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New Scientist "One, two, many" The language, Pirahã, is known as a “one, two, many" language because it only contains words for "one" and "two"-for all other numbers, a single word for "many" is used. "There are not really occasions in their daily lives where the Pirahã need to count," explains Gordon.

the classic flash animation "Badger Badger Badger" unintentionally demonstrated a counting system later believed to be found in the Pirahã language (one snake, two mushrooms, many badgers). in this essay i will —

New glasses, for the first time in a few years. Better prescription, a much better fit, and no more scratches blurring my vision! 🤓

Holy moley! That'd be the plot twist of the century. Wishing you health and clarity, frand!

Morning brings wind through paper charms. A sleepy cat curls near you as a traveler passes silently.

Saturday the 14th
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So, for instance, in a burning building, actions might generate more Heat, or in an underground bunker, Signal is diminished. Zone conditions are local and temporary. Zones can have their own rule modifiers and mini-games. Zones are generally pointcrawls.

Hardware and software cards are designed to interact with stats and resources, as are zone (world) elements. Through these interactions, story emerges.

Resources include:
• Scrap: physical materials used to repair and craft hardware. Has weight → affects Load
• Data Fragments: digital, weightless, used to upgrade software, solve puzzles, research schematics
• Schematics: blueprints to make new hardware
• Integrity: individual hardware part "health"

Stats include:
• Energy: basically action points
• Heat: accumulates, must be vented / cooled
• Load: weight & payload bulk
• Signal: comms, affects research rate and upgrade draft quality
• RAM: max software hand size
• Charge: energy recharge rate, hand limit mechanic

The player defines their robot through a tableau of hardware cards which define stats, and a draw deck of software cards which express actions.

Something I work on in my spare time is a solo #TTRPG deckbuilder game concept I've been calling RUNR, in which a lone robot explores and survives a broken, indifferent future world, zone by zone.

And re. voiced/unvoiced: my conlang brings back distinct characters for unvoiced "th as in thin" and voiced "th as in than".

Also there's no /h/ at all, but /x/ (the fricative in "loch") gets a character.

Oooh, I'd considered that too at one point, but chickened out 😅 due to concern that I'd too quickly run out of viable sound combos to support expressing hundreds or thousands of concepts, y'know?

My thought:
• Bi- and tri-literal roots ("kresoi", "ukiors"): Flexible vowel expression, fixed patterns, vowel choices indicate emotion, tone, and context
• Short words with one C and one or more non-flexible V ("amu", "wai"): Grammatical helpers (pronouns, prepositions, markers, conjunctions)

Our country was founded on resistance to a tyrant.

For the folks in the back:

OCR predates LLMs.

HTR software predates LLMs.

Digital Humanities predates LLMs.

Grammar and spell checkers predate LLMs.

YOU DO NOT NEED THE PLAGIARISM MACHINES.

Attempting my first #conlang, and of course I'm aiming high with a hybrid abjad-like design, where consonants are semantic roots, vowel placement indicates part of speech, and vowel choice indicates expressivity (e.g. "agbual" and "ugbeil" mean the same thing, but carry different emotion). #hardmode

Looks like I'm in the Eclectic Early Adopters group, surrounded by a few diverse creative groups. My people! More of y'all need to connect with me! #linguistics #creativewriting #conlang

Was anyone else weirded out by the high number and general timbre of commercials promoting #AI companies and products during the #SuperBowl ?

Lovely and cool!

Whoof, I hear that.

(speaking as a longtime holder of a five-letter email address acquired before Microsoft bought Hotmail)

Describe your Bluesky account in a single image:

Monk — then a tie between druid, paladin, and wizard. 🤔🧙‍♂️🌳⚔️

Copy and paste the bunny and then put something else in his hand.

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The woman who revolutionized the fantasy genre is finally getting her due A woman with dwarfism, Judy-Lynn del Rey founded the imprint that put out fantasy hits such as ‘The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever’ and ‘The Sword of the Shannara.’

Reading about Judy-Lynn del Rey (Article from Oct 9, 2024) theconversation.com/the-woman-wh...

How Judy-Lynn del Rey shaped science fiction as we know it today | Short Documentary | RENEGADES YouTube video by American Masters PBS

TIL: Judy-Lynn (Benjamin) del Rey “The Galaxy Gal”📚✨
This woman, who I never knew existed, may have had as much impact on my formative years as Jim Henson. Could’ve been a role model of a successful woman in the publishing field. I’d only heard of her husband (Lester Del Rey).
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I'd be on board too!

I was telling one of my kids that it was physically impossible for an ad to play between songs on any of the records I own, and they asked "and you only have to pay for it once?" and you could see how strange that seemed. You cannot overstate how many basic rules of media consumption have changed.

Bluesky Twitter account: NEW FEATURE: This button allows you to opt out of having images you post on X turned into porn Plus image of the create new account button on bluesky

Bluesky going to work over on Twitter

This succinctly expresses the very thought that's been surfacing in my head for a long while. Figured I'd search around to see if anyone else agrees with me, and I'm glad I did, because this says it better than I would have.

I'd also accept "themself" as an alternative variant to "theirself".