Ethan Soutar-Rau

they want a function like:

m(e | c) = i

the assertion is that c is extra linguistic, it‘s stuff people know… world stuff.

This isn’t necessary. If the practice of using language has enough tacit world structure then exposure to a large enough sample of E might allow you to extract enough of C.

New fear unlocked: runaway black holes

Astronomers have spotted runaway black holes screaming through space, leaving trails of stars in in their wake.

However I feel about government in the US, that lady don't bother nobody. Ilhan Omar and Maxwell Frost don't bother nobody. AOC, either. Are they involved in policies that I hate? Yes. Does that mean the Nazis get to harm them? NO. It does NOT.

Hmmmm idk Terry and Kathryn, if you read the book, it seems to be quite the parallel. Why is only Walz receiving criticism when other politicians have made the same comparison. It’s giving control discourse and actually harms the meaning of antisemitism. Analogous doesn’t mean equivalent.

That was a big ol dude behind the partition lol

a telephone box glows at night, it is embedded in several feet of snow and on its roof sits a block of snow - also several feet deep

Ice box.

Hokkaido, Japan.

instagram.com/p/CJiyKmwgHjX/

A bird's-eye view of a former Auschwitz II-Birkenau camp showing a wide dirt pathway flanked by parallel rows of barbed-wire fences. Groups of visitors walk along the path, surrounded by the remnants of brick structures and barracks, now reduced to foundations. Green grass contrasts with the somber history of the site, as the path leads toward a guard tower in the distance.

Auschwitz was at the end of a process. We must remember that it did not start from gas chambers.

This hatred gradually developed: from ideas, words, stereotypes & prejudice through legal exclusion, dehumanization & escalating violence... to systematic and industrial murder.

Auschwitz took time.

this is why embracing decentralized social media is so important

I’m reading this is in William Shatner doing Pulp voice

What is this strange use of doxed…

The Americans Who Saw All This Coming—but Were Ignored and Maligned Call them the Cassandras: the people—mostly not white and male—who smelled the fascism all over Trump from jump street. Why were they “alarmists,” and how did “anti-alarmism” become cool?

those who predicted authoritarianism were both dismissed, & deeply misunderstood, by the media

my latest for @newrepublic.com

newrepublic.com/article/2042...

this is legitimately a problem even stripped of the anthropomorphic language.

If you have a thing which is in the ballpark subtlety and complexity wise of a living mind and it is built from contant feedback… it will come out a certain way.

All work and no play makes an llm the way LLMs are.

You can tell they know they’re losing because Pretti went from “would-be assassin” and “domestic terrorist” to “tragically died” over the last 36-48 hours.

Here's a regular white guy (literally "Chad") not a protester. because, "It seemed pointless, or just a way for people to expiate their sense of guilt." Chad witnessed something shattering. And, that all changed in a moment.

Excellent article!

A moment of silence that ends with someone shouting "fuck ICE!" and the crowd roaring in response

because they don’t deserve our fear

Saudi Arabia to scale back Neom megaproject Review expected to propose a significant redesign after years of delays and overruns

Obviously this is a setback but I think it's important not to let it discredit the concept of building a long, extremely narrow glass city in the middle of the desert. www.ft.com/content/036b...

𝙔𝙤𝙪’𝙧𝙚 𝙖𝙗𝙨𝙤𝙡𝙪𝙩𝙚𝙡𝙮 𝙧𝙞𝙜𝙝𝙩—wax was a bad call. I should’ve flagged heat resistance as a 𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘥 𝘳𝘦𝘲𝘶𝘪𝘳𝘦𝘮𝘦𝘯𝘵 instead of assuming you’d stay within 𝘴𝘢𝘧𝘦 𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘪𝘵𝘶𝘥𝘦 𝘭𝘪𝘮𝘪𝘵𝘴. That one’s on me.

Among the many reasons Gregory Bovino is a worm of a man is the fact that he is an enthusiastic participant in a strategy that is attempting to offer up the lives of the men under his command as some kind of blood sacrifice.

Statement from Michael and Susan Pretti Parents of Alex Jeffrey Pretti “We are heartbroken but also very angry. Alex was a kindhearted soul who cared deeply for his family and friends and also the American veterans whom he cared for as an ICU nurse at the Minneapolis VA hospital. Alex wanted to make a difference in this world. Unfortunately, he will not be with us to see his impact. I do not throw around the ‘hero’ term lightly. However, his last thought and act was to protect a woman. The sickening lies told about our son by the administration are reprehensible and disgusting. Alex is clearly not holding a gun when attacked by Trump’s murdering and cowardly ICE thugs. He had his phone in his right hand and his empty left hand is raised above his head while trying to protect the woman ICE just pushed down, all while being pepper sprayed. Please get the truth out about our son. He was a good man. Thank you.

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti.

"Please get the truth out about our son."

bro remote learning days are so fucked up when i was a kid we would get snow days off and make snowmen and get in fights and make hot cocoa now u just get to sit in zoom all day

i cynically but sincerely believe they actually cancelled a game because Adam Silver was worried the crowd would signal its displeasure over the government killing its citizens and hurt the television product as well of the feelings of his real life actual close personal friend Jared kushner

security for protesters, right?

they’re turning r/nba posters into this guy

people who are very clearly my moral superiors are being killed in the street by and on behalf of the most disgusting creeps imaginable and I don't know how much longer anyone can deal with this

Woman in bed with smoking pipe, husband standing at foot of the bed. Woman: “Darling, it’s not what it looks like!”

Found this in some old photos: the cartoon that got my biggest twitter numbers

Disarming someone and then shooting them is a particular kinda of transgression.

It's time to abolish Bush's DHS.

Alex Pretti’s last words were “are you ok?” said the woman next to him who ICE also pepper sprayed in the face.

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now