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I've recently begun studying Greenlandic, and it has made me wonder just how useful "polysynthetic" actually is as a term: https://kechpaja.conlang.org/blog/2026/04/16-greenlandic-and-polysynthesis.html.
RE: https://mastodon.online/@mastodonmigration/116404367184078663
Bender's an expert in a bypassed field, is her problem. She bet her career on a path of research that didn't work, and keeps saying AI doesn't work when it clearly does. In effect. She's an expert in the same way an unreconstructed Marxist economist is an expert. Joan Robinson had real contributions to economics but also thought North Korea would thrive. Sometimes, people are wrong and need to be reminded of that.
To commemorate Yom HaShoah, as I saw that Rewe had a deep discount on pasta, I went back home to get a bag and fill it with 1€ pasta boxes. Call it reparations.
(The brand is Barilla, which I realize is a war crime against Italian culture. I remind Italians that Italy was in the Axis.)
"Aliens" media presents a future where the prime blue collar work requires 4-30 year swings away from home to work for one of the few megacorps.
Characters talk about being "in it for the money" and how it sets themselves up much nicer than those who work back home.
in this way, the legacy of Giger, O'Bannon, Shushett, and Scott is scifi that eschewed contemporary techno-orientalist paranoia in favour of a much darker idea: a future defined by West Australian values
New poll in Israel:
Vote: coalition 49, Jewish opposition 61, Arabs 10 (second week in a row by this pollster that it's this exact result)
Approval of the results of the Iran war: 32% yes, 63% no
Did the US and Israel win the war: 22% yes, 46% no, 32% too early to tell
Ceasefire in Lebanon: 12% for, 77% against
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