#Languages

slovborg 🦬

slovborg

If you're on this side of the internet and a fan of Lord of the Rings, you've probably wondered before: What was John Ronald Reuel Tolkien's ancestry? Where does his

Clem Fandango

ScotiaIndyref2

Scottish Women - Elizabeth Blackwell - Amateur botanist and artist, about 1700-1758.Although largely unknown today, Elizabeth Blackwell made a significant contribution to medical knowledge and to the art of botanical

jia🧃

exhaustcd

my biased opinions on zodiac signs that nobody asked for aries- pretty as FUCK- seriously stop doubting yourself- charismatic and naturally funny- always there to support your friends when they’re

Dominic Steinhöfel

DomSteinhoefel

We’re currently running a seminar on specification & testing where we ask the student to write one or two short summaries on selected papers, every week. I thought I’d take

uatwt cat // sorry for being ia

uatwtcat

// this is a video of Daunte Wright’s mom and i’m guessing family, speaking abt what happened to him. the fact that this happened not even that far away from

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lazysn3rus

What is CULTURAL APPROPRIATION? Cultural appropriation is when someone adopts cultural aspects from a particular minority group who were also oppressed for the same.Best example is Non-blacks wearing braids. What

jess🧬🐝

notreaIIyjess

an early morning mini-thread of my gripes with the modern world the lack of understanding some people seem to have that in a time of a massive pandemic, people should

Matthew Petti

matthew_petti

Have you ever heard of Red Kurdistan?In 1923, the Soviet Union set up a Kurdish entity in between Armenia and Azerbaijan.Stalin dissolved it in 1929, and many Kurds were later

Jon Purdy 박미남

jonpurdy

Coming from years of studying Korean, @duolingo is a decent practice tool, but I have a few gripes with how it impedes progress and how deals with subject-object-verb languages like

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bwqwex

today is the independence day of Bulgaria, an important day in its modern historyBulgaria is a country in south-eastern Europe with a rich history and beautiful natureas a Bulgarian living

squishy, bels day :)

iydkdream

random question thread for when you are bored :D // pls quote rt with your answers 1. whats your name and pronouns! (reminder: your valid ˘͈ᵕ˘͈) 2. whats your zodiac

Stephen A. Rhodes

StephenARhodes

On the December 2, 1993 cover of Time magazine there was a computer-generated image of a young woman who appeared to be mixed-race. The cover illustration was to symbolically show

Chris Martens

chrisamaphone

who out there is working on tools for {programming, digital creativity} in the pursuit of *liberatory* technology, as a reframing of concepts like usable/accessible/learnable? (see https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02003-2 re: shif

swyx

swyx

I was asked about why declarative programming is at the heart of "newer" trends in tech all the way up and down the stack, from React to Terraform. I replied

Dr Kevin Purcell

kevinpurcell

Excellent piece from Nature in 2019 with both new results and a great summary of previous work.Worth reading for the details.https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-019-38808-z “The particle emission rate during speech is linearly correlated

Raj

Raj717R

Moonbeam Network :@MoonbeamNetworkAn Ethereum compatible smart contract platform on Polkadot, an easiest way to build interoperable and re-deploy (existing) powerful applications.Moonbeam is at the forefront of the Blockchain evolution Why?