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@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social

Trying and failing to be an ex-academic. Works as "linguist" in automatic speech recognition. Owns guinea pigs. Lived in Egypt, UK, and UAE 2-5 years each. Coloradan for now. Translates Arabic proverbs at https://bsky.app/profile/arabicproverbs.bsky.social

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/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 19h ago

I think because it's an unpaired word, I always forget what "feckless" means and have to look it up. Turns out, according to Wiktionary, it's from Scots feckless, variant of Scots fectless (“ineffectual”), an aphetic variant of effectless). So now I know what feck is.

/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

There's an Arabic version of this as well The 6th-c king of Al-Ḥīrah (Iraq), ʿAmr ibn Hind, felt insulted by satirical verses composed by the young poet Ṭarafa ibn al-ʿAbd and his uncle, Al-Mutalammis. The king sought revenge:

In all 48 books that constitute these two epics, only Book 6 of the Iliad makes a passing reference to informative symbols, namely in the story-within-a-story of the hero Bellerophon. Told by his grandson Glaucus, the tale requires writing to progress; Bellerophon carries a letter from King Proetus from the king of Lycia, in which the former instructs the latter to kill Bellerophon. The same ‘please kill this messenger’ stratagem is also employed in Shakespeare’s Hamlet. Unlike Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, though, Bellerophon survives the peril.
/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

I was a bit annoyed that Zanny Minton Beddoes interviewed Musk because then I have to look at his face every time I read the Economist for a week but I've since seen he's trying to sic his X followers on her so now I'm glad she upset him so much.

/nəˈθænjəl/@nathanielbdemiller.bsky.social · 2w ago

This is a bit beside Pratima's point but these things are snake oil. I asked Gemini 3.6 Flash if nitrogen can be used as rocket fuel, pasted 76 words of the response into Pangram, and got back a 100% human analysis.

A screenshot of a paragraph explaining why nitrogen cannot be used as rocket fuel, featuring visible unrendered LaTeX formatting code. An AI-detection overlay from Pangram 3.3.2 covers the bottom half, classifying the text as "100% Human Written." Complete transcription of the sample: For a substance to act as a chemical rocket fuel, burning it must release energy (an exothermic reaction). Elemental nitrogen (\text{N}_2) consists of two nitrogen atoms locked together by an extremely strong triple bond (\text{N} \equiv \text{N}). Because this triple bond is so stable, trying to "burn" nitrogen with oxygen requires feeding energy into the reaction rather than getting energy out. Since it won't react exothermically on its own, pure nitrogen cannot power a chemical engine.
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