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There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative.
Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person.
German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.
And then there’s the Japanese word tsundoku, which perfectly describes the state of my apartment.
It means buying books and letting them pile up unread.
The word dates back to the very beginning of modern Japan, the M…

“Tsundoku,” the Japanese Word for the New Books That Pile Up on Our Shelves, Should Enter the English Language
There are some words out there that are brilliantly evocative and at the same time impossible to fully translate. Yiddish has the word shlimazl, which basically means a perpetually unlucky person. German has the word Backpfeifengesicht, which roughly means a face that is badly in need of a fist.

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"Recently unearthed court documents reveal that [Anthropic]’s new plan for ingesting the data in books, codenamed “Project Panama.” is nice and legal, but a PR nightmare: Destructive scanning, which means taking a physical copy of a book and scanning it, but destroying the physical copy in the process."
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I told Caroline, a current art handler, when she was an intern, to go to a big city where there’s more than one art museum and gallery, so you can network. However, she didn’t need to do that; she pulled it off. It’s not unheard of to get a full-time job if you can intern here, but my belief is that if you want to work as a handler, you have to work in New York or D.C. or Atlanta, somewhere where there’s more than just one museum.
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“When the time comes, the AI industry must burn. It must be allowed to die. Generative AI has already been given far too much money, oxygen and attention, and if it cannot survive without continual venture capital and media coddling, it is unworthy and unnecessary, and must face the cold, hard reality that every regular person faces when they fail.”
Amen to that!

Let AI Burn
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Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years,
which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study.
-- @andyfarke@bsky.social
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Andy Farke (@andyfarke.bsky.social)
Your big data is only a big data set because a whole bunch of people did the insignificant, unworthy of your time, not important enough to publish, effort to build & maintain collections over the years, which you then scooped up into your dataset for a proper "big picture" study. <6/n>

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Trump issued 30 clemency grants on Thursday,
including to a drug dealer-turned-business executive,
a longtime Philadelphia union boss convicted of bribery
and a former Navy sailor imprisoned for firearms offenses.
They went to an eclectic group,
continuing Mr. Trump’s unpredictable and unorthodox use of
pardons that wipe away most consequences of convictions
and commutations, which cut short sentences.

Trump’s Latest Clemency Grants Benefit Drug Offenders, Union Boss
The president issued pardons or commutations to 30 people on Thursday, continuing his unorthodox and unpredictable use of clemency power.