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“YOU hit HER.”

CHICAGO - Trump’s ICE goons ram into a passing car after snatching someone, then brutally drag the female driver of the car they hit out of her car with guns drawn and arrest her too. (Her brother says she’s a citizen)

果物スタンドで手伝いをしていた自閉症の子供がトイレ休憩から帰ってこず「行方不明」になっていた事件、１週間経ってその間ずっとICEに拉致監禁されてた（親への連絡なし）ことが分かったという。

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Some Principles A few guiding principles of my translation practice:

Love this from @emilyrcwilson.bsky.social

open.substack.com/pub/emily613...

I deleted & revised preceding post bc #notallancientlatinpoetry i guess

similar in that regard to much ancient Latin poetry maybe?

the man'yōshū seems brilliant, beautiful, and kind of evil?

The federal government as ordained and established by the Constitution has ceased to function, and what has replaced it isn't our government under our Constitution. That's not flippant rhetorical hyperbole, I don't say it insensitive to what the consequences are. But it's the grim reality we face.

They are, and the consequences are extremely dire, but that pales in comparison to the much bigger problem: we don't have a legitimate president of the United States right now. What we are to make of his enablers and supporters who have thereby also delegitimized themselves is a secondary problem.

Donald Trump is breaching the Constitution and breaking the law.

A show of force so he can militarize our cities because of the 2026 elections.

We need to stand up together and speak up.

Chicago Latina Shot by Border Patrol Survives, Lawyers Up “La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in Chicago. Now her attorney says body-cam footage shows the agents provoked it. The public deserves to see the tape.

Attorney says video shows 'CBP agent taunting her—“Do something, bitch” before "steering unmarked vehicle into hers and opening fire."

"“La Maggie” Martinez survived a federal shooting in #Chicago, [h]er attorney says body-cam footage shows agents provoked it." migrantinsider.com/p/chicago-la...

Streets are still closed off in front of the Portland ICE facility at 8:30pm. Protesters have gathered on a side street. Dance party in progress.

arguing with a self-proclaimed P-zombie on X, the everything app

something is up with those Mechanize boys

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I don't understand your post or know if I agree but ❤️ parce que GE Moore mentioned

"AI doom may be unlikely, but the stakes are so high even a tiny chance of it is enough to justify making averting it a priority" is an argument made by people in the broader EA/OpenPhil/x-risk ecosystem, but Yudkowsky himself never liked or agreed with it, because he thinks doom is a near-certainty

In principle you could count morphemes (this is related to my cherished crank opinion that "words aren't real")

2 The BPAs were each equipped with body-worn cameras on or about October 4, 2025, but only BPA 3’s camera was activated at the time of the incident

15. According to BPA 1 and BPA 2, moments after exiting the CBP Vehicle, the Martinez Vehicle drove northbound at BPA 1. According to BPA 1 and corroborated by the audio of BPA 3’s body-worn camera, BPA 1 proceeded to fire approximately five shots from his service weapon at the driver of the Martinez Vehicle. According to BPAs 2 and 3, the Martinez Vehicle proceeded to flee northbound on Kedzie Avenue. 2. MARTINEZ and RUIZ Were the Drivers of the Martinez and Ruiz Vehicles 16. According to BPAs 2 and 3 and corroborated by BPA 3’s body-worn camera footage, after the collisions, the Ruiz Vehicle backed up on Kedzie Avenue into a parked car, did a U-turn, and proceeded to park at a gas station approximately half a block southbound from the location of the collisions.

Here's the complaint relating to the alleged ramming, followed by the shots in Chicago earlier.

Just one of three Border Patrol Agents turned their bodycam on, and the BWC only corroborated:
1) That they shot
2) The timing
3) What one of the cars did afterwards
www.justice.gov/usao-ndil/me...

Yeah I think it's maybe comparably dumb but not comparably vile

I though the Greek connection was regarded as dubious, and must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)

But since this is from 1891, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?

Mmh, that's not what the literature says. The verb 'stimmen' was derived from an ancestor of the noun 'Stimme', and that word does have an etymology and is related to Ancient Greek 'stóma' (mouth) among others. Here's the relevant entry from Kroonen's Etymological Dictionary of Proto-Germanic:

uhh sorry, it doesn't say that, I guess I must have gotten that idea from here -> en.wikisource.org/wiki/An_Etym... . I promise I didn't get it from an LLM :)

But since this is from 1881, maybe research advances have solidified the connection now?

The etymology of the word "Stimmung" According to Heidegger there is an existential bond between Dasein and Stimmung. I wonder if there exist an etymological link between the word Stimmung and the word Sein.

Thanks! I was mostly going off this German language Stack Exchange thread -> german.stackexchange.com/questions/56... where people seem to think the Greek connection is dubious

did some enjoyable LLMing on this ... it kindly took time from its busy schedule to make up a bunch of completely fake Old English poetry quotes

wow seems the etymology of German "stimmen" and friends is murky and we don't even have an accepted PIE root for it or cognates in other IE families?

there's a weird blank space in my taskbar which made me go "ugh what now, does windows have another dumb taskbar bug again, quelle surprise" but it turned out to be my own app I haven't bothered to make an icon for yet

For me it was reading Penrose's "The Emperor's New Mind" as a teenager and being anti-convinced by its arguments

I spoke to a Venezuelan woman who was arrested in this raid and later released with her 4yo son. She said agents broke down their door, pointed guns at them and made sexualized remarks about Venezuelan women. When she returned to her apartment it was boarded up and all her possessions were gone.

shocking details out of an ICE raid on an apartment building in South Shore area of Chicago on September 30th abc7chicago.com/post/ice-chi...