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RT @PhDniX
Here's a Proto-Amazigh reconstruction as requested by @irzastan . Big thanks to @ait_kisou who had a lot of excellent suggestions while translating this. Again, happy to answer any questions on the reconstruction! twitter.com/bnuyaminim/status/

The really remarkable thing isn't just that #Microsoft has decided that the future of #search isn't links to relevant materials, but instead lengthy, florid paragraphs written by a #chatbot who happens to be a habitual liar - even more remarkable is that #Google agrees.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

pluralistic.net/2023/02/16/twe

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@DrJHAmsterdam I guess Post or Spoutible will be the prime candidates to succeed Twitter. I heard good things about the latter, but it's also the platform that was launched more recently (criticism will become more common over time). Mastodon has its raison d'être, but with its decentralized architecture come some setbacks (could be mitigated or offset with some strong bookmarking and group functions).

Oops, this week has been underway for quite some days, and I have not posted this week's music/album recommendation yet. So to make amends here it is: Zarathustra (both name of band and title of the album) (1972) - youtu.be/vbDQbECT8B0.

Another week, another album recommendation from yours truly. This time it's Second Life, a West German hard rock band, with its eponymous album from 1971. youtube.com/watch?v=CLtvjOIXY9 (Next week I'll recommend something more typical of Krautrock).

As some of you will know, I have just started my ERC Consolidator Grant project QurCan "The Canonization of the Qurʾānic Reading Traditions". I'm currently looking to fill two post-doctoral positions to join the project as soon as possible!

Retweets very much appreciated!

RT @gyankotsu@twitter.com

a quick reminder about why learning tangut characters separately is a bad choice

🐦🔗: twitter.com/gyankotsu/status/1

THE SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY SUCCESSFUL PEOPLE
1. Private School
2. Legacy Ivy admission
3. Nepotism hire
4. Seed capital from family money
5. Club memberships
6. Personal assistant, nanny, ghostwriter
7. Journalists who ask “what’s your secret?” and uncritically publish the lame answer

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