kobayashi ḫamṭu

incidentally "sidereal" /saɪˈdiriəl/ is one of my favorite english words

Children and police officers among at least 30 killed in Israeli strikes on Gaza Deadly attacks launched day before border crossing due to open as part of ceasefire deal

Israel bombed tents in Gaza today, killed at least 30 people including children, and the death toll is likely to rise

www.theguardian.com/world/2026/j...

Incipit liber Bresith quem nos Genesim dicimus...

Official concedes 8-year-old who died in U.S. custody could have been saved as devastated family recalls final days The parents of 8-year-old Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez told CBS News that their daughter died in Border Patrol custody because of negligence and discrimination.

In 2023, CBP killed a young Black girl that they imprisoned by incarcerating her and failing to provide the needed medical care for her sickle cell anemia

You cannot reform this apparatus which kills people no matter which party is in charge

Anadith Danay Reyes Alvarez, who was 8 years old

My ideal retirement is not to wither away on some beach, but rather to live in a college town and audit classes until they cart me out of the lecture hall feet first

BREAKING: At least 25 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli attacks across Gaza since dawn, according to medical sources speaking to Al Jazeera.

🔴 LIVE updates: aje.news/yd606g

thank you for saying this

MINNESOTA — Mom goes outside to warm up her car, ICE grabs her: "Please, my car kids are all alone in the house!”

So nothing has changed and Homan was just to put a new face on the cruelty, got it

(H/T longtimehistory)

Federal agents arrest man in front of 2-year-old son in Shoreline The two-year-old son sat alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes, eyewitnesses said.

“Guzman was driving his son to day care before work when 4 unmarked vehicles surrounded his car, blocking 2 lanes of Aurora Ave. near N. 163rd Street. Masked and armed federal agents emerged and arrested Guzman. They left his 2-year-old son sitting alone in the back seat for about 40 minutes.”

Here's an opportunity to support the other journalist arrested today; Georgia Fort, who will have far fewer resources available to her than Don Lemon.

this is the way

Reading Epstein files makes me angry for the ordinary American people who pay 10k for most basic healthcare services, meanwhile those perverts with billions in their accounts are abusing children. Tax the hell out of them.

Screenshot of an X.com post by Brittany Belle (@BrittanyinTexas) quoting an agent saying, “I can hear you don’t have the same accent as me,” and joking that if profiling is based on accents then Melania and Elon are in trouble. Below is a CNN “OutFront” video thumbnail showing an officer speaking to someone off-camera; on-screen captions include “If you were from this country, you would know I’m an immigration officer,” plus a “BREAKING NEWS” banner.

Funny how the “right” accent means you get to stay.

lfg

People will quote a lot of Catherine O'Hara in the next few days and with good reason because she has a lot of quotable lines but I think the main thing she did was permanently change how people say "David"

This plant looks Sick! from a plant photo ID app

me (touring a really cool factory):

Cool postdoc job opportunity! A chance to work with some great English & comp sci scholars at Carnegie Mellon. Appreciate this ad stresses: chance to do interesting technical work; work on an interesting humanities problem; chance to publish both in humanities & comp sci venues. Looks great, apply!

that's what they get for having a mathematician sub

is this Greek pre upsilon fronting maybe?

The arrests of journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort are a test for every MSM member with a platform. If you are not voicing your outrage at this blatant violation of the First Amendment, you are utterly discredited as a journalist.

great replacement theory but make it about the scandos

Exclusive: Early warning of 'Apocalyptic Wasteland' in Gaza blocked by US envoys to Israel U.S. Agency for International Development staffers in early 2024 drafted a warning to senior officials in Joe Biden’s administration: Northern Gaza had turned into an “Apocalyptic Wasteland” with dire...

"The staff reported seeing a human femur and other bones on the roads, dead bodies abandoned in cars and 'catastrophic human needs, particularly for food and safe drinking water.'"

www.reuters.com/world/early-...

Thanks to those LinkedIn followers who volunteered! (None from here 😕)

While we are in Semitic territory, we also need volunteers for reviewing a paper about transcribing from a Semitic language text to phonetic symbols (IPA). Pls contact me if you can review it! Thx!

#linguistics #phonetic #NLP

Looking urgently for a #reviewer for a corpus-based analysis of N most frequent words

- in #NLP / #NLProc / #linguistics applications

- Even better if you care about Semitic languages but not a requirement

Please Emil / DM me if you can review!
Please boost otherwise 🙂

Thanks!

YouTube video by AlgoMotion Rotating Polygons on the Circle of Fifths | Surprising Results!

kinda cool

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Murdering dissenters & arresting journalists is what dictators do.

Trump’s Justice Department arrested Don Lemon & Georgia Fort after 2 federal judges refused to approve warrants. Let’s be clear: we are amidst a constitutional crisis.

“No one can wear a mask for very long; affectation soon returns to true nature”

nemo enim potest personam diu ferre, ficta cito in naturam suam recidunt #Seneca

Attorney General Pam... » € @AGPamBondi X.com At my direction, early this morning federal agents arrested Don Lemon, Trahern Jeen Crews, Georgia Fort, and Jamael Lydell Lundy, in connection with the coordinated attack on Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. More details soon. 9:09 AM • 1/30/26 • 537K Views

Independent reporter Georgia Fort, founder of BLCK Press

State Senate candidate Jamael Lundy

Trahern Crews, Lead Organizer with Black Lives Matter Minnesota

Lemon has one of the nation’s best lawyers and a national profile. I’m worried about the other reporter and two activists arrested with him.

that's interesting that one root has emphatic K and the other has emphatic T

Syriac word of the day
√kšṭ G
shoot with a bow 🏹 (cf. √qšt, /qeštå/ bow)

as in ps.-Nonnos, Scholia, ed. Brock, Inv II 33

ܘܬܘܒ ܐܬ̇ܐ ܗ̄ܘܐ ܢܫܪܐ ܘܐܟ̇ܠ ܠܗ̇܉ ܥܕܡܐ ܕܟܕ ܐܬ̣ܐ ܗܪܩܠܝܣ ܟܫܛܗ̇ ܠܗܕܐ ܦܪܚܬܐ

"the eagle would come back and eat it, until Herakles came and shot the bird with a bow"