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BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
BREEZE. To raise a breeze; to kick up a dust or breed a disturbance.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
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#books #literature #dictionaries #history #society #language #slang @histodons
November 24
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`By that date the stench from the box was so overpowering that the cooly in alarm removed them to a dry ditch in the vicinity, where they were discovered by the police on November 24th.`
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“The Bombay City Police: A Historical Sketch, 1672-1916” by S. M. Edwardes
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62798
📚 Jenna Lynn Cody recommends ten books about Taiwan. There is a good mix of fiction and non-fiction here
📚 Jenna Lynn Cody recommends ten books about Taiwan. There is a good mix of fiction and non-fiction here
Anyone want to give a recommendation? I'd like to read some science fiction or fantasy in translation, ie originally written in another language and professionally translated to English. Novel or novella length
I've found several recommendations of older books, but I'm looking for books written in the last 20 years and translated in the last 10. Newer is preferable. If there's something great that's come out this year I want to hear about it.
Anyone want to give a recommendation? I'd like to read some science fiction or fantasy in translation, ie originally written in another language and professionally translated to English. Novel or novella length
I've found several recommendations of older books, but I'm looking for books written in the last 20 years and translated in the last 10. Newer is preferable. If there's something great that's come out this year I want to hear about it.
Lightcone is the rationalist org that runs LessWrong these days and runs totally not race science conferences for the rationalists.
Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX donated $6m to Lightcone. Then FTX in ch 11 wrote demanding a clawback (cos it was stolen customer funds).
Lightcone ... just ignored it! This went badly for Lightcone. They had to sell a conference space to raise the funds. https://www.theguardian.com/technology/article/2024/jun/16/sam-bankman-fried-ftx-eugenics-scientific-racism
this is Oliver Habryka, CEO of Lightcone, on his thinking on this issue:
> "Oh man, we are being sued by FTX. I should hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare our defense." WRONG. I mean yes, of course go ahead and hire a bankruptcy lawyer to prepare the defense. But in-parallel use language models to prepare a defense yourself, then run the defense by the lawyer you hired until you think you understand reasonably well what the core constraints are. Then work together with the bankruptcy lawyer on the defense.
Habryka wrote this a few years *after* Lightcone completely fucked this one. Well done, Oliver.
https://www.lesswrong.com/s/cegJvyiP2dBkhDh2K/p/rSCxviHtiWrG5pudv
@davidgerard I just started reading Adam Becker's new book More Everything Forever, in which David is briefly quoted. It's clear that tech billionaires KNOW they're right. Sam Altman is more deluded and morally corrupt than I had suspected (by page 7).
Looking forward to this one
Looking forward to this one
My previous instance is gone and I’ve been away for a while. It’s time for a new #introduction !
I’m Freddie A. Clark, #Horror, #Scifi and #Grimdark #author.
I’ll post about #writing, #books, and my interests (non-exhaustive list ahead):
- Gaming
- #Cats
- Movies & ‘80s/‘90s anime
- Music ( #darksynth, #aggrotech, #metal, #nordicfolk)
My pronouns are they/them (he/him in gendered languages). I’ve been on T for 2 months and underwent top surgery last January.
Hope to find new friends here!
My previous instance is gone and I’ve been away for a while. It’s time for a new #introduction !
I’m Freddie A. Clark, #Horror, #Scifi and #Grimdark #author.
I’ll post about #writing, #books, and my interests (non-exhaustive list ahead):
- Gaming
- #Cats
- Movies & ‘80s/‘90s anime
- Music ( #darksynth, #aggrotech, #metal, #nordicfolk)
My pronouns are they/them (he/him in gendered languages). I’ve been on T for 2 months and underwent top surgery last January.
Hope to find new friends here!
Although there are around 160 universities in the UK, and only a small minority of students attend Oxford & Cambridge, in the world of British fiction it seems the vast majority of students attend Oxbridge.
This reflects both the laziness of authors in their building of incidental detail & the stranglehold these two universities have over the literate arts....
It really annoys me & each time I see it in a book I feel like stopping reading right there & then...
Although there are around 160 universities in the UK, and only a small minority of students attend Oxford & Cambridge, in the world of British fiction it seems the vast majority of students attend Oxbridge.
This reflects both the laziness of authors in their building of incidental detail & the stranglehold these two universities have over the literate arts....
It really annoys me & each time I see it in a book I feel like stopping reading right there & then...
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