CHATGPT: I understand where you're coming from. You worked really hard to get here, and now it's time to enjoy the fruit of your labors. ISILDUR: So I should keep it? Elrond says I shouldn't CHATGPT: The ring is precious. Sometimes friends don't have your best interests at heart. ISILDUR: true

HAPPENING NOW — This morning, Mayor Brandon Johnson signed an executive order establishing “ICE-free zones.” “That means that city property and unwilling private businesses will no longer serve as grounds for these raids,” Johnson said to applause. thetriibe.com/2025/10/mayo...

Kilroy is ANTIFA

This is all true. What the UK needs is a good long spell of properly conservative government, say for 14 years or so, and to exit major liberal international institutions; that will finally begin to roll back the left-wing capture of the country

Ticking off grievance after grievance from the Declaration of Independence gets me thinking the 3rd Amendment’s gonna be a thing again any day now, too

Reading Rainbow emphasis is encouraging kids to read. The focus is not on teaching them to read. The mission is reading should be fun! We are all readers, worthy of literacy. LeVar Burton said “but you don’t have to take my word for it” because he wanted us to look to the books. That’s the beauty 💚

World that lets Gaza burn is the world that will let the world burn

*I'm a little surprised that there are no moral panics about, say, "AI Nanotechnology." Wouldn't AI make the "threat" of Nanotech Gray Goo at least a million times worse?

I don’t have a recollection of the early Nazi regime engaging in this level of depravity

brb asking my publisher for an edition of Because Internet that makes the dialup screech as you open it, like a novelty birthday card, and gradually heats up the longer you read it

👏China has pledged, for the first time, to cut its greenhouse gas emissions!

🚨🚨 My dear friend and fellow academic, the Palestinian American sociologist @emanabdelhadi.bsky.social has been taken by the Cook County Sheriff near Chicago. They have not mirandized her. Please signal boost. All eyes on Broadview for Eman and the community she was defending 🚨🚨

Just rolling with the whole Herman Hesse thing

‘Planetary health diet’ could save 40,000 deaths a day, landmark report finds - Diet allows modest meat consumption and would also slash food-related climate emissions by half, says report by 70 leading experts from 35 countries Story by me www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Ahead of a formal celebration of the 1850 Public Libraries Act in Manchester next week, I have a piece in @theobserveruk.bsky.social this weekend celebrating that forward-looking legislation (and a call to action). observer.co.uk/news/opinion...

Dr. Marcyliena H. Morgan, the linguistic anthropologist who founded the world's first archive dedicated to hip-hop culture and championed the genre's legitimacy as a subject of serious academic study, has died.

Canada must cancel the F-35 "deal." Contact the PM. Select National Defence as the subject and share your thoughts on why we cannot rusk entrusting our defence to the States, when Sweden's Saab Gripen E is a much better alternative that can be built in Canada. Https://www.pm.gc.ca/en/connect/contact

With September 30 marking National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, APTN News looks at how many of the 94 Calls to Action have been answered since the Truth and Reconciliation Commission delivered its final report in 2015.

Little Free Anti-ICE Libraries: yesterday multiple people were abducted by ICE in my Chicago neighborhood (Avondale). This morning I added 40 ICE alert whistles to three different LFLs, including one box that is about a block from one of the kidnappings. I have ordered 700 whistles.

Why I gave the world wide web away for free | Tim Berners-Lee

Quite frustrating to see all the pieces in place to solve the climate crisis and build a lovely multilateral global food support system only for it all to be brought down by the same American faction which killed the League of Nations

Went to a party in an Edinburgh bar last night, and dropped one of my earphones in the road opposite the bar just as I was about to cross the road to go in. The bouncer came across and helped me look for it. What a lovely man. (We found it, thankfully.)

Hearing this "well all societies have a decline and fall chatter" as though this is a thesis in an undergraduate essay. It's presumably quite unpleasant to live through and I am not looking forward to it!

In what direction does the Owl of Minerva fly, though

This is really a stark example of abject political cowardice and how the administration brings it out of people January 2025: introduces legislation making reparations for the Wounded Knee Massacre Yesterday: I don’t have an opinion on calling it a battle

Only @timharford.ft.com could use the fact that he was Liz Truss’s tutorial partner as a throwaway paragraph in a piece about the mathematics underpinning economics. Lesser columnists would have squeezed ten articles out of this coincidence by now on.ft.com/4ntbSJC

A man here is passing around Italian beefs to people protesting Border Patrol.

“An open library, built in an open world game, to overcome censorship”

Oh gosh. It also means, intuitively, a context is a type

Turns out once you ground everything in consensus-based exemplar theory the math to do what I wanted to do was really easy ... how does anything mean anything else at all ... there's the rub

Mapping documents to the homotopy groups of spheres

Converted KOS-indexed word embeddings into a simplex today. This horrible visualization shows you absolutely nothing of what that means. I want to explore using homotopy types for information retrieval. Can create queries which naturally map logic and geometry. Not sure how useful yet

One Battle After Another was really good

www.wikidata.org/wiki/Propert... !!!

When I graduated college it was a criminal offence to be gay & 14 men, on average, were jailed each year in Ireland. Suicides were a drumbeat. The only option was to flee & find safety, which I did, in Britain. Now the UK is persecuting LGBTQ ppl, whilst Ireland does not. So Brits are …

Demonstration against amnesty for convicted ex-President Bolsonaro. Avenida Paulista in São Paulo 🇧🇷

for all people mock it wikipedia is genuinely one of the wonders of the modern world

Paul Otlet's unrealized vision as H. G. Wells world brain remaining the talk from this years Document Academy which most is sticking with me, from Lai Ma at University College Dublin. As if we need to add KO principles to ground machine learning models to realize this vision.

Thinking of mapping this rotary dial to an input using the Wubihua method to write Chinese characters en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stroke_...

The unforeseen consequences of "the meaning of a word is in the company that it keeps"

I am really not looking forward to this war. We already know how it will end 😢