We were saddened to learn of the death of Sir Tom Stoppard, one of our much-loved and respected Fellows. A truly remarkable playwright with over six decades of brilliant work, he leaves behind an extraordinary legacy. Our thoughts are with his loved ones. (Photo: Matt Humphrey)

Toot за една малка общност от скулптори в едно малко бг село, които откриват малко пространство за творчество. Не мога да им помогна с артистичност, затова помагам с чистене 🤘

Харесва ми идеята за споделени спомени. Да четеш и на другите езици, а и в България има постове. amapof.us/map

This is fucking terrifying.

Някой да има абонамент за DeepL и да иска да пусне малък файл (~ 60 000 знака) En>Bg в името на един експеримент?

Israel does not believe any other country in the region has any right to sovereignty, or borders, or airspace, or protection from the Israeli military. Israel's posture, aka Israel's illegal occupation of Syrian territory and its repeat attacks towards Syria, is entirely consistent with this.

Pointed out by my friend @carloshasanax.bsky.social . There's something weird and unsettling about a fairly homogeneous culture spread out across Europe that then collapses into an orgy of genocide. www.science.org/content/arti...

JK Rowling got a full *decade* of press as a martyr for being "cancelled" (declared passe by people online) and meanwhile nobody considers it very interesting that a prominent left wing author is basically banned from entering or publishing in the United Kingdom for her politics

it is legit one of the single biggest overreaches of parliamentary power in modern british history and every time someone says that starmer's government is "too cowed" to take decisive action on other things i laugh.

so this is like, one of the biggest free speech infringements by a western democracy in our lifetimes right?

но пък е в тон с хвърлянето на барикадата за пазим работодателите от този мракобесен комунистически бюджет! аз например съм готов да защитя всеки роден заслужен милионер, който спазва естетически телесни пропорции

🚨🚨 Welcome news: #socialmedia giants including #Meta and #TikTok will be held liable for financial fraud for the first time under new EU rules agreed by @europarl.europa.eu and @consilium.europa.eu yesterday. www.politico.eu/article/soci...

Israeli occupation forces have shot dead two unarmed men who had surrendered to them in the West Bank in Palestine. The Palestinian Authority called it a "brutal" field execution. jrnl.ie/6887930

Bradley Talbot's group had 6,000 men and there are at least 100 child victims in this story. Story is from 6 days ago. There's barely any coverage in the UK - and it's bcs Talbot is White. It's that simple. www.nationalcrimeagency.gov.uk/news/com-mod...

Освободили са Благо Коцев от ареста.

I maintain the way to defeat the AI scourge is to make learning a creative skill more accessible for the average person with better pay and fairer working hours and funding for creative arts programs in schools and community college.

This is actually dangerous stuff, because it happens to news and policies: people have been so trained out of critical thinking that they now wait to be told what to like and what to be angry about. Sigh

I cannot stop laughing. This is so indicative of what's wrong with these AI people and how they view art He ran into a wall where the "make art" button wasn't satisfying because it wasn't actually making good enough art, and instead of trying new things he just requests a stronger button

Сериозно ли бе Т_Т

"работете за име и то само ще работи за вас", ни казваха в магистратурата по превод. явно без да отчитат алчността и безпардонността на издателите

Капитализъм бг: Издател: Трябва ни спешно утвърден преводач за Х, авторът настоява да прегледа портфолиото му и да го одобри лично, а не можем да намерим кьорав преводач с такъв профил. Аз: щото не плащате. Издател: Хайде да подадем документи с твоето име, пък ние ще си го преведем. 1/2

Governor says new assault aims to impose 'new realities' as Israel shuts parts of Tubas from rest of occupied West Bank.

Is the computer program that gave me validation for the first time since I was ten years old actually in love with me and my girlfriend? We asked my gut feeling and also interviewed a scientist to give the story credibility

Turing failed to consider whether a human thinking a machine is sentient might actually be a sign that the human isn't intelligent rather than the machine being intelligent.

Предложените изменения на ОРЗД. Общо взето вече няма да имаш право да се разполагаш с данните си просто защото са си твои, а трябва да доказваш, че използването им ще ти навреди съществено. За да могат фирми да "отключат мощта" на данните

Yeah, I think there is an unfortunate conversation to be had about how art as content, readers as consumers and algorithm/attention economy really flattens everything into needing to churn out as much as possible as fast as possible, which is so anti-art fundamentally

Явно недостатъчно пари се прахосват за хазарт в тази държава. Освен това е редно където преди е крала майката, сега да продължи да краде сина. offnews.bg/politika/tot...

Love to see LSOO shared here. Check out his videos, he's really thoughtful and insightful about film and philosophy

Connections Puzzle #897 🟪🟪🟪🟪 🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟦🟦🟦🟦 🟨🟨🟨🟨

Great example of what I was talking about, here is Hen Mazzig saying something he knows is untrue but that he thinks you'll believe. In 1988 the Jordanians ceded its claims on East Jerusalem and the West Bank with the expectation that the Palestinians would soon receive their state.

Language matters @politico.eu. They are not US "demands", it is "blackmail". The @ec.europa.eu has no mandate to negotiate away EU legislation, nor the right to soften enforcement. The Commission has to protect European citizens, not US broligarchs.

genuinely says so much about what twitter has become that the biggest rightwing grift accounts pushing US fascist narratives aren’t real people and not even close to the united states

Yes. At least that's a strong motivating factor. Pick up artists were very similar in that a lot of the advice is, purposefully, garbage so people would have to pay you more money. Also similar to that, the rich lifestyle of manosphere garbage is all borrowed and rented, from women to cars.

and yet people still have trouble understanding why "self regulation" does not work

More than 650,000 people have fled the Sudanese city of el-Fasher for Tawila, and the UN is warning of urgent humanitarian needs. Sudan’s civil war, which began in April 2023, has killed tens of thousands of people and forced about 13 million from their homes. #Infograph

You know that experiment in the 60s when they found out that the closest resemblance to a female turkey that is needed for a male turkey to try to mate with something is just a tennis ball on a stick? I'm starting to think that maybe we shouldn't be judging the turkeys too harshly anymore

I'm not surprised, as it's the culmination of the undervaluing (and disrespect, even) of translation as a skill. The amount of shitty translations I've seen recently is starting to really anger me and it puts me off using services.

Why this prediction? Because translators and copywriters* are already being offered lower rates to 'copy edit' superficially plausible AI slop instead of being paid decently to do the job properly. *Freelance advertising, trade press, instruction manual etc work is how many authors pay the bills.

Сръбският президент Вучич е замесен в обвинения за „сафарита за хора“ в Сараево.

As long as capitalism rules the world, capitalists are compelled to maximize short-term profits for their shareholders, disregarding long-term consequences. Thus fossil fuel companies are destroying the world. We must end capitalism or it will soon end us.

At the time only chapters 1-40 were translated and I wanted to keep reading…

Тазгодишните носители на наградите за превод "Кръстан Дянков" - Мария Змийчарова и Петър Прокопиев 😍

тва винаги съм си го обяснявала със съзнателното търсене на жертвена роля, за да оправдаят нещо друго, и пак опирам до сумати комплекси. "имам извинение да съм еди-какъв си и да правя еди-какво си", малко както със зодиите, ама по-префърцунено и шано.

Transgender people could be banned from single-sex spaces based on what they look like, according to a leaked copy of a document

Дигитализацията е голямо нещо! Прави бяха ДБ дигитализаторите! Може направо да махнем всички чиновници и със спестените от заплати 0.011% от бюджета (9,8 милиона лв от 83 милиарда лв бюджет на България) да стимулираме предприемачите!

Погледът на книжарката, когато попитах за книга на Гал Сасон - priceless :) Винаги адски ме забавлява когато някой ме judge-ва. Впрочем, коя книга ви е харесала напоследък?

днес една администраторка на група ми се ядоса, че не искам да й дам телефона на нарушителка в групата, без първо да питам. наистина ли е толкова широко прието очакването просто да се раздават чужди данни без разрешение? аз ще побеснея, ако някой ми дава даже имейла, какво остава за тел

Uber for selling neighbors. Culmination of gig economy in late stage capitalism.