tim shey

@timshey
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designer, producer. prev. original content exec @ duolingo, youtube
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daily lessonshttp://duolingo.com
P-22, the celebrity mountain lion of Los Angeles, has died

The mountain lion P-22, who lived in the heart of Los Angeles for more than a decade and became the face of an international campaign to save Southern California's threatened pumas, was euthanized Saturday.

Los Angeles Times
We had a lot of fun with episode 3 of Radiolingo, which is all about why subtitles are sometimes wrong on your favorite shows. Our host Ahmed Ali Akbar gets into it. #podcasts #language #tv https://crooked.com/podcast/lights-camera-translate/
Lights! Camera! Translate! | Crooked Media

Crooked Media

go, brooklyn:

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools https://www.openculture.com/2022/08/the-brooklyn-public-library-gives-every-teenager-in-the-u-s-free-access-to-books-getting-censored-by-american-schools.html

The Brooklyn Public Library Gives Every Teenager in the U.S. Free Access to Books Getting Censored by American Schools

We have covered it before: school districts across the United States are increasingly censoring books that don't align with white-washed conservative visions of the world.

Open Culture

It’s launch day for Radiolingo, #duolingo’s awesome new #podcast with Crooked Media about how language and our world shape each other.

First episode: our host Ahmed Ali Akbar explores why it’s so important, and so hard, to pronounce names “correctly.”

You can listen to the show and subscribe here if so inclined: http://bit.ly/3TjaM3a

Radiolingo

Radiolingo investigates all the ways language shapes our world and how our world shapes language. Hosted by Ahmed Ali Akbar, an audio journalist and James Beard Award-winning writer, each episode introduces a new way of looking at the impact of language across our lives, our relationships, our