Dave
@dmalinowski.bsky.social
🕘: Applied linguistics, language education & linguistic landscape
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
🕔: photography, bicycling, coffee, LEGO, trains
🕛: opposing authoritarianism and technoligarchy
Me too! Now we just have to write the heck out of it 🤓
November 12, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Me too! Now we just have to write the heck out of it 🤓
Absolutely! I hope others take meaning from that great essay.
November 11, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Absolutely! I hope others take meaning from that great essay.
Thank you for this wonderful and very necessary essay
Absolutely love this essay by Ross Benjamin, which counters the instrumentalist view of language as a transparent conduit of meaning.
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
I think there's even an argument for AI-translation-as-violence, in that it simply vaporizes the vibrant socio-semiotic spaces between languages.
#AcademicSky
"To translate is not simply to transfer meaning but to attend to differences—of culture, time, thought, expression—that evade perfect alignment"
Brilliant essay by Ross Benjamin on how AirPods & other automated translation tech eliminates what really matters in communicating across languages
Brilliant essay by Ross Benjamin on how AirPods & other automated translation tech eliminates what really matters in communicating across languages
November 11, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Thank you for this wonderful and very necessary essay
I'd sure like to think so. But I can't help but wonder about the behind-the-scenes: Why isn't daddy T lambasting her in public?
November 11, 2025 at 6:25 PM
I'd sure like to think so. But I can't help but wonder about the behind-the-scenes: Why isn't daddy T lambasting her in public?
A year later, the darkness of America is fully on display, with abject cruelty daily masquerading as strength. I only hope that the bright spirits of all the young trick-or-treaters in our neighborhoods tonight—the superheroes, the k-pop demon hunters, and all the rest—help us see the light
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November 1, 2025 at 3:09 AM
A year later, the darkness of America is fully on display, with abject cruelty daily masquerading as strength. I only hope that the bright spirits of all the young trick-or-treaters in our neighborhoods tonight—the superheroes, the k-pop demon hunters, and all the rest—help us see the light
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That's okay, you can make your own, Katie Porter-style!
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October 27, 2025 at 1:14 PM
That's okay, you can make your own, Katie Porter-style!
Yes! No secret why sunshine is such a metaphor for anti-corruption and pro-democracy ☀️
October 27, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Yes! No secret why sunshine is such a metaphor for anti-corruption and pro-democracy ☀️