Faces of women of the world
I’m going to use Midjourney to add art to my Substack, but sometimes you get obsessed with stuff. I decided to generate images of female faces with the prompt: beautiful [ethnicity/nationality] woman, portrait, photograph, cinematic, white wall Then I picked what I thought was the most neutral face focused of the four images. I upscaled … Continue reading Faces of women of the world
They forgot who they were?
Right now I am working on a piece about Romani for my Substack. The first clear mention of Romani in Europe is in Crete in 1322. This is certainly postdated their arrival, but there is a good amount of circumstantial linguistic and genetic evidence that they left the Indian subcontinent not much earlier than 1000 …
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
How the Irish became white
There is more than some truth to the country’s folklore
On ethnicity
A really strange conversation on ethnicity broke out below. The primacy of lots of different variables was argued. My family arrived in the USA ~1980 when there were not too many South Asians compared to today. Additionally, they have lived in major urban areas, small towns, and medium-sized cities. My parents grew up in (East) … Continue reading “On ethnicity”
When genetics comes in handy in politics
In Mother Jones Andrew Serwer has a long profile up of a Mitt Romney adviser who has associations with Lebanese Christian sectarian radicals. This section jumped out at me: Régina Sneifer, who served in the Fifth Bureau in 1981 at the age of 18, remembers attending lectures where Phares told Christian militiamen that they were […]
When genetics comes in handy in politics
In Mother Jones Andrew Serwer has a long profile up of a Mitt Romney adviser who has associations with Lebanese Christian sectarian radicals. This section jumped out at me: Régina Sneifer, who served in the Fifth Bureau in 1981 at the age of 18, remembers attending lectures where Phares told Christian militiamen that they were […]
America in 2050 may still be majority white
I have expressed some skepticism at the idea that in the year 2050 the United States of America will perceive itself as a majority-minority nation; that is, non-Hispanic whites will be be a minority. This projection is repeated and asserted so often that it’s a plausible background assumption when you’re making a model of the […]