Michael Paul Vine

Rediscovering this innovation called racism.

Metaphors are figures of speech that apply the unapplicable.

This is habitual behavior that reliably outlines the observable.

It's not metaphorical that the USian Majority is, materially-normatively, anti-Black.

table 2 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 3 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

table 4 from https://arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960

I split AI into 3 non-mutually exclusive types (see Table 1 above): displacement (harmful), enhancement (beneficial), and/or replacement (neutral) of human cognitive labour. More later possibly, but see Tables 2 to 4 (attached or here: arxiv.org/pdf/2507.19960) for the worked through examples. 2/n

Opinion | We Need to Rethink How We Think About the Holocaust

Rethinking the Holocaust

Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/31/o...

i.e. hospitality

Graph showing life expectancy trends in 23 higher income countries between 1980 and 2024. Life expectancy increased over time in all countries. In 1980, the US is in the middle of the pack, but their life expectancy gains were slower than that of other countries, and by around 2002, the US had the lowest life expectancy of all countries. Over the next 20 years, US life expectancy increasingly tracks away from the trajectories of other countries, as their life expectancy stalls while other countries life expectancy continues to climb

This graph never fails to be shocking: "The US has experienced the earliest and greatest slowdown in life expectancy improvements among higher-income countries, reported Eileen Crimmins. “We have horrible life expectancy—and it’s getting worse and worse”"

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Top researchers consider leaving U.S. amid funding cuts: 'The science world is ending' A poll from the journal Nature found that 75% of researchers in the U.S. are considering leaving the country. That includes a man who’s been dubbed the "Mozart of Math." Stephanie Sy examines what’s b...

The US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. It's not like other countries can simply take up the slack. The more likely: people leave research, new people don't become researchers. There is no happy ending. www.pbs.org/newshour/sho...

Iceland reports the presence of mosquitoes for the first time, as climate warms The discovery of three Culiseta annulata mosquitoes was confirmed this week by the Natural Science Institute of Iceland, which said the mosquitoes likely arrived by freight.

Mosquitoes appear in Iceland for the first time www.npr.org/2025/10/22/n...

Confrontation---guidance and practice---is the only path to wisdom.

Rather than controversial, consider that it's simply positive (factual-observable) and pragmatic (general-inevitable)...and necessary.

Conquering ____ requires [first] facing it.

ONLY because:

Call outs pursue affective reaction, not learning.

Mockery assumes appreciation of irony, a learned skill.

Instead of merely expressing/entertaining, then, try [teaching].

Man deported to Laos despite US court order blocking his removal, attorneys say District judge told Ice to keep Alabama man in US while he showed what judge called ‘substantial claim’ to citizenship

“Immigration officials have deported a father living in Alabama to Laos despite a federal court order blocking his removal from the US on the grounds he has a claim to citizenship, the man’s attorneys said on Tuesday.”

Is Your Vacuum Cleaner Spying On You? A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories…

New from me: A recent report about robot vacuum cleaners sending maps of people’s homes to manufacturers is just the latest in a series of stories about privacy issues with these machines :: Friend link - stribs.medium.com/is-your-vacu...

Omaha kinship classification diagram

Kinship terminology rarely perfectly reflects biological kinship. The root meaning of the Indo-European word "mother" isn't even "biological mother". The ancestral Indo-European system, the patrilineal Omaha system, calls your mother's sister and all women on mother's side "mother" (B in diagram).

Sure.

AND

We can confront-learn:
- time (on task) does matter
- feelings ain't final
- context counts
- critique = opportunity ≠ penalty
- communication = exploration/negotiation ≠ condemnation
- understanding = labor (Period)

😕Hwell...

Said Good Ole Boy Network [also] anticipated civil war...

...[and] vehemently supported the distruction of the first (Modern) democracy🤐

Fully conscious of their cowardice (e.g. "wolf by the ears"), what they did not do is demonstrate [adequate] concern for their Posterity.

Trust your instincts🙃

analysis = separating puzzle pieces for examination---e basta

synthesis = (re)combining puzzle pieces to attend their fit, reviewing the puzzle AND changing behavior (i.e. learning)

Changed behavior demonstrates assimilation.

i.e. discourse analysis

(Subsequent synthesis is the hard part, though---the too oft neglected task.)

1. Consider ramifications/branching effects, not just results/linear products.
2. "impact" = BOOM, not bip

DOJ hires immigration judges after months of layoffs Judges will soon take the bench across 16 states, the Justice Department said. These include courts that saw the biggest losses of judges this year.

Judges will soon take the bench across 16 states, the Justice Department said. These include courts that saw the biggest losses of judges this year. n.pr/3JcUxWn

The longer I live, the more deeply I learn that love - whether we call it friendship or family or romance — is the work of mirroring and magnifying each other's light. Gentle work. Steadfast work. Life-saving work in those moments when life and shame and sorrow occlude our own light from our view, but there is still a clear-eyed loving person to beam it back. In our best moments, we are that person for another. -James Baldwin

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Something unprecedented happened this week in Europe that should alarm every European citizen who values democracy.

💯 How childhood joy rests in this song🥰

dear US friends, when a sitting president (re)builds the seat of government, it almost always means the president has no intention of leaving at the end of term. your African friends with decades of experience

Re: USian public school phenomena

Per the quotidian habits of [our] Future, there is little distinction b/t what is fancifully "online" and what is "normal" FtF interaction.

Per this crown of pride, lo, the extortioner and the spoiler ceaseth [not]...

I'm still not sure what the right read of this affair is but in general I am reminded of my concern that state bureaucracies that actively select themselves into the green quadrant 3 here are feeding their societies into a woodchipper

‘The jobless should lead the attack’: a radical Jamaican journalist in 1920s London The long read: Economic insecurity, race riots, incendiary media … Claude McKay was one of the few Black journalists covering a turbulent period that sounds all too familiar to us today

'McKay discovered that reality did not match his ideal of “literary England”. He was disturbed to find that racial violence had followed him across the Atlantic. By the autumn of 1919, riots had taken place in London, Liverpool, Cardiff, Manchester and Hull.'

(My 4th period, the Litmus Legionarios, those Nettling Niños them, actually/brilliantly took to this...)

🤯I am right now years old to learn of [vooks]. (🥲When I say thank you...)

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Re: the subsequent comments & subject

Even my observation-critique is the result of elementary school stage training, e.g. "Don't break character."

(😶My word, how they went right in on homeskillet---to the crux!)