kobayashi ḫamṭu

I’m seeing people reacting by pointing out that he’s obviously wrong. I appreciate that, but it’s also a pointless exercise. The problem isn’t that he’s wrong. The problem is that this is normal in American politics — and it’s been normal for a while.

Looking forward to the possibility of Israel voting out the guy who committed genocide in Gaza in favour of the guy who explicitly declared war crimes to be an inherent part of Israeli tactics in Lebanon And then being gaslit by the media that this counts as progress

Israel has sealed off the largest Palestinian city in the West Bank and razed entire neighborhoods as retaliation for the shooting of two soldiers on Friday. (1/2) buff.ly/KXs9qLz

no amnesty

🚨 Student researcher position at Google DeepMind! I am recruiting for a 6-months internship in Paris in 2027, on the topic of discrete diffusion. Application link: www.google.com/about/career...

I’m not a political journalist, so was gladly surprised at the community I found here last night. To Americans anxious about the upcoming elections, a key thing we learned in Brazil that might help you: DO NOT engage with the far-right online. Don’t share rage bait. Amplify your people. Ignore them.

Reminds me of this. Children’s spelling mistakes are sometimes very phonologically insightful!

the 4yo playing a computer game where she has to guess the first letter of "🥁". "i tried J and G but it doesn't work ☹️"

From "The Guardian": A Hebron civil rights activist, Issa Amro, said. “Our suffering is being turned into political material for Israel’s elections, while innocent families pay the price.” Amro said his sister’s family was one of the hundreds driven out of their homes.

we have to think so much less about finding the right candidates and so much more about building political power that makes individual candidates simple stewards of the will of the bases they are accountable to

Every member of the Biden administration who could have done something to stop Israel’s genocide (or at least make sure we weren’t funding and arming it) is now trying to rewrite history and erase their complicity

is Morse code an orthography?

This afternoon, we toured the infrastructure of occupation in the West Bank: Settler outposts that uproot groves full of olive trees & steal Palestinian land. Gates arbitrarily closed by Israeli forces, forcing Palestinian villages to transfer construction supplies and bulk goods by hand.

American voters have absolutely zero clue what the hell is going on around them lmao

"We propose and test a hypothesis as to why: while human language is optimized for successful communication, AI-generated text is increasingly optimized for other goals like math, code, and reasoning, in which there is a pressure for *information density* rather than successful communication."

Italian-American translation of Beowulf that begins "Allora,"

This is really cool

Had this idea in lockdown, half-built it, forgot about it, remembered it again, though might as well finish it.

One of the most salient aspects of today's politics is how everyone imagines a conspiratorial "them" controlling things behind the scenes. Elon Musk is literally powerful enough to affect the course of the Ukraine war, but he's still imagining faceless puppet masters who need to be unmasked.

suffragatus sum

Palestinian farmers do not — and should not — need permits to harvest their own olive fields. But they fear doing so, because the IDF doesn’t protect them from settler violence.

"entered a restricted security area" and it's literally just a place where Palestinians live

“Can’t learn a language without tongues touching”

Antisemitism is structurally necessary for Musk's politics, because the right-wing populism he supports needs to frame itself as fighting for "the people" against "the elites," but as the world's wealthiest person, he needs a definition of "elite" not rooted in actual wealth or corporate ownership.

Today, while protecting Palestinians, Brad Lander & a group of American rabbis & others were taken by the IDF. Releasing Brad isn't enough, the Israeli govt must release them all.   If this is how they treat Americans, imagine how they treat Palestinians. Trump & Rubio's silence fuels this impunity.

For harvesting olives. They should all be released immediately. To be clear: Palestinians face far worse consequences every day. These detentions by the IDF are one more attempt to undermine Palestinians’ right to harvest their olive groves, travel on their roads, and live in their homes.

I’ve been released from IDF custody with a “warning,” apparently because of my public profile (I told them I wasn’t even a congressmember yet, just a nominee). But several dozen rabbis & participants harvesting olives with me are still in detention.

A very exciting opportunity for a scholar of Palestinian Studies at Georgetown! mesana.org/resources-an...

Go to your camera roll and search "boat" and then post a picture of a boat you like. this was Bristol, UK, a few months ago. i always wanted to travel in one of these long guys (still haven't, alas)

An absolutely fucking wild thing I just learned: In 2020 DNA-sequencing of human remains from c. 3,000 BCE identified two first cousins once removed. One had been buried near Rostov-on-Don by the Black Sea, the other in the Altai Mountains of the Mongolian borderlands, about 2,000 miles away.

all the trouble of making a nice edition of my boy and then you put the wrong kind of whale on it?? like how many more whale facts did you need him to put in this thing

In 1934, we added a gender-neutral pronoun for a single third person. ‘Thon’ was short for “that one.” It didn’t catch on.