This is your city. Everyone should be safe in their homes, in their workplaces, and in our community. I’m determined to make it that way. Find immigration response resources at @washindivisble and at bit.ly/IRRP. #thisisyourcity #seattle www.instagram.com/mayorofseatt...

A friend in Minneapolis just sent me this video. Looks like thousands have come together for a vigil after an ICE agent shot and killed 37-year-old Renee Nicole Good. This was my neighborhood for several years before coming to Portland.

I don't think you can truly grapple with where we are, and how we come back from it, without recognizing this is not a constitutionally legitimate government and he is not the lawful president of the United States.

Renee Nicole Good, the woman murdered by ICE today. www.startribune.com/she-was-an-a...

Comunicado conjunto de México, Brasil, Colombia, Chile, Uruguay y España sobre la situación en Venezuela.

This statement from Spain (with Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Uruguay) points out the kind of statement the EU -could- have made…

Genuinely believe Miller’s end goal is not American strength or prosperity but literal worldwide white supremacy, where billions of nonwhite people suffer (it is very important they suffer) under the boot of the white man. Which explains his zeal for a new colonialism: he thinks that’s how you do it

Yeah, famously superpowers go around bragging how strong they are, making colonies, establishing regional spheres of influences, blustering at shifting coalitions of allies, undermining stability with squabbles over barely-populated islands, oh wait I’m describing declining 19th century great powers

Wrote about an obvious and yet profoundly underappreciated aspect of the AI boom: its total narrative capture by Elon Musk's X nymag.com/intelligence...

(e.g., Russell/Norvig's AI textbook was on the very short list of favorite books on his okcupid profile)

I think this is where the "rational" part of rationalism (economic rationality rather than philosophical rationalism), and Yudkowsky's interest in decision theory, actually originate

Specifically the earlier discourse, both in SF and by Turing &c., tended to conflate intelligence with sentience (as critics and the popular press still very often characterize AI safety as doing) and LW attempted to disentangle them, again using Russell's definitions and distinctions as the basis

lesswrongian AI safety took the pre-existing AI takeover discourse (going back to Butler and Eliot in 19th c., dabbled in by Turing and other luminaries, & ofc popular in science fiction) and to me its primary innovation was to attempt to reconstruct this on a Stuart Russellian conception of AI

To us the sky appears foggy because we don't have a license to view the fireworks

They did not do a good job of helping children and families manage the profound PTSD. We had young people in our schools who were victims of car bombings. You're talking about integrating them into a school where the biggest problems were casual drug use, alcoholic parents and teen pregnancy.

Many of the kids at my school from Somalia had been through so, so, so, fucking much, I don't want to get into details here but you also had so many kids coming in with just unfathomable trauma with imperialism playing a major role in the constant destabilization of the country.

Grew up in Minnesota. Somalis were an important part of our community and the kids -victims of harrowing violence- were our classmates. Despite welcomed to some degree they were grievously under served. Somalis are critical workers in Minnesota's worldclass health care system, working in & with Mayo

About Marx's mathematical manuscripts, more interested in why he was getting into calculus (aiui late in his life after publishing Capital vol. 1) to begin with —

If you weren't really thinking "MAGIC" while you walked around the room three times like Spekkio said, everything you did from then on is invalid and you didn't actually beat the game

The person charged with enforcing the laws is an open lawbreaker, assisted by a team of open lawbreakers, backed by a Congressional majority indifferent to lawbreaking, supported by a Supreme Court that privileges them to break the law. It has no legitimacy whatsoever.

held a brainstorming meeting with myself which resolved in the decision to drink even more coffee

OK for me to believe that 5+7=12 is clearly analytic but "There are 230 space groups" is clearly synthetic?

MINNEAPOLIS: “All I did was step outside as a Somali American citizen, and I got chased by a masked person, assaulted, kidnapped. It was inhumane. If this is what’s happening to a 🇺🇸 citizen on camera, imagine what could happen to your loved ones.”

One of the things that scholars have noticed due to the reemphasis on the importance of understanding the historical figures religious motivations in the last ~20-30 years is how deeply millenarian support for the American and French Revolutions was, especially among their most radical wings

You might not know *about* Price, but it's very likely that you know *of* him: this is because Richard Price was actually the specific person who Edmund Burke was attacking in Reflections on the Revolution in France.

The funny thing about attempts to link Yud and Calvinism is that nobody has ever noticed the *actual, direct, and obvious connection* between them: Bayes' Theorem was invented by a Nonconformist (post-Puritan) minister named Richard Price (en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard...) bsky.app/profile/kevi...

It's tricky for me to remember that the person who wrote The Elements of Style is the same person who wrote Charlotte's Web, and yet still not get carried away and remember he's also the same person who wrote The Once and Future King

Sublation is when you fall and forget to land

I knew about Ezra Pound working as a propagandist for Mussolini but hadn't yet been conscious of this as a whole genre of thing (Wikipedia excerpt about "Quo Vadis")

Musk is a parasite on the future; he preys upon the imagination of others, taking any vision of a better world and depreciating it by hawking options on a transparently fake facsimile. He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.

Bride of Frankenstein's utility monster

Grok true to its name now seems to talk like a 90s Usenet libertarian or something?

Made a site where you can practise Old English scansion. You get given a half-line and have to select which of Sievers's five types it belongs to. Just Beowulf for now, but that's 6364 half-lines to be getting on with: dgplacenames.github.io/scansion/ [Data: clasp.ell.ox.ac.uk/]

someone is talking about "category theory and structuralism" 圏論と構造主義 live on youtube www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8U...

The shape of its kanji name 嚻 looks very interesting (I’d never seen it until I read Shanhai jing. It seems there is no Japanese word using this character), so I designed the bird based on the kanji itself. The four 口 shaped wings, and an eye (目) at the center of the body.

⛰️山海経5：嚻。意外と漢字を表示できる！　古代中国サイクロプスバード。嚻という字の形が面白いので、４つの翼をそのまま四角い「口」型にして「目」を中心に置きました。 🌊Shanhai jing 5: Xiao. The four-winged, one-eyed bird with a dog tail. It reminds me of Cyclops. The meat cures stomachache. (idk how to hunt them tho) #山海経の怪鳥30羽描く #30WeirdAncientBirds

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Here's my second story for @theworld.org about elephants moving into Andhra Pradesh and the consequences of climate change + habitat loss on these communities and this amazing species. Photos by @justinnisly.bsky.social. Huge thanks to @earthjournalism.bsky.social for the support!

Yeah that's silly but I do wish I saw more people view this through the lens of "natural language vs constructed/formal language" rather than somehow "automated vs manual"

(hey a line of code can even call into an LLM API to generate some more code and execute it ... checkmate vibecoders😏)

Like people will contrast using AI to writing code "line by line" as if a "line" of code were something that does a fixed amount of work, rather than something that can call into arbitrary other code, use language features to adapt to context, etc., to do arbitrary amounts of work

Something I find very strange about AI in programming discourse is how much of it seems to proceed as though the previous 70 years of accumulated languages, libraries, tools etc to automate programming didn't exist.

Here is my “Abolish Confidence” presentation from Season 1! I hope it earns me your vote!

【生存報告】最近は絵心経タオルをアイスまくらに巻いて寝ているので毎日が昇天です

evergreen epigram

ice chuds gassing up a neighborhood again

「青森県がリンゴを普及させてきたのは、キリスト教の神を冒涜するため」という陰謀論が流れてきました。

“YOU hit HER.” CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)