Low resource languages are still a big problem for handwriting recognition. I work on Yiddish—all of the generative models currently return gibberish or pure hallucination when given a handwritten Yiddish letter. It’s a very interesting and exciting problem and one I think we can solve.

That "losing identity" bit is something I've been swimming in lately. Dropped it in a poem today. rosefirerising.wordpress.com/2025/12/06/o... (PS - thanks for finding me here! It was good to meet you)

@doctorscience.bsky.social If you find this, please let me know. It's been stuck in my brains for decades (I bought the Foley book full price when the paperback was new, & it was expensive). I bought it in part because of this story, & the descriptions of the Eleusinian mystery rites.

I think it was in the chapter: Variants of the Myth and the Importance of the Version in the Hymn to Demeter
pp. 97-103 but I can't verify it without a copy in hand. Our library's copy is checked out & I can't find my copy right now.

Some of the online versions of the book bmcr.brynmawr.edu/1994/1994.05... |
www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt... |
muse.jhu.edu/book/61906 |
www.degruyter.com/document/doi...

The unsuckled term (Athelos or Althela) is also used for Athena, which is less surprising. www.ccel.org/ccel/richard...

"Zeus also pursued his mother Rhea-Demeter. ... From this union Persephone was born. She had two faces with four eyes and horns. Rhea-Demeter was frightened at the child’s appearance & ran w/o nursing her. She (Persephone) thus became known as Athela, the unsuckled." www.neokoroi.org/wp-content/u...

Here's a couple other bits. Why is Persephone sometimes called "The Unsuckled" www.reddit.com/r/GreekMytho...

Helene Foley’s 1993 book The Homeric Hymn to Demeter. press.princeton.edu/books/paperb... That’s where I encountered it.

It's... not actually at all uncommon for men to rape women and seek to own them afterwards and call that love. #ParshaChat

Haven't read the whole article, but I find the first few paragraphs unsettling TBH. "As Lyn Bechtel notes, “Rapists feel hostility and hatred toward their victims, not love,”[5] something we see in the story of Amnon, who throws Tamar out of his home after raping her "
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"Cursed be their anger so fierce, And their wrath so relentless. I will divide them in Jacob, Scatter them in Israel." (Etz Hayim translation) 2/2 #ParshaChat

So looking at the textual history, it turns out that one reason people's motivations seem so confusing is because of *editing* by editors with conflicting agendas.
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OMG, you mean the earlier versions of the story didn't include rape? Oh, wow. This is reminding me of the Persephone story, in which the earliest versions were about a cleft palate baby (Athelos) rejected by Demeter, not loved at all. A complete flip of where the story ended up going. #ParshaChat

I think a lot about the need for concepts other than reconciliation and forgiveness and repair.

Some things are neither fixable nor forgivable.
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Yep. And this kind of "booty" (as a kind of slavery) is at the roots of the slang phrase "shake ya booty" #ParshaChat

Yes, please @isaacgantwerkmayer.bsky.social include the hashtag? #ParshaChat

"If you'd just get surgery to rearrange your face to be more socially acceptable.." #ParshaChat