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Amethyst, orchid, mulberry, midnight blue, navy blue, electric blue, sapphire, turquoise, cyan, aqua, olive green, pine green, sea green.
とどまりたる例なし。
43 years old.
とどまりたる例なし。
43 years old.
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")
November 13, 2025 at 7:56 PM
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")
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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.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
November 11, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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.
He is capitalism's full-throated assault on the utopian imaginary.
Bride of Frankenstein's utility monster
November 8, 2025 at 3:51 AM
Bride of Frankenstein's utility monster
Grok true to its name now seems to talk like a 90s Usenet libertarian or something?
November 7, 2025 at 9:00 PM
Grok true to its name now seems to talk like a 90s Usenet libertarian or something?
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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/]
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/]
November 7, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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/]
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...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8U...
圏論と構造主義
YouTube video by MT 数学・数学史
www.youtube.com
November 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM
someone is talking about "category theory and structuralism" 圏論と構造主義 live on youtube
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8U...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xr8U...
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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.
November 4, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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.
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⛰️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
🌊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
November 4, 2025 at 11:42 PM
⛰️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
🌊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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Vote! Already did? Text or call your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers. We can win this! #thisisyourcity
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Vote! Already did? Text or call your friends, family, neighbors, and coworkers. We can win this! #thisisyourcity
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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!
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, some people are seeking better ways to adapt to the changes.
Communities in southern India search for solutions for growing encounters with elephants - The World from PRX
Rising temperatures, changing rainfall patterns and human activity have degraded the traditional habitats for some elephants in India, pushing them and humans into increasingly narrower spaces. Now, s...
theworld.org
October 22, 2025 at 9:13 AM
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!
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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"
October 24, 2025 at 8:28 PM
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"
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(hey a line of code can even call into an LLM API to generate some more code and execute it ... checkmate vibecoders😏)
October 24, 2025 at 8:22 PM
(hey a line of code can even call into an LLM API to generate some more code and execute it ... checkmate vibecoders😏)
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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
October 24, 2025 at 8:13 PM
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
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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.
October 24, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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.
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Here is my “Abolish Confidence” presentation from Season 1! I hope it earns me your vote!
Abolish Confidence
YouTube video by Nebula
www.youtube.com
June 16, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Here is my “Abolish Confidence” presentation from Season 1! I hope it earns me your vote!
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【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
October 16, 2025 at 3:10 PM
【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
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ice chuds gassing up a neighborhood again
Keep Resisting Chicago! At Wilson and Sawyer -an hour ago. 10/12/25
October 12, 2025 at 6:40 PM
ice chuds gassing up a neighborhood again
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「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。
October 12, 2025 at 9:25 AM
「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。
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“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)
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)
October 11, 2025 at 2:30 PM
“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)
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)
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果物スタンドで手伝いをしていた自閉症の子供がトイレ休憩から帰ってこず「行方不明」になっていた事件、１週間経ってその間ずっとICEに拉致監禁されてた（親への連絡なし）ことが分かったという。
ICE secretly kidnap autistic boy during bathroom break—never notify parents.
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
Mother reported him missing a week ago—turns out ICE had him detained the whole time.
He was helping sell fruit and asked to go to the restroom—by the time she was done helping a customer he was gone.
Houston, Texas
October 11, 2025 at 6:55 PM
果物スタンドで手伝いをしていた自閉症の子供がトイレ休憩から帰ってこず「行方不明」になっていた事件、１週間経ってその間ずっとICEに拉致監禁されてた（親への連絡なし）ことが分かったという。
Some Principles
A few guiding principles of my translation practice:
open.substack.com
October 10, 2025 at 9:57 PM
the man'yōshū seems brilliant, beautiful, and kind of evil?
October 10, 2025 at 9:29 PM
the man'yōshū seems brilliant, beautiful, and kind of evil?
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The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.
October 9, 2025 at 3:39 AM
The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.