Posts by nosword@localization.cafe
 (DIR) Post #ArCCmJX6pAJM41tepk by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-02-17T02:43:13Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @foone In “Conquests of Camelot” you pray to both Christ and Mithras before heading out (if you know what’s good for you). And since you’re King Arthur, you’re basically your own boss, so…
       
 (DIR) Post #AsOePSYnEhvtWoPjyi by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-03-25T00:41:55Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird Yeah... There are similar issues in Japan around places like Mt. Fuji. Over here, when you take a closer look, you often find that the people complaining usually never wanted more random tourists in the first place (e.g. local residents who weren't in desperate need of tourist dollars). But it's silly to blame tourists for seeing government-sponsored PR that says "Mt. Fuji is the soul of Japan! An unmissable sight!" and then deciding they want to see it.
       
 (DIR) Post #AtRy4uXGcybqWeDWWe by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-04-25T12:58:34Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird You’re so right. People underestimate how primally most of us want to be heard, acknowledged, etc. Communication, including linguistic communication, is so much more than encoded logical propositions. I mean even something as simple as ELIZA made folks feel heard and cared for! Imagine how much better we can do with showing that we are listening AND actully caring.
       
 (DIR) Post #Av0KpKd7uhuJtgUR8K by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-06-11T00:45:46Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird And the check goes up by 50% for "bird poop- and anthrax-enabled features."
       
 (DIR) Post #AyskcS0PLX5cIEaWnY by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-10-05T00:25:29Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird We could replace the “More…” buttons with “Read All About It”
       
 (DIR) Post #B07VTNrHJR21Z2BLnc by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-11-11T01:08:24Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird @apLundell “I know what would make my body plan less creepy—growing things out of jutting bone, and housing them inside a sort of soft, wet, intermittently opening pouch with a big muscle flopping and flexing around inside," said no species ever.
       
 (DIR) Post #B1G0DLrfN195OcQh8K by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-12-15T01:22:49Z
       
       0 likes, 1 repeats
       
       @futurebird Maybe ant scientists are like “Are humans even conscious? Their collaborations are spotty and conditional, and they seem not even to notice their own scent, let alone recognize it. Incredibly, they must resort to simple heuristics, such as identifying as the source or ‘dealer’ of an odor to the first individual to sense it.  (They appear to react to reflected light but their primitive water-balloon eyes are clearly insufficient for true image capture)”
       
 (DIR) Post #B1G0f6IOqeWXDcAKbA by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-12-15T01:26:28Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @futurebird “Did Who Deny It Supply It? Rethinking Negotiations of Identity in Human-Human Interactions”
       
 (DIR) Post #B1SqleXyD6qPAKAUVM by nosword@localization.cafe
       2025-12-21T05:36:21Z
       
       0 likes, 0 repeats
       
       @gloriouscow I’m not going to name names but I have heard film scholars argue that it’s okay to use AI-upscaled stills in books because it only shows the original, but in better detail. It was a big moment in my radicalization because it brought home that not even professional thinkers whose entire careers involve images, artifice, suggestion, subtext, are necessarily willing or able to think critically about the things being marketed to them.