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[23sheets]

27 oct 2020

the flowers from two weeks ago are staying strong, whereas i am... not

[sociolinguo]

Māori are trying to save their language from Big Tech

Te Hiku Media gathered huge swathes of Māori language data. Corporates are now trying to get the rights to it

“In March 2018, Peter-Lucas Jones and the ten other staff at Te Hiku Media, a small non-profit radio station nestled just below New Zealand’s most northern tip, were in disbelief. In ten days, thanks to a competition it had started, Māori speakers across New Zealand had recorded over 300 hours of annotated audio in their mother tongue. It was enough data to build language tech for te reo Māori, the Māori language – including automatic speech recognition and speech-to-text.

The small staff of Māori language broadcasters and one engineer were about to become pioneers in Indigenous speech recognition technology. But building the tools was only half the battle. Te Hiku soon found itself fending off corporate entities trying to develop their own indigenous data sets and resisting detrimental western approaches to data sharing. Guarding their data became the priority because the only people truly interested in revitalising the Māori language were the Māori people, themselves.”

[ninepoints]

“‘They suppressed our languages and physically beat it out of our grandparents,’ Jones says. ‘And now they want to sell our language back to us as a service.’”

…

“It would mean entrusting data scientists with no connection to the language to develop the very tools that will shape the future of the language. And worst of all, it would mean that Māori would miss out on the economic opportunities created using the language that belongs to them, much like they didn’t see the economic benefits of the land that belonged to them.”

[odetteden]

here’s a shout out to all the students who pulled through during this chaotic year - and whether you are satisfied with how you did or not, please know that grades do not define you or your worth and that you should feel proud of yourself no matter what <3

[medullam]

The infographic above (courtesy of Yalla! Let's Talk) was posted only six days ago and now Palestine is trending once again following Israel's new airstrike against the people of Gaza in the middle of the night.

Besides being a violation of the "ceasefire", which Palestinians themselves said would not resolve the core issue, this new wave of bombings is once again a reminder that a free Palestinian state cannot be achieved through lukewarm, inconsistent coverage and activism.

Here is a few resources, feel free to add more:

Build Palestine has provided a list of charitable organizations you can donate to, many of them are providing critical medical/ humanitarian aid to Gaza in particular.

The BDS Movement's Action Alerts, resource articles and images, and list of what to boycott and how to do it effectively.

A playlist of Abby Martin's Empire Files reports from Palestine

Working Class History's podcast on the history of Zionism, Settler Colonialism in Palestine, and Anti-Zionist Activism: Part 1 & Part 2

Article on how mainstream media and social media companies have targeted or marginalized support for the Palestinian cause

[studylatin]

A compendium of excellent long-form video essays and documentaries to occupy your time:

A Triptyque of English Gardens

What the Internet Did to Undertale

Les Agents Immobiliers d’Instagram

A Room with a View (1985) — Thought and Passion

Well, I Guess Somebody Had to Read Trigger Warning

Broadway Annie Auditions (1997)

I Read 27 Books from a Buzzfeed List — Here’s What Happened

The Andrei Tarkovsky Retrospective

Let’s Finally Talk About The Foxhole Court

Stalker — The Dull Flame of Desire

Is Forces of Destiny Good?

The Sophistry of Christopher Hitchens

Why I, an Atheist, Am Afraid of Hell

Asexuality and Aromanticism, Celibacy and Non-amory — Television Representation

Why You Should Read Catullus

I Bought a Mystery Box of Old Historical Romances

Going Viral with Deepfakes

[langsandlit]

Ignore my typos but I had something to say

[lidtint]

https://www.instagram.com/p/CCQluCaFzAV/

[primulaceas]

Sylvia Plath, "Tulips." Ariel

[life-and-law-studies]

June 22, 2021 // It’s been a minute. I’m already in week five of my internship and what a whirlwind. I love all the attorneys I work with and I like the work. Exhausted though.

[funnytwittertweets]

[apricitystudies]

what i read in june 2021 (pt. 2):

(previous editions) bold = favourite

class & race

minorities bear ‘direct and real’ financial burden from ethnic integration policy for public housing (singapore)

africa writes back: africa’s ancient scripts counter european ideas of literacy

here’s what happened when i called my parents out on their racism (malaysia)

sask. first nation announces discovery of 751 unmarked graves near former residential school (canada)

the secret irs files: trove of never-before-seen records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax (usa)

gender & sexuality

the damaging double standard behind intermittent fasting

why so many young men in south korea hate feminism

'the risk you run’: colombia’s women protesters on sexual violence

hungary’s classrooms have become the new battleground for the war on ‘lgbt ideology’

800 years of rape culture

377: the british colonial law that left an anti-lgbtq legacy in asia

politics, environment, & covid

climate change is a crisis we can only solve together

the case for making low-tech 'dumb’ cities instead of 'smart’ ones

corn tastes better on the honour system

social privilege and its impact on food choices

who counts as a victim? the pantomime drama of victims and villains conceals the real horrors of war

culture, media, & other

the guide to getting into the vast and diverse sounds of indonesian indie music

please just let women be villians

nursing home recreates communist east germany for dementia patients

the lazarus heist: how north korea almost pulled off a billion-dollar hack

who runs the world? not teen girls

[excessivebookshelf]

“As you read a book word by word and page by page, you participate in its creation, just as a cellist playing a Bach suite participates, note by note, in the creation, the coming-to-be, the existence, of the music. And, as you read and re-read, the book of course participates in the creation of you, your thoughts and feelings, the size and temper of your soul.”

— Ursula K. Le Guin

[heyrosiebee]

25 JUN ‘21—

a rainy day: playing the Stardew Valley theme song on the kalimba. squeezing lemon into butterfly pea tea. reading tarot for the first time in a while. daydreaming about warm hugs and soft kisses. (🎵)

more of mine. insta.

[vyl3tpwny]

What are your takes on shipping and the discourses that surround it?

personally i think postal workers should be paid more

[werelivingarts-deactivated20230]

a simple guide to two-minute rule✌️🍉

Ahoyyy, it’s werelivingarts! I thought summer would been chillax for me, but then I’ve been dealing with so much procrastination, mood swings and all-nighters 😅 Studyblr is not always about 100% productivity all the time really ~

Anyway, two-minute rule is simply just completing your simple tasks like getting water, cleaning up your desks or throwing away your tissue paper. Instead of putting them on your to-do list, finishing them right on spot will lessen your stress and help you to stay focused on bigger and more important tasks you need to do! Hope you find this one helpful 💚💜💙

I’ve been working on an informative series on learning something new in summer, so there will be some brand-new contents! ☀️🏖

[myhoneststudyblr]

my masterpost | my studygram | ask me anything

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Other advice posts that may be of interest:

How To Study When You Really Don’t Want To

How To Do Uni Readings

Active Revision Tips

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[23sheets]

finally have our thesis approved by our adviser so i reorganized my bookshelves the other day. im hoping to take at least a month of just reading and reforming healthy habits before i face whats on the other side 😆