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I’ll chase him round Good Hope, and round the Horn, and round the Norway Maelstrom, and round perdition’s flames before I give him up.

Wait sorry who are the colonizers in this scenario. The Jews? The Greeks? Emperor Constantine???

1884 Another year of joy and grief, Another year of hope and fear: Oh Mother, is life long or brief? We hasten while we linger here. But since we linger, love me still, And help me still, O Mother mine While hand in hand we scale life’s hill, You Guide, and I your Valentine.

Every year, Christina Rossetti wrote a Valentine to her mother. This is the one for 1884, when Christina was her 84 year-old mother's primary caregiver.

This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics

This Weeks Onion Magazine: ‘I Don’t Know How And It’s Not My Event’: Simone Biles On Her Decision Not To Snowboard At The Winter Olympics

I don't know anything that's squarely linguistics but I think there's some stuff that's maybe adjacent like from Gayle Rubin

Are you thinking about like nomenclature? Or more like linguistic expressions enacting power exchange?

Fucking sick, honestly.

It's nice to know that having an excel job was also a viable career path 4000 years ago

I have no idea if they're reasoning or thinking in whatever sense we understand those words, but if a non-reasoning agent can give you responses indistinguishable from those produced by a reasoning agent, that's even more interesting in some ways.

This was my experience too. I found the stochastic parrots paper very persuasive when it came out. But I don't know how you could still have that view in 2026 if they're engaging with what these systems can do today.

Oh hey my least favorite game! At work meetings I like to count if there are more Seans or women in the room

Only missed opportunity here is that a search for Tlön just returns results for tln

I asked Opus 4.6 in Claude Code to build me Borges's Library of Babel. An hour later it delivered this.

The AI implemented a Feistel cipher so each possible book has a single real location, you can search for text across the Library & find the book.

Enter it: library-of-babel-3d.netlify.app

That's possibly the origin of the Greek root too!

No one:

Absolutely no one:

No one at all:

Me: here are the top 5 Hebrew Names in Other Languages, ok?

1) Best אַהֳרֹן - Arabic (هارون Hārūn)

2) Best יוֹסֵף - Italian (Giuseppe)

3) Best מִיכָאֵל - Russian (Михаил Mikhail)

4) Best רָפָאֵל - Spanish (Rafael)

5) Best יֵשׁוּעַ - Greek (Ἰησοῦς Iesous)

Jealous!!

Five classes I still regret that I didn't get to take:

1) Intro to stage combat
2) African-American history
3) Spanish literature
3) Any classics courses
4) More languages

Also a million linguistics classes obviously

Never mind jobs you had, tell me five (or rather: five of the) classes you took at university.

1) Tohono O'odham
2) Literary Chinese
3) Chinese calligraphy
4) Feminist theory
4) A Mexican-American studies class that was actually just a reading group for Capital vol. 1 that we somehow got credit for

lisa frank nuclear reactor

UNCIAL SRIPT

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Pan Yuliang, Woman Watching a Cat, 1964

IMO that's better than an etymological monstrosity like aujourd'hui, which is what you get if you absolutely reject any ambiguity.

Yes, each step seems quite reasonable and I wouldn't be surprised if morning > tomorrow or morning > yesterday is common (cf. Spanish mañana). If you can tolerate the ambiguity of using it for both days then fair enough I guess!

That makes sense! Neat

Irish version of Jerry Seinfeld c. 1250: Nowadays people don't know if they're coming or going!

That's bananas, thank you. I love it. What's the etymological story behind that?

Hindi uses the same word for "yesterday" and "tomorrow."

better get to sleep so I can wake up and increase shareholder value while my country actively burns down