Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers. This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder. Auschwitz took time.

I don’t think we should make concessions to the Masked Murderers Guild of America. I don’t think we should compromise so the Masked Murderers Guild of America stops using kidnapped kids from schools as bait. I thought this was already illegal. The Masked Murderers Guild of America should not exist.

Five phrases about the transitory nature of all things... 1. Nothing is eternal (Farsi) 2. No one’s candle is lit till dawn (Serbian) 3. No evil shall last a hundred years (Spanish) 4. All snowstorms eventually subside (Icelandic) 5. Everything has an end, except the sausage, which has two (German)

Saying hello to Frohmann's ghost

Sort of bizarre that the whole "can AI understand language the same way humans can" debate happened. We know, technically, that it is not the same. A lot of money has been poured into people denying the obvious.

Solidarity with Kallaalit

The klept is targeting the Clintons and both of them may meet a truly gruesome end. The stakes are higher personally for them, as they are closer to the rot. Less to lose.

Mia May as the embodiment of the goddess Astarte in the silent film The Mistress of the World, 1919.

We are not going to let them pull a "this person was no angel" when it turns out the next person they kill was maybe kind of a jerk, or used drugs, or had a violent past, or wasn't loved by all who knew them. You don't have to be perfect to deserve to live.

The narrative of exceptional Ukrainian resilience is one of the most harmful tropes I’ve seen during this war. ​Yes, we refuse to give up. Yes, we have picnics in -15°C. Yes, we keep living, drinking coffee, and even laughing occasionally, but all of this stems from a lack of choice.

This is a global far right power grab, so the sooner everybody realizes that and puts aside their deeply outdated notions around national identity, which got us here to begin with, the better. The only way out is through, but the only way through is all of us fighting these climate warlords together

learned a little sparql to query wikidata and satiate a curiosity: a graph of all the programming languages and what they influenced query.wikidata.org/index.html#%...

Way more sophisticated than anything I could design

Greenland is Inuit Land. US & Europe playing tug of war with Kalaallit Nunaat, it will be Indigenous people who suffer most. Colonization is not a distant history. Under a colonial system built on white supremacy violence never disappears it only reiterates itself, sometimes dressed up differently.

Everyone is quick to celebrate a hero the moment someone presents a glimmer of that possibility. It’s worth tempering the enthusiasm by noting that Carney mentioned lowering taxes on capital gains, increasing defense spending, & mining in more places. It was Davos and he’s of Goldman Sachs pedigree.

ICE ended up returning the man, Saly, after realizing he’s a fucking US citizen with no criminal record, per his sister-in-law. These fucking animals.

“Nothing is more important than stopping fascism because fascism will stop us all.”

actual self-accountability demands more than acknowledgement of bad judgement or ideas. you have to also take affirmative action to address the terrible things you said and did. you have to do that with no expectations that people you harmed will ever accept or certainly forgive you.

every day we all wake up and go to work knowing exactly where currently operating concentration camps are and aren’t liberating them

In 2003, Wikipedia held a logo design contest. Here are four of the finalists:

Dr. Gladys West, the pioneering mathematician whose work laid the foundation for modern GPS technology, has died. She was 95.

"...we can locate the early systemization of racial categories in American cultural institutions by looking to Jefferson’s classificatory and information management techniques." thewayofimprovement.blog/2026/01/19/t...

Putin's logic would naturally be to do to the American people everything listed in the Declaration of Independence; it is the ultimate insult.

Writeup on the use of Modal Logic for OWL: github.com/cmungall/mod... Want to use this to write an ontology of "Possible Worlds" to describe fanfiction entities philarchive.org/archive/UCKFCA

Just made my first post on the Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link! people.well.com/conf/inkwell... Hello 1985!

I guess this could be used to make semantic primitives compositional over a latent space Also similar to the quantum natural language processing framework DisCoCat

Entities classified at the level of instances are phenomenal. The connotations of the classes themselves are socially constructed.

In Hjorland's article on Semantic Primitives and Compositionality he has this to say on the proposal that would become my design heuristics for a real character language:

Wait, the richest man in the world is an Afrikaner white supremacist who plays with rockets. This is a subplot from Gravity's Rainbow?

oh you have to use this fancy new database that's in beta because you need a fast vector db for RAG? have you tried sqlite with vector extension? oh, you need many concurrent writers? are you sure you actually do? really? ok, then have you tried *multiple* sqlite with vector extension?

Very strange the extent to which these megaliths perfectly resembled the Breton legend, but Australian nations also preserve memories of the submerged coastline in their oral histories, so I suppose anything is possible!

You say no Erin it's good to have VR in prison & I say that's what Curtis Yarvin thinks too but only cuz it wouldn't be popular to grind the lumpenproletariat up into literal fucking biodiesel, and these are things he tells people like the vice president of the US newrepublic.com/article/1839...

THREAD The first full year of tracking research on @bsky.app Hi, we are Altmetric, and we track how research is communicated across the web. We now have one full calendar year of Bluesky research data and thought we'd have a looksie.

One of the coolest things a student ever wrote after taking my Indigenous Studies intro course was, "if settler colonization is a structure, not an event, then reconciliation needs to be a structure." And she was absolutely correct.

What is the ontological status of linguistic entities? If I create a linguistic linked open data ontology representing linguistic "universals" or "semantic primitives" that are socially contingent, are they less scientifically dignified than top-level classes in say, BFO?

Very interesting discussion in Hjorland's recent paper on whether the periodic table constitutes natural classes www.imrpress.com/journal/KO/5...

SPARQL query from the Wiki Project Ontology to find all BFO Classes in Wikidata w.wiki/HKjT

There is no horizon for exile when empire spans the globe

Starting a tech company, BOMBADIL, which is immensely powerful but not nearly as helpful as it could be

Canada has affirmed its commitment to the people of Greenland. We are opening a consulate there in the spring. Canada is stepping up with Europe as the United States descends into rogue state threats.

Years ago a librarian (who was asked this question by a prof) asked me what's the difference between a database and search engine and even then I knew it was a tricky question. Part of it is what CS calls "database" or "search engine/index" is different from the LIS definition. (1)

www.bbc.com/future/artic... Why the world is running out of frankincense

Excellent. I want to emphasize two aspects: 1.) the use of a purpose built server rather than 'cloud' and 2.) the use of a real information management system - Obsidian - to build the tracker. This is an example for all activist groups

People are saying that this is a problem for all library catalogues but that's not true: this is a problem for, in this case, Ex Libris Primo and more generally for outsourced proprietary library catalogues that libraries don't control. The answer, as always, is to build and control our own tech.

Turns out that libraries should've invested in building and maintaining our own catalogs instead of outsourcing to, frankly evil, companies like Ex Libris

"I think refusing is actually the more hopeful, expansive vision of the future than the one that is telling us that the future is already settled and decided. That's my daring idea. Just say no."