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Hungarian, but not a fan. Dutch by residence. American by marriage.
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Given how many hundreds of billions of dollars we’re spending on these enterprises, maybe we could just use that money to create a social safety net that incentivizes human flourishing rather than crimes of desperation and armies of prison guards and masked vigilantes? Just spitballing here.
November 30, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Don’t expect logic from dark places.
November 29, 2025 at 3:20 PM
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This seems relevant here. bsky.app/profile/seth...
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 28, 2025 at 1:32 PM
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“These layoffs are basically theatre. They want potential customers to think AWS’s AI services are so amazing that they'll be able to cut costs by laying off workers too. And they want workers to think we’re replaceable, so that we’ll work crazy hours."
November 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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A while back I coined the phrase "ecocide-plagiarism machines" for LLM-based genAI.

A better term is "ecocide-plagiarism-psychosis machines."
3/3

buttondown.com/surekhadavie...
Basement adventures showed me why ChatGPT can only ever be garbage.
In The British Library. Photo by Surekha Davies. Hallo readers, First, a news flash: Join me for a virtual book launch for HUMANS: A MONSTROUS HISTORY...
buttondown.com
November 28, 2025 at 6:23 AM
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we have surrounded ourselves by so many machines of so many kinds it's no wonder that we've come to think of ourselves as scientifically rational wealth-optimizing machines, which ultimately makes us reproducible and replaceable, and makes us treat life as a series of functions to be lubricated
November 27, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Except for the daily Dutch commuter routine, to pack the old chees mayo/mustard sandwiches in advance. They frown upon spending money on things they can easily prepare themselves.

Train stations are packed with snack places (hello Febo and fresh fries). Sandwich places are for foreigners.
November 27, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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finally the usual starter pack to find outlets that may be nearer to you:

go.bsky.app/2Fq4P6e
November 27, 2025 at 3:20 AM
Pretty convincing evidence here that the Trump administration was planning to jailbreak and provide asylum for Bolsonaro -- and that Trump inadvertently revealed the plan.

And this, as the now-cliche goes, would have been a paralyzing scandal for any other administration.
Trump appears to blurt out secret plan, not knowing it's already a bust
YouTube video by MS NOW
www.youtube.com
November 26, 2025 at 3:20 PM
Orbán considered giving him asylum is damn outrageous.

Not the first time though: ex-Macedonian PM was smuggled to Hungary in embassy cars, crossing Serbia and then EU Schengen border.

They could not have flown him, not without touching ground elsewhere.

2024: www.nbcnews.com/news/world/b...
Brazilian police launch investigation into Bolsonaro's 2-night sleepover at Hungarian Embassy
The visit took place just days after Federal Police seized Bolsonaro’s Brazilian and Italian passports and raided the homes of his top aides as part of a probe into whether they plotted to ignore 2022...
www.nbcnews.com
November 26, 2025 at 2:55 PM
looking the other way.
November 26, 2025 at 12:16 PM
my thoughts exactly when reading about this cruelty.
November 26, 2025 at 11:46 AM