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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 2h

The problem with this idea is that the present moment is literally only thing we have that is not fictional. Except that, of course, we don't have it until it's already gone

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 2h

It looked antipassive in that it seemed to demote a direct object to an oblique, but I think now it just elides the object: e.g. [X get (Y) rid of Z]. Which makes it look most like the causative GET as in "i got it fixed" or "she got me fired" (*she got fired of me).

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 2h

Literally breath-taking thuggishness

Hart Cunningham @hpsc24.bsky.social · 5h

Zero Regard for Safety, ICE Escalation in Chicago Leaves Baby in Harm’s Way🇺🇸

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 2h

but, in any case, that would seem to make this not a "get" passive, but rather a "get" anti-passive, i think

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 2h

i have no idea why i didn't think of that immediately. morphology is a most mysterious thing.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 4h

What's happening in Portland is genuinely terrifying.

The Oregonian @oregonian.com · 6h

U.S. House Speaker Mike Johnson calls Sunday's naked bike ride in protest of the Portland ICE facility and and Trump troop deployment "the most threatening thing I’ve seen yet"

www.oregonlive.com/portland/202...

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 6h

A lot of the basic ideas of psychoanalysis (like the idea that people can be deeply unconscious of their own feelings) are now just commonsense.

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 8h

People have been obsessed by the Chinese room, and in particular by the idea that they could talk their way out of one. There were whole usenet groups devoted to the topic in the 90s. I don't recall there ever being any comparable fuss about felicity conditions or direction of fit.

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 13h

This is such a good point!

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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 16h

It’s amazing how all the reporting is just memory-holing this part

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 14h

We're on a mission from God (The Frog Brothers)

Blue Axeman @blueaxeman.bsky.social · 1d

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 15h

Alex Jones appears to understand just how unserious he is. Or is it that he is seriously opposed to being funny?

Julian Sanchez @normative.bsky.social · 15h

Possibly the funniest thing in here is Jones’ lawyers describing The Onion as his “ideological nemesis.”

Meet the Press @meetthepress.com · 15h

The conspiracy theorist had asked the justices to immediately intervene, warning that the ownership of his Infowars website could be transferred to the satirical news site The Onion.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 15h

not unless "rid" (which I take to be the root in "riddance") is a passive participle of a strong verb, like "ride"? But intransitive GET takes both AdjP and PP complements, so "rid" could just as easily be one of those.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 15h

Searle deserves all the credit for building the Chinese Room. But it was Austin who gave us the problem of Speech Acts, which Searle then repackaged, put his name on, and claimed to have solved.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

But we are in the realm of myth and symbol here, not historical truth. He's not being clever here; more Edgelord, claiming to be the true revolutionary, reversing the fascist accusation back at us. It's all theater, gaslighting, and DARVO.

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This skeet will self destruct @pardoguerra.bsky.social · 1d

This is a sign of immense weakness. It’s like a mobster asking others if they’d be interested in a shakedown because their first targets didn’t cooperate.

Robert Kelchen @robertkelchen.com · 1d

After getting zero firm commitments to this point from the first nine invitees, the Trump administration is extending its proposed compact to all colleges. Expect some red-state publics to say yes.

Trump Offers All Colleges Preferential Funding Plan Rejected by MIT

The Trump administration is inviting all US colleges to participate in a compact — initially rejected by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology — that would grant preferential federal funding in re...

www.bloomberg.com

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Peter Sterne @petersterne.com · 1d

"(Officers) refuse to recognize local or court authority. A judge says you can’t arrest journalists. Watch us. A judge says we have to wear badges. No. State law says we can’t drive around in unmarked vans? Too bad. Elected officials who want to see what is going on should prepare to be arrested."

Purge, Merge, and Surge

Trump is creating a omniforce of armed loyalists to establish his police state

donmoynihan.substack.com

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Also worth reiterating:

Mike Black @mikeblack114.bsky.social · 1d

The executive is usurping a core Article I function, this should be treated with the same amount of alarm as if he declared he's disbanding Congress, because that's functionally what he's doing/done

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Bears repeating. This is where the battle lines of the Culture War divide us.

Karthik Sankaran @rajakorman.bsky.social · Jan 6

The combined takeaway from this is that America is bitterly divided between people who hate College and people who hate the Electoral College.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Huge shout-out to Oakland, CA, where, as here, there is no there there!

Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 1d

The is literally nothing more American and patriotic than declaring: No Kings.

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The Tobin in the Woods @vtobin.bsky.social · 1d

this is EXCEPTIONALLY accurate

Tom Reagan’s Hat @rufustsuperfly.bsky.social · 16d

Sean Penn looks like Wile E. Coyote after a TNT mishap

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

"relevant" not "relative" (if that wasn't obvious). also obviously, i'm imagining a context that makes this relevant, so i could be wrong, of course.

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

This utterance strikes me as entirely cooperative, relative and coherent. I'm sure this child has a tiny Grice inside her.

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Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

But of course, maybe it's just me, and my prejudice that norms of usage are intrinsic to "Language", even if there's no such thing as a norm in an LLM's vector space.

Michael Israel @subcontrarian.bsky.social · 1d

Then where does it come from, and what is anyone supposed to do with it? It all sounds very not usage-based (a concept Weatherby might want to look into, along with "sociolinguistics").

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