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𝑷𝒐𝒆𝒕𝒓𝒚 𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒖𝒍𝒅 𝒃𝒆 𝒘𝒓𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒘𝒂𝒚 𝒂𝒅𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒆𝒓𝒚 𝒊𝒔 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒆𝒅: 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒖𝒏, 𝒐𝒏 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒔𝒍𝒚, 𝒅𝒖𝒓𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒕𝒊𝒎𝒆 𝒏𝒐𝒕 𝒂𝒄𝒄𝒐𝒖𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒅 𝒇𝒐𝒓. 𝑨𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆𝒏 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆 𝒉𝒐𝒎𝒆, 𝒂𝒔 𝒊𝒇 𝒏𝒐𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒆𝒗𝒆𝒓 𝒉𝒂𝒑𝒑𝒆𝒏𝒆𝒅. - Vera Pavlova

  "So that here, in the real living experience of living men, the prodigies related in old times of the inland Strello mountain in Portugal (near whose top there was said to be a lake in which the wrecks of ships floated up to the surface); and that still more wonderful story of the Arethusa fountain near Syracuse (whose waters were believed to have come from the Holy Land by an underground passage); these fabulous narrations are almost fully equalled by the realities of the whalemen."

Bruno Icher pour Libération   C’est le début d’un film ou d’une série américaine, deux personnages dialoguent. Les sous-titres laissent penser qu’ils se connaissent puisqu’ils se tutoient. Pourtant, dès la scène suivante, ils adoptent le vouvoiement avant, un peu plus tard, de se tutoyer à nouveau. L’effet est troublant, horripilant même, mais involontaire puisqu’il s’agit à coup sûr d’une traduction effectuée par une machine et non par un professionnel. Avec l’expansion des applications nourries à l’intelligence artificielle générative et l’enthousiasme qu’elle déchaîne dans le milieu de la tech, ce genre d’incohérences de nature à bousiller une scène, voire le film entier, risque de se multiplier. La menace se précise même en termes chiffrés depuis la publication, le 4 décembre, d’une enquête menée par la société PMP Strategy pour le compte de la Confédération internationale des sociétés d’auteurs et de compositeurs (Cisac), qui rassemble plus de 220 sociétés d’auteu...

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Max Norman for The New Yorker , where you can listen to this story. Damion Searls, who has translated a Nobel laureate, believes his craft isn’t about transforming or reflecting a text. It’s about conjuring one’s experience of it. Jon Fosse’s “Septology,” the seven-novel sequence about art and God that helped win its author last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature, stars two men and a dog. The men are both painters, and, confusingly, both named Asle. The dog, however, is quite straightforward: he’s called Bragi. He is the all-comprehending, inky-eyed companion to the first Asle, though he belongs to the other Asle, who’s ill and can’t look after him. The novel’s lazy river of a narrative is punctuated, much in the way of real life, whenever Bragi needs to be let out to do his business, or has licked his water bowl dry, or, with a laughable but also slightly troubling frequency, takes a tumble when Asle stands up without remembering that the dog is lying on his lap. Asle’s gr...

by Brian Bilston

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𝐌𝐚𝐫𝐢𝐚 𝐓𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐚 𝐇𝐨𝐫𝐭𝐚, a nossa luminar, uma mulher belíssima de corpo inteiro que tanto nos tem dado, é uma das 100 Mulheres de 2024 para a BBC , linque nos comentários. Continuamos "para inglês ver," deslumbrados com "the Beeb" mas, sim, todo o reconhecimento e toda a visibilidade são poucas. Aqui sugiro o critério mais preguiçoso para ler e oferecer livros da autora (porque são todos ótimos, e todos das Publicações Dom Quixote Lda. / Grupo Leya ) Vão pelos nomes! Esperemos que venha por aí um intitulado 𝐒𝐮𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐚. Poet Writer and journalist Maria Teresa Horta is one of Portugal’s most prominent feminists and author of many award-winning books, but she is perhaps best known as co-author of the internationally acclaimed Novas Cartas Portuguesas (New Portuguese Letters), written with Maria Isabel Barreno and Maria Velho da Costa. The collec...

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At the Journal for Geek Studies , Karla J. Humara-Gil tell us all .  What's more, they are so generous as to have the article downloadable in PDF. Characterized by its complex stories, stunning visual art, and strong female protagonists, Studio Ghibli is one of the most renowned studios in the animation industry. The Tokyo-based Japanese studio was founded by directors Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata and producer Toshio Suzuki in 1985. Since then, it has been involved in different projects: short films, commercials, video games, and most notably, more than 20 feature films such as the classic Grave of the Fireflies (1988) or the Academy Award winner Spirited Away (2001) (Studio Ghibli, 2023). It is undeniable that over the years, Ghibli has become a worldwide phenomenon. But its influence has not been limited to entertainment. We can also find traces of it in science, particularly in the one in charge of identifying, classifying, and naming species: taxonomy. In this co...

 

  International Music Day timeline (find out more on National Today ) 1949 UNESCO Creates the International Music Council The Council is created to advise UNESCO on how music can further promote world peace and enable cultures to coexist harmoniously. 1973 ...

 

 

  Hanlon's Razor is the adage: "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." Or sometimes, "Never attribute to malice what can be attributed to incompetence." It appears in a similar form by the inimitable Johann Wolfgang von Goethe as, "And I have again observed, my dear friend, in this trifling affair, that misunderstandings and neglect occasion more mischief in the world than even malice and wickedness. At all events, the two latter are of less frequent occurrence," in The Sorrows of Young Werther. The same sentiments are also shared by William James, Churchill, and H.G. Wells. More recently, Douglas Hubbard gave a more modern version in his book The Failure of Risk Management: Why It's Broken and How to Fix It: "Never attribute to malice or stupidity that which can be explained by moderately rational individuals following incentives in a complex system." I've seen people get mad at others pushing in ...

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