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If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
December 4, 2025 at 8:39 AM
If conservatives were for real, if they actually believed in the stuff their intelligentsia quote from Burke and Oakshotte, I actually think they'd specifically hate this. But alas far too often it's just a thin veneer of intellectualism over instinctive hates and bigotries, so here we are.
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where does my beloved zojirushi rice cooker's fuzzy logic sit? which part of the ai plum pudding chart is responsible for making perfect rice. that's the part we should be giving a trillion dollars
Im definitely oversimplifying the science, but its a subset-set relationship. A (an?) LLM is a set of machine learning decision-making algorithms
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
This is a chart from @colin-fraser.net
December 2, 2025 at 12:09 PM
where does my beloved zojirushi rice cooker's fuzzy logic sit? which part of the ai plum pudding chart is responsible for making perfect rice. that's the part we should be giving a trillion dollars
quite a few bars in here, strongly recommend!
Alex Cocotas might just be the best living Anglophone writer about Berlin and its outcroppings thebaffler.com/salvos/break...
December 2, 2025 at 8:41 AM
quite a few bars in here, strongly recommend!
i do wish people would learn the difference between engraver's old english and fraktur
November 30, 2025 at 11:18 AM
i do wish people would learn the difference between engraver's old english and fraktur
ok i had been thinking about this post all week before i went but what i still wasn’t ready for was grey boiled wool
my favourite part of WICKED 2 was when they got to the song about Fucking and she pulled on the most enormous and thick sweater blanket you've ever seen
November 27, 2025 at 10:02 PM
ok i had been thinking about this post all week before i went but what i still wasn’t ready for was grey boiled wool
thank goodness the grey is back, another crisp, sunny winter day like that and i’d want to spend the whole winter in berlin
November 24, 2025 at 8:56 AM
thank goodness the grey is back, another crisp, sunny winter day like that and i’d want to spend the whole winter in berlin
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the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
November 20, 2025 at 1:36 AM
the gulf between the swift brutality with which places like harvard treated students protesting genocide and the endless, endless latitude those same institutions have given people like larry summers tells you everything you need to know
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Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
November 19, 2025 at 6:48 PM
Astonishing to stop and realize that, at any given moment, bands of masked men armed to the teeth are storming churches and daycares, terrorizing entire communities—and that most of the country's political establishment barely blinks.
letter of recommendation: düsseldorf. lovely river walk, great art museums, lots of japanese and chinese food
November 17, 2025 at 3:23 PM
letter of recommendation: düsseldorf. lovely river walk, great art museums, lots of japanese and chinese food
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Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
November 17, 2025 at 7:53 AM
Shout out to Heidelberger Platz, one of Berlin’s most beautiful public transport stations…
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berlin_...
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listening to some of their victims tonight made me even more certain that the single best thing any of us can do to bring about justice for DHS is make sure that in three years everybody you know is ready to demand nuremburg type stuff.
November 11, 2025 at 5:20 AM
listening to some of their victims tonight made me even more certain that the single best thing any of us can do to bring about justice for DHS is make sure that in three years everybody you know is ready to demand nuremburg type stuff.
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All I’m asking is for the millionaires in the Senate to show the same courage in standing up to fascism that regular people are showing in streets every day.
Sounds like the squishes in the senate caucus are ready to pull the plug with no ACA changes. This is real. If you want to register your opinion you shld call yr senator in the next hour. They not only want to reopen w/nothing. They want cover from their colleagues who still want to hold out.
November 9, 2025 at 9:24 PM
All I’m asking is for the millionaires in the Senate to show the same courage in standing up to fascism that regular people are showing in streets every day.
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I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
"When I picked up my granddaughter from the federal agents, she had a dirty diaper, a bruise on her face, and was developing a rash. She was exhausted and cried… My heart aches knowing this could happen to others, to my kids, or even me, despite being U.S. citizens.”
November 8, 2025 at 7:34 PM
I actually think what ICE is doing under Trump 2.0 is shaping up to be a world-historic campaign of human rights violations in an advanced industrialized ~democracy
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
I’m not sure I have many modern parallels. Japanese internment? Treatment of French-Algerians in the Algerian war? Those were wartime.
chilling to read this and remember all of the admin officials who went down there for a photo op
‘You Are All Terrorists’: Four Months in a Salvadoran Prison
www.nytimes.com
November 8, 2025 at 4:07 PM
chilling to read this and remember all of the admin officials who went down there for a photo op
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Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’ -- Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
Europeans recognize Zohran Mamdani’s supposedly radical policies as ‘normal’
Critics of New York City’s mayor-elect have said his pledges of free bus service and universal childcare are unrealistic, but in Europe it’s a given
www.theguardian.com
November 7, 2025 at 6:44 AM
Yes and yet several European countries are embracing a far-right worldview that would burn these policies to the ground, so let’s be not be smug or complacent here - particularly as Mamdani‘s pro-immigration stance is radical by European standards.
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I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
November 7, 2025 at 6:36 AM
I lived and worked in SF for over a decade, in media and in the labor movement, and never heard a single person refer to Nancy Pelosi as “mom” wtaf
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Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
November 5, 2025 at 5:10 AM
Our message to Andrew Cuomo was loud & clear in June.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
It’s louder & clearer tonight.
dick cheney dies
zohran elected
new rosalia album
what a week for me
zohran elected
new rosalia album
what a week for me
November 5, 2025 at 6:35 AM
dick cheney dies
zohran elected
new rosalia album
what a week for me
zohran elected
new rosalia album
what a week for me
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Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
November 5, 2025 at 4:40 AM
Mamdani: "New York will remain a city of immigrants, a city built by immigrants, powered by immigrants, and as of tonight, led by an immigrant."
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I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
November 5, 2025 at 3:45 AM
I knew that Mamdani had it; he had the people and did the work, and has been the clearest and most lucid in rejecting the untenable current state of things. But the vile, bigoted shit against him was so constant, and I am conditioned to that working better than I want. This feels like an exorcism.
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There is no economic rationality to the demands for the mass removal of refugees. it is a plan to change the ethnic composition of the country and remove the other for reasons of bigoted aesthetics to the detriment of all.
November 4, 2025 at 8:31 AM
There is no economic rationality to the demands for the mass removal of refugees. it is a plan to change the ethnic composition of the country and remove the other for reasons of bigoted aesthetics to the detriment of all.
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The efforts to mass deport Syrians is an attack on the well being of all Germans.
Ohne migrantische Ärztinnen und Pfleger wäre das Gesundheitswesen längst kollabiert. Engpässe entstehen primär durch Fachkräftemangel und Unterfinanzierung- nicht durch migrantische Patientinnen. Wer Gruppen nach Arzt-Ratios bewertet, will spalten, nicht verstehen.
November 4, 2025 at 8:28 AM
The efforts to mass deport Syrians is an attack on the well being of all Germans.
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*chanting* “decade-week, decade-week”
November 3, 2025 at 6:13 PM
*chanting* “decade-week, decade-week”