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#တပ်မတော် #tatmadaw #burmese #burma #leica #myanmar #portrait #q #democracy #asean #politics #junta #yangon #rangon #type #116 #dictatorship #civil #rights #human #war #flickr #thingsdavidlikes

Kathy Reid Mar 17

Does your organisation work with #language #data in #Arabic, #Tagalog, #signLanguage, #Kannada, #Tamil, #Burmese, #Croatian, #Tigrinya, #Vietnamese, #Thai, #Pashto, #Uzbek, #German, #French or #Kurdish?

The @mozilladatacollective has an open #CfP to fund the uplift or creation of datasets in this space that focus on dialogic interaction, multimodal - so video or speech paired with transcription, or which focus on the intersectionality of under-represented contexts or domains.

Is that your organisation?

https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/call-for-proposals-mdc-is-commissioning-mission-aligned-datasets/

Call for proposals: MDC is commissioning mission-aligned datasets!

Mozilla Data Collective is building towards a multicultural, multilingual, and multimodal future that works for all of us. And over the past few months, we’ve listened as people have flagged what kinds of datasets they need, but are struggling to find. So we’re pleased to announce that MDC

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Longreads Mar 11

"I thought about the circumstances that had brought me to Myanmar. I'd wanted to learn from journalists standing up to unimaginable repression."

Danny Fenster and Amy Kurzweil, The Verge: https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/820915/notes-burmese-prison-comic/

#Longreads #Comic #Illustration #Myanmar #Burmese #Prison #Incarceration #Journalists #Journalism

Notes from a Burmese Prison

Danny Fenster was jailed during the coup in Myanmar. This is the story of how he got through it.

The Verge

Voteinorout 🇺🇸Mar 1

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voteinorout on Instagram: "#CBP abandoned #Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind #Burmese refugee, in the below-freezing Buffalo cold. He was wearing the orange booties given to him when he was in jail. Five days later, he was found dead in the street.⁠ ⁠ His grieving family deserves answers. And there must be accountability for his death. Follow @katiephang for more.⁠ ⁠ Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson"

39 likes, 0 comments - voteinorout on February 28, 2026: "#CBP abandoned #Nurul Amin Shah Alam, a nearly blind #Burmese refugee, in the below-freezing Buffalo cold. He was wearing the orange booties given to him when he was in jail. Five days later, he was found dead in the street.⁠ ⁠ His grieving family deserves answers. And there must be accountability for his death. Follow @katiephang for more.⁠ ⁠ Help this information get to more voters. 🇺🇸 A well-informed electorate is a prerequisite to Democracy.—Thomas Jefferson".

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Nikolas Kozloff has moved Feb 3

Time for #sustainable #yacht which has nothing to do with the #Burmese #military https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/clygdez8d41o #sustainability #timber #burma

The yachting industry searches for alternatives to teak

Prized for its beauty, teak is in short supply, forcing the yacht industry to look for alternatives.

Jon Language Jan 19

Anglalingva artikolo en la Indiana Daily Student (Indianaa Ĉiutaga Studento, la studenta ĵurnalo de Indianaa Universitato ĉe Bloomington) pri la tiea instruisto de la #birma #lingvo

https://specials.idsnews.com/burmese-language-iu-instructor/

#language #languagelearning #Burmese #langtoot #mastolang

The story of IU’s Burmese language instructor

Kaung Myat first came to IU in 2021 on a Fulbright.

IDS News

AdventureTense Jan 4

A few photos in #Benicia at night. We ate at the #Burmese Restaurant, which was fantastic! Never had Burmese cuisine before. Also a photo outside of the #ShorelightInn B&B. All walking distance.

Liam O'Mara IV, PhD Dec 24

The #MoSoMassacre took place on #ThisDayInHistory in 2021. The #Burmese/#Myanmar military stopped a group of vehicles, and when the #Karenni/#Kayah ethnic militia #KNPLF arrived to negotiate, they and many civilians were killed (at least 44), and their property stolen or burnt.