apparently there's an english dub of Agony somewhere out there in the world that unintentionally transforms it into a farce

"i wanna say one word to you just one word" "what is it" "generative ai" "that's two words" "my apologies Ben, you are correct, that is indeed two words" "though one of those isn't a word, it's an acronym, so arguably you've said one word and one acronym" "my gosh! so sorry! very correct Ben!"

A scientific study shows that watching experimental animation is good for your brain. www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig... Animation: Jonathan Djob Nkondo.

Happy Tax Day folks. As I pointed out here, the technical arguments about having free tax filing is over. Direct File proved it. What we are seeing now is just rent-seekers bribing policymakers to be allowed to keep extracting money from you. donmoynihan.substack.com/p/what-the-d...

the correct answer is pterodactyl and insistence otherwise is why we can no longer trust sociological polling in this country

well i didn't find exactly the meduza article i was searching for, but i _did_ find the most horrible thing i have ever seen, so now you all need to see it to the lavrov, peskov, and nabiullina labubus _are_ real and they _can_ hurt you. not like, physically, but there _are_ worse types of injury

pointless cyrillic thought of the day: im not sure there's _any_ way you could represent the less common english "wh" sound, the one where the wine-whine merger isn't actually merged that sound's just _vanishingly_ uncommon so none of the less common cyrillic alphabets needed a letter for it

qazaq learning moment of the day, mundane version: жату as a present continuous helper trips me up because it's (maybe?) less common than отыру, жүру, and тұру AND because it doesn't simply drop the -у in 3p like the others for... some reason

this is honestly THE best write up of how CSAM detection and perceptual handing works. the visual aids are very helpful in understanding how content is transformed and how detection methods work mahmoud-salem.net/the-invisibl...

ed note: "the spirit of Chinggis Khan" is both the name of the prius in question and and adequate description of the experience described

I've translated a Yiddish short story about the Moon becoming sad because they poets don't understand her anymore. I think that's what's going on here (poor moon)

mods are asleep post camera falling out of plane and landing in a pig pen to be licked by a pig

Sherlock Holmes taking down a statement while the smallest cop in history possesses/absorbs a photographer. AI everybody!

on one hand, i never did get through my copy of Arctic Mirrors on the _other_ hand, hey, it's not like ive a shortage of books written since the 1990s that i still need to read also

"The Fiscal Year (FY) 2027 Budget proposes to eliminate the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) & provides $38 million to conduct an orderly shutdown of the Agency." Disinvestment in the humanities is one way we've reached the current moment. Double the budget instead. Triple it.

New & Notable: Jakarta-based trio Ali and Lebanese composer and multi-instrumentalist Charif Megarbane come together on this essential release.

Makoto Kobayashi

3D Mainichi Modern EPISODE 2 out soon!

When Baz Luhrman had the guns say "sword" on the side in Romeo + Juliet, that was the best choice that has been made in any modern adaptation ever.

This by Rheinmetall CEO is precisely the arrogance that will come to haunt 🇩🇪. It was arrogance vis-à-vis Chinese competitors that helped bring German carmakers in the ditch they are in. And it‘s this type of arrogance vis-à-vis lessons learned by Ukrainians that will cost us.

New from me: The Senate offered a bipartisan solution to the growing airport crisis. Mike Johnson rejected it, empowering Trump to selectively grab more legislative powers by illegally paying TSA agents. This is an actual constitutional crisis folks. 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/mike-johns...

a special one, even color commentary from a russian musician's local tour here (in mid-march) was something to the effect of "yknow, it's great, we've now got two SVOs, it's like trump and putin are the two worst students in the class, furiously copying one another's test answers off one another"

today's confirmed english neologism confirmed to have crossed over into the russian lexicon of the day is "нормис", because yes, of course it has

today in great points of confusion in qazaq lessons: discovering that no, the word for language is _not_ "тілі", it's just "тіл", so i was declining it wrong and was then further confused because -і like... isn't a case suffix, and really, really confused when my tutor called it "izaphetic"

deep-fried low effort fake ads that someone slapped together to take up space and amuse themselves and their colleagues knowing 90% of players don't care or notice are so much better than anything automated

"мам, может быть ефир евровидении?" "у нас евровидение в доме" в доме: it's even _worse_ than the intervidenie was damnit

A map of Turkiic languages by sub-administrative region. The case of Crimean Tatar is fun. It has three major dialects: Nogai (northern), close to Kazakh, low-prestige. Tat (central) close to Balkar, high prestige. Yalıboylu (southern) was so affected by Turkish, it belongs to a different branch!

perks of using a paper dictionary: when thumbing through you find QUALITY entries

come for the "actually siding with a us consumer isp, cox even", stay for the "thomas for the court, sotomayor joined by jackson concurring in the judgement, but people who'd usually side with the latter saying 'yknow, thomas has the better opinion here'"

the museumification of Samarqand Bukhara and Khiva has marginalized living worship and communities of believers to the extent that you wouldn’t actually know there are any practising Muslims in these cities … but there are! lots! 1/

іт із үанс агэн тайм фөр тһе плыль перемен від

big boat snuck

the Dutch never disappoint

additional bits re another good ep of yurt jurt

@pauleiding.bsky.social alas, the cameo character limit's tiny, but if this ping finds its way to you, i was quite amused by your reading of the Mueller indictments on the translator group and have stupid ideas for nonsense art

oh boy! another data breach letter! from a company that shouldnt have kept my info around even! nah, i do not need yet another coupon for ID theft monitoring but lol your general counsel email is easily findable enough, so time to be the CPRA subject from hell

I'm losing it at this delivery robot getting absolutely smoked by the Brightline train in Florida 🤖🚅

These contractors are private prison operators and Trump donors. They are not babes in the wood. But even they thought Lewandowski's asks were too corrupt. He made a big deal about being an unpaid Special Government Employee because just like Trump, he understood salaries were for suckers.

fun fact if you zoom in real close on the patterns in those traditional norwegian sweaters, it's actually "kvinner elsker meg fisk frykter meg" written repeatedly in tiny script, arrayed in assorted geometric designs

in the time since this getting posted and me seeing it during late night bsky scrolling it's gone up to USD60

i do this because bars provide a bunch of white noise stimuli to keep parts of my brain that _dont_ read occupied, but not actually interested in anything going on enough to pull me away from the book. also i dont bring my laptop and cant internet as much

Political prisoner Daria Kozyreva has been released from prison. The anti-war activist was serving a sentence of 2 years and 8 months in Kineshma, Ivanovo region, for “discrediting the Russian army” (1/3) en.zona.media/article/2025... Photos: Alexandra Astakhova / Mediazona

THE DOOM HEAT GATHERS

i could make some sorta complicated joke about 400 years ago in "western civilization" (we'll go ahead and assume marc means "idk europe-ish or smth" when saying that) being smack dab in the middle of the thirty years war, when europe was dealing with "a lot" but such does not fit in bsky

These Pernicious Gambling Apps Will Embed Themselves Deeper and Deeper Into Public Life, Disintegrating Social Trust In Unpredictable and Dangerous Ways vs. No It Won't

embarking on one of my stupid hobby pursuits and trying to obtain one of these mail slips

images cmon these are movies you gotta get the whole audio visual experience out there

15 magical girl #margomarch

Mr. Nobody Against Putin wins the Oscar. The Academy's love for documentaries about Russia continues. The acceptance speech touches on oligarchic control of the media and "end all wars."