Thanks. I just have The New Shorter OED on my shelves and don’t have an online subscription.
I do like the undated but timely usages provided in the Shorter, though:
I do like the undated but timely usages provided in the Shorter, though:
January 12, 2026 at 6:30 PM
Thanks. I just have The New Shorter OED on my shelves and don’t have an online subscription.
I do like the undated but timely usages provided in the Shorter, though:
I do like the undated but timely usages provided in the Shorter, though:
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deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
January 12, 2026 at 2:57 PM
deposing a foreign ruler and spending tens of billions of dollars on oil subsidies so we can put American frackers out of business, just in time for EVs to permanently collapse oil demand. that's the Trump business touch alright
Yep. Check it against the OED or etymonline. “Escalade” (both n and v) was in use previously, but that was for ladders.
January 12, 2026 at 5:37 PM
Yep. Check it against the OED or etymonline. “Escalade” (both n and v) was in use previously, but that was for ladders.
Also here:
Eliezer Yudkowsky recently asked Claude to review human writing on Consciousness and personhood and evaluate itself. I think its answer is very relevant. t.co/pMEkrOkZv3
https://claude.ai/share/68851063-57e5-4f8d-8530-1a866e60d410
t.co
January 12, 2026 at 3:35 PM
Also here:
January 12, 2026 at 3:34 PM
Thanks. I first saw the image on the account of a journalist who had been posting pretty reliable updates. Can’t delete my repost but I’ve at least added this as context. Wondering now if anyone has a starter pack for reliable OSINT. Already following Eliot and Bellingcat.
January 12, 2026 at 3:25 PM
Thanks. I first saw the image on the account of a journalist who had been posting pretty reliable updates. Can’t delete my repost but I’ve at least added this as context. Wondering now if anyone has a starter pack for reliable OSINT. Already following Eliot and Bellingcat.
It was taken in Canada and features this person.
January 12, 2026 at 3:19 PM
It was taken in Canada and features this person.
January 12, 2026 at 3:17 PM
Kind of a distinction without a difference and I don’t really see any advantage in pressing the case. Nazis famously took inspiration from American segregation. And we see very literal coordination between MAGA and the AfD, for example. It’s a transnational network.
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 PM
Kind of a distinction without a difference and I don’t really see any advantage in pressing the case. Nazis famously took inspiration from American segregation. And we see very literal coordination between MAGA and the AfD, for example. It’s a transnational network.
Drunk on power, high on sadism
January 11, 2026 at 9:44 PM
Drunk on power, high on sadism
Plenty of us would welcome it, and it’s not like it hasn’t been tried. Short answer is: cowardly calculations by Dem leadership, enthusiastic complicity of MAGA, state capture by bad actors.
January 11, 2026 at 5:26 PM
Plenty of us would welcome it, and it’s not like it hasn’t been tried. Short answer is: cowardly calculations by Dem leadership, enthusiastic complicity of MAGA, state capture by bad actors.