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2026 is all about good sandwiches I feel

My dining room hasn't been this clean since, well, *last* Thanksgiving.
#HappyColonizerDay (as my neighbor said to me this morning!)

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Christopher Bartley, Anton Ragni
https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.04832 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2…

How I Built ASR for Endangered Languages with a Spoken Dictionary
Nearly half of the world's languages are endangered. Speech technologies such as Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) are central to revival efforts, yet most languages remain unsupported because standard pipelines expect utterance-level supervised data. Speech data often exist for endangered languages but rarely match these formats. Manx Gaelic ($\sim$2,200 speakers), for example, has had transcribed speech since 1948, yet remains unsupported by modern systems. In this paper, we explore how litt…

Every year I have this tradition of being extra honest for the last hours of the outgoing years. Ask me anything before my midnight via DM or publicly, and I’ll answer honestly and kindly. Or tell me something honest about yourself, and I’ll appreciate you for sharing <3

I just refrained myself from infodumping about how Germans do Raclette! Be proud!

Guten Morgen! *räkelt sich im Bett und drückt sich noch vor dem letzten Wohnungsputz des Jahres*

🧑‍⚖️ The Antitrust Trial that Could Take Apart NASCAR
#nascar

How NBA Legend Michael Jordan Is Blowing Up NASCAR's Monopoly
The France family has run stock car racing since NASCAR's founding in 1948, treating team owners like high-end Uber drivers. Now an antitrust lawsuit brought by Michael Jordan could upend NASCAR.

Report Card
Israel, age: 77½
Excels at:
✅ Genocide
✅ Ethnic cleansing
✅ Apartheid
✅ Racism
✅ Settler colonialism
Fails:
❌ Basic humanity https://freefree.ps/@faab64/115530516843421204

Farhad (@faab64@freefree.ps)
Attached: 1 image Israel begins building wall in newly occupied territories in southern Lebanon Israel is once again using the conflict to steal more land and occupy more parts of neighboring countries. This is what Israel has done since the day they were given the Palestine in 1948 and will not stop or return those land back unless they are forced to. #Lebanon #Israel #Occupation #BorderWall #StopIsrael #SanctionIsrael #Politics

Phase 2 of the #GazaGenocide:
Israel occupies >53%.
Friday, killed a family travelling in a vehicle: 7 children, 2 men, 2 women.
Invisible kill line like the "temporary" 1948 Green Line.
50 million tonnes of rubble, mixed with human remains and unexploded munitions.
Continued blockade of aid and human passage.
Since the Trump plan signed, more than 50…

Fase 2 del genocidio israelí: ocupación del 53% de Gaza, asesinatos, segregación y línea amarilla
En una semana de tregua Israel ha matado a 59 personas, varios niños y niñas, mantiene bloqueado el paso de Rafah, y consolida su ocupación en más de la mitad de la Franja, con la señalización de una línea de separación

Good Morning #Canada
On this day in 1948, the longest serving political leader in the British Commonwealth retired. William Lyon Mackenzie King served 21 years and 154 days as Prime Minister of Canada, in non-consecutive terms, from 1921–1926, 1926–1930, and 1935–1948. He led Canada through the Great Depression, introduced Old Age Pensions, nationalized the Bank of Canada, passed the 1938 National Housing Act to improve housing affordability, established the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, Trans-Canada Air Lines, and the National Film Board, and implemented Unemployment Insurance. His government was also responsible for Japanese Internment Camps, and he believed strongly in the occult.
This video from TVO is an excellent overview of King's career. It's probably a two coffee viewing this morning if you have the time, but IMO worth the investment.
#CanadaIsAwesome #CanadianHeroes
https://www.tvo.org/video/mackenzie-king-at-150

#Israel

'I was not the right kind of Jew,' says US Jewish teen deported from Israel
(RNS) — Since its founding in 1948, Israel has welcomed American Jews and encouraged their immigration. Now certain Jews supporting Palestinians, like Leila Stillman-Utterman, are deported.