Overnight experts keep throwing the words 'Wagner' and 'mercenary' around without fully understanding that even in the 19th Century, precarious work was rife in the music industry and even the most talented composer always had to look at the bottom line 🤷
Except as you all know, Caesar's last words were reported to have been kai su teknon - you too, my child. Otherwise, as you were... On the plus side, the Shakespearian version is a macaronic line - switching between languages halfway through
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De-sensasionalising the rhetoric of national #security which constructs the criminal #other: Hamid Khan presents the brilliant work of @stoplapdspying building community power to abolish the #police state #DataJustice2023
Another marathon of organising, but finally happy to (hopefully) sit back and just enjoy the quality of work being presented at our #datajustice2023 conference. 🙌🙌🙌
Ok Twitter community: what’s a question that you wish you had asked long ago and now feel like it’s too late?
Also, unrelated, WTF is a ‘playbook’ anyway?? 🧐
Our Future Inside The Fifth Column- Or, What Chatbots Are Really For
Frightful rhetoric on chatbots is a come-on to powerful corporate and institutional actors. We must resist the nihilist billionaire conquest for algorithmic supremacy, says Emily Tucker.
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I won’t go into HWN/HON/HYN & HWNNA/HONNA/HYNNY now. Just rest assured that HWNNA is fine in speech to say ‘that [one].’
The more you use Welsh & gain confidence, you’ll naturally want to discover more about expressing ‘this’ & ‘that,’ as well as picking up how speakers use them.
Not @BBCRadio3 casually dropping the Blue Whale soundtrack from #BluePlanet🌍 like it’s no big deal 😭
It’s been over 20 years and I’m still not over it! 🐋
There's something MASSIVE in the Playlister @BBCRadio3 It's from George Fenton's score for the David Attenborough series Blue Planet, his Blue Whale. Where next? More gigantic sea creatures? More great music from TV? Some plankton?! Tell us!
Word of the day is ‘consolate’ (15th century): consoled and comforted.
Another lost positive in the dictionary, joining ept, wieldy, couth, ruly, ruthful, feckful, persona grata, full of gorm, and advertently.
"Moral outsourcing, [@ruchowdh] says, applies the logic of sentience choice to AI, allowing technologists to reallocate responsibility for products they build onto the products themselves – tech advancement becomes predestined growth bias intractable." theguardian.com/technology/2…