Posts by kirt@mastodon.social
(DIR) Post #AS04jTxK3vcBL1ooZU by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T11:31:25Z
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If you still have a #twitter account, it's probably worth joining the #CommunityNotes program to try and at least slightly slow the #disinformation machine.https://twitter.github.io/communitynotes/examples/ You have to rate a lot of things before it lets you write your own, but that might be a good thing.Rating is much lower effort than writing, so you can do a little bit of it when you're too tired or too distracted to do anything more useful.
(DIR) Post #AS06is4x5VDJm0DvY8 by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T11:49:02Z
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@john If you've got a better idea of how to slow down the disinformation machine I'll switch to that?Currently - we have millions of people dying of COVID, some of whom might have survived if they weren't dangerously misinformed- Modi's India looks disconcertingly like Germany circa 1938 - and #Tuvalu🇹🇻 is on the brink of not existing anymoreIf I can even slightly slow any of those disasters, I will very willingly do it for free.
(DIR) Post #AS06isa9DWARKkoqAq by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T11:54:41Z
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@johnLeaving #twitter MIGHT help, but it's ambiguous and I'm not convinced it is the most effective option.Leaving just leaves a higher concentration of worse options on a platform that still has much bigger reach than the fringe things like #Rumble and #BitChuteOn a related note, anyone making good content (that they're allowed to share) should consider reposting in on those platforms, to try to get through to the nearly completely lost.
(DIR) Post #AS0j1y0Z40dtvGhhy4 by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T19:06:01Z
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@john @kirt@newsie.social i also can't stop trying, and of all the ways to attempt it this seems to be one of the most productive. and "people being wrong in the Internet" is a unrealistically trivializing. This isn't just whether Lulu is the best Metallica album. The kind of disinformation spewing from the darker corners of twitter could kill people, a lot of them, imminently.now I'm wondering which has killed more people out of Twitter and Facebook…https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-bangladesh-myanmar-united-nations-f7d89e38c54f7bae464762fa23bd96b2
(DIR) Post #AS0jlM4QRnlDa89WfQ by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-25T19:14:13Z
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@john @kirt@newsie.social "People should not be taking Twitter seriously as a source of information." true, but what is your idea for convincing them of this?
(DIR) Post #AS1dyM5hHFn4qKWUgS by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-01-26T05:43:59Z
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@john @kirt@newsie.social but them dying isn't possibleand real life ended in 2020 😭
(DIR) Post #ASLKD4vkFMQF3UfLyi by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-02-04T17:34:43Z
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@john @kirt@newsie.social but also the time spent fact checking is time not spent posting
(DIR) Post #ASfVu7mucBCX9hLvjE by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-02-14T11:19:40Z
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How do I get to the search box if I'm using #Mastodon through a web browser on a narrow screen?Is there a way to get to just the search box without dedicatong a whole colum of screen space to it? - On a narrow screen it automatically switches to 2 columns. - Zooming out enough to get 3 columns is not possible or illegibly small on some of my devices. - The "enhanced Web view" gets me a column with a search box, but is terrible on a small screen.#MastodonHelp (cc @kirt@mstdn.science @kirt@ecoevo.social other mes)
(DIR) Post #ASoGVGRTYFnbrneXdQ by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-02-18T06:01:39Z
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@edendestroyer why?
(DIR) Post #ASoGVHaNIeVnPgpA92 by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-02-18T09:49:37Z
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@edendestroyer what features don't you like?
(DIR) Post #ATR3MyrC0Q64zv5zLk by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-03-09T09:48:37Z
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@irtapil @TashTaylor a joke, written by a robot and translated by another robot:"The State Duma proposed to increase penalties for violating the laws of physics" @neural_meduzaTranslated from Русский using DeepL.com#physics #физикиI'm wondering if the translation is accurate, but perhaps in this context it doesn't matter…source https://mastodon.ml/@neural_meduza/109965135241804165
(DIR) Post #AV6E8sASUroPTenbea by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-04-28T04:24:25Z
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@john @kirt@ecoevo.social how would you know they're the same species? or is that your point?if we found male and female gorillas (without finding them in a big group) we'd mainframe think they were separate?
(DIR) Post #AZI4zgRwS795UeRVmy by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T12:30:34Z
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a weird detail to notice, or a weirdly morbid context to notice this in…but this is a similarity between letters that i've never noticed beforeG or Г and consonant Y?a guy speaking #NorthAmericanEnglish saying the Russian name of a doneit sounded like it started with Ybut the image showed text starting with Г from https://youtu.be/yMGN6BVqnuk?si=OP-WLGa9uATcTp6n&t=170 timestamp ≈ 2:50#RussianLanguage #accents #Language #consonants #герань2cc other mes @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AZI4zhaqCVrH2Xc8Ia by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T12:58:58Z
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I listened to it a few times and paused to read the text."ГЕРАНЬ-2"roughly "Geran-2"That's usually transliterated from Russian as G?After listening a few times, what he's saying actually does match the text, but I've never noticed a similarity G and Y before.A similarity sort of makes sense? in the Latin alphabet G and often J overlap and J is pronounced as Y in some languages …Also, weirdly that seems to translate as Germanium? https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%93%D0%B5%D1%80%D0%B0%D0%BD%D1%8C_(%D0%B7%D0%BD%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%B5%D0%BD%D0%B8%D1%8F)cc other mes @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social
(DIR) Post #AZIA6uZQqjWD5PDD4C by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-08-31T14:04:22Z
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@skobkin @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social interestingthe soft n is the ь which isn't communicated well in Romanianization so that makes sensefrom how he said it, the start really sounded more like an English Y or German J but the letter is always written as G? (or H for Ukrainian but always G for Russian) But it sort of matched when I read the whole word … which is very weird because I've never noticed before that G and Y could be similar.
(DIR) Post #AZU6X4mTDGodxQWhge by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-09-06T08:20:48Z
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@skobkin as in i misheard it as Y but when i listened again a few times it did sound like G … very strange given I never thought of those letters as similar?Y the consonant like in Yandex so Я … but consonant Y seems to be part of a lot of letters … Я Е Ю … and possibly others?So i thought maybe the G got lost in the previous word…ГЕРАНЬbecomesЕРАНЬ ≈ YERAnbut the previous word is "the" so not that… but the auto captions struggle with his voice a bit.cc @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social @irtapil
(DIR) Post #AZU7b6EfqUMhaACWOm by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-09-06T08:32:45Z
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@skobkinГ being a hard K is reflected in گ being a modified ک in #فارسی #Farsi and #اردو #Urdu - i.e. the G is a modified #عربي #Arabic K but for - "g" is often pronounced a bit softer in English - do you mean American English or all English (UK, Australia, India, etc.)?we seem to translate G differently in at least one other example https://mastodon.social/@kirt/110984654304697767 the #Greek food #γύρος is called #Yiros in #Queensland but #Gyros in #NewYork cc @Kirt@lingo.lol @kirt@qoto.org @kirt@aus.social @irtapil @TashTaylor
(DIR) Post #AamZQaOBQPG83AtHPc by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-10-15T04:01:27Z
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@yisraeldov @bp why is Israeli in quotes? I'd normally interpret that to mean citizen of Israel… but what are you implying?
(DIR) Post #AamvK4VWvJ8uw4trrE by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-10-14T11:59:40Z
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@oatmeal @yisraeldov @Kirt@lingo.lol there must be some connection to Germany? Yiddish seem to be pretty much German / Dutch in Hebrew script.
(DIR) Post #AbKRlK76JHiawiJS6q by kirt@mastodon.social
2023-10-28T08:10:01Z
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@john translation is available here in the main mastodon server for all @meduza postson this server translate seems to work on some @israel_live_tagesschau posts and not others…cc @kirt@sauropods.win @kirt@aus.social @kirt@newsie.social