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Ramp launches Router, an AI model routing service it has been using over the past three years, in the US; the service is free to use for the rest of 2026 (Ram Iyer/TechCrunch)
https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/20/ramp-launches-its-own-ai-model-router-calle…

Ramp launches its own AI model router, called Router | TechCrunch
Ramp has launched its own AI model routing service, dubbed Router, that lets users and companies use and switch between various large language models via an API.

new Nepali language textbook from a great team including Indigenous Himalayan scholars. the article is worth a read --
"working in a team where none of us had Nepali as our only or first language, but where all of us still had strong connections to it in different ways. That mix shaped a collaborative process drawing on different experiences and approaches to the language. More importantly, bringing those different relationships to  language into the same space helped us create s…

PolitiFact launches Well Informed to provide credible health information on social media and to news partners, with plans to launch a paid B2B newsletter (Jennifer Orsi/Poynter)
https://www.poynter.org/news-r…

Poynter’s PolitiFact launches service providing reliable, engaging health information to consumers and news organizations - Poynter
"Well Informed” offers social videos and stories backed by research to help people sort out personal health claims.

DHH launches Omacom Foundation, a non-profit supporting his Omarchy Linux distro, with $8M in funding from Michael Dell, Jack Dorsey, Patrick Collison, others (Omarchy News)
https://omarchy.org/news/2026/08/omacom-foundation-launches-with-8-million/

Omacom Foundation launches with $8 million
It’s time to dream big. Omarchy Quattro has given people a chance to experience what the malleable computer of the future looks like, and they like it (a lot!). It now feels like a moral obligation to make this future more broadly…

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I'm a professor of Digital Forensic Linguistics at Ruhr-Uni Bochum, Germany. Professionally, I research emojis, disinformation, metaphors, and digital language in general using computational and experimental methods. Mastodon provides my regular supply of cat pictures. I post in English and German (but try to provide proper language tags for filtering/translation).

from my link log —
Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek.
https://linguisticdiscovery.com/posts/pre-greek/
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Pre-Greek: The lost language hidden within Ancient Greek
Around 1,000 Greek words can’t be traced to any Indo-European language. Where do they come from?

Kidney cancer rates near Pfas factory in Lancashire a ‘major source of concern’ https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2026/jun/19/factory-forever-chemicals-kidney-cancer-blackpool

unicodelang: Languages spoken by country (2015)
A bipartite network of languages and the countries in which they are spoken, as estimated by Unicode. Edges are weighted by the proportion of the given country's population that is literate in a particular language.
This network has 868 nodes and 1255 edges.
Tags: Informational, Relatedness, Weighted

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash, 3.5 Flash-Lite, and 3.5 Flash Cyber, and says it has started its "most ambitious pre-training run yet" for Gemini 4 (Abner Li/9to5Google)
https://9to5google.com/2026/07/21/gemini-3-6-flash-launch/

Google launches Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, teases Gemini 4 
As we wait for 3.5 Pro, Google today announced Gemini 3.6 Flash and 3.5 Flash-Lite, while providing updates on what comes next.

Google rolls out an embeddable "Preferred Sources" button, natural language Discover controls, and custom audio briefings in the Google News app on Android (Matt G. Southern/Search Engine Journal)
https://www.searchenginejournal.com/google

Google Expands Personalization Across Search, Discover & News
Google is rolling out a new embeddable Preferred Sources button, natural language Discover controls, and customizable audio briefings in the Google News app.