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  1. Why the Japanese Palaeolithic Deserves a Central Place in the Story of Human Expansion Across Asia

    1ban.news/japanese-palaeolithi
    #1ban #japanese #palaeolithic #western #narratives #science

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  2. Why the Japanese Palaeolithic Deserves a Central Place in the Story of Human Expansion Across Asia

    1ban.news/japanese-palaeolithi
    #1ban #japanese #palaeolithic #western #narratives #science

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  3. @ProPublica Please don't name it "sceptic" following the far-right #narrative. You can call them what they are: #denialists / #deniers!
    It's like with climate change, a scientific fact. If you don't accept science, you are a #denialist. Being #sceptic is for ideologies, cults, or religions.

    #narratives #falseNarratives

  4. @ProPublica Please don't name it "sceptic" following the far-right #narrative. You can call them what they are: #denialists / #deniers!
    It's like with climate change, a scientific fact. If you don't accept science, you are a #denialist. Being #sceptic is for ideologies, cults, or religions.

    #narratives #falseNarratives

  5. @ProPublica Please don't name it "sceptic" following the far-right #narrative. You can call them what they are: #denialists / #deniers!
    It's like with climate change, a scientific fact. If you don't accept science, you are a #denialist. Being #sceptic is for ideologies, cults, or religions.

    #narratives #falseNarratives

  6. @ProPublica Please don't name it "sceptic" following the far-right #narrative. You can call them what they are: #denialists / #deniers!
    It's like with climate change, a scientific fact. If you don't accept science, you are a #denialist. Being #sceptic is for ideologies, cults, or religions.

    #narratives #falseNarratives

  7. @ProPublica Please don't name it "sceptic" following the far-right #narrative. You can call them what they are: #denialists / #deniers!
    It's like with climate change, a scientific fact. If you don't accept science, you are a #denialist. Being #sceptic is for ideologies, cults, or religions.

    #narratives #falseNarratives

  8. Participants needed for a top-ranked study from Edward at University of West London:

    'The relationship between life events, personality and self-narratives'
    Link to the survey on SurveyCircle: surveycircle.com/TST9J4/

    Take part now and support this research project 💜

    #TraitPersonality #LifeEvents #narratives #SocialRoles #stagnation #midlife
    #survey #surveyparticipants #mutualsupport #research #surveycircle #universityofwestlondon

  9. Participants needed for a top-ranked study from Edward at University of West London:

    'The relationship between life events, personality and self-narratives'
    Link to the survey on SurveyCircle: surveycircle.com/TST9J4/

    Take part now and support this research project 💜

    #TraitPersonality #LifeEvents #narratives #SocialRoles #stagnation #midlife
    #survey #surveyparticipants #mutualsupport #research #surveycircle #universityofwestlondon

  10. Everywhere She Maps [ESM], She Changes The Discourse - A Topic Modeling Of The Gender Discourse In Youthmappers Blogs
    --
    doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2026. <-- shared paper
    --
    youthmappers.org/everywhereshe <-- shared Everywhere She Maps home page
    --
    [lots for me to learn here, both in understanding the methods and the results]
    H/T @Maliha Binte Mohiuddin
    #GIS #spatial #mapping #women #discourse #gender #discrimination #narratives #LDA #geospatial #equity #topicmodeling #women #feminist #digital #geography #opensource #YouthMappers #EverywhereSheMaps #ESM #literaturesearch #analysis #cartography #spatialanalysis #spatialprofessionals

  11. Everywhere She Maps [ESM], She Changes The Discourse - A Topic Modeling Of The Gender Discourse In Youthmappers Blogs
    --
    doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2026. <-- shared paper
    --
    youthmappers.org/everywhereshe <-- shared Everywhere She Maps home page
    --
    [lots for me to learn here, both in understanding the methods and the results]
    H/T @Maliha Binte Mohiuddin

  12. “We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—‘yes, that is the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’”
    —John Steinbeck

    #bonding #validation #conversation #storyTelling #stories #listening #narratives #influence #campaigning #psychology #Steinbeck #quotes

  13. “We are lonesome animals. We spend all of our life trying to be less lonesome. One of our ancient methods is to tell a story begging the listener to say—and to feel—‘yes, that is the way it is, or at least that’s the way I feel it. You’re not as alone as you thought.’”
    —John Steinbeck

  14. “A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
    ― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, 1984

    #manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini #book

  15. “A well-known principle of human behavior says that when we ask someone to do us a favor we will be more successful if we provide a reason. People simply like to have reasons for what they do.”
    ― Robert B. Cialdini, Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion, 1984

  16. CW: good piece on war narratives & so-called "AI" as an excuse

    "... the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. ...

    "The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. ... This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At a thousand decisions an hour, nobody was going to. ...

    "Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide."

    - Kevin Baker, "Kill Chain"
    artificialbureaucracy.substack

    #war #death #tech #systems #narratives
    #bureaucracy #SoCalledAI #Claude #Maven #Palantir

  17. CW: good piece on war narratives & so-called "AI" as an excuse

    "... the question almost nobody was asking, is not about Claude or any language model. It is a bureaucratic question about what happened to the kill chain, and the answer is Palantir. ...

    "The target package for the Shajareh Tayyebeh school presented a military facility. ... This package looked like every other package in the queue. But outside the package, the school appeared in Iranian business listings. It was visible on Google Maps. A search engine could have found it. Nobody searched. At a thousand decisions an hour, nobody was going to. ...

    "Someone decided to build a system that produces a thousand targeting decisions per hour and call them high-quality. Someone decided to start this war. Several hundred people are sitting on Capitol Hill, refusing to stop it. Calling it an “AI problem” gives those decisions, and those people, a place to hide."

    - Kevin Baker, "Kill Chain"
    artificialbureaucracy.substack

    #war #death #tech #systems #narratives
    #bureaucracy #SoCalledAI #Claude #Maven #Palantir

  18. Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans

    "We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/tru

    „Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m
    #war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt

  19. Operation Epic Fury - How Donald Trump and Pete Hegseth are selling the Iran war to Americans

    "We see the secretary of defense constantly putting [the war] in the framework, the narrative, of a big video game...We're blowing up a lot of stuff, we're killing a lot of people' … it's so distasteful to me...I think there probably is a good reason for why we are doing this, but we're certainly not hearing it from the administration." Professor VanLandingham >>
    abc.net.au/news/2026-03-09/tru

    „Crusades“ and the “Secretary of War” - The man in charge of the world’s most powerful military. "‘A very dangerous person’: alarm as Pete Hegseth revels in carnage of Iran war" >>
    theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m
    #war #hyperreality #media #movies #VideoGames #reality #DesertOfTheReal #spectacles #narratives #crusades #crusader #iconography #extremism #rhetoric #military #justification #GodWillsIt

  20. Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

  21. Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

  22. Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

  23. Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

  24. Mapping the promised land for God’s chosen people
    Imagined lands, biblical narratives and monotheistic practices and beliefs.

    * First 'Bible map' published 500 years ago still influences how we think about borders, study suggests
    phys.org/news/2025-11-bible-pu

    * Assmann, Jan. The Invention of Religion: Faith and Covenant in the Book of Exodus. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2018
    press.princeton.edu/books/hard

    #territory #maps #borders #expansion #PromisedLand #monotheism #BoundaryMaking #ReligiousAuthorisation #sovereignty #BiblicalLiteralism #GodsWill #christian #fundamentalism #theology #LandClaims #ImaginedCommunity #PlaceNames #SettlerSociety #narratives #GodZone

  25. @thomasfricke

    As long as we believe in their #stories, in their tale of an #ai #tech #future, as long as we follow their #cybernetic lead, we will go down with them when the planet collapses or in some camps

    Whenever we start believing in our own strength & in our own power, we are free of them

    There are enough friendly #narratives

    There is enough for everyone on this planet

    If we listen to each other & share

    #peterthiel , #trump , e.g. build their #power on our weakness & fears

  26. @thomasfricke

    As long as we believe in their #stories, in their tale of an #ai #tech #future, as long as we follow their #cybernetic lead, we will go down with them when the planet collapses or in some camps

    Whenever we start believing in our own strength & in our own power, we are free of them

    There are enough friendly #narratives

    There is enough for everyone on this planet

    If we listen to each other & share

    #peterthiel , #trump , e.g. build their #power on our weakness & fears

  27. e.g. #UTOPIA #anarchocommunism#narratives #Spuk #FixeIdee

    Human being and justice are ideas, #ghosts, for the love of which everything is sacrificed; therefore, the priestly spirits are the “self-sacrificing” ones. Whoever goes into raptures over the human leaves persons out of consideration so far as that rapture extends, and floats in an ideal, sacred interest. The human is indeed not a person, but an ideal, a #phantasm.

    Mensch und Gerechtigkeit sind Ideen, #Gespenster, denen zu Liebe alles geopfert wird: darum sind die pfäffischen Geister die „aufopfernden“. Wer für den Menschen schwärmt, der läßt, soweit jene Schwärmerei sich erstreckt, die Personen außer Acht und schwimmt in einem idealen, heiligen Interesse. Der Mensch ist ja keine Person, sondern ein Ideal, ein #Spuk.

    — Max Stirner

  28. e.g. #UTOPIA #anarchocommunism#narratives #Spuk #FixeIdee

    Spiritual people have something they’ve planted in their head that is supposed to be realized. They have concepts of love, goodness, and the like, which they would like to see actualized; therefore they want to build a kingdom of love on earth, in which no one any longer acts from self-interest, but everyone acts “from love.” Love is supposed to rule. What they’ve planted in their head, what is one supposed to call it other than—a #fixedidea? Indeed, it “#haunts their heads.” The most oppressive #phantasm is the human being. Just think of the proverb, “The road to ruin is paved with good intentions.” The intention to completely actualize humanity in oneself, to completely become human, is of such a ruinous sort; such are the intentions to become good, noble, loving, etc.

    Die geistlichen Menschen haben sich Etwas in den Kopf gesetzt, was realisiert werden soll. Sie haben Begriffe von Liebe, Güte u. dergl., die sie verwirklicht sehen möchten; darum wollen sie ein Reich der Liebe auf Erden errichten, worin Keiner mehr aus Eigennutz, sondern Jeder „aus Liebe“ handelt. Die Liebe soll herrschen. Was sie sich in den Kopf gesetzt haben, wie soll man das anders nennen, als – #fixeIdee? Es „#spukt ja in ihrem Kopfe“. Der beklemmendste #Spuk ist der Mensch. Man denke des Sprichwortes: „Der Weg zum Verderben ist mit guten Vorsätzen gepflastert.“ Der Vorsatz, die Menschlichkeit ganz in sich zu verwirklichen, ganz Mensch zu werden, ist von so verderblicher Art; dahin gehören die Vorsätze, gut, edel, liebevoll usw. zu werden.

    — Max Stirner

  29. @Powerfromspace1 #trump has provided no support whatsoever and has put the onus all on #EU. He prevaricates, creates endless #false #narratives and engages in continuous Kabuki theater #distractions to divert attention from the facts, and away from his expanding crimes and those of his 'administration'. Always focus on the facts as #floodthezone" is the operational objective every day. #Democracy may be in the real view mirror in America already.

  30. @Powerfromspace1 #trump has provided no support whatsoever and has put the onus all on #EU. He prevaricates, creates endless #false #narratives and engages in continuous Kabuki theater #distractions to divert attention from the facts, and away from his expanding crimes and those of his 'administration'. Always focus on the facts as #floodthezone" is the operational objective every day. #Democracy may be in the real view mirror in America already.

  31. "The history of terror and colonial massacre seared into the landscape."

    "For there is no single crime to solve in The Leap. No killer to track down. Just a vast colonial and contemporary crime scene involving countless offences against race, gender and social function. The scene – the whole district, the town and its stranger-than-fiction name – is the crime. Everyone knows who the offenders are – now and back when."
    >>
    theguardian.com/books/2025/jul
    #landscape #Australia #narratives #IndigenousPeoples #violence #dehumanisation #TruthTelling #books

  32. "The history of terror and colonial massacre seared into the landscape."

    "For there is no single crime to solve in The Leap. No killer to track down. Just a vast colonial and contemporary crime scene involving countless offences against race, gender and social function. The scene – the whole district, the town and its stranger-than-fiction name – is the crime. Everyone knows who the offenders are – now and back when."
    >>
    theguardian.com/books/2025/jul
    #landscape #Australia #narratives #IndigenousPeoples #violence #dehumanisation #TruthTelling #books

  33. "Subjective validation, sometimes called personal validation effect, is a cognitive bias by which people will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them. People whose opinion is affected by subjective validation will perceive two unrelated events (i.e., a coincidence) to be related because their personal beliefs demand that they be related."

    CC-BY-SA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjecti 🧶

    #manipulation #persuasion #validation #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini

  34. "Subjective validation, sometimes called personal validation effect, is a cognitive bias by which people will consider a statement or another piece of information to be correct if it has any personal meaning or significance to them. People whose opinion is affected by subjective validation will perceive two unrelated events (i.e., a coincidence) to be related because their personal beliefs demand that they be related."

    CC-BY-SA en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subjecti 🧶

  35. “There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.”
    ― Robert B. Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", 1984

    #manipulation #persuasion #influence #conversation #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #Psychology #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #Cialdini

  36. “There is a natural human tendency to dislike a person who brings us unpleasant information, even when that person did not cause the bad news. The simple association with it is enough to stimulate our dislike.”
    ― Robert B. Cialdini, in his book "Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion", 1984

  37. The plans presented in the Commission’s Single Market Strategy communication on Wednesday will boost corporate power and limit the democratic space that national and local authorities need to protect people and the environment.

    by Corporate Europe Observatory: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05 @eu

    #change #changeManagement #narratives #EU #Europe #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeanCommission #EU27 #policy #SingleMarket #CorporateEurope #EuropeanUnion #deregulation #lobbying

  38. The plans presented in the Commission’s Single Market Strategy communication on Wednesday will boost corporate power and limit the democratic space that national and local authorities need to protect people and the environment.

    by Corporate Europe Observatory: corporateeurope.org/en/2025/05 @eu

    #change #changeManagement #narratives #EU #Europe #UrsulaVonDerLeyen #VonDerLeyen #UvDL #EuropeanCommission #EU27 #policy #SingleMarket #CorporateEurope #EuropeanUnion #deregulation #lobbying

  39. a few notes on a Linda Rising's talk

    "Realize up front that this is hard".

    Cognitive dissonance: contradictory "evidence" causes severe cognitive discomfort.

    * We are not rational decision-makers
    * but we are good at explaining after-the-fact why we made a decision – a pattern called rationalization.

    Two thirds of people will not consider an idea until "somebody they know pretty well, is doing it, is happy with it, talks about it […] so maybe i might think about it".
    To convince,
    * you must address: "What's in it for me?" – requires empathy;
    * you can use the values of your opponent. (Loyalty or fairness?)

    A pattern of personal touch: walk a mile in the other's shoes
    Another pattern: "Give it a try"
    Another pattern: listen
    Another pattern: ask for something personal

    youtube.com/watch?v=DrCD1wmK9o via @matthew

    #conversations #memory #neuroscience #campaigning #narratives #storyTelling #morality #socialPsych #socialPsychology #facilitation #rationalization #values #influence #LindaRising #morals #principles

  40. a few notes on a Linda Rising's talk

    "Realize up front that this is hard".

    Cognitive dissonance: contradictory "evidence" causes severe cognitive discomfort.

    * We are not rational decision-makers
    * but we are good at explaining after-the-fact why we made a decision – a pattern called rationalization.

    Two thirds of people will not consider an idea until "somebody they know pretty well, is doing it, is happy with it, talks about it […] so maybe i might think about it".
    To convince,
    * you must address: "What's in it for me?" – requires empathy;
    * you can use the values of your opponent. (Loyalty or fairness?)

    A pattern of personal touch: walk a mile in the other's shoes
    Another pattern: "Give it a try"
    Another pattern: listen
    Another pattern: ask for something personal

    youtube.com/watch?v=DrCD1wmK9oM via @matthew

  41. #israel #palestine : #gaza / #confidencebuilding / #warmongering / #narratives / #uno

    „UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.“

    news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1

  42. #israel #palestine : #gaza / #confidencebuilding / #warmongering / #narratives / #uno

    „UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.“

    news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1

  43. #israel #palestine : #gaza / #confidencebuilding / #warmongering / #narratives / #uno

    „UN human rights chief Volker Türk on Thursday called for an end to the “abhorrent, dehumanizing narratives” that continue to hamper a positive outcome to the Middle East crisis.“

    news.un.org/en/story/2025/02/1