If the right really believed that the problem with universities was elitism in the form of, e.g., inaccessibility, then the strategy would be to make tuition free.
Instead, the strategy is to destroy universities as institutions and education and its liberatory potential.
Instead, the strategy is to destroy universities as institutions and education and its liberatory potential.
No, a coconut dessert, which is obviously a Brazilian version of that kind of use in English.
Disclaimer: I was using the Portuguese menu. I don’t use stuff like this if I can help it.
What assumptions had to be, pardon the pun, baked in to the query (the request for translation) such that that was the best choice of result? This is what @safiyanoble.bsky.social means by algorithms of oppression. These tools necessarily presuppose a much worse world than the one I want to inhabit.
AI is truly stupid, though, but this example is also a demonstration of how it reinforces entrenched social inequities and raises up a normative vision that hardly works for all. Who is searching for and the likely target for that translation? Is it someone with my profile? If not, then whose?
…Portuguese, that it shares the same name with a certain coconut desert, and that the statistical presence of the latter meaning to the former is much higher on the internet.
All of which tells us: AI is BS and the internet makes us dumb.
All of which tells us: AI is BS and the internet makes us dumb.
I might add that we’ve learned something here tonight about stochastic parrots ( @emilymbender.bsky.social @alexhanna.bsky.social ) and language: although I don’t know enough about these matters in several directions, I feel confident that there is a slang word for that sexual term in Brazilian…
It’s not the restaurant, it’s the AI translation in (maybe) Safari.
I’m cry laughing. Meanwhile, my friend tells me that there is a restaurant in her husband’s hometown in Brazil that uses English to be fancy and the restaurant name is:
SOFT BEEF
SOFT BEEF
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Rdg through A Toolkit for Gathering, I’m remembering all of my favorite events — incldg most recently @stacyewood.bsky.social + @ubiquity75.xyz’s Peer2Peer @ the Feminist Center for Creative Work. Plus, my friend Mel, a 🎞️maker/potter made clay pendants for all attendees of the Flaherty film seminar…
This from a Netflix tv show just now:
“There was an incident between he and another student.”
“There was an incident between he and another student.”
One fellow comes around the corner, sees my somewhat campy outfit and exclaims, “¡Ay, qué elegancia, la de Francia!”
That is the best gay line I have ever heard in Spanish and I shall use it henceforth whenever possible.
That is the best gay line I have ever heard in Spanish and I shall use it henceforth whenever possible.
In up-to-the-minute very local news, I am at the Miami airport and as soon as you get here it’s easiest and best to just speak Spanish with everybody. I’ve been killing time and chatting with personnel while waiting, and as one might expect, most of them are gay, too.
She could have just stopped at “for women” under this regime, but it’s cool.
Please let them know. I’ve seen KS drum at shows out here a few times. We live in the same town, I believe.
I have so much respect for those ladies. Wore out my copies of all of their records. And of course the Beasties. But LJ is special.
The values of those in power are on full display, and they are disgraceful.
The whole thing is unserious.
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The mass layoffs of federal workers on Friday night swept up dozens of scientists with expertise in infectious diseases that have pandemic potential. But after The New York Times reported the dismissals, a federal health official said many of them had been fired in error and would be brought back.
Trump Administration Will Rehire Scores of Experts Fired in Error
Friday’s layoffs swept up scientists involved in responding to the measles outbreak and running an influential journal. An official acknowledged the mistakes on Saturday.
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