1/ My friend Jon Haidt @JonHaidt has written the MOST important article you can read today...
"Why the Past 10 Years of American Life Have Been Uniquely Stupid––it's not just a phase"
!!! Friday Night Surprise. Plaintiffs just filed their response to Facebook in my favorite case - what I call the mother of all lawsuits - in Delaware where it's incorporated. It's a tight but absolutely delicious 120 pages so I'll break down the allegations here for you. /1
The final Presentation of a Missing Scripts Project,
Designing the First Book-Pahlavi typeface and its Latin Companion by Amir Mahdi Moslehi, on March 31, 2022, at Auditorium de l'École nationale supérieure d’art et de design de Nancy
Livestream: https://t.co/dYBYCZHrLb
Just published: Kashmiri & Uighur Gap-analysis First Public Drafts
These documents explore gaps in language support on the World Wide Web.
Perso-arabic Kashmiri Gap Analysis https://t.co/w2BOImzjbl
Uighur Gap Analysis https://t.co/FEcvEvCqDh
New #OpenAcess Corpus
The #HamBam corpus contains annotated recordings of contemporary spoken #Persian, compiled as a cooperation btw Bu-Ali Sina University, Hamedan, Iran Mohammad Rasekh-Mahand), & @uni_bamberg_of Germany (Geoffrey Haig). https://t.co/PvJk3fYzgN
"Your goal is to destroy the other gorilla with your exploding banana." @benjedwards explains MS-DOS, QBasic, and the secret power of GORILLA.BAS. Plus, @frankcifaldi sings the theme song for history! It's all connected and defined by video games: https://t.co/IhdNfq81DC
In fall 2020, Facebook went to war against Ad Observatory, a NYU crowdsourcing project where users capture paid political ads through a browser plugin that santizes them of personal info and uploads them so disinformation researchers can analyze them.
https://t.co/qJINvhE10V 1/
There are several myths regarding raising children in more than one language.
My son is 4 years old.
We live in Barcelona. He's surrounded by Spanish and Catalan language. Yet, he speaks Bosnian like I do.
This is what I discovered about raising a multilingual child:
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Let's discuss what's happening in Russia. To put it simply, it's going full fascist. Authorities launched a propaganda campaign to gain popular support for their invasion of Ukraine and they're getting lots of it. You can see "Z" on these guys' clothes. What does it mean? 🧵
@heartshapedsky Congrats on getting funded!
Looks like I missed it by a couple of hours. How can we stay posted to get the game when it's available publicly?
If talk of leverage, complexity, rigidity and system risk gives you deja vu, you're not alone. In a superb new paper, @ProfHilaryAllen of @AmericanU's @AUWCL argues that #DeFi, the "distributed finance" wing of #web3, is really "Shadow Banking 2.0."
https://t.co/tjjsKnHuDH 20/
@EndangeredAlpha It will «create a larger-than-life-size carving in spectacular wood that says “The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write” in EN and three different scripts whose communities have [...] been denied the chance to speak, read, or write their own mother languages».
I just backed The Right to Speak, the Right to Read, the Right to Write by @EndangeredAlpha:
https://t.co/0TeUWSqYGe
There's only 6 hours left to support this latest great project!
Work announcement: I've finished cataloging the 3200+ Arabic-script manuscripts from the Austrian National Library that @visitHMML microfilmed back in 1971. Pictured is the last one I cataloged, a book of North African popular songs in Arabic
https://t.co/medhKzZFV1
“Decolonization is a verb. An ongoing process and not an imaginary destination.” Happy #pubday to @dandelionglitch, whose latest book, Desgraciado, is out now from @nightboatbooks. They answered our #TenQuestions#10Q4: https://t.co/3ntj9PRrZd