None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway. Here's an article on Amazon authors with GAN-generated faces and the books these authors publish (which appear to be almost entirely devoid of original human-created content).
The Assam Rifles (AR) outpost army people going about their usual morning drill. It's right in the heart of AIzawl - think of having an Army outpost in Connaught Place, Delhi - so political parties have always campaigned for its removal during elections. One doesn't need to be a rocket scientist as to why Mizos don't like them being in this location. Example promise: Assam Rifles battalion to be shifted from Aizawl - March, 2023 TOI link. Not everyone agrees with that "Friends of the the Northeast people" slogan, for obvious reasons.
That cannon also has a fascinating story. Someone noticed that the one from the British era was quietly replaced with a 'fake' one. Rumor was that the AR commandant 'took it with him' to his next posting (Nagaland IIRC). People were obviously furious. @histodon@mastodonindians
@mdawg I completed Metroid Dread last year, as well as Celeste back in 2019, I played some Hollow Knight in 2022, but I kind of stopped because of a distro-hop and haven't returned to it. Will start from scratch at some point maybe this year
Je n'aurais pas qualifié les variantes de [t/d] de "tic", les titres nous échappent complètement lors d'une interview ; mais voilà un bref article issu d'un entretien avec une journaliste pour donner envie, peut-être, d'en savoir plus en sociophonétique!
«Amandjine mange à la cantchine» : l’affrication, nouveau tchic de langage des ados
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Précisions importantes, je regroupe ici des réponses à des réactions, notamment des réactions postées sur le réseau de l'oiseau puant, mais comme l'article est en accès restreint ce sera utile ⤵️
affrication = processus phonétique ancien typique des langues romanes, vient de bruit friction en lieu d'explosion. Aucun lien avec l'Afrique 🙄 c'est par ce mécanisme que "c" de caballus latin est devenu "tche" et ensuite "ch" dans cheval
The fun thing about the Matalas post-TNG/legacy thing for me is that it nicely straddles the line between being new and nostalgic. Seven would be captain and a whole bunch of other stuff too would be new, but still connected to the TNG era past.
Oh for sure. While mods behaving badly isn’t anything new on the web, I can’t help but feel that this is a Reddit hang over culturally speaking.
Lemmy is a smaller and different space that really shouldn’t have to tolerate this from a mod. And from what I can tell, the behaviour is repeated.
Interestingly, I think it establishes a case against topic specific instances. They’re also an admin of the instance. For anything to be done about this would require acting against the place for Star Trek content on lemmy. Which is obviously a hard ask.
@SylviaSolanas Well, truth is nothing did, but in retrospect I'm assuming that either accommodations or being taken out of school, removed from the neurosupremacist environment I grew up in altogether and live in one in which I would have been allowed to be myself (explore my special interests, be allowed to stim, unmask and not stigmatized for my meltdowns leading me to internalize them) may have helped.
Or at the very least perhaps I wouldn't have already been burnt out and an addict by the time I reached adulthood.
@SylviaSolanas Well, truth is nothing did, but in retrospect I'm assuming that either accommodations or being taken out of school, removed from the neurosupremacist environment I grew up in altogether and live in one in which I would have been allowed to be myself (explore my special interests, be allowed to stim, unmask and not stigmatized for my meltdowns leading me to internalize them) may have helped.
Or at the very least perhaps I wouldn't have already been burnt out and an addict by the time I reached adulthood.
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Whoopsies! "Free speech absolutist" "accidentally" suspends the accounts of journalists who are critical of him, and people whose political views he disagrees with.
He seems to have quite the habit of firing or banning people he disagrees with, doesn't he?
Via Gizmodo:
"X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, purged an unknown number of prominent accounts over the last 24 hours with little to no explanation, and then restored the accounts minutes after this article was published.
"The list includes popular accounts belonging to journalists, writers, and podcasters. Among them are Ken Klippenstein of the Intercept, writer and podcaster Rob Rousseau, Texas Observer correspondent Steven Monacelli, the account for TrueAnon, a left-wing politics and news podcast, and a number of others.
"One thing the accounts have in common is recent criticisms of the Israeli government.
...
"Musk, who calls himself a “free speech absolutist” has previously said no one should be banned from X unless they break the law.
"Update, 1:12 p.m.: Shortly after this article was published, Musk responded to a question about the issue from far-right influencer Jackson Hinkle. Musk promised to investigate, and the accounts went back up soon after. Musk later blamed the “mistake” on X’s spam algorithms. The Hamas account is still suspended."
I have to say: the last thing I expected last night while taking a break and watching the detective series, "The Mallorca Files," was: a reference to 19th-century German literature ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Speaking of Grillparzer, here's the first edition of his Die Ahnfrau (1817). The preface notes that, although he shortened and revised the drama for the stage, he hopes the public will read the full text presented here. He also defends himself against critics, above all, those who read this exemplar of the Schicksalsdrama or tragedy of fate, as endorsing superstition or a fatalist worldview
And (why not?): the first edition (1830) of Grillparzer's Ein treuer Diener seines Herrn (a loyal servant of his lord), a historical drama set in medieval Hungary
rare original paper wrapper has owner's stamp of Carl Gerold's Sohn, Vienna, a publisher with whom Grillparzer would have preferred to work