asayeed

@asayeed@zirk.us

Associate professor of computational linguistics at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden

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interfluidity, to random
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if you want to make a case that antisemitism plays an unusual role in the US discourse surrounding Israel, your best point of reference is Yemen and US support of Saudi Arabia’s conflict there, which conflict (whomever you blame for it) did lead to mass famine and death, but not to mass protest on US campuses.

asayeed,

@interfluidity @Alon @BenRossTransit @shadihamid This is the theory behind the current lionization of the Gulf Arab states particularly UAE as the current paragons of modernity in the Arab world in particular. It depends on some very specific conditions that do not obtain overall, such as a sustainable form of industralization.

asayeed,

@interfluidity @Alon @BenRossTransit Whatever it is, IMO it's kind of late for any stable transition. I agree with @shadihamid 's take which is basically that the path to stable democracy in the Muslim world runs through allowing destabilizing and illiberal elements to run their historical course, and the longer this is postponed, the worse the rebound will be. By that light, the Arab Spring was possibly the last opportunity for a manageable shift.

asayeed,

@Alon @interfluidity @BenRossTransit In fact, the example of Turkey and the Erdoğan phenomenon are the cautionary tale for allowing a well-off industrial elite to form who come from religiously traditional social classes.

asayeed,

@Alon @interfluidity @BenRossTransit (but the point is, you probably cannot expect anything better to form unless you allow the gradual rise of an Erdoğanist elite and then let them run the show illiberally for a few decades)

asayeed,

@Alon @interfluidity @BenRossTransit but bringing this back to Israel/Palestine, I am doubtful that there are scenarios of development in the Muslim world as a whole that aren't very high-risk for Israel, including the current trajectory. Israel's founders did not apparently leave behind a strategy for what happens when the Muslim world eventually returned to being a historical subject rather than an object.

asayeed,

@Alon @interfluidity @BenRossTransit The problem is that the long-run trajectory of most of the neighbouring states, probably Jordan also, is eventually crises of legitimacy and state failure in one form or another.

asayeed,

@interfluidity @BenRossTransit @Alon As I said earlier. I think (pessimistically) that the Arab Spring might have been the last opportunity to reconcile popular legitimacy in the Middle East with the present state system with low friction.

cstross, to random
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Deeply telling about how far the Overton Window has shifted in 40 years that Ronald Reagan took a harder line with Israel than Joe Biden, never mind Mitt Romney.

(But then, per wikipedia Romney was best buds with Benjamin Netanyahu at university. So this tracks.)

asayeed,

@cstross bibi is part of the social circle of politicians and thinktankerati who brought us the Iraq war and its aftermath, and people somehow fail to realize that it's not an accident that the same thinking and behaviours are being repeated

asayeed, to random

they know their market lol

asayeed,

@Alon SU Frescati and probably KTH are not great locations for eating out. GU Humanisten is much better located that way.

asayeed,

@Alon food inflation is pretty out of control, btw I appreciate the gesture because the place is frequented by a lot of people who come from the ketchup-on-pasta countries and I sort of know the owners

asayeed,

@Alon wasn't even in Sweden back then, did visit Lund in 2013 and found the lunches very expensive but I was comparing with the mensa in Saarland which is a whole other level

asayeed,

@Alon this kind of meal was max 95 when I got here, in fact it was hard to find a dagens lunch above 105 in 2018

asayeed,

@Alon yes the institutional food is not great here but there are some good dagens lunch at private restaurants depending. Gothenburg is usually pretty good for food, IMO better than sthlm

asayeed, to ai

Job opportunity at CLASP in the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Gothenburg. Postdoc in multimodal coreference, two years, applications due Nov 21.

https://web103.reachmee.com/ext/I005/1035/job?site=7&lang=UK&validator=9b89bead79bb7258ad55c8d75228e5b7&job_id=31676

#ai #nlp

asayeed, to random

the german translation of dune should refer to arrakeen as würzburg

asayeed, to random

in the lead-up to the judith-octavia butlerian jihad, the auto-man empire is taken over by its social media influencer slave class also known as the memelooks

asayeed, to random

Planning an Ursula K. Le Guin-themed restaurant with dishes like "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelettes" and "The Dish Possessed".

asayeed, to random

No news on location!

asayeed, to random

Question: should my statue of limitations be sculpted out of bronze or marble?

asayeed, to random

rolling a d0

asayeed, to random

"Proctors without Borders" -- an organization to deploy emergency exam invigilators in disaster and conflict zones.

asayeed, to random

making a movie called "dun" about a galactic scale war over colour schemes

asayeed, to random

My suspicion is that you can get GPT to do all kinds of interesting stuff if you put an altruistic spin on it.

asayeed, to random

I bet it would improve the survival rate if the Bene Gesserit consumed the water of Shai-Hulud slowly and with a large meal.

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