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2/ Mein Lieblingslinguist Geoffrey Pullum hat schon in den 80ern darüber geschrieben, wo dieser Mythos herkommt. Die Kolumne ist auch in einem Buch mit dem gleichnamigen Titel erschienen: The great Eskimo vocabulary hoax.
Für alle, die sich irgendwie für Sprachwissenschaften oder auch Wissenschaft allgemein interessieren: #MustRead. Pullum ist der lustigste Linguist, den ich kenne.
#Whorf, Amateurlinguist: „What happened was that Benjamin Lee Whorf, Connecticut fire prevention inspector and weekend language-fancier, picked up Boas' example and used it, vaguely, in his 1940 amateur linguistics article 'Science and linguistics,' which was published in MIT's promotional magazine Technology Review (Whorf was an alumnus; he had done his B.S. in chemical engineering at MIT). Our word snow would seem too inclusive to an Eskimo, our man from the Hartford Fire Insurance Company confidently asserts.“
Hier kann man den Aufsatz einzeln runterladen:
http://ling.ed.ac.uk/~gpullum/EskimoHoax.pdf

Meta is shutting down #Crowdtangle in August 2024. I haven't used it in some time, but found it useful to collect data after #Meta shut down / restricted their APIs.

Microsoft President Brad Smith says the company plans to invest €3.2B in Germany in the next two years with a focus on AI, its biggest German investment ever (Michael Nienaber/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/20

(MSFT) Microsoft to Invest €3.2 Billion in German AI Infrastructure
Microsoft Corp. President Brad Smith announced plans to invest €3.2 billion ($3.4 billion) over the next two years in German artificial intelligence infrastructure at an event with Chancellor Olaf Scholz, as the technology giant seeks to build up its computing power in Europe.

I’ve been looking for an ngrok alternative for a while now that’s (a) affordable (b) easy to use and (c) works with Kitten¹. Today, after testing a bunch of them again and getting fed up, I found LocalXpose that checks all the boxes.
I signed Small Technology Foundation up as an affiliate so if you use this link to check it out, we’ll get 40% of your $6/mo pro account fee should you subscribe:

LocalXpose | Bye bye localhost, hello world
Reverse proxy that enables you to expose your localhost to the internet.

TikTok-funded Oxford Economics study of 1K US SMBs and 7.5K users: in 2023, TikTok drove $14.7B in SMB revenue, added $24.2B to US GDP, and supported 224K jobs (Taylor Lorenz/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3VfHAyq

TikTok claims its contribution to the economy is huge
The report was done with the cooperation of TikTok, which granted its authors access to information on the site.

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3JhWpt7

This senator wants an online privacy law. She’s slowed efforts for years.
Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on a historic online privacy law, but many aides say she’s been one of its biggest obstacles for years.

Sources detail how Senate Commerce Committee chair Maria Cantwell, who recently proposed a privacy bill, has undermined privacy negotiations for years (Cristiano Lima-Strong/Washington Post)
https://wapo.st/3JhWpt7

This senator wants an online privacy law. She’s slowed efforts for years.
Democratic Sen. Maria Cantwell is closing in on a historic online privacy law, but many aides say she’s been one of its biggest obstacles for years.

Sea reports Q1 revenue up 23% YoY to a record $3.73B and a $23M net loss, Shopee's revenue grew 31% YoY to a record $2.95B, and expects 2024 to be profitable (Tsubasa Suruga/Nikkei Asia)
https://t.co/vY7dy81f0V

Singapore's Sea posts record revenue in Q1 on e-commerce growth
Tech group 'on track' for second straight annual profit despite stiff competition

The SEC approves Truth Social's SPAC merger with DWAC; Trump's stake in the post-merger company would be valued at more than $4B at today's price (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/15/tru…

Truth Social merger deal wins key approval, a victory for Trump
Trump will hold more than 78 million shares in the post-merger company, a filing shows — a stake that, at current prices, would be worth more than $4 billion.

The SEC approves Truth Social's SPAC merger with DWAC; Trump's stake in the post-merger company would be valued at more than $4B at today's price (Drew Harwell/Washington Post)
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2024/02/15/tru…

Truth Social merger deal wins key approval, a victory for Trump
Trump will hold more than 78 million shares in the post-merger company, a filing shows — a stake that, at current prices, would be worth more than $4 billion.