#words
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I posted a new essay, Taking Rights for Granite, on my blog this morning.
https://netsettlement.blogspot.com/2026/09/taking-rights-for-granite.html
#politics #rights #laws #meaning #dictionaries #words #battlefields #vigilance
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@oantolin/117299252447200305
proof·la·tion /pruːfˈleɪ.ʃən/
noun [neologism, philosophy of mathematics, computer science]
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The rapid depreciation of the epistemic, academic, or reputational value of mathematical proofs caused by the automated, low-cost generation of formal proofs by artificial intelligence and automated theorem provers.
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A condition in the mathematical community where the sheer volume of formally verified theorems exceeds the capacity for human comprehension, shifting the primary bottleneck of mathematics from establishing truth to extracting insight.
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#wordle #wordgame #words #puzzle #game #wordgames
Pleased with myself that I mowed the lawn last night because of incoming rain.
After I finished, showered, and sat down for a late dinner, the weather report changed: no rain this weekend.
This morning: rain is back on for Saturday.
Scattegoric* weather tells me Fall is here.
*Word? Probably not; feeling? Yes.
#random #words
#weather
Merriam-Webster Dictionary Is Wordsmaxxing With 1,400 New Definitions
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/09/16/us/merriam-webster-new-words-looksmaxxing-yacht-rock.html
#Language #Words #News
A quotation from Euripides
ADMETUS: For they loved me in words, not deeds.
[ἌΔΜΗΤΟΣ: λόγῳ γὰρ ἦσαν οὐκ ἔργῳ φίλοι.]
Euripides (485?-406? BC) Greek tragic dramatist
Alcestis [Ἄλκηστις ], l. 339ff (438 BC) [tr. Aldington (1930)]
More about (and translations of) this quote: wist.info/euripides/86059/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #euripides #alcestis #action #betrayal #deeds #hypocrisy #integrity #proof #sacrifice #words #wordsanddeeds
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Wounded child with no surviving family: "Everybody i love is now in heaven".
Dr. Tanya Haj-Hassan testifies of health care in Gaza during a panel at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago (via BBC).
#witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #DNC #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries #panel
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"Dr. Feroze Sidhwa has volunteered as a trauma surgeon in Ukraine, Haiti, Burkina Faso, and Ghana. But when he went to Gaza in March and April of this year, it changed him. Sidhwa had never seen so much horror in his life."
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2024/10/feroze-sidhwa-new-york-times-children-gaza-shot-in-head-israel-palestine-doctor/
#witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries
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'According to former commander of the Dutch Army, Mart de Kruif, the likelihood that these are accidental hits is virtually zero, given that the doctors describe more than a hundred such cases. “Just think about how small the head is compared to the rest of the body,” he says. “If you’re seeing a high number of gunshot wounds to the chest area and the head, that’s not collateral damage — that’s deliberate targeting.”'
https://www.volkskrant.nl/kijkverder/v/2025/gunshot-palestine-children-israel-war~v1819649/ @palestine@fedibird.com
#witness #شهيد #shaheed #words #mourning #health #publicHealth #medicine #medics #surgeons #surgery #hospital #childrens #orphans #JewishSupremacy #israel #OngoingNakba #revenge #retribution #Gaza #war #warOnGaza #israelGaza #israelGazaWar #ethnicCleansing #warCrimes #PalestinianLivesMatter #genocide #terrorism #counterTerrorism #stateTerrorism #stateViolence #GazaGenocide #StopArmingIsrael #CeasefireNow #StopFundingIsrael #DefundIsrael #GenocideJoe #children #childhood #adultDomination #trauma #practice #healthCare #massacres #WCNSF #PTSD #trauma #injuries
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The word “disabled” is a victimizing term that puts a label on an individual for straying too far from the norm in some inherent property.
The term “disabled” glorifies “the norm”, whatever “the norm” happens to be in the present society. Have fewer than two arms? Disabled. Can’t stand up? Disabled. Can’t see or hear normally? Disabled. Don’t process information in the “normal” way? Disabled. Naturally sad or fatigued a lot? Disabled. We slap a label on people and tell them to go to lengths or buy equipment to merely *participate* in everyday life. It’s backwards.
Instead, we need to put a label on the *system* that fails to accommodate the person. A society or built environment can be “hostile”, “under-equipped”, or even “eugenicist” if it doesn’t allow all people to operate in it.
#disabled #disability #terminology #words
For years I've heard the word "excelsior" attached to all sorts of grand declarations, municipalities, and even a Star Trek starship. Today I learned that the definition of this word is, " Slender, curved wood shavings used especially for packing."
I'm a touch disappointed by that.
#words #wordshavePower #definitions #randomthoughts
The surprisingly connected origins of "champion" and "champagne". #etymology #wordnerd #linguistics #HistoricalLinguistics #language #words #lingcomm #champion #champagne #worldcup #final
Champion/Champagne #etymology
"Podfic is the ultimate portmanteau"
[https://www.tumblr.com/thelightcomingthroughthewindow/818787281751212032?source=share]
#fromTumblr #words #etymology
A crisis counselor is love made procedural — a stranger who agrees, in advance, to be vulnerable to your worst hour.
Hemphill wrote through a plague that took his friends one by one and kept his hand open anyway. The state wants to make that open hand conditional. He'd have named the arithmetic exactly: they are trying to means-test tenderness.
https://twp.ai/4htDIN
#EssexHemphill #QueerPoetry #Pride #LGBTQIA #QueerHistory #Poetry #TransRights #Solidarity #Resist #QueerJoy #Art #Words

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