What’s going on in Germany? How are people talking about gender in the German language, and how is freedom of expression being handled? We have a couple of German experts — linguist Rob Tegethoff and Ciarán of the podcast Corner Späti — to tell us why other languages were banned at protests in Berlin, and what right-wing activists get from involving language in their plans.
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Intros: 0:34
News: 5:16
Related or Not: 26:29
Interview with Rob and Ciarán: 44:37
Words of the Week: 1:46:42
The Reads: 2:02:50
Outtakes: 2:06:23
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Glue on pizza? Two-footed elephants? Google’s AI faces social media mockery
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/google-ai-im-feeling-depressed-cheese-not-sticking-to-pizza-error-rcna153301
Why Google AI will help you – but kill the web as we know it
https://www.stuff.tv/features/why-google-ai-will-help-you-but-kill-the-web-as-we-know-it/
QAA Podcast: Episode 268: Why Google Sucks Now feat Ed Zitron
https://soundcloud.com/qanonanonymous/episode-268-why-google-sucks-now-feat-ed-zitron
Google Search’s “udm=14” trick lets you kill AI search for good
https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/05/google-searchs-udm14-trick-lets-you-kill-ai-search-for-good/
udm14.com
https://udm14.com
Researchers develop algorithms to understand how humans form body part vocabularies
https://phys.org/news/2024-05-algorithms-humans-body-vocabularies.html
Universal and cultural factors shape body part vocabularies
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61140-0
Table 1 The 10 most frequent body part colexifications.
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-024-61140-0/tables/1
The bouba/kiki effect is robust across cultures and writing systems
https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rstb.2020.0390
Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594640v1
[PDF] Matching sounds to shapes: Evidence of the Bouba-Kiki effect in naïve baby chicks
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.05.17.594640v1.full.pdf
Clever Hans phenomenon
https://skepdic.com/cleverhans.html
Shifting Symbols: The Gender Star
https://www.sourcetype.com/editorial/5538/shifting-symbols-the-gender-star
Steuben Parade
https://germanday.com/about-us/
Deutscher Michel
https://pdsh.fandom.com/wiki/Deutscher_Michel
Secret plan against Germany
https://correctiv.org/en/latest-stories/2024/01/15/secret-plan-against-germany/
Demonstrations against the far right held in Germany following a report on a deportation meeting
https://apnews.com/article/germany-demonstrations-against-far-right-1ce7c0edde25b7d5545c8092c71cb0e8
German police forbid ‘speaking Irish’ at Berlin protest
https://www.thefire.org/news/blogs/free-speech-dispatch/german-police-forbid-speaking-irish-berlin-protest
Berlin bans protesters from singing in Irish and Hebrew at pro-Palestine rally
https://www.newarab.com/news/berlin-bans-singing-irish-pro-palestine-protests
We Regret to Inform You That The Spinning “Loading” Icon Is Actually Called a “Throbber”
https://au.news.yahoo.com/regret-inform-spinning-loading-icon-233033583.html
20 Years Since Netscape Navigator 1.0 (contains throbbing N from Netscape 1.0)
https://adrianroselli.com/2014/12/20-years-since-netscape-navigator-10.html
The pulsing Netscape N, from whence throbber takes its name
Forget the slow burn, Gen Z loves a failmarriage
https://mashable.com/article/failmarriage-tashi-art-challengers
Recent study finds ‘garbage lasagnas’ forming in open landfills across US release staggering amount of air pollution: ‘Decades of trash that’s sitting under the landfill’
https://www.thecooldown.com/outdoors/landfill-emissions-methane-waste-study/
All of the Words of the Year, 1990 to Present
https://americandialect.org/woty/all-of-the-words-of-the-year-1990-to-present/#2023
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