(363) The History of Urbanization, 3700 BC - 2000 AD - YouTube

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Spatializing 6,000 years of global urbanization from 3700 BC to AD 2000 | Scientific Data

"How were cities distributed globally in the past? How many people lived in these cities? How did cities influence their local and regional environments? In order to understand the current era of urbanization, we must understand long-term historical urbanization trends and patterns. However, to date there is no comprehensive record of spatially explicit, historic, city-level population data at the global scale. Here, we developed the first spatially explicit dataset of urban settlements from 3700 BC to AD 2000, by digitizing, transcribing, and geocoding historical, archaeological, and census-based urban population data previously published in tabular form by Chandler and Modelski. The dataset creation process also required data cleaning and harmonization procedures to make the data internally consistent. Additionally, we created a reliability ranking for each geocoded location to assess the geographic uncertainty of each data point. The dataset provides the first spatially explicit archive of the location and size of urban populations over the last 6,000 years and can contribute to an improved understanding of contemporary and historical urbanization trends."

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SNP finally sees sense on trans issues - UnHerd

"It seems that the Scottish government was aware that an affirmative approach to gender identity could be classed as an attempt to change sexual orientation in some contexts. For example, vulnerable children struggling with both sexual orientation and gender identity may have internalised homophobia and therefore would prefer to be a straight boy rather than a lesbian girl. This has led to some staff in gender clinics commenting that at times gender identity affirmation “feels like conversion therapy for gay children”.

The SNP proposal had an explicit exemption to permit attempts to change sexual orientation in a gender clinic while making it a criminal offence to attempt to change actual or perceived gender identity. This was likely to create a chilling effect that would have made a cautious approach to dealing with gender distress more difficult,"

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Kamala Harris polling worse than Biden with young voters - UnHerd

"This new poll paints a troubling picture for Harris, who has quickly become the party favourite to replace Biden on the November ballot. She’s trailing Trump by 19 points in the 18-34 age bracket and by 10 points in the 35-50 bracket, while she’s winning among voters 50 and older. Trump is slightly ahead, but the race is too close to call, according to the pollsters."

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Searching for Britain's JD Vance - UnHerd

"the political current in which Vance swims “is what the generational change from the Boomers is actually going to look like”. Just as the politics of the mainstream millennial Left has been shaped by the radical socialism of the online world, it is simply a fact that the worldview of younger conservatives has been influenced by the broader “dissident Right”, the constellation of often anonymous critics of America’s late 20th and early 21st-century liberal radicalisation and of the wholesale adoption of its progressive worldview by the elites of Washington’s Western satrapies — the latter category very much including our Labour government.

A decade ago, this online milieu was shunned as the preserve of racists, incels and domestic terrorists — now it will likely enter the White House. While, in the 2010s, Big Tech rushed to disassociate itself from the disparate movement it unintentionally nourished, today’s tech oligarchs proudly insert themselves into its critique of late-stage liberalism: the vibe has already shifted. This is all a natural political evolution caused by generational churn and the intellectual exhaustion of the liberal centre, fatally weakened by the outcomes of its own policies."

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Kristeva on the need for ‘revolt’ - by Bert Olivier

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Expanding the Logos Initiative - Christopher F. Rufo

" we're dramatically expanding the Manhattan Institute Logos Initiative. We've brought on Antonin Scalia, grandson of the late Supreme Court justice, as a senior advisor, will hire a team of investigative reporters, and will host a summit on rhetoric and power in Washington, DC. In addition, we will expand our operation to include polling and model legislation.

Our aim is to expose the corruption of America's institutions, mobilize public opinion, and drive concrete political action. What we have done with critical race theory, gender cultism, and academic corruption, we will do for the full suite of domestic policy."

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(13) Origins of Metamodernism, Part I

"The term “metamodernism” first appeared in the academic field of cultural studies as a way for cultural theorists and art critics to conceptualize and frame novel cultural developments since postmodernism. This discourse took off following a seminal paper in 2010 entitled “Notes on Metamodernism” by two Dutch cultural theorists who offered important insights about these developments and a new rubric for assessing post-postmodern artworks. This chapter will be devoted primarily to their framework, and subsequent work in that lineage"

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(363) Ep. 49 - Awakening from the Meaning Crisis - Corbin and Jung - YouTube

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The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut: Studebaker, Benjamin: 9783031282096: Amazon.com: Books

"The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy: The Way Is Shut 1st ed. 2023 Edition
by Benjamin Studebaker "

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