bosnian curses. bringing them back in 2026:

may you be remembered only by the International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals

perversely hilar to see JD Dunce go

from "the US is no longer willing to serve as the guarantor of multilateral institutions & international law once framed as the ‘rules-based liberal world order’"

to "because of us, you see more humanitarian aid in Gaza or Cambodia that's why i'm proud of" bruh

The same AHA whose council vetoed a resolution opposing scholasticide in Gaza which had been approved by its members? 🤔 Curious if there is a module on how leadership of democratic institutions fails to live up to the moment.
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not unexpected but still totally nuts 😖 (and maybe i will!)

"Blago onom ko rano poludi" — Fortunate is he who goes insane early

Fortunate is he who went insane early — Džej Ramadanovski, 1992

almost every Dem politician statement includes a mandatory appeal to "my Republican colleagues". setting aside its interesting psychological aspects, it's remarkable how Dems did not do this when protesting ICE, turning instead to getting arrested, staging sit-ins etc

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right, let's never demand that elected officials take any public *action* on their own, without the approval of the party of the january 6 coup and mass deportation because "unrealistic"
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goddamn right, my rep will make a very reasonable appeal to the Party of the January 6 Coup to "speak out", just like she bravely did, which we all know is the most extreme form of public protest in the face of a call to genocide bsky.app/profile/scha...

"would you work for a company that got business by threatening to kill the families of potential customers?" gave me the chills bsky.app/profile/chri...

is there a more disturbing social narrative than the american way of talking about about "the markets," in which destroying a whole civilization correlates to a dow slide of 0.90%

thanks! again i'm only superficially familiar, but v interested in hokkaido esp. of course, each empire has its own peculiarities, but having studied the turn of the 20th c, they all also took notes from each other (not copying or imitating, but def comparing and testing diff things)

that's fascinating. unfortunately i don't know japanese, so i'm only familiar enough with related debates, like within french empire there were similar arguments and shifting terms, but certainly colony not treated as a dirty word at the time. (PS if you have a link to the book that'd be great?)

let the record state that no one from the other political party in the US staged a public protest, chained themselves in front of the White House, or otherwise acted on the principle of absolute rejection of this monstrous horror

let the record state that no one from the other political party in the US staged a public protest, chained themselves in front of the White House, or otherwise acted on the principle of absolute rejection of this monstrous horror

For every one of these “teachers should really get over it and jump on the inevitability train” articles (which are mostly of the editorial genre), there are 10 actual studies establishing the dire, destructive effects of AI use and dependence on things like, ya know, cognition.

Counterpoint: The factual record of Trump's cabinet and the entire GOP has been to consolidate their power by any means necessary, from 1/6 to this war. The opposition should not be wishcasting, but clearly identifying who & what led to this catastrophe — and everyone who will go down with it.

we're the biased ones, whereas a pure mind like slezkin's can see clearly /s

Yrs ago I met Slezekin as a grad student, told him I'm from Sarajevo, he said "I was just near there, at Pale" (former HQ of Radovan Karadzic).. I asked why, he said it's important to see for yourself (but not Sarajevo). When I told him my family was shelled for 4 yrs from Pale, he just walked away.

once again tapping the sign ...
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😂

not sure about the trump part, but my colleague elliott gorn sounds fitting global.oup.com/academic/pro...

i appreciate the indisputably sound point that there was no use for introspection in 1920s after plunging everyone into a catastrophic world war. i believe that's called data-driven decision-making 🚀🚀🚀

ahhh the NYT brand — frame an obvious political campaign of repression as being mostly about individual choices of syllabi, assignments, or pronouns, without once mentioning the Vice President saying "the professors are the enemy" or noting gov-encouraged TP chapters in every university

/ you doomers just don't get it, these jobs, they're new jobs, like prompt-fondling and cranking out error-ridden output that no one wants and have no real world use, it's a far-reaching revolution that few can truly grasp etc etc /s

skok?! in this economy?!

trying to put it together: there are scientists (from original post) who are also common bsky characters, who refuse to use genAI, but in science they've already for decades used ML, so they are using it? in any case, still seems like punching down while AI companies wreck education, society etc etc

i really don't get what is the target of the original post... genAI does differ from older pattern-recognition ML types in the ability to generate new combinations and inevitable hallucinations etc. i really don't understand who or what the original post is trying to criticize?

i don't get it — which scientists are actively resisting machine learning? is that what your original post is criticizing? or something else? (because my impression is that most scholars have been using all kinds of applied statistics and ML for decades, but "genAI" is something else, we're told)