newsletter, The Nature-Nurture-Nietzsche Newsletter, I'm offering a limited-time offer of 20% off a paid subscription. Sign up today! www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/n3-newslet...

The tendency to see oneself as a victim strongly predicts support for political violence. stevestewartwilliams.substack.com/p/12-things-...

what this has done to my mind is probably not far from what it would feel like to contemplate cthulhu if he were real

Julkisen talouden vahvistaminen vuoden 2022 jƤlkeen: 6 + 3 + 3 + 1 + 5 + 4 + ... (mrd. euroa)

These should get way more traction here than this… Interesting… but kind of depressing atst

Has there ever been a bigger case of national self-sabotage ? It's like they built their own Trojan Horse.

āš ļø Iran plans to close the Strait of Hormuz One third of the world’s liquified natural gas and 25% of total oil consumption travel through the strait.

Unpacking the dynamic role of physical effort in shaping behavior: Trends in Cognitive Sciences www.cell.com/trends/cogni...

ā€œThere is nothing more important than appearing to be religious.ā€ ― Niccolò Machiavelli (1469-1527), The Prince (1532)

#shape The shape of the ism Is clear to see In the sad and brutish Chimpanzee Establishing laughable Oligarchies In the brutal reign of it's Biology It's not in the texts of Machiavelli Not planned or enacted Intelligently Just a poor, strange, sad Little monkey In the grip of its Stupidity #vss365

First day of a Test, beer and these my God I would die.

Many sex differences are larger, rather than smaller, in more gender-equal nations. What's going on? www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/decoding-t...

New research suggests that chimpanzees exhibit cumulative cultural evolution - in other words, that they pass complex behaviors down through the generations, modifying and improving them over time. www.stevestewartwilliams.com/p/swearing-a...

Your founding fathers called…

Oh my. I can’t stop rewatching. The stuff of courtroom nightmares. (H/T @timmorton2.bsky.social)

Farage and the far right in general come from a grievance culture. If you do what they want, even maximally – Brexit – they’ll move the goalposts and keep moaning. If you engage seriously with their concerns, they’ll find new ones. You will never satisfy them, because they don’t want to be satisfied

An interesting perspective on the way Trump's erratic style disorients Kremlin that is more used to dealing with US as predictable foe than capricious friend.

On the problem of using Realpolitik with a tyrant who operates according to his own narcissistic reality www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Barra of Mendocino Reserve Chardonnay 2023, California www.instagram.com/reel/DLDflTx... #wine #winereview #odedi #winewriter #winesky#whitewine #chardonnay #California #mendocino

Do listen to this.

From one ā€žso-called Supreme Leaderā€œ to another: We know where you live. ā€ž(kill!)ā€œ As old as hills. Is this just a one-way street though?

must go to war to prevent middle eastern dictatorship from developing nuclear weapons.

Nassim Taleb disputes appeals to science being made in medical recommendations on the correct amount of protein to eat daily nassimtaleb.org/2025/06/prot...

Massim Micholas Taleb (MMT)

protests for trump 2.0 dramatically outpacing trump 1.0 (the country's a lot more divided)

Baffled by recent developments, but now reading this book... "all" makes sense! "But research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalised beliefs, ... 1/2

Shameless self interest:

Baffled by recent developments, but now reading this book... "all" makes sense! "But research reveals that authoritarian followers drive through life under the influence of impaired thinking a lot more than most people do, exhibiting sloppy reasoning, highly compartmentalised beliefs, ... 1/2

Group thinking (not ā€˜groupthink’!) has boosted our ability to cooperate and enjoy the incredible fruits of collaboration literally everywhere. But it has also saddled us with a tendency to judge people by whether they are ingroup or outgroup members: buff.ly/K8jpmKn

In 2025, someone has a right to throw rockets at people they don’t like and agree with? (Time to update intl. law?!) Yes, give more weapons to everyone! Violence is the answer! (/s)

Australia’s claim that Israel has a right to defend itself against Iran is inconsistent with our rules-based order While Australia rightly urges de-escalation, it also fails to condemn Israel’s attack on Iran #AusPol www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

WTF, I don’t identify as a woman!! Gender harassment, I say

ā€œunprovoked military strikes against a sovereign member state of the united nations, against its citizens, peaceful cities and critical nuclear energy infrastructure facilities are totally unacceptable." - russia’s foreign ministry, three years late, apparently ashamed at what they’ve done

Giant egos, hidden fossils and Machiavellian scheming in the academy - in this tale about what might (or might not) be the oldest hominin. A thrilling read! www.theguardian.com/science/2025...