Pangur Bán
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‘Messe ocus Pangur Bán, cechtar nathar fria saindan; bíth a menmasam fri seilgg, mu menma céin im saincheirdd.’
John Crowley was a great essayist as well---the close of "On Not Being Well Read," 2015
I might get to the end of my life without ever having sent or received a fax.
John Self@john-self.bsky.social · 21h agoWhat mundane token of modern life have you never done? I’ve never had a takeaway delivered.
"I think translation is the cement that holds literary civilisation together. It’s the way that we learn about other literatures, other peoples" fivebooks.com/best-books/e...
Translation
Award-winning literary translator Edith Grossman discusses translation and its ever-growing importance – a Five Books interview
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"I am the Cat who walks by himself, and all places are alike to me" Rudyard Kipling, 'Just So Stories', 1902 #BookwormSat #Caturday
🇵🇱🍣🇺🇦 Polish skills you didn't have before 2022 - the ability to tell whether the sushi you ordered is from a Polish or Ukrainian restaurant by the amount of Philadelphia cream cheese stuffed in it (UA sushi has it everywhere).
David unpacks his argument for lowering the voting age to 6 ⬇️ www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
Radical - Votes for Six-Year-Olds: Could Child Suffrage Revive Democracy? (David Runciman) - BBC Sounds
A former Cambridge politics professor has a bold proposal: lowering the voting age to six.
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Nice knowing you.
Financial Times@financialtimes.com · 3d agoBreaking news: Scientists in the US have for the first time used artificial intelligence to create viruses unknown in nature, a milestone that promises advances in healthcare but also raises important biosafety and biosecurity concerns. ft.trib.al/Uk6VCRG
Inside of you there are two wolves trying to understand America. One wolf has spent its entire life studying constitutional law. It's currently being devoured by the other wolf, who is a carnival barker
Daaaamn. “AI is the asbestos we're shovelling into the walls of our technological society. Our descendants will spend generations digging it out again, and the longer the bubble goes on without popping, the longer it will take to repair the damage." www.thenerve.news/p/cory-docto...
Cory Doctorow: The people who tell you ‘AI is changing everything’ are lying
It has become impossible to tell managers mesmerised by artificial intelligence that the tools are not, in fact, helpful. So employees just play along with the fiction to keep their jobs, writes our t...
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"Why can't you just appreciate how revolutionary the job-taking, environment-degrading, information-shredding, technology-hoarding, economy-swamping machine is?" My brother in Christ, there may indeed be a revolution in part because of "AI," but it might not be the one you wanted.
Roxy Music: Virginia Plain - their debut single was released on August 4, 1972 #BrianEno #BryanFerry www.youtube.com/watch?v=jg9b...
Virginia Plain
YouTube video by Roxy Music - Topic
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The church with a minaret is in Kamyanets-Podilsky, a fortress city in SW Ukraine. I tell its story in Borderlines, as an example of the plural nature of borderland history and as a story of people keeping their word over centuries.
But a small minority will soon be bored, and realize that in a totally sane society madness is the only freedom.
thinking about how Polish created this brand new word just using French parts, which doesn't exist in French
Nobody told me that after 40 you can start predicting the weather based on how effed up you wake up in the morning.
Today is my birthday (turning 30), which is the only time each year when I ask you for a repost should you like my art. Have a good day! 🦦🌿✨️ - Simon
christ if that’s not a metaphor for our times
