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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 1h

In Spring 2014 Searle gave an endowed lecture at UC Berkeley on universal human rights. Somehow his opening anecdote involved a lot of carping about the stoner kids who would toke up downwind of his office off Strawberry Creek. Never told him it was me, I was one of those kids 😆

Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 2h

I’ve just learned that John Searle, whose Chinese Room thought experiment is often used to challenge ideas of “understanding” in LLMs, died at age 93 on Sunday. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

John Searle obituary

American philosopher whose Chinese Room thought experiment rebuts the idea that computers can think as humans do

www.theguardian.com

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 2h

The only downside to Taiwan life is that Ethiopian food isn't a thing here 🥺 gosh I miss it

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Xtra @xtramagazine.com · 20h

Nino Bulling's graphic novel "Firebugs" was recently named the Lammy Award winner for transgender fiction.

Check out our review here:

‘Firebugs’ pulls at the complex strings of t4t love and the climate crisis | Xtra Magazine

REVIEW: Nino Bulling’s graphic novel is an intimate portrait of a character who can’t bring themself to risk change, while hating how it feels not to

xtramagazine.com

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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 2d

Covid is not over.

People are still dying and becoming disabled every day.

We rushed “back to normal” for the economy, not because the threat had passed.

When you wear a mask, you’re not only protecting your health, you’re saying you don’t believe anyone is expendable.

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Katie Holten @katieholten.bsky.social · 3d

Nature and the environment permeate the language viscerally. Irish predates English by a millennium. Its early writing system, Ogham, written vertically as a series of lines and strokes, has an alphabet based on trees. The Irish language is a joy.

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Illustration of a new Irish Tree Alphabet. Twenty-six trees represent each letter of the English alphabet. At the bottom of the image are lines representing the Ogham alphabet, horizontal and vertical lines, looking like simple trees.

The Irish Tree Alphabet draws trees from existing native as well as non-natives that are now calling Ireland home due to the changing climate.

The trees are drawn in ink with colored water pencil filling in the leaves and fruit.

The work is rooted in the medieval Ogham alphabet which was used to write the early Irish language. The characters or letters were called feda "trees", or nin "forking branches" due to their shape.

Each letter of the Latin alphabet is given a corresponding tree: A = Ailm (Scots Pine), B = Beith (Birch), B = Coll (Hazel), etc.

The tree drawings were turned into a font called Irish Trees.

Irish Tree Alphabet by Katie Holten was made for Visual Carlow in 2020. The font is available to download, so everyone can write with Irish Trees.

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Prof Gavin Yamey @gavinyamey.bsky.social · 3d

MAGA hero Jay Bhattacharya says that “political priorities may override the scoring system provided by outside experts appointed to hundreds of review panels”

This is absolutely disgusting & utterly scandalous. If your study doesn’t fit with Trump & Bhattacharya’s right wing ideology, it’s toast 👀

🪾santiago, phd 🐈‍⬛ @santiagokique.bsky.social · 3d

Even though it's crisis #192308 in our current time, I don't think it's sufficiently sunk in with ppl in the academic community that getting federal funding for your research will primarily depend on whether Trump political appointees find you and your work useful
kffhealthnews.org/news/article...

Changes at NIH Give Political Appointees Greater Power To Fund or Block Research - KFF Health News

The National Institutes of Health’s long-held standard of peer review for grantmaking has been subverted by President Donald Trump and NIH Director Jay Bhattacharya, who gave unprecedented power to po...

kffhealthnews.org

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 3d

NPR has a great oral history of how LA's Little Tokyo neighborhood made it through the war: www.npr.org/2017/02/19/5...

How 'Little Tokyo' Of Los Angeles Changed Into 'Bronzeville' And Back Again

When Japanese-Americans were forced into WWII internment camps, many black families, migrating from the South, moved into their homes. But Japanese-Americans came back to the neighborhood later.

www.npr.org

SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 3d

Entire city neighborhoods radically shifted as a result. For ex, the "vacancies" (properties stolen from) Japanese Americans in SF's Western Addition were filled by Black migrants from the South. This is part of why SF has a Chinatown but no Japantown today: fillmorestreetsf.com/history/worl...

World War II and its Aftermath - Fillmore Street San Francisco

Beginning in the late 1930s, many of the original residents of the Fillmore began to move to the suburbs. But the greatest change in the neighborhood came with World War II, when hundreds of Japanese-...

fillmorestreetsf.com

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 3d

This also happened to many Japanese-American families forcibly detained between 1942-45. Because there was no timeline in EO 9066, very few were able to prepare for long absence and returned to looted or foreclosed properties. Restitution wasn't made until 1988: en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_L...

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 3d

I think there are layered/multiple meanings to it and the play between those is interesting. Anyway enough of this, the original poster is a lovely find!

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EASLCE @easlce.bsky.social · 21d

#newbook: "Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities" ed. Gabriela Jarzębowska-Lipińska, Aleksandra Ross & Krzysztof Skonieczny (Brill)

Open access: www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com/themen-entde...

#envhum #envhist #openaccess #ecocriticism #ecolit #environment

Non-Western Approaches in Environmental Humanities

The book examines non-Western frameworks in environmental humanities, critiquing dominant paradigms and advancing discourse on diverse human-environment relationships in global contexts.

www.vandenhoeck-ruprecht-verlage.com

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

Sorry, I commend your instinct to choose gender neutral terms as a general rule. But the philologist and historian in me wins out over my contemporary nonbinary politics when issues of translation arise 😅 that said, Spanish/Catalan are not my primary working languages so I would defer to experts!

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

Unless you're remaking it for use today, a Catalan word from the 1930s should be translated as it was used at the time. I checked an online Catalan dictionary and it does seem that "camperol" was the masculine form (like the Spanish "campesino" I first mistook it as) www.diccionari.cat/GDLC/camperol

camperol | diccionari.cat

adjectiu Propi del camp; campestre. Costums camperols. Flors camperoles.masculí i femení Pagès. Un camperol.

www.diccionari.cat

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

Countryman captures campesino better to my ear

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

At what point does it become realistic to contemplate this but for global politics and climate change? (Asking for several billion friends.)

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mcc @dryad.technology · 4d

The function of the waffles joke is an in-group signifier. Singal, Graber, and Oppiliappan are showing in-group solidarity; they're all in on a joke. The joke is they have institutional power, and you don't, and they feel contempt for you, that you still want to have opinions about how power's used.

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

Yep. So is a squirming 4 year old!

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

In many cultures women carry babies and toddlers on their backs while working. Baskets slung over the shoulders also were used to haul grain, foraged foods, water, laundry, etc. Thinking women are unfit is such modern gender role b.s. it shorts out my brain.

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 4d

Whoa I thought having 4 migraines in the past 8 days was just a me thing 😑 thanks for the reminder

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Erin Biba @erinbiba.bsky.social · 5d

Since many of you are distracted by other things or not following any Jewish media, you should know that today, on one of the holiest days of the year, a man drove his car into a crowd gathering to go into a Synagogue in Manchester then got out and started stabbing people. Two people are dead.

The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 5d

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’.

Our story about today’s attack.

manchestermill.co.uk/on-their-hol...

On their holiest day, Manchester’s Jews face their ‘darkest of moments’

Amid fasting and prayer, terror comes to Crumpsall

manchestermill.co.uk

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Prisonculture @prisonculture.bsky.social · 5d

Pick one or two lanes and keep at it. You are one person and cannot do everything or take 10 actions a day.

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Philip Palermo (Batten Disease is my scary name) @palermo.bsky.social · 6d

The cruelty against people with disabilities continues.

If you’ve traveled with someone who uses a wheelchair, you probably know how stressful it can be — especially if that wheelchair is damaged during the trip.

Reuters @reuters.com · 8d

USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule reut.rs/4pMMWy0

USDOT will not enforce Biden wheelchair passenger protection rule

The U.S. Transportation Department said on Monday that it will not enforce key provisions of a Biden administration rule issued in December requiring new consumer protections for disabled passengers using wheelchairs.

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🎃 public HELLth guy 🎃 @publichealthguy1.bsky.social · 6d

dear university presidents and boards: it won’t

tobias from arrested development telling lindsey “but it might work for us”

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SJ Zanolini (李思捷) @plantmaize.bsky.social · 6d

99 reasons to be angry with MAGA but "mad at MAGA over Creed" ain't even one.
Might wanna check your reading comprehension, buddy. My reply was clearly focused on mocking their terrible taste. People can and should like whatever they like, but liking something doesn't make it halftime show good.

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Warwick History Post-Doc Club @post-doc-club.bsky.social · 8d

Great news!
JSTOR now have a free account with an Independent Researcher category. You can access 100 documents per month

www.jstor.org/action/showL...

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