I applied for an apartment in there a few years back and was SO excited and they said “this rent would be 33% of your paycheck. it has to be 30% so fuck off” 🙃
‘[She] said words in the Han Gwich’in language that essentially mean, “We’re not a threat to you. Have mercy on us and leave us alone.”
Her grandmother and other elders always told her that animals understand the Native language.
“I’m glad I remembered that and that I knew those words,” she said.’
love all of this and also want to say we don’t have to start from scratch in imagining the possible worlds, because there are so many existing worlds which have space for language fluidity and diversity baked right into them, which is good news
Good text that should help many people understand that it is generally not a very good idea.
shoutout also to @jeff.doctor @runningwolf.bsky.social Te Hiku (tehiku.nz) and everyone at @e-l-p.bsky.social ) who helped shape and refine this answer
tl;dr version is the opening quote from @danielleboyer.bsky.social : “Should AI be used with Indigenous languages at all? And the answer is only with great care. And if it can't be done right it shouldn't be done at all.”
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This was a difficult one to write, but with input from many smarter colleagues, I hope it offers some useful thoughts for anyone considering building LLMs or other AI tools for Indigenous languages.
One of every thousand American residents has been taken into custody by ICE in the last year.
Awesome! Thanks for supporting language revitalization! 🤩
Can confirm these sweatshirts are insanely cozy, really beautiful, AND support Indigenous language revitalization!
yay the indiscriminate chemical warfare being done to Portland neighborhoods is now MORE illegal ✨
No thank you, I want ICE abolished and every inch of its infrastructure melted down for playground equipment. That is the common sense kitchen table opinion.
Great story, with possibly the greatest author's disclosure of all time:
"Disclosure: Prior to his election, the author was Councilor Green’s DM in a Dungeons & Dragons campaign."
It’s 2026. There is a measles outbreak in the prison for babies
$3,000 billion dollars. the whole earth is being turned into paperclips right now for this trash people don't even want being shoved into every product that's consistently failing businesses that are trying to use it, deeply screws up and even undoes learning in ways that seem borderline irreparable
please. i want this
People say we can't compare this to the Third Reich because of the atrocities but we only found out about the atrocities after the fact when it was all said and done and we're not done with this yet so I am sure the worst stomach churning shit has yet to be revealed.
Flood it.
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Today I saw ICE gas little white kids in the streets of Portland with chemical weapons. Imagine what they're doing to brown and black kids in the detention camps
Just experienced the most intense tear gassing of my life by federal officers outside the ICE facility in Portland where marchers gathered. There was no fast exit as they indiscriminately threw loads of gas and flash bangs. Children were in the crowd screaming. @oregoncapitalchronicle.com
A Black-capped Chickadee showcasing winter fashion by donning a snowflake accessory.
Every single person I've spoken to says ICE is still terrorizing, brutalizing, and abducting people at the same rate they were before Homan's little speech
Falling for Rational Voice at a time like this is downright psychotic. Actions speak louder than words; words speak louder than tone
no it’s pretty bad for the environment to coat the ground and fill the water with poison 🤷🏼♀️ i’m still very sad about how many fish species’ spawns were utterly fucked in 2020/21 and how many of the downtown crows died or left, it’s okay to not want to poison the world
whoa! I still see no mention at all of carcinogenic abortifacients! almost like chemical weapons designed specifically to cause harm and banned under the Geneva convention are… worse than trash or hypodermics or whatever you’re on about
my guy was back out there doin Good Work with a broken rib from his previous encounter.
name a fucking high school after him.
that’s so interesting how there’s no mention of extremely dangerous chemical weapons in that article
lmao the idea of street camping producing mass amounts of carcinogenic abortifacients is gonna need some citations, little dude
wait are there people who don’t use Signal for literally everything? why? I got all my septuagenarians on there easy
for Alex Pretti
