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@erhardt Speaking of that, a few months ago the government tore down the oldest rail station in Africa, which was also in Alexandria. I also guess their plans for modernisation include removing the tram in Alexandria like they did in Cairo.
November 16, 2025 at 2:08 PM
@thomasfricke
Crazy!
On a related note, in sience fiction themes, one of the first things a sentient A.I. on its way to world-domination does is secure energy, initially by means of the help of co-opted human actors.

We're not at that stage, but it's interesting.
October 28, 2025 at 1:47 PM
@phdnix.bsky.social

I could only recognise "Imalayša".

On a related note, I accumulated notes on how my children, in their early days of speech, inflected verbs and connected particles, some of which reminiscent of how it would have been had inflection and derivation rules were systematically […]
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October 22, 2025 at 10:59 AM
Reposted by Gharbeia, Ⓐ
Contrary to the now standard Arabic pronunciation apparently in the mid third century AH in Kufa, pronunciations with ʾimālah of ʾalifāt maqṣūrah spelled with yāʾ was still widely considered 'good' and 'eloquent'.
October 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM