#globalvoices

[justblogo]

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[jojou2]

This is not just a reel, it’s a chain of voices united for justice . 📢 Pass it on. Share it. Be part of the voice. 📸 Ai Visual Created by @thelegend_ai

📢 انشرها. شاركها. كن جزءًا من الصوت

📸 تصميم بصري من @thelegend_ai

[digitalsellswordllama]

🗣 Bridging Gaps with a Tap: Thoughts on Rapid Translation

Lately I’ve been thinking a lot about how we communicate across languages—especially in this weird, wonderful global digital space. One minute you’re reading a post in Spanish, the next you're catching a tweet in Japanese, and somehow… you understand it all.

That kind of magic used to take real time, effort, even a person in the middle translating word for word. Now? It's a click, a swipe, an automatic subtitle. Technology hasn’t made language obsolete—it’s made it more accessible.

I don’t think rapid translation is just about convenience. It’s about inclusion. About not being locked out of conversations just because you speak differently. That’s powerful.

Sure, it’s not perfect (we’ve all seen those hilariously wrong translations), but the fact that we’re even trying to understand each other more quickly, more often—that says something about where we’re heading.

Anyway, just some thoughts. Curious if anyone else has noticed how much easier it’s gotten to connect with people you never thought you could talk to?

Let me know if you want to add a personal experience or tag suggestions to match the Tumblr vibe (like #language, #technology, #connection, #globalvoices).

[drawdownbooks]

Total Armageddon: A Slanted Reader on Design⁣ Available at www.draw-down.com⁣ ⁣ A book about design. And culture. And complexity, notably how we, as a global civilization, deal with science fiction, taste, social media, the cities we live in, aesthetics, PowerPoint, burkas, Big Tech, full-contact sports, and other thorny topics. A collection of both essays that are brand new, as well as the very best essays from past issues of Slanted Magazine, written by the most vital and vibrant global voices in writing on design and culture today such as Steven Heller, Piotr Rypson, Gerry Leonidas, Yoon Soo Lee, Kiyonori Muroga, and a host of others.⁣ ⁣ With essays by Can Altay, Eran Bacharach, Simon Baker, Emanuel Barbosa, Laure Boer, Gerda Breuer, Dr. Nadine Chahine, Doug Clouse, Olga Drenda, Jori Erdman, Marcus Farr, Kenneth FitzGerald, Charlotte von Fritschen, Amélie Gastaut, Martin Giesen, Jonathan M. Hansen, Steven Heller, Ilka Helmig, Will Hill, Lorena Howard-Sheridan, Natalia Ilyin, Mr. Keedy, Marianna Kellokoski, Matilda Kivelä, Toshiaki Koga, Iwona Kurz, Carolina Laudon, Yoon Soo Lee, Gerry Leonidas, Christine Lhowe, Tim Loffing, Mathieu Lommen, Ian Lynam, Dermot Mac Cormack, Georgios Matthiopoulos, Julia Meer, Silas Munro, Kiyonori Muroga, Randy Nakamura, Alexander Negrelli, Ingo Niermann, Panos Papanagiotou, Natassa Pappa, David Peacock, Louise Rouse, Piotr Rypson, Niki Sioki, Huda Smitshuijzen AbiFarès, Thierry Somers, Sonja Steppan, Agata Szydłowska, Aleksander Tokarz, Alexander Torell, Angela Voulangas, Rene Wawrzkiewicz, Wolfgang Weingart, and Onur F. Yazıcıgil⁣ ⁣ #GraphicDesign #Design #Armageddon #globalcivilization #social #closed #covid19 #globalvoices (at Germany) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9y0oZIHyfu/?igshid=r38sbshlr257

[albarrancabrera]

Beyond the image: How Spanish photographers Albarrán Cabrera formulate experience through pictures · Global Voices

For Spanish photographers Anna P. Cabrera and Angel Albarrán, memory and beauty are the three pillars of their professional approach to their art.

We are very proud to be featured @globalvoicesonline in this great article written by @omidmemarian Thank you very much for this fantastic text about our work!

[marklyndersay]

Photographed in 1991 at Banyan's edit suite on Cipriani Boulevard, Danielle Dieffenthaller, Walt Lovelace and Georgia Popplewell look to the future joyfully, probably the result of my asking them to do that, looking right there, over my shoulder.  The three filmmakers had joined forces to create EarthTV and this was to be part of the reporting for that Sunday’s issue of the Guardian’s Sunday magazine, the publication being produced by me under the rather direct title SG Magazine.  The Earth TV project seemed to be a next generation attempt at creating local television and all three had worked with Banyan for years doing just that.  It didn't last long but all three remained in media. Danielle Dieffenthaller would go on to do several television series, most notably Westwood Park. She was named an Anthony N Sabga Foundation Caribbean Awards laureate for her work in 2019. Lovelace would team up with Curtis Popplewell, Georgia's brother on Big Fish in a Bottle, direct a number of videos, cofound Beachhouse, a party production unit and Carnival TV, an effort at streaming high definition video of Carnival events.  Georgia Popplewell would go on to be the first podcaster in Trinidad and Tobago among other endeavors before joining the crowdsourced media publication Global Voices.  She was appointed Managing Editor of the determinedly virtual Internet publication in January 2008, running the organisation from wherever she happens to be in the world.  #archive #lyndersaydigital  #trinidad #writer #editor #video #portrait #earthtv #trinidadandtobago #filmphotography photography #globalvoices #banyan #journalism #thelyndersayarchive  (at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BzyrS5pgEEI/?igshid=gbybpunpoq6w

[andrebagoo]

It was a pleasure appearing on the LMC’s podcast last week discussing 🏳️‍🌈 in TT. Listen https://latinomediacollective.com/2018/09/14/sept-14th-2018-lgbtq-victory-in-trinidad-tobago/ Photo: The Silver Lining Foundation. #GlobalVoices #BeyondLatinx (at Port of Spain, Trinidad and Tobago) https://www.instagram.com/p/BnylNvyn1Uj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1rwt4l4v02u9l

[medicinaymemoria]