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Improbable amalgam. Work: lexical data, dictionaries, digital humanities
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@sarahdal Cautionary Tales is the best one though, I’ve made it through the entire back catalogue and want MOAR
@sarahdal Also I listened to the most recent season of Hot Money which is a real-life espionage/corruption investigation, very gripping
@sarahdal I do! I recommend Cautionary Tales (by Tim Harford of BBCR4 fame), Empire (history pod by William Dalrymple and Anita Anand), and the brief but enjoyable What’s In A Name? by Fred’s friend Anna and her partner James, which is about etymology

5 of the strangest books ever written

Some books are remembered for their lyrical prose or engaging stories. Others are remembered for simply being weird.

By Scotty Hendricks

https://bigthink.com/books/5-of-the-strangest-books-ever-written/

James Joyce at PG:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/author/1039

#Books #Literature

Railway Chrysanthemum, Bomb-site Weed, Fireweed, Muck Flowers, Shit-tip Lily - all local names for Rosebay Willowherb (Chamaenerion angustifolium), a beautiful plant which is a very successful early coloniser and abundantly pops up on all sorts of human-influenced sites. In Glasgow Singerweed is reported from when the local sewing machine factory was demolished.
#PlantADay #Botany #Nature #Plant #Wildflower #BloomScrolling
I’ve had this book lying around for two months and only just now looked closely at the cover art
Fabulousness from Rose Ann Prevec. ;)
@darice Not sure it’s this particular article but possibly Marie Le Conte? https://youngvulgarian.substack.com/p/11-things-i-hate-about-ai
11 things I hate about AI

Behold! I have had a thought.

Young Vulgarian

Random Nigerian fact for you:

During the civil war, Nigeria used starvation as a weapon of war. Over a million Biafrans died, mostly kids.

Eventually, the rest of the world came through with food donations. Norway, for instance, sent a dried cod product that they barely ate called stockfish.

That was 55 years ago. Now stockfish is an indispensable part of Nigerian cuisine. We spend tens of millions of dollars each year importing it from Norway.

I guess generosity pays.

#Nigeria #Norway

@mattround More cans inside. Cans all the way down