Yang Kuang-shun on Taiwan's international position (post on X 8/1/26):
'Taiwanese already view international politics as great-power politics. We don’t romanticise international institutions as being very helpful because we’re just not that included. We see the world very differently because we already know it’s not a fair game for us from the beginning'!
Is the plight of Taiwan (abandoned by the international rule based order) exemplary of the new world?
#politics
h/t Chris Horton/Observer
The challenge of the Tangerine Tyrant to the (so-called) global order is (partly) normative:
For Trump, everything is transactional & patterned by zero-sum events - for me to win, you must lose!
The now degrading (previous) global order was built on an (albeit unevenly & imperfectly exercised) norm of rule based mutual advantage; governing international relations (political & economic) through rules worked mostly/unevenly to everyone's advantage.
Trump's actions dismiss such logic
@ChrisMayLA6
I think transactional is the wrong term for Trump's negotiations. He thinks everything is a 0 sum game. Which for multilateral long term relationships is just bullshit
Dear Mastodon ADHDers I'm suspicious Remi has that irrational fear to rejection thing some of you have talked about and I'm concerned. I'm trying to find the name of it, could you help me remember how it was called ?
RSD aka Rejection Sensitivity Dysphoria
Vivian gave me his number. She's sick of working in the gym and wants something else. I'm pretty sure I can find her something better.
I asked her how much per hour (12€) and how many hours she needed (max 10 per week) and how many max per single day (4) so I've got all the information I need.
I have already a few names in mind.
irrational numbers per Scoville
11 January 1902 | Czech Emanuel Balek was born in Prague. A worker.
In #Auschwitz from 20 May 1942.
No. 35819
He perished in the camp on 14 August 1942.
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Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but earlier mathematicians had guessed that it's due to the curvature of space.
On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylvester gave a speech arguing that mathematics is not separate from physics. He later published this speech in the journal Nature, and added a footnote raising the possibility that space is curved:
“the laws of motion accepted as fact, suffice to prove in a general way that the space we live in
is a flat or level space [...], our existence therein being assimilable to the life of the bookworm in a flat page; but what if the page should be undergoing a process of gradual bending into a curved form?”
Then, even more dramatically, he announced that the mathematician Clifford had been studying this!
“Mr. W. K. Clifford has indulged in more remarkable speculations as the possibility of our being able
to infer, from certain unexplained phenomena of light and magnetism, the fact of our level space
of three dimensions being in the act of undergoing in space of four dimensions (space as
inconceivable to us as our space to the supposititious bookworm) a distortion analogous to the
rumpling of the page.”
This started a flame war in Nature which the editor eventually shut off. Clifford later wrote about his theories in a famous paper:
https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/On_the_Space-Theory_of_Matter
But now I hear that maybe Clifford even did experiments to TEST his ideas by measuring the polarization of the skylight during a solar eclipse in Sicily on December 22, 1870:
• S. Galindo and Jorge L. Cervantes-Cota, Clifford's attempt to test his gravitation hypothesis, https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09230
The amazing prehistory of general relativity!
@johncarlosbaez I seem to remember Gauss also proposing testing for space curvature via astronomical observations. Spivak mentions this in vol 2 of his differential geometry series iirc. That series is way too advanced for me but it was fun to look at.
The challenge of the Tangerine Tyrant to the (so-called) global order is (partly) normative:
For Trump, everything is transactional & patterned by zero-sum events - for me to win, you must lose!
The now degrading (previous) global order was built on an (albeit unevenly & imperfectly exercised) norm of rule based mutual advantage; governing international relations (political & economic) through rules worked mostly/unevenly to everyone's advantage.
Trump's actions dismiss such logic
Well, of course, one way of measuring the toxicity of the current debate(s) about migration is to ask how closely the public's views of the levels of migration (and its trajectory) are related to the actual incidence *of* migration?
As it turns out unfounded and/or distorted claims about migration have led the majority of the public to think migration is rising when in fact it is falling!
And to be frank, Labour is colluding in this sh*tshow!
@ChrisMayLA6 Fearmongering has become an epidemic nowadays.
They cut pensions while in the breath they make you afraid of poverty when you retire.
They cut foreign help and development funds and in the same breath they make you afraid of immigrants.
Fear controls the population. Sadly very effectively.
Charles Martinet thanked me so much for to playing his game.
@mcc Charles Martinet? The voice of Bit Trip Runner 2 Future Legend of Rhythm Alien?
Dear Mastodon ADHDers I'm suspicious Remi has that irrational fear to rejection thing some of you have talked about and I'm concerned. I'm trying to find the name of it, could you help me remember how it was called ?
In other words, if my use of "mixing" was not clear, I am not talking about a license which prohibits scraping for LLM models; I already release my code under such a license (the MIT license). I am talking about banning linking my code against code by people who *used* an LLM model.
To emphasize: I am not actually interested in having a discussion on this subject and will probably block without blinking if you try to start one.
@mcc I don't understand what you wrote: why does the MIT license forbid against scrappers for LLMs? If I understand the license correctly, it just needs to "be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software". When we use an API, the software that runs it doesn't get shown or me. I don't understand your statement.
Why am I having the usual Elvanse vocabulary forgetfulness I had during the crash now at 9:41am.
Does the gym somehow burn the whole damn amphetamines?
I'd agree; I'm not sure anyone really thinks that the Tangerine Tyrant is working to a program other than self-enrichment & self-interest....
@ChrisMayLA6 to me he's clearly a puppet. I don't think he's capable of coherent thought. The puppet masters do have a plan I think, and project 2025 is just another cover, I guess. Too crude to be all of it.
I thought the flirting of the powers behind the 'network state' idea flirting with Greenland ambition for some time were an interesting clue.
But regardless of speculation, all this shitfuckery must be stopped, obviously, regardless of motivations. The harm is clear.
How might we best frame our understanding of what's going on between Greenland, Denmark & the US?
Ian Manners suggests four ways to understand the developing situation:
Realism - its all about the balance of power;
New elites - its the oligarchs/billionaires;
Decline of the liberal order - a rejection of international law as a constraint;
A planetary approach - environmental sustainability is (should be) the central issue.
@ChrisMayLA6
How about a power hungry tangerine tyrant who doesn't know how to work with groups.
Well, of course, one way of measuring the toxicity of the current debate(s) about migration is to ask how closely the public's views of the levels of migration (and its trajectory) are related to the actual incidence *of* migration?
As it turns out unfounded and/or distorted claims about migration have led the majority of the public to think migration is rising when in fact it is falling!
And to be frank, Labour is colluding in this sh*tshow!
TWO CHILDREN WITH A COCK
Katsukawa Shunzan (active 1782 - 1798), Japanese
https://www.harvardartmuseums.org/collections/object/209887
#Art #Design #Museum #Gallery #MastodonArt #MastoArt #Culture #Random
@HarvardArtRoulette Harvard might want to revisit the metadata on this one…
Stony PlayStation? 
XRox? 
@ieure (2 of 2) I believe you could make this license GPL-compatible if you modified it for, rather than banning *all* LLMs, allowing a cutout for models which are under GPL-compatible license and which track the required credit/copyright notices. One could then argue that any LLM which is not following this rule is *already* GPL-incompatible, because it includes copyrighted material under violation of its license, and so violates the GPL's "no additional restrictions" clause.
![Passage from https://arxiv.org/abs/1807.09230:
"Mr. W.K. Clifford has indulged in more remarkable speculations as the possibility of our being able to infer, from certain unexplained phenomena of light and magnetism, the fact of our level space of three dimensions being in the act of undergoing in space of four dimensions (space as inconceivable to us as our space to the supposititious bookworm) a distortion analogous to the rumpling of the page.”[12], (emphasis is ours).
Sylvester´s publication triggered an epistolary discussion among Nature´s readership for the most part on Sylvester´s interpretation of Kant´s doctrine of space and time. The reaction produced a series of letters to Nature´s Editor, published in the pages of the same Journal. The letters approved or objected Sylvester´s opinion on Kant´s vison of space. In a short time, the epistolary skirmish escalated drawing in correspondents both within and outside of the academia. By January 29 of 1870, Norman Lockyer, editor of Nature decided to end the epistolary exchange in his journal by publishing an editorial letter stating: “this correspondence must now cease”.](https://media.mathstodon.xyz/media_attachments/files/115/866/377/663/314/017/original/f55e6d753e017e95.jpg)
