I was advised to make a video-ad for my Patreon. So I did. By throwing roughly three millennia of phonology into about a minute and a half.

This isn't even hypothetical. From the end of the Russo-Japanese war all the way through 1943 and 1944 there were lots of campists who thought that the Japanese Empire was, if not "the good guy" at least the better guy, because it would fight western imperialism. For a while.

Pessoa. I was no one so I was all. I'd make.myself in many. Each went off to have.his own mire, his own logic, his own ache. Who was I? Every figure with a laugh. I was crude Álvaro and clear Ricardo. Caeiro, shepherd of breeze, root and sun. I was support from my exact Bernardo.

Pessoa. Eu fui ninguém, portanto fui eu o todo. Criei-me em muitos. E cada um partiu.com sua dor, sua lógica, seu lodo. Quem era eu? Todo vulto que se riu. Fui Álvaro, o rude; Ricardo, o claro;.Caeiro, pastor da brisa e a raiz. Bernardo, o exato, sempre muito amparo.nesta álgebra.

LLMs are amazing in ways that can really be helpful in the humanities. ChatGPT-5's ability to produce educational material like this is absolutely elite. Here's what my French prompt (the first image here) says:. "Discuss this sonnet sequence, analyzing the sonnets one by one.

RT @dilanesper: Thing that annoys me, inspired by Matt Yglesias' column this morning. I went to Hong Kong just before the handover, in May….

This isn’t true of “everywhere where Spanish is spoken”. A lot of it is specifically Mexican.

I do not expect this tweet to age well.

I question the reading comprehension abilities of most people replying to this post.

RT @TheAnnaGat: Started a new blog - 'American Innocence' - about my new life in America, my observations about culture, politics, way of l….

RT @lesl_schneider: Heart disease has not skyrocketed since the 70s and this guy is allergic to looking at data

It always struck me as very strange to “decenter” oneself by doing something that obviously calls attention to one’s name.

The joke wasn’t that being able to see Russia from her house was preposterous. The joke was about the implication that this somehow made for foreign policy experience.

Just because sex and procreation are intertwined in nature doesn’t mean they have to be for any given human. The state of nature is not kind. And the conquest of nature has been a net good for humankind. Without modern medical intervention, my mother almost certainly would have.

What kind of cognitive bias is it when you believe that whatever you happen to know about X is the most important thing about X, or even all there is to know about X.

RT @noor_siddiqui_: What if your baby never walks? What if they are never able to live independently?. What if you could have stopped it….b….

RT @dilanesper: One of the truly toxic things about social media is how it has empowered bigots to be open with their hatred. We actually….

RT @SohrabAhmari: When I was at the Journal, I traveled to northern Iraq and spent two days interviewing Yezidi victims of ISIS: mostly wom….

Bruh you voted for him. I mean kudos for admitting publicly that you were wrong, and the way you did it. No bullshit: I respect that. But you’re in a position to know there’s something more going on here. A lot of people got taken for a ride by a con.