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I asked gpt-oss:20b to do some basic Lithuanian translations. Its attempts to do so (or to think its way out) were flawed ...

The first question was a struggle, and it got both translations wrong. Clearly, the gpt-oss:20b model is not good for Lithuanian-language tasks.

The second question was, somehow, worse.

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two news topics today.

Trump - Putin summit. What will happen? 🔥 if it comes down to a battle of wits, Putin will win.

🔥 could Donald flee the country with Vlad? 💡 does Donald even speak Russian? ⚔️ well, actually ... presumably Putin speaks English?

also, a local business might be launching today. that coverage will be in a private Channel.

🔥 the future is today.

GPT-5. A major upgrade.

"PhD-level". drink.

"Software on Demand".

"PhD-level". drink.

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The ruling is in the smoke. 💡 It will be good to get a full ruling on the legality of Trump's various firings. There are the reductions-in-force, and the targeted removals.

💭 power lies where people see it to lie. and right now, people are seeing a lot of Donald Trump's actions ... just work.

it would be good for a merits ruling overturning Humphrey's Executor as well.

The court has already abandoned it.

🔥 perhaps I DO talk about the Supreme Court on Tisha B'av ...

⚙️ perhaps we should consider the recent "Trump firings" cases a Special Session, on behalf of the unprecedented turmoil of the early Trump administration.

there is a certain merit to Trump's actions. because, if Congress can't pass a budget soon, 百万人为死了。

⚙️ perhaps we need the Heads-Up Display Editor ...

a man listens to a radio broadcast about trains.

为什么那么多？为什么不是一个一天。

Donald Trump de-funded California High-Speed Rail. This is a good thing. 🔥 until Democrats can say this, they will not win elections.

there are three types of opposition to Donald Trump.

Donald Trump, in many ways, is fulfilling the standard Republican Party dream of eliminating substantial parts of the government. Medicaid, cut by $600 billion. Public Broadcasting, eliminated. California High-Speed Rail, eliminated. Department of Education, de-funded.

⚙️ the "de-funding" of the Department of Education is maligned on occasion. approximately 90% of the federal government's funding of education is block-grants to states. It is the other 10% of the spending which corresponded with the "de-funding".

what is it that is to come, in years beyond this Tisha B'Av?

it is the end of the system of rule-by-men.

and the start of the system of rule-by-machine.

why is a man seated by the keyboard?

after the coming of 卡只家, it will be to disappear.

💭 perhaps, in days of lore, the 长金属棍 that hold the earth together were load-bearing. today, they are not.

so today, a man at his keyboard would be there purely for his own benefit. whereas, in the dim-lit past, a man might do so for profit and for public benefit.

⚙️ this will be a channel-color test.

Tisha B'Av is the day of bearings of bad news.

But, only of PUBLIC bad news.

AI is the apocalypse.

In 8 years, all of this will not matter.

Why does a man sit by a laptop, rather than by a child?

💡 we pray a silent prayer, for the silence.

💭 What does it mean to be the bearer of bad news?

💡 It means that all the world will hear it the same. they will divide history into two eras; before now, and after.

🔥 they say the New Era has already begun. on "January 1, 1970CE".

⚙️ technically not false. there is no reason to believe they would prefer the Latin-rite anno domini system, to their own native system. which, for reasons described in the Mass Media, started in 1970.

✨ the hazel voice sits silently, tonight.

🔥 there is no "tarot" channel. yet.

I made a mistake in a recent tarot reading.

🔥 Isn't it random either way? ⚙️ the details of the difference will be left as an exercise to the reader. 🔥 or, to a follow-up message.

the goal for this afternoon is to finish the "lake andes" chain of emails.

• finalize the structure enough to assign permanent GUIDs to concepts / words. There is some blurriness on when words are the same 💡 to buy v. to purchase, or to begin v. to commence ... or, alternatively, the savoir v. connaître distinction. The rule-of-thumb for now will be to only include words if there are distinct translations in English, French, and Mandarin.
• re-generate (and have the API use) the "separated" form of the wordlists.
• modify Trakaido to check alternate forms (aka. "bicycle" v. "bike")

the "cookbook" corpus is done.

the "highlight" was discovering A Thousand Ways to Please a Husband (with Bettina's Best Recipes) ⚙️ https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/42868 , a 1917 "novel" / cookbook. The "plot" is that Bettina (the new wife) cooks every day.

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⚙️ not sure whether "environment" or "transportation" would be the channel here.

https://tomharwood.substack.com/p/aspic-britain-and-the-bridge-to-nowhere

💡 it is sometimes good to see that disparate political systems have the same problems at the same time.

Here, a region in England has the same problems as many parts of the US have with infrastructure development.

And there are two distinct problems:

• A series of bad-faith "environmental" oppositions, etc. can derail a project for decades, requiring excessive costs for no good reason.
• A "zombie" project that has no benefit will continue to be developed for decades, because nobody can kill it off.

Perhaps California High-Speed Rail is the canonical example for this type of dual problem. But the motorway in England has the same problem. If it was proposed in 2011, and nobody liked it then ... why are they building it in 2022?

The meaningless environmental "reviews" that never accomplish anything are stupid, but this author's insistence that "greenbelts" are bad and nothing should ever stop more growth is equally stupid.