Sai
@s.ai
Whitehat, LCS founder, UNLWS co-creator. I love law (IANAL but sometimes win anyway), liquid democracy, cogsci/neurosci, etc. Mononymous, non-binary, light-blind. 🇺🇸→🇬🇧. 👍: 🇷🇺🇫🇷🇪🇸&🤟(🇺🇸)
https://s.ai, @saizai most places, https://s.ai/contact
https://s.ai, @saizai most places, https://s.ai/contact
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🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)
October 13, 2025 at 5:44 PM
🚨 URGENT U.S. TRAVEL ALERT 🚨
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)
Heads up, everyone. A critical rule change goes into effect TOMORROW, Oct 14, that will prevent people with an "X" gender marker on their passport from flying to, from, or through the United States. Please read and share!!! (1/9)
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Here's more on what's happening and what it means: papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/1...
CBP changes procedures for airline passengers with “X” passports – Papers, Please!
CBP regulations require would-be airline passengers to identify as “M” or F”. These regulations were never changed, even when CBP was accepting “X” gender markers.
papersplease.org
October 13, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Here's more on what's happening and what it means: papersplease.org/wp/2025/10/1...
I'll probably post more later, but a thing I'm doing today for fun yielded this:
gaussian analysts hoverbug
suddenly straight lovenuts
See if you can figure out what I was doing. (Hint: a=1.)
gaussian analysts hoverbug
suddenly straight lovenuts
See if you can figure out what I was doing. (Hint: a=1.)
August 16, 2025 at 3:30 PM
I'll probably post more later, but a thing I'm doing today for fun yielded this:
gaussian analysts hoverbug
suddenly straight lovenuts
See if you can figure out what I was doing. (Hint: a=1.)
gaussian analysts hoverbug
suddenly straight lovenuts
See if you can figure out what I was doing. (Hint: a=1.)
Researching the history of blind mail laws, I came across this: 14 Stat. 597, 1866 c. 199 (39th), July 13, 1866, paying Sgt. (ret.) George W. Bush (N.Y. 90th reg., co. G) a pension of $8/mo for 2y tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
So George W. Bush actually did do military service. Or, well, one did.
So George W. Bush actually did do military service. Or, well, one did.
tile.loc.gov
August 5, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Researching the history of blind mail laws, I came across this: 14 Stat. 597, 1866 c. 199 (39th), July 13, 1866, paying Sgt. (ret.) George W. Bush (N.Y. 90th reg., co. G) a pension of $8/mo for 2y tile.loc.gov/storage-serv...
So George W. Bush actually did do military service. Or, well, one did.
So George W. Bush actually did do military service. Or, well, one did.
@andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social On Law & Chaos podcast 154, you said you hadn't heard of a pre-answer deposition. Not the same as Trump v Murdock's requested FRCP 32(a)(4)(C) depo, and can't be used on a non US resident, but in theory… there is FRCP 27, which is even pre *complaint*.
Rule 27. Depositions to Perpetuate Testimony
www.law.cornell.edu
July 29, 2025 at 11:22 AM
@andrewtorrez.bsky.social @lizdye.bsky.social On Law & Chaos podcast 154, you said you hadn't heard of a pre-answer deposition. Not the same as Trump v Murdock's requested FRCP 32(a)(4)(C) depo, and can't be used on a non US resident, but in theory… there is FRCP 27, which is even pre *complaint*.
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LCC11 presenters on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/did:...
February 26, 2025 at 8:58 PM
LCC11 presenters on BlueSky: bsky.app/profile/did:...
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The 11th Language Creation Conference list of presentations[1] and registration[2] are now up!
[1] conlang.org/lcc11-presen...
[2] conlang.org/lcc11-regist... (1/x)
[1] conlang.org/lcc11-presen...
[2] conlang.org/lcc11-regist... (1/x)
LCC11 presentations | Language Creation Society
conlang.org
February 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
The 11th Language Creation Conference list of presentations[1] and registration[2] are now up!
[1] conlang.org/lcc11-presen...
[2] conlang.org/lcc11-regist... (1/x)
[1] conlang.org/lcc11-presen...
[2] conlang.org/lcc11-regist... (1/x)
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🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
February 4, 2025 at 1:26 AM
🚨BREAKING. From a program officer at the National Science Foundation, a list of keywords that can cause a grant to be pulled. I will be sharing screenshots of these keywords along with a decision tree. Please share widely. This is a crisis for academic freedom & science.
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From @charlierad.bsky.social "Access to law - Open justice - Helping lay people" go.bsky.app/S7iL8BE
November 22, 2024 at 10:52 PM
From @charlierad.bsky.social "Access to law - Open justice - Helping lay people" go.bsky.app/S7iL8BE
I made a BlueSky list of conlangers: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please LMK if there's anyone missing (including you), or if I should convert it (or some subpart) to a "starter pack" — it's not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two is, though AFAICT the list can be used as a "feed".
Please LMK if there's anyone missing (including you), or if I should convert it (or some subpart) to a "starter pack" — it's not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two is, though AFAICT the list can be used as a "feed".
November 23, 2024 at 9:13 AM
I made a BlueSky list of conlangers: bsky.app/profile/did:...
Please LMK if there's anyone missing (including you), or if I should convert it (or some subpart) to a "starter pack" — it's not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two is, though AFAICT the list can be used as a "feed".
Please LMK if there's anyone missing (including you), or if I should convert it (or some subpart) to a "starter pack" — it's not entirely clear to me what the difference between the two is, though AFAICT the list can be used as a "feed".
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I created an FOI and Open Government starter pack and will add to it when I see more FOI warriors on Bluesky.
November 18, 2024 at 4:08 PM
I created an FOI and Open Government starter pack and will add to it when I see more FOI warriors on Bluesky.
Re RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, I'm reminded for some reason of the They Might Be Giants song Doctor Worm: youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM
They Might Be Giants - Doctor Worm (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by ParticleMen
youtu.be
November 17, 2024 at 9:49 AM
Re RFK Jr. as HHS Secretary, I'm reminded for some reason of the They Might Be Giants song Doctor Worm: youtu.be/mHliXVifhEM
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The index to all of my conlang critique articles is at gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 2/
Some Thoughts on...: An Index of Conlang Critique
Some Thoughts on Machi Languages Some Thoughts on AllNoun Some Thoughts on Khangathyagon Some Thoughts on Zimvisz Meta-Critique: Some Though...
gliese1337.blogspot.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:50 PM
The index to all of my conlang critique articles is at gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 2/
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My two-part review of Toki Pona, which I wrote at jan Sonja's request explicitly as an outsider to the community, got "popular" because it seems to have made many toki ponists angry: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2024/08/some...
At some point, I will probably do a part 3 incorporating their feedback. 1/
At some point, I will probably do a part 3 incorporating their feedback. 1/
November 16, 2024 at 5:48 PM
My two-part review of Toki Pona, which I wrote at jan Sonja's request explicitly as an outsider to the community, got "popular" because it seems to have made many toki ponists angry: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2024/08/some...
At some point, I will probably do a part 3 incorporating their feedback. 1/
At some point, I will probably do a part 3 incorporating their feedback. 1/
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And finally, my latest review before Toki Pona looked at @s.ai & Alex's covert tactile languages, Gripping and Backtile: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 7/7
Some Thoughts on Gripping & Backtile
Gripping and Backtile are languages (or language sketches) by Sai , with collaborators, in the tactile modality--i.e., communicated through ...
gliese1337.blogspot.com
November 16, 2024 at 5:58 PM
And finally, my latest review before Toki Pona looked at @s.ai & Alex's covert tactile languages, Gripping and Backtile: gliese1337.blogspot.com/2023/02/some... 7/7
The LCS is running a contest to create a #conlang flag to represent not just #conlanging, but also the diversity of the conlanging community.
What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you.
Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely.
What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you.
Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely.
Rainbow conlang flag contest and conlang flag & pin orders
The Language Creation Society (LCS) is a non-profit dedicated to conlanging and conlang communities.
Before the LCS existed, the Conlang Flag was designed by Christian Thalmann, Jan van Steenbergen, ...
docs.google.com
September 26, 2024 at 4:25 PM
The LCS is running a contest to create a #conlang flag to represent not just #conlanging, but also the diversity of the conlanging community.
What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you.
Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely.
What exactly that means, and what such a design might look like, is entirely up to you.
Details: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
Please share widely.
@robertmaguire.bsky.social Would you be interested in collaborating on using public FEC data to prove evasion of hard money contribution limits via structuring & shell corps?
I have a couple actual examples from 2014, but never followed up on them — wanted to do it more rigourously to file a MUR.
I have a couple actual examples from 2014, but never followed up on them — wanted to do it more rigourously to file a MUR.
September 19, 2024 at 1:47 PM
@robertmaguire.bsky.social Would you be interested in collaborating on using public FEC data to prove evasion of hard money contribution limits via structuring & shell corps?
I have a couple actual examples from 2014, but never followed up on them — wanted to do it more rigourously to file a MUR.
I have a couple actual examples from 2014, but never followed up on them — wanted to do it more rigourously to file a MUR.
@conlang.bsky.social Nice handle. Out of curiosity, who are you?
September 19, 2024 at 11:49 AM
@conlang.bsky.social Nice handle. Out of curiosity, who are you?