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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 8h

Oh thank God.

The Associated Press @apnews.com · 9h

BREAKING: Israel says Hamas has handed over the first seven living hostages to the Red Cross as part of the Gaza ceasefire. Follow AP's live updates.

Live updates: Israel prepares to welcome hostages from Gaza as ceasefire holds

Israelis on Monday prepared to welcome home the last living hostages from Gaza, as Palestinians awaited the release of hundreds of prisoners held by Israel.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 8h

Thread.

derek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 16h

This two-parter below is exactly why it's hard to make clothes in the United States.

Let's look at how much it costs to produce a button-up shirt in the US. 🧵

Someone on Twitter replies to me: "meh. buy american or stfu."

Two hours later, in a separate thread, the write: "$30 for a single button-up is ridiculous unless it is decent quality silk."

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

Absolutely.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

For your convenience:

www.biblegateway.com/passage/?sea...

Bible Gateway passage: Exodus 8 - New International Version

Then the LORD said to Moses, “Go to Pharaoh and say to him, ‘This is what the LORD says: Let my people go, so that they may worship me. If you refuse to let them go, I will send a plague of frogs on y...

www.biblegateway.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

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Chris Brooke @chrisbrooke.bsky.social · 1d

Exodus 8:4.

Kieran Healy @kjhealy.co · 1d

John 18:38.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

I’m into Effective Altruism.

Marjorie James Keenan @unenthusiast.com · 1d

In honour of spooky month, share a 4 word horror story that only someone in your profession would understand.

rm -rf ~/

hammancheez @hammancheez.bsky.social · 1d

"The chancellor approved it"

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Henry Farrell @himself.bsky.social · 23h

My version of this is that Vought, Yarvin etc represent a kind of braindead right-Gramscianism, which leaves out all the interesting subtleties and treats civil society _only_ as a realm of indoctrination, where one ideological master-narrative can readily be substituted for another.

jamelle @jamellebouie.net · 1d

a key thing about vought — and all of these guys — is that they have a totally top down and hierarchical vision of the world. they believe that the cultural changes they hate can be turned off by destroying the federal government because they can’t imagine that they emerged bottom-up in society

Thomas Zimmer @thomaszimmer.bsky.social · 1d

What he’s railing against is a profound shift in culture, status… He’s obsessed with the idea that America is controlled by a leftist “ruling elite” - but “elite” isn’t defined socio-economically or by political power, it means something like: Getting to define “real America” and who gets to belong.

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Eryk Salvaggio @eryk.bsky.social · 1d

I've been re-acquainting myself with NNs, transformers and LLMs this week, so these are early thoughts. But I am starting to think about language without the capacity to imagine language, i.e., an LLM unable to imagine itself participating in language. mail.cyberneticforests.com/what-machine...

What Machines Don't Know

Imagining Language Without Imagination It's important to acknowledge that Large Language Models are complex. There's an oversimplified binary in online chatter between the dismissive characterizatio...

mail.cyberneticforests.com

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Helen Kennedy @helenkennedy.bsky.social · 1d

This seems like a good time to remind everyone that Donald Trump’s first appearance in the New York Times was when the Nixon Justice Dept. sued him and his father for refusing to rent apartments to black people.

◥◤Kriston Capps @kristoncapps.bsky.social · 2d

HUD laid off so many fair housing investigators on Friday that it shuttered the regional offices that oversee discrimination cases in 9 states: www.bloomberg.com/news/article...

HUD Issues Layoff Notices, Targeting Fair Housing Staff With Deep Cuts

Fair housing staffers who investigate claims of housing discrimination at field offices nationwide were among the hundreds of HUD staffers who received layoff notices.

www.bloomberg.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

Why? —Swedish is sometimes clearly related to English, especially Scottish variants, presumably because of trade and Vikings. E.g., in Swedish child is ‘barn’ (compare Scots ‘bairn’), and woman’ is ‘kvinn’ (compare Scots ‘queen’.) But ‘jag’ is much more distant from ‘I’.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

I’m fascinated by this part. The variants on ‘not’ are either close phonetically or Swedish (inte). But the variants on ‘I’ (Swedish: jag) are much more varied, and some are close to English, not another Scandinavian language.

bsky.app/profile/jtsv...

JennAI&Tonic @jtsveigdalen.bsky.social · 9h

Now you might have noticed that "new-norwegian" Nynorsk assoc. with history. Go read about it en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nynorsk it's not what you think. taken from wikip the image below showing many different versions of "I" and "not". These forms aren't like cases, they are speakers choice. 12/

Image showing new Norwegian formal Norwegian and dialect forms of the words I as in me and the word not. Eg = jeg = eg, æg, e, æ, ei, i, je, and jæ which are all I.

Ikkje = ikke = ikkje, inte, enten, itte, itj, ikkji which are all not. These aren't forms required by grammar, these are personal preferences. You get to just use whatever has a nice mouth feel for you.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

I love threads on fascinating arcana.

JennAI&Tonic @jtsveigdalen.bsky.social · 9h

I'm questioning my life choices. First thing I did this morning was open an email from Språkrådet and tumble down a Nynorsk rabbithole. It's been an hour and my head hurts.

If you're not aware, because most people I follow and follow me aren't Norwegian, Nynorsk is New Norwegian and not as 1/

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Lindsay Beyerstein @beyerstein.bsky.social · 12h

John Searle, Philosopher Who Wrestled With A.I., Dies at 93

www.nytimes.com

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 9h

At this moment, anyone who tries to convince you that it’s a good time for any kind of violence is just wrong. There is nothing Steven Miller would like more than us being violent right now.

Faine Greenwood @faineg.bsky.social · 15h

someone on the Internet who really wants to convince you to shine lasers at manned aircraft as a protest tactic “because they did it in Chile in 2019” is either:

1. a fascist fed, or,

2. so terminally stupid that they have become functionally indistinguishable from one

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ProPublica @propublica.org · 11h

Few patients appeal a health insurance denial, but a little-known process that requires insurers and plans to seek an independent opinion can force insurers to pay for what can be lifesaving treatment.

Here’s what experts say you need to know.

How to Fight Your Health Insurance Denial with an External Appeal

When a health insurer refuses to pay for your treatment, you may have the right to have the denial reviewed — and potentially overturned — by an independent provider. Here are six steps experts sugges...

www.propublica.org

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

I’m so, so sorry.

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Peter @notalawyer.bsky.social · 13h

the actual story here, which the media never talks about, is that police in this country have become a discrete right-wing political operation. the story isn't about cops leaving (they're lying about that), it's about the police trying to exert influence over elections.

Mark Misoshnik 🏴 @misoshnik.bsky.social · 1d

Lmao is this supposed to be a bad thing?

A tweet from Bari Weiss that says “"It's shaken me to my core," a lieutenant said of Mamdani's unexpected victory in June. "The absolute dread I feel is palpable.
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Today in @TheFP our @Olivia_Reingold talks to the cops who say they will walk if Zohran Mamdani is elected in November:”

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Michael J. Kramer @michaeljkramer.bsky.social · 13h

Why are there so few (none?) news stories about individual ICE agents themselves? Who they are, what motivates them, any moral dilemmas they face? Why aren’t protesters trying to get some to speak out?

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

I am not into slogans, especially not when they take the place of policy. I am the very last person on the left who you’d expect to say something like Abolish ICE.

And yet here we are.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

I think ICE should be abolished. We should create a new agency focused on whatever kind of immigration enforcement we think is reasonable. But ICE needs to be razed to the ground.

For context: I was never on Team Abolish The Police. I thought that was silly, and way too broad.

Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

Never change, Portland. 🤗

BikePortland @bikeportland.org · 13h

Amazing Emergency Naked Ride. Here’s the moment thousands of riders rolled through the protests at the ICE facility and cheers erupted. 😮💯

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Meredith Shiner @meredithshiner.com · 11h

It’s impossible to overstate how much “abolish ice” is the normie position now here in chicago — just countless random moms at toddler soccer on a park district field asking me where I bought my anti-ice t-shirt. average people don’t like our neighborhoods being terrorized.

laura olin @lauraolin.bsky.social · 17h

A friend ran the Chicago marathon today and said he couldn’t count the number of FUCK ICE signs along the way.

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Leah Litman @leahlitman.bsky.social · 2d

More judges speak to the press (the NYT) about what a disaster the Supreme Court (specifically the shadow docket) has been - “incredibly demoralizing & troubling”; a “judicial crisis”; a “slap in the face to district courts.” www.nytimes.com/2025/10/11/u...

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

“The teen and his family, who are Brazilian nationals, have a pending asylum case and are authorized to work legally in the United States, Lattarulo [her lawyer] said.”

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hilzoy @hilzoy.bsky.social · 10h

They say he had “an interaction “ with the police, which could cover almost anything, including an officer asking him for the time. He has been transferred to Virginia, where he is sleeping on a concrete floor “with an aluminum sheet as a blanket.” His mother has not seen him.

He is THIRTEEN.

Everett 13-year-old arrested by ICE and sent to Virginia detention facility - The Boston Globe

The boy’s mother, Josiele Berto, was called to pick her son up from the Everett Police Department on Thursday, the day he was arrested.

www.bostonglobe.com

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