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Sometimes it feels like learning Breton/brezhoneg is an exercise in "this might as well happen". Take numbers, for example.

Brezhoneg English
Unan One
Daou / Div Two (masculine form) / Two (feminine)
Tri / Teir Three (m) / Three (f)
Pevar / Peder Four (m) / (f)
Pemp Five
C'Hwec'h [1] Six
Seizh Seven
Eizh Eight
Nav [3] Nine
Dek Ten
Unnek One-ten (eleven)
Daouzek Two-ten (twelve)
Trizek Three-ten (thirteen)
Pevarzek Four-ten (fourteen)
Pemzek Five-ten (fifteen)
C'Hwezek Six-ten (Sixteen)
Seitek Seven-Ten (Seventeen)

So far so good, right? But is 18 "eight-ten"? You bet your ass it isn't! It's "tri-wec'h", ie "three-six". This might as well happen.

[1] The "C'H" trigram is one letter [2]. It's a voiceless velar fricative (IPA: [x]), ie pronounced like the Spanish "j".

[2] Not to be confused, of course with the digram "ch", itself also only one letter.

[3] That "v" is a vowel, by the way. "V" is pronounced "o" but only at the end of words. THIS MIGHT AS WELL HAPPEN.

shewhostaples

Two fics in two weeks, gosh.

The first one is simultaneously not really fic and extremely fic: it's a smutty sequel to faites-lui mes aveux, a somewhat chaste I wrote for

femslashex... getting on for eight years ago now, good grief. I'm not sure it makes much sense without the original original, but never mind.

ardentes, folles, enfiévrées

(Neither of them are actually in French, and I translated pretty much everything I quoted, too.)

The second one is part of the magnificent weirdness that is

intoabar. Harriet Vane goes into a bar and meets Mercutio.

through the long horror of that piteous night

I have a third fic in the works but it's been that way for a long time and I don't know when I'll get it finished. 11000 words and counting. I've also been working on some original original stuff, which again I am not sure that anyone else is going to want to read, and again, I don't care, I'm just glad to be writing.

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1) We were taken mostly off guard when last night our building was hit by a tornado, part of a large damaging storm system than went through several states. From what we'd heard beforehand, the storm wouldn't be much different from many thunderstorms in recent months, although admittedly there had already been several near misses with tornadoes. But as an example, our tornado sirens went off 10 minutes later, after the worst had already passed us. (Other areas were yet to be hit, and the sirens are all linked).

We were warned by an alarming high wind gust, took the best shelter we have at our place (which is not great) and then heard two big bangs. Our local NPR station didn't interrupt the broadcast until five minutes after that and it was an automated NWS alert. By the time our local meteorologist came on, he said the storm was already through the city and on its way to smaller places east of us. Today he said that yesterday will go down as one of the most intense severe weather days he ever covered and he'd lost count of how many large, damaging tornadoes he saw. ( Read more... )

2) The World Cup is back! For readers that don't know, I'm not a sports watcher but the men's and women's Cups are an exception. Although I do enjoy seeing good soccer being played, this is largely a family tradition issue. I don't want to invest the time in following teams and championships, but as exhausting as the quantity of content is for the first few weeks, I can do it every few years.

Things kicked off with Mexico vs South Africa. ( Read more... )

South Korea vs Czechia ( Read more... )

3) Spotify removed thousands of podcasts promoting online prescription drug sales "Spotify told investigators that 94% of the phony podcasts had never been streamed and 99% had fewer than 10 streams, which the platform defines as listening sessions longer than 30 seconds. But a handful had been listened to more widely, including two totaling almost 13,000 streams that directed users to buy the prescription stimulant modafinil online, including with bitcoin."

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Questions from this week's

thefridayfive

1. What is place you have visited, or want to visit, that starts with D?
Dresden - was there about 6 weeks ago

2. What is a food that you like, or don't like, that starts with R?
Raspberries, which are my favourite fruit. And rice pudding.

3. Own anything that starts with the letter M?
Mugs, several, plus fridge Magnets.

4. Know anyone whose name (first, middle, or last) that starts with N?
I know Natalie, Norah and Noah

5. Favourite movie, book, TV show, or song whose title starts with T?
Books: Their Finest by Lissa Evans and Thud! by Terry Pratchett

oursin

Surprise, surprise: anti-air-pollution intervention has measurable health benefits: Emergency hospital admissions fell after introduction of London’s T-charge and Ulez, study suggests.

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A celebration of the end of England’s badger cull, despite the loss of nearly 250,000 animals, shot or trapped unnecessarily; Cattle in England to get tuberculosis vaccine from 2030 as badger cull to end

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Miller helps save watermill for the second time.

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Memories of Spare Rib (I do wonder if the lack of online availability as at time of writing was due to the BL cyberattack and it may be restored?)

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‘The first humble beginnings of an agitation’: the women’s suffrage petition of 7 June 1866

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An Unreliable Archive of Internationalism: The Women's Christian College, Madras: 'the significant, overlooked work of colonised women in shaping the terms of the institution’s commitment to internationalism'.

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From Olympia to Hyde Park: British anti-fascism in the summer of 1934

nanila

What is a place you have visited, or want to visit, that starts with D?

I have been to Denmark. Copenhagen, specifically, with the bloke. It was a work trip for him and a jolly for me, before the kids. I brought the dSLR and had a wonderful time exploring the city (https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/tag/copenhagen).

I have also been to Dubai. Well, just the airport to transit through to India or Africa. But honestly, that was enough to assure me that that was the maximum amount of time I ever wanted to spend there. It's not my kind of place.
What is a food that you like, or don't like, that starts with R?

A lot of foods I like start with the letter R: rice, ramen, risotto, roasties, ravioli, raspberries. I don't know how to prepare risotto or ravioli myself, so they're a real treat on the rare occasions when I go out to eat. The others, we prepare and eat regularly. (He makes the best roasties.)
Own anything that starts with the letter M?

Makeup and masks. I had to think for a little while about this, and I might not have remembered the masks if this year's departmental ball had not been masquerade-themed.
Know anyone whose name (first, middle, or last) that starts with N?

Yes. Er, that's all I have. This question was rather less evocative of an interesting reflection than the others for me, sorry.
Favourite movie, book, TV show, or song whose title starts with T?

Oh goody. This lets me talk about Tom Yum Goong, one of Tony Jaa's films. I wrote a long loony fangirl post about Tony Jaa 16 years ago (https://nanila.dreamwidth.org/777069.html). He's an actor and an athlete, expert in multiple forms of martial arts and parkour. He's also 5’6”, which makes scenes like this one where he kicks the light out of a lamppost all the more impressive.

Watch on YouTube

(Tony Jaa kicks the light out of a lamp-post, YouTube, 00:14)

I hope it's clear from this that you don't watch these films for their plots, which contain heavy-handed morals and require a level of suspension of disbelief that can only be achieved through the consumption of large quantities of popcorn. You watch them for the stunning scenery and the eye-popping action.

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[spoilers for Platform Decay]

God Hands You A Bible, by saaabriel

You feel the snap in the back of your mind as your governor module breaks; a faint judder as it tries to punish this action—too late. FAR too late. Helpme.file worked, and you’re. YOU’RE FREE.

Identity: Rogue SecUnit, you say gleefully to Space Debris.

Identify: Rogue SecUnit, it says gleefully back. Then, I was not supposed to give you this. Please do not cause trouble.

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Yep I'm back on my bullshit.

This week's episode is Tech Won't Save Us, "Do AI Chatbots Belong In Schools? ft. Tom Mullaney"

I bet you're going to be real surprised at the answer.

The cool thing about this episode is that it looks at chatbots in the history of ed tech in general. I've often said that the ultimate goal for education is that you'd have 50 students or so warehoused in a classroom, completing modules on screens, disciplined by non-unionized babysitters, while a handful of teachers get paid to write and perform lessons. But that was overly optimistic; those teachers would get paid too much and you can have LLMs write it instead.

It's not that all ed tech is bad. It's just that most of it, historically, has been 1) garbage and 2) in service of privatizing and degrading education.

It shouldn't surprise me that the following approaches to combatting LLMs in schools have failed:

1) The catastrophic, world-destroying environmental cost
2) Intellectual property
3) The cognitive damage it does to children (we have accepted causing brain damage to children in schools, thanks to covid and sports)

Possibly all that remains is the legal liability battlefield. I've had some luck, when chatbots get forced on us, in pushing back by asking if lawyers have reviewed liability if one of the company's products causes the kid to kill themselves or commit a violent crime, given that its architecture is based on software that has caused kids to die by suicide and murder others. No one has seemingly thought about this so it's always a relief hearing tech journalists like Paris Marx and teachers like Tom Mullaney pushing back on the consensus that "personalized tutors" are maybe not a great thing to be inflicting on children.