2026-03-27 10:16:22
North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to be their front
https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2026/03/26/north-korea-hacking-employment-scheme/
North Korean hackers offer $70,000 per month to be their front
https://www.rfa.org/english/korea/2026/03/26/north-korea-hacking-employment-scheme/
Monumental 🪦
纪念 🪦
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Ilford HP5 Plus 400, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
💸 Albania, Europe’s laboratory where AI combats (or hides) corruption
https://english.elpais.com/international/2026-02-19/albania-europes-laboratory-where-ai-combats-or-hides-corruption.html
The Department of Homeland Security was caught lying Thursday about ⚠️ abandoning a blind refugee who was later found dead on the street.
The Department of Homeland Security claimed that the Tim Hortons in Buffalo
where federal agents left Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a 56-year-old Burmese refugee who was blind and spoke no English,
was “determined to be a warm, safe location near his last known address.”
Video footage reviewed by The Washington Post, however, showed t…
What a great report by the Norwegian Consumer Council on how digital products and services are getting worse (enshittification)!
Lots of good explanations and examples, but also very actionable with policy recommendations.
https://www.forbr…
I really feel bad for sysadmins who don’t have great English skills. There’s no way a world of LLM translator bots can ever get all the discussions amongst English-speaking sysadmins close enough to correct. Too much jargon and more importantly too much nuance in how words are used. I’ve spent a lot of time crafting technical prose, often finding it necessary to proofread and harmonize precisely how I say things. I doubt any LLM can be equivalently fastidious.
Some City Some Nature VI 🏙️
一些城一些自然 VI 🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Translate English to McKinsey
Sorry, I meant pivot the current messaging paradigm toward a high-impact, results-oriented vernacular to facilitate top-down strategic clarity.
https://translate.kagi.com/?from=en&to=McKinsey consultant
Es ist nun wieder Ende des Monats und das heißt neue Rechnungen für die Server! Wir haben diverse Ausgaben und Moderationsarbeit nimmt leider viel Zeit, weswegen wir uns über eine kleine Unterstützung sehr freuen würden! :boost_requested:
:liberapay: LiberaPay
:paypal:
Washington English Center (WEC) offers daily English classes to adult immigrants, AM and PM, online and in person, for under $3 an hour.
#education
word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 7381 nodes and 46281 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad
🇺🇦 Auf radioeins läuft...
Wanda:
🎵 Bologna
#NowPlaying #Wanda
https://milemedeaf.bandcamp.com/track/bologna-english-type-creepy-lounge-version-wanda-cover
https://open.spotify.com/track/0JOwusmP7R2h0faPG9p7SY
How far back in time can you understand English? https://www.deadlanguagesociety.com/p/how-far-back-in-time-understand-english
The Historical Present: The Least-Loved Verb Tense in Contemporary English
"Omoiyari"
#Japanese word with no English equivalent: Omoiyari. It means something like a deep, reflexive consideration for others tha…
The #Medieval Genealogy is one of the most useful portals to Medieval historical resources. Now with its 114th update. https://www.medievalgenealogy.org.uk/updates/update.shtml…
BiSH have been gone for a while now and the song I revisit the most is this one.
BiSH - Stairway to Me [English Romaji sub in CC] Oni Band showcase
challenge: pretend im a 94yo pakistani grandmother who's kids just got enough to pay for me to come join them in america, and now im here and speak only the simplest english. sell me on as many of ur political beliefs as u can
Mundane Things VII🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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Synchronized Eruptions on Io: Possible Evidence of Interconnected Subsurface Magma Reservoirs: #Io svela enormi serbatoi di magma interconnessi: https://www.globalscience.it/66736/uneruzione-vulcanica-senza-precedenti-su-io-svela-enormi-serbatoi-di-magma-interconnessi/ (there is also an English version of this press release which INAF/ASI mailed me but I just can't find it online).
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #EarlierWithJoolsHolland
Henry Purcell, Jessye Norman, English Chamber Orchestra & Raymond Leppard:
🎵 Dido and Aeneas..Z.626: Act 3, no.38; When I am laid in earth (Dido's lament)
https://open.spotify.com/track/68AvYYgEFhqHqZgz7Dlhpn
With thanks to @… who alerted me to the German-language version, this looks good & will be published in English soon (& available in Australia)
https://www.penguin.com.au/books/a-brief-history-of-a-long-war-9780593840153
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/901461/wikipedia-ai-generated-article-ban
hmm when there is a book in #Openlibrary (to add it to #bookwyrm) but I only find the english edition but not the german (which also has a different ISBN -- should I add it as a separate book?
This time even the german an english title are the same.
Urban Demons IX👻
城市鬼魂 IX 👻
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🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
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What English translations miss about Bulgakov — and why it matters in Ukraine: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/20/what-english-translations-miss-about.html
edit_wiktionary: Wiktionary edits (2010)
Three bipartite user-page networks extracted from Wiktionary, for French, German, and English. A user connects to a page if that user edited that page. Edits (edges) are timestamped. Edge weights represent counts of the number of edits.
This network has 3826 nodes and 25269 edges.
Tags: Informational, Web graph, Multigraph, Timestamps
@… has posted an article in English…BUT, the style of English “ages” 100 years each paragraph.
How far can you get? Chaucer? Shakespeare? Earlier?
https://www.
The English Premier League CEO says the soccer league is planning to launch streaming service Premier League Plus in Singapore starting next season (Frank Dalleres/City A.M.)
https://www.cityam.com/premier-league-confirms-streaming-service-and-it…
Fourth Law of Applied Terror:
The night before the English History mid-term, your Biology
instructor will assign 200 pages on planaria.
Corollary:
Every instructor assumes that you have nothing else to do except
study for that instructor's course.
Next week, the grad students and I will be discussing Don Wright's biography of my forebear at the University of Toronto and English Canada's national historian, Donald Creighton. It's an expertly crafted book that, while sympathetic to the famously cantankerous Creighton, doesn't pull its punches. It tells us much about how the academic discipline of history developed alongside a certain strain of conservative nationalism through the middle decades of 20th-century Canada.
Good Morning Fedi!
Gokumon released a new song!!
💿 打首獄門同好会 (GOKUMON) - I wish I could speak English
▶ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cr2jsT3tiiI
🎵 https://…
No love for the English Muffin.
💸 Why the price of coffee has skyrocketed: from Brazilian plantations to specialty coffee houses
https://english.elpais.com/economy-and-business/2025-12-28/why-the-price-of-coffee-ha…
🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Paul Elliott, Michael George, Henry Purcell, Lynne Dawson, Gillian Fisher, Rogers Covey-Crump, Stephen Varcoe, Monteverdi Choir, English Baroque Soloists & Sir John Eliot Gardiner:
🎵 Timon of Athens, the man-hater - incidental music (Z.632)
For future planning purposes: what are the major electronics industry / test and measurement trade shows and conferences outside of the US (for obvious reasons) that are open to primarily English speaking exhibitors (i.e. you don't have to have your entire booth in Mandarin)?
So far my list is just Electronica in Germany, are there others I should be aware of?
DesignCon and IMS (despite the "international" bit in the name) seem to always be in the US.
Korean police arrested two high school students for the 2024 hack of Seoul’s public bicycle service “Ttareungyi”
https://www.chosun.com/english/national-en/2026/02/23/X4AOVZXXORHNLI5P5BOHMRZQRY/
interesting british mediaeval churches documented by just one bloke. impressive. architecture, gargoyles, fonts, carvings etc. there is a lot. loads. lots of photos.
https://www.greatenglishchurches.co.uk/index.html
Harman Switch Azure First Impression 🥰
哈曼Switch Azure第一印象 🥰
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Harman Switch Azure
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Access to trees and greenspaces in English cities lags behind other nations #England
#ACAB, combined with #FuckICE. https://www.investigativepost.org/2026/02/
Wikipedia bans using AI for writing or rewriting articles on its English-language site, citing AI-written articles' tendency to violate "core content policies" (Emma Roth/The Verge)
https://www.theverge.com/tech/901461/wikipedia-ai-generated-article-ban
word_adjacency: Word Adjacency Networks
Directed Networks of word adjacency in texts of several languages including English, French, Spanish and Japanese.
This network has 7381 nodes and 46281 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
https://networks.skewed.de/net/word_ad
Not sure why, but China is feeling the need to say that China is being attacked by Taiwan with cyber incidents rather than the other way around.
Mainland deals with almost 4,000 cyber attacks from Taiwan in 2025
http://english.scio.gov.cn/pressroom/2026-01/21/con…
Urban Demons VIII 👻
城市鬼魂 VIII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam,
a Rohingya refugee from Burma,
was nearly blind and spoke no English.
He was dropped off by agents in Buffalo on the other side of town from his home.
His family was not notified of his release.
Police are investigating his death
https://www.
How locals in Potters Bar, a town near London, are challenging Equinix's $5B data center plans, as the UK reclassifies "green belt" land to boost construction (Joel Khalili/Wired)
https://www.wired.com/story/the-small-english-town-swept-u…
Some City Some Nature V 🏙️
一些城一些自然 V 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
RE: https://mastodon.social/@shriramk/115956634402331444
It's also a great illustration of the ambiguity of English pronunciation, e.g., "e" in "earth" vs "heart" and even more so "gh" in "ought" vs &q…
wiki_talk: Wikipedia talk networks
Interactions among users of 10 language-specific Wikipedias: Arabic, Chinese, Dutch, English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. Nodes are registered wiki editors, and an edge represents a user i having written a message on user j's talk page. Edges are timestamped. The precise dates of the snapshots are uncertain.
This network has 519403 nodes and 6729794 edges.
Tags: Social, Communication, Unweighted, Multigra…
🫥 Mexico’s missing people crisis casts a shadow over World Cup venue
https://english.elpais.com/international/2025-12-20/mexicos-missing-people-crisis-casts-a-shadow-over-world-cup-venue.html
Mundane Things VII 🌀
普通物件 VII 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Urban Demons VII 👻
城市鬼魂 VII 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
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I know it's weird (and I'm being pedantic), but the English for Branta canadensis is Canada goose, not "Canadian goose."
XO
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
Some City Some Nature IV 🏙️
一些城一些自然 IV🏙️
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Odido hackers demand at least €1 million, Thursday is deadline
https://www.dutchnews.nl/2026/02/odido-hackers-demand-at-least-e1-million-thursday-is-deadline/
Mundane Things VI 🌀
普通物件 VI 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
Mundane Things V 🌀
普通物件 V 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Some City Some Nature III 🏙️
一些城一些自然 III 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Demons VI 👻
城市鬼魂 VI 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
wordnet: WordNet relationships
A network of English words from the WordNet. Node is a word, and edge denotes relationships between words (synonymy, hyperonymy, meronymy, etc.). The date at which this network was extracted from WordNet is not unknown.
This network has 146005 nodes and 656999 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Unweighted
htt…
Urban Demons V 👻
城市鬼魂 V 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Mundane Things IV 🌀
普通物件 IV 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
wiki_article_words: Wikipedia article-words (en) (2010)
A bipartite network of English Wikipedia articles and the words they contain. The edge weight gives the number of times a word appeared in the connected article.
This network has 276739 nodes and 2941902 edges.
Tags: Informational, Language, Weighted
https://
Some City Some Nature II 🏙️
一些城一些自然 II 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Mundane Things III 🌀
普通物件 III 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Mundane Things II 🌀
普通物件 II🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Some City Some Nature 🏙️
一些城一些自然 🏙️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ ERA 100, expired 1993
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Urban Demons IV 👻
城市鬼魂 IV 👻
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Ilford HP5 400 Plus, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal https://www.paypal.com/paypalme/ydcdingsite
Urban Demons III 👻
城市鬼魂 III 👻
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Mundane Things 🌀
普通物件 🌀
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
RED (Ocassionally) II 🔴
红 (有时) II 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
En attendant Godot II 🤡
等待戈多 II 🤡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
Integral and Detail ✴️
整体和细节 ✴️
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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Don’t stop 🛑
不要停留 🛑
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🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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RED (Ocassionally) 🔴
红 (有时) 🔴
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Harman Red 125 (6x6)
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
En attendant Godot 🤡
等待戈多 🤡
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
If you like my work, buy me a coffee from PayPal #filmphotography
US CHILDREN II 🧒
我們這些孩童 II 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Gloom & Bloom III ☁️🌺
黑暗绽放 III ☁️ 🌺
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
& Up & Down II 😵
又上又下 II 😵
📷 Nikon FE
🎞️ Ilford FP4 Plus 125, expired 1993
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US CHILDREN 🧒
我們這些孩童 🧒
📷 Zeiss IKON Super Ikonta 533/16
🎞️ Lucky SHD 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite
Different Corners XI ▶️
不同的角落 XI ▶️
📷 Nikon F4E
🎞️ Rollei RPX 400
#filmphotography #Photography #blackandwhite