Maíra Mendes Galvão
@mmendesgalvao.bsky.social
Translator. PhD candidate @ UMass Amherst. Early Modern Iberia, Translation Theory, Premodern Women. FLAD/BNP Summer Fellow 2025.
if they were ten bucks and not synthetic, I’d buy them (even though I can’t spare the ten bucks)
November 9, 2025 at 2:43 AM
if they were ten bucks and not synthetic, I’d buy them (even though I can’t spare the ten bucks)
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Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
November 8, 2025 at 2:01 AM
Flaws and glitches are minor concerns easily dismissed. Being “mid” is fine because someone can promise this will get less mid and plenty of people are willing to believe. GenAI isn’t mid. It’s linear algebraic sociopathy.
Reposted by Maíra Mendes Galvão
Please sign and share as widely as possible: c.org/WxNbqBS9g2
Sign the Petition
Stop the suspension of undergraduate music courses at The University of Nottingham
www.change.org
November 6, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Please sign and share as widely as possible: c.org/WxNbqBS9g2
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Remember, folks. We took one for the team. "affect recognition" is so bad it's beyond the realm of wrong and you might give yourself an ulcer having to debate it. SO WE MDE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO! Here's that link to our piece once again.
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
How Scientists Use and Abuse Portraiture
Many scientific studies assume that the features of painted faces are the facts of the flesh-and-blood countenances to which they refer. This assumption is not only false; it is preposterous.
hyperallergic.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Remember, folks. We took one for the team. "affect recognition" is so bad it's beyond the realm of wrong and you might give yourself an ulcer having to debate it. SO WE MDE SURE YOU DON'T HAVE TO! Here's that link to our piece once again.
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
hyperallergic.com/604897/how-s...
L’Arpeggiata & Pluhar! Herreweghe/Bach! Nina! Brendel! Tous et chacun des Beatle(s)! 🤝
November 6, 2025 at 5:34 PM
L’Arpeggiata & Pluhar! Herreweghe/Bach! Nina! Brendel! Tous et chacun des Beatle(s)! 🤝
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8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.
November 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
8. Evil city / pure countryside is an example of what Jeremy Lent calls a “root metaphor”: an idea so deeply implanted in our minds that we don’t even recognise it as an idea.
macho que é macho bebe água de carniça na raça mano
November 3, 2025 at 9:18 PM
macho que é macho bebe água de carniça na raça mano
esses homens que nunca começam espontaneamente a lavar um mísero copo...
November 3, 2025 at 8:45 PM
esses homens que nunca começam espontaneamente a lavar um mísero copo...