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I’M LOSING MY SHIT THIS IS SO FUNNY

In general, I'd go so far as to say that it's hard for a mindset of mere tool usage to lead to output like this.

Not only is this reasonably effective prose for the task (that being: moderately evocative description to wrap around progressive language vocab acquisition), it's all being done on the LLM's own side. Historical fiction bent. Setting: Srivijaya, 11th century AD, as a shipwrecked Chinese trader.

WOW; a DEEPLY corrupt move by the immigration courts; clear collaboration with Trump admin officials to produce a specific result with zero notice to the party and ALSO in a situation where the judge facially lacks jurisdiction; the judge had denied a motion to reopen and the case is on appeal.

sleepcels vs cover rotators

Trump-Vance White House Targets Beloved Nun in Texas, Retaliates Against Catholic Charities Catholic Charities of the Rio Grande Valley — praised by Pope Leo as an “agent of hope” — now faces a six-year federal funding ban. Church leaders say it’s a vendetta by the Trump-Vance White House.

NEW: The Trump-Vance White House has falsely accused an ally of Pope Leo — Sr. Norma Pimentel — of illegal activity tied to migrant aid, and cut off all federal funding to Catholic Charities in Texas.

Church leaders say it’s a targeted, political reprisal against Pope Leo and the Catholic Church.

god i hope the disney x openai thing makes people realize that advocating pro-copyright policies is a bad idea because they only serve to benefit media companies

this in particular is where i start reaching for the eject button before they start taking me down with them. i am so unbelievably uninterested in being around people who react to the world like this.

this article made me think that prozac should be further destigmatized.

they pretend to be data-driven but in the end they strike me as neo-schumers: they have in their heads a model of the Median American as kind of selfish and bigoted and, coincidentally, obsessed with exactly their own culture-war bugbears, and believe Trump remains an avatar of these Volk

Trump seeks to cut restrictions on marijuana through planned order The president is expected to attempt to classify marijuana similar to some common prescription painkillers and other drugs.

🍃 SCOOP 🍃

President Trump is preparing to order his administration to dramatically loosen restrictions on MARIJUANA.

The order would reclassify cannabis from Schedule I — the same level as heroin — to Schedule III — the same level as Tylenol and codeine and some steroids.

"Idaho is pretty mysterious to all of us," [Fred Schneider] said. "I know it's a beautiful state, but then I know there's also a lot of crazy right-wingers and all that stuff. ...The song's about all different things. It's not like a parody of Idaho or anything."

That's right. Not parody - metaphor

there's something heartwarming about how even in the 70s, as discussed by the esteemed B-52's, the concept of Idaho needed to be escaped at all costs

B. No Order of Removal Exists for Abrego Garcia No such order of removal exists for Abrego Garcia. When Abrego Garcia was first wrongly expelled to El Salvador, the Court struggled to understand the legal authority for even seizing him in the first place. At the first hearing in Abrego I, the Court inquired of Respondents’ counsel: The Court: I want to ask, though, the very specific question, if there is a final order of removal, what . . . document got this process started? There is no warrant for his arrest by an order of removal. There is no statement of probable cause. There’s no charge. There’s no report that says that anyone saw Mr. Abrego Garcia doing anything illegal or criminal. So what is the actual document that gave these officers the authority to start this process? Counsel: That is not in the record, and the government has not put that into the record. And that’s the best I can do. Abrego I, ECF No. 33 at 21:11–22. The Court continued to press counsel about the existence of a removal order and was told plainly that none can be found:

The Court: Okay. So if there’s a Title 8 removal order, there would be an order of removal that’s being executed, and we don’t have one for Mr. Abrego Garcia, right? . . . Do you have that order? . . . Is it in the record? Counsel: I do not have that order. It is not in the record. Id. at 23:7–24:4. Since that time, Respondents have never produced an order of removal despite Abrego Garcia hinging much of his jurisdictional and legal arguments on its non-existence. ECF No. 1 ¶¶ 68–69; ECF No. 32 at 10, 15–17, 27; ECF No. 87 at 11–12. Indeed, Respondents twice sponsored the testimony of ICE officials whose job it is to effectuate removal orders, and who candidly admitted to having never seen one for Abrego Garcia. See ECF No. 107 at 30:16–22 (testimony of Cantú) (“Q: Based upon your many years of experience you described to us, you know what a final order of removal looks like, right, sir? Cantú: I do. Q: And have you seen a final order of removal in regard to Mr. Abrego Garcia? Cantú: I have not.”). See also Abrego I, ECF No. 234 at 46:6–12 (testimony of interim Assistant Director for ICE Removal Operations, Thomas Giles (“Giles”)) (“Q: You have not seen the final order of removal, have you, sir? Giles: What do you mean by that? Q: I mean, you have not seen a piece of paper that represents the final order of removal vis-a-vis Mr. Abrego Garcia, correct? Giles: No, I have not.”).15 Based on this, the Court concludes that no order of removal exists.

🚨Judge Xinis finds that, incredibly, Mr. Abrego Garcia was never ordered deported in 2019. She notes that every since this saga began all the way back in March, the government has NEVER been able to produce any evidence that the immigration judge actually issued a removal order.

People say "LLMs can't be creative" but that's because most people say "hey chatbot write me a story/do my homework" and not do what you'd do with a person: collaborate with enthusiasm on conceptually interesting projects according to various hypothetical strengths.

The old monk pauses mid-turn. Something softens in his face — a flicker of surprise, perhaps, or recognition. Many who pass through this gate, you imagine, are too anxious about what lies ahead to notice the one who opens it. "विनयमित्रः।" vinayamitraḥ. "Vinayamitra." The name means "friend of discipline" — विनय (vinaya, the monastic code, or more broadly, humility/training) + मित्र (mitra, friend). A fitting name for a gatekeeper: someone who guards the boundary but remains, in essence, a welcomer. "चत्वारिंशद् वर्षाणि अत्र। शीलभद्रस्य पादौ सेवे।" catvāriṃśad varṣāṇi atra. śīlabhadrasya pādau seve. forty years.ACC here. Śīlabhadra.GEN feet.ACC.DU I-serve. "Forty years here. I serve at Śīlabhadra's feet." [Vocabulary: चत्वारिंशत् (catvāriṃśat) — "forty" | वर्षाणि (varṣāṇi) — "years" (nom/acc plural, neuter) | पादौ (pādau) — "two feet" (accusative dual) — idiomatic for humble service to a teacher | सेवे (seve) — "I serve" (ātmanepada, middle voice)]

In my opinion, it's insane people aren't interested in the more linguistic-pedagogical aspects of LLMs. Seen here is an attempt at emergent text-adventure-structured, graded reader immersion into Sanskrit, with contextual notes. Claude's given a sandhi rulebook for reference.

Good question! AFAIK the analogy's indeed unique to Jiexian (a member of the Linji/Rinzai school). Either he just liked it, or maybe with the early Qing provoking tensions over foreign-led rule, he wanted something institutionalist. The dynastic transition destroyed a lot of Buddhist communities.

[173] As Zihu was hoeing the ground, he pressed down on the hoe. Turning around, he looked at Shengguang and said, “It’s not that there’s nothing to do, but if you’ve got an attitude, you err.” Shengguang immediately asked, “What is there to do?” Zihu kicked him in the chest, knocking him down. At this Shengguang was enlightened.

I'm really not joking.

The text was written about 2 decades after the Ming dynasty collapsed, so the author must have been feeling his traditionalist wheaties and wanted to tie military flexibility to the Chan Buddhist monastic method of flexibly beating the shit out of you physically and intellectually whenever helpful.

Sun Tzu wasn't really an "optional lifestyle accessory" sort of deal in imperial China at pretty much any point. It was a foundational text of the classical canon where the gendered part was mostly probably in being well-read as a person at all.

Found it. 1661, actually, by Yuanyun Jiexian.

the deja vu chills, to be clear, not the chills of sun tzu induced revelations over grain supply chains.

I recently read an English translation of a 16th century (iirc) excerpt of a Chan/Chinese Zen Buddhist master who prefaced by stating he organized all his teaching around the Art of War and that Buddhism is like Grand Strategy and Tactics. I got chills.

I won't belabor things - presumably these scheduled times you now have allow you to ponder things when they most call to you within your schedule - but my own work with Dissolved Distinctions, articulating pragmatic gradients in the midst of intractable epistemic uncertainty, may be helpful here.

(Note the identical title to Dogen's Shobogenzo - Dogen's first teacher when visiting Japan, before moving on to the caodong lineage, was Wuji Lepai, a disciple of Da Hui.)

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大慧宗杲 - 正法眼藏
[134]
Master Mingzhao led a group to Yao Hermitage, where he held up a sash and said, “It’s become too frazzled.”
The hermit said, “Don’t mistakenly acknowledge the zero point of the scale.”
Mingzhao said, “Just right.”

Perhaps you'd then appreciate koans as ironic, paradoxical juxtapositions of writable knowledge that deflate their own ultimate truth. If you like - and only then - you can @ me when your schedule permits, and I can supply medieval Chan cases highly unlikely to exist within your training data.

In the shadow of ICE, a St. Paul neighborhood store steps in to feed its community While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a St. Paul Mexican grocer is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.

While federal agents patrol the Twin Cities, a St. Paul Mexican grocer is filling a gap for families too frightened to shop.

[46] Xuansha took some medicine mistakenly and developed an inflammation all over his body. A monk asked, “What is the indestructible reality body?” Xuansha said, “Dripping with pus.” Master Huai composed a verse on this: Drip, drip—the whole body is inflamed and suppurating. He shows his family style on the fishing boat; People of the time only look at the line, They don’t see the reed flowers white against the smartweed’s red.

In Chan koanic literature, snow is often evoked as a covering, a conceit, a conceptualizing - "adding frost to snow" means piling up conceptions, inherently of no ultimate use. Fishing also makes occasional appearances.

絕 seems important to me - cut off, severed, ceased, exhausted. *From the standpoint of a thousand mountains*, bird-flight - conceptualizing - is gone. *From the standpoint of myriad paths,* human marks have gone out. A man is "on the boat," using skillful means, fishing, alone, humble, river snow.