𓅜 doug henning 𒄇
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The prompt for delving into Pahlavi today is my discovery of this transcription and translation of the Wizārišn ī Čatrang ud Nihišn Nēw-ardaxšīr (Explanation of Chess and the Invention of Backgammon) which describes the arrival of chess from India to Persia:
academia.edu/resource/wor...
academia.edu/resource/wor...
November 29, 2025 at 1:50 PM
The prompt for delving into Pahlavi today is my discovery of this transcription and translation of the Wizārišn ī Čatrang ud Nihišn Nēw-ardaxšīr (Explanation of Chess and the Invention of Backgammon) which describes the arrival of chess from India to Persia:
academia.edu/resource/wor...
academia.edu/resource/wor...
“The orthographic principles followed, in seemingly haphazard permutation, in the writing of Pahlavi, besides the ideographic, include the phonetic (within the limits of the alphabet), the historical, the pseudohistorical, and others so indeterminable as scarcely to merit the name.”
- DN Mackenzie
- DN Mackenzie
November 29, 2025 at 1:37 PM
“The orthographic principles followed, in seemingly haphazard permutation, in the writing of Pahlavi, besides the ideographic, include the phonetic (within the limits of the alphabet), the historical, the pseudohistorical, and others so indeterminable as scarcely to merit the name.”
- DN Mackenzie
- DN Mackenzie
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calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
November 29, 2025 at 4:35 AM
calmly explaining why we shouldn't bomb random venezuelan boats to people who argued we should torture random iraqis and then won an election by saying they were against a war they advocated for
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“They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over”
-Joseph Keppler, 1893
-Joseph Keppler, 1893
November 28, 2025 at 1:34 PM
“They would close to the new-comer the bridge that carried them and their fathers over”
-Joseph Keppler, 1893
-Joseph Keppler, 1893
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How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
November 27, 2025 at 6:01 PM
How Republicans commemorated Thanksgiving in 1869--with a multi-racial/multi-ethnic gathering of people at a table with a centerpiece celebrating universal suffrage and self-government, and with an engraving of Castle Garden, the pre-Ellis Island point of disembarkation for immigrants.
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This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
Stephen Miller is now arguing that assimilation is fundamentally impossible and that certain cultures are not compatible with Western civilization
November 28, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This is almost word for word what xenophobes in the 1930s and 1940s said about Miller's Jewish ancestors and relatives. He's so hateful he couldn't possibly recognize that of course.
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Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism
November 27, 2025 at 10:00 PM
Far from being an eternal symbol of Pilgrims-and-Indians lies, Thanksgiving was, for a good portion of its history, a symbol of social reform and abolitionism
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They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
“You’re a stupid person” — Trump lashes out at a reporter who presses him on the fact that the suspected DC shooter was actually thoroughly vetted before he was let in the US from Afghanistan
November 28, 2025 at 1:50 AM
They'll build a statue to the first reporter who tells this old dumbass to eat shit on camera
Massachusett (Wôpanâak) Word of the Day:
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
[LIVE] National Day of Mourning 2025
YouTube video by hate5six
www.youtube.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:42 PM
Massachusett (Wôpanâak) Word of the Day:
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
mauem∞onk /mawimwãk/ “mourning”
< extension of Proto-Algonquian *mawiwa “ to weep” and the nominalizing suffix -onk /-ãk/
Despite at attempt to ban it, you can watch the 2025 National Day of Mourning at Plymouth Rock here:
www.youtube.com/live/6u-jF6p...
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Here’s a list of people that should be in jail.
November 27, 2025 at 12:59 AM
Here’s a list of people that should be in jail.
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God this is so depressing given the political response to it
"the economic response to the pandemic really worked. Indeed, there is a good case that it was the most successful example of countercyclical policy in US history." jwmason.org/slackwire/at...
At Groundwork: Lessons from the September Jobs Report – J. W. Mason
jwmason.org
November 26, 2025 at 9:34 PM
God this is so depressing given the political response to it
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Walter M. Miller Jr.'s Gopher Tortoise Stew biblioklept.org/2025/11/25/w...
Walter M. Miller Jr.’s Gopher Tortoise Stew
Gopher Stew A book of science fiction recipes should contain a few formulae for things to be cooked in a tin can in the forest after World War III. In the southeast, one such recipe might read simp…
biblioklept.org
November 26, 2025 at 5:16 AM
Walter M. Miller Jr.'s Gopher Tortoise Stew biblioklept.org/2025/11/25/w...
“At what point does the Probability (More Angels Than Non-Angels on Head of Pin) exceed 50%?”
Using the language of probability doesn’t make sophistry and category error any better.
Using the language of probability doesn’t make sophistry and category error any better.
You have to admit that "LLMs are conscious but nothing else is" is a great bit
November 26, 2025 at 5:18 PM
“At what point does the Probability (More Angels Than Non-Angels on Head of Pin) exceed 50%?”
Using the language of probability doesn’t make sophistry and category error any better.
Using the language of probability doesn’t make sophistry and category error any better.
This feels Sumerian:
𒂗𒁀𒈾𒈾
𒂗𒁀𒈾𒈾
Enbanana?
November 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This feels Sumerian:
𒂗𒁀𒈾𒈾
𒂗𒁀𒈾𒈾
The title of this incredible film is also a great example of the attributive rather than possessive use of the particle の no.
七人の侍
shichi nin no samurai
seven people ATTR samurai
“seven people who are samurai”
七人の侍
shichi nin no samurai
seven people ATTR samurai
“seven people who are samurai”
In today's exciting episode of I Am Learning Japanese Or So Help Me, I glanced up from my computer & realised I could read* my Seven Samurai** print.
*OK I did look up 侍 but I assumed it meant samurai, which it does. Such detective work!
**I mean YES it does say Seven Samurai BUT see alt text...
*OK I did look up 侍 but I assumed it meant samurai, which it does. Such detective work!
**I mean YES it does say Seven Samurai BUT see alt text...
November 26, 2025 at 3:49 PM
The title of this incredible film is also a great example of the attributive rather than possessive use of the particle の no.
七人の侍
shichi nin no samurai
seven people ATTR samurai
“seven people who are samurai”
七人の侍
shichi nin no samurai
seven people ATTR samurai
“seven people who are samurai”
Hi, question for Mrs. Shelley. In Walton’s letters at the beginning of Frankenstein, dated to 17--, he alludes to the “Ancient Mariner”. But Coleridge’s 1798 edition spelled it “Ancyent Marinere”, not revised until 1800. Are we to believe that there is some kind of Arctic time travel going on?
November 26, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Hi, question for Mrs. Shelley. In Walton’s letters at the beginning of Frankenstein, dated to 17--, he alludes to the “Ancient Mariner”. But Coleridge’s 1798 edition spelled it “Ancyent Marinere”, not revised until 1800. Are we to believe that there is some kind of Arctic time travel going on?
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Why yes, I would like a 14 hour adaptation of Dune by a mentally unstable surrealist who hasn't read the book
November 26, 2025 at 12:52 AM
Why yes, I would like a 14 hour adaptation of Dune by a mentally unstable surrealist who hasn't read the book
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The man is on the cutting edge of 20-50 year old comedy.
Take my wife’s airline food, PLEASE!
Take my wife’s airline food, PLEASE!
Everything about this might be the saddest thing I’ve ever seen
November 24, 2025 at 1:41 PM
The man is on the cutting edge of 20-50 year old comedy.
Take my wife’s airline food, PLEASE!
Take my wife’s airline food, PLEASE!
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this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
Matt Stoller: “..Trump & Mamdani defeated establishment in their own way, representing hunger of voters on the right & left who want something different. If those sides cd come together.. that would be a sea change in how we organize our political economy”.
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-r...
Monopoly Round-Up: Why the Establishment Freaked Out Over a Mamdani-Trump Press Conference
Meta wins its antitrust case, there are now two fire truck antitrust claims, the stock market got wobbly, and Larry Summers was exiled from the establishment, at least for now.
www.thebignewsletter.com
November 24, 2025 at 7:04 PM
this dumb shit is what i mean when i say this is a purely aesthetic “politics.” yeah man, why can’t we have a fusion of cosmopolitan social democracy and revanchist hierarchies of wealth and privilege? tough question.
“One-seven-three-four-six-seven-three-two-one-four-seven-six-Charlie-three-two-seven-eight-nine-seven-six-four-three-Brown-seven-three-two-seven-three-one-one-seven-eight-eight-Pigpen-eight-seven-three-two-four-seven-six-seven-eight-nine-seven-six-four-three-seven-six. Lock.”
November 24, 2025 at 4:56 PM
“One-seven-three-four-six-seven-three-two-one-four-seven-six-Charlie-three-two-seven-eight-nine-seven-six-four-three-Brown-seven-three-two-seven-three-one-one-seven-eight-eight-Pigpen-eight-seven-three-two-four-seven-six-seven-eight-nine-seven-six-four-three-seven-six. Lock.”
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Good morning. In the past 24 hours, more Americans have Googled “felching” than have searched for “turkey recipes”
November 23, 2025 at 2:11 PM
Good morning. In the past 24 hours, more Americans have Googled “felching” than have searched for “turkey recipes”
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Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
November 22, 2025 at 2:20 AM
Was there any coverage of the recent record warmth in both the Arctic and Antarctic? Multiple global datasets now confirm these records, and I think it's really quite striking.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.
Here's some very quick plots showing NOAAGlobalTempv6 data from October too. And see my earlier posts.