I keep thinking back to the old days of bulletinboards and forums, where wee communities of people interested in the same thing could build up in an organic manner, outwith modern Social Media.
And its a shame that Reddit is as close as it gets to that sort of thing these days.
Over on Reddit, the /r/ScotsLanguage/ forum has been set up as a restricted community, but with no members, so no one can post or comment on anything.
There's just nothing there.
Its kind of like domain squatting, but within the context of Reddit.
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Did anyone ever figure out what "jump their pressure them" actually means? Is it a shibboleth?
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The night vision security camera cost me £18. Money well spent.
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My hairdresser and friend opened her business last week. Tonight it burned to the ground. This is devastating.
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I’ve posted updated versions of two comprehensive bibliographies relating to Gaelic in Scotland.
The first deals with sociolinguistics and language planning concerning Gaelic from 1980 on:
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The other covers Gaelic literature from 1900 to the present:
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The Chilcot Checklist, for how to optimally plan and execute military operations in light of learning from the Iraq War. It states: The Chilcot Checklist 1 VISION: why do we care? What does this mean for British interests? What are the risks of acting or doing nothing, including in the longer term? What is different now? 2 ANALYSIS: what IS happeNINg NOw? What are your sources of ground truth/evidence? Have assumptions been exposed to analytical tools or external challenge? 3 SCENarIOS: what might happen next? Have you looked at a range of options, and scenarios and consequences that could flow from these? 4 OptIONS: what should we do? Have you designed your options collaboratively, built in challenge and presented Ministers with clear information on risks, opportunities and costs? 5 LegaL ImpLICatIONS: how do we eNSure actION IS lawful? What is the wider legal context? Are Ministers aware of any legal risks? What are the policy implications? How will you ensure that any international legal basis remains sound if circumstances change? 6 POLICY AND Strategy: what does suCCeSS LOOk LIke? Does a clear strategy, and a feasible course of action that will meet policy objectives, exist? Is the approach supported by analysis? 7 reSOurCE: what do we need to deLIVer? What are the resource implications of your options? 8 PLANNING AND DOING: how should we do it? Have you planned for a range of possible contingencies? Who is accountable and responsible for what? 9 POLICY perfOrmaNCE: how wILL you mONItor performaNCe? How will you measure and evaluate success/failure? 10 EVALuatION: IS the pOLICy workINg? When and how will you review this policy? Has the context changed? Have UK objectives/interests changed? Do you need to change direction?
Way beyond military strategy & operations this checklist makes sense
Like any critical situation though the emotional urge maybe to think it’s a unique crisis & you should throw out the rules, my learning from Critical Care in health is that in crises you lean into what you’ve learnt not panic away
If we were classifying parts of speech, is HAGGIS a singular common noun (NN1) or a common noun, neutral for number (NN)?
If you went to lots of butchers you could get a lot of haggises, but you might still up with a lot of haggis.
Also, if they keep killing the head of state and the deputy head of state and the people who select the head of state, and so on, on who's authority can a surrender be declared?
Has anyone asked how Iran is expected to surrender to the US when war hasn't been formally declared yet?
Sounds a little bit like the "Trust Thermocline". Except just going all out abuse any trust your audience had, rather than slowly losing their trust.
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I use that bit of the Copyright Act for research too.
Its a thin line between the rights or the copyright holders and the unrelenting forces of the AI companies. I have concerns if the government changes it in either direction.
There already is a data mining exception in the copyright act, section 29, it was added in 2014.
There is absolutely zero explanation for hitting targets like this unless your objective is to destroy any possibility of normal life and produce mass civilian death. Completely unjustifiable and another war crime. We saw this thirty years ago in Iraq.
Today, a detailed discussion with @JimAllister MP on the powers of the office and plans of the Commissioner. Later meeting with the national teams in @FCDOGovUK and @mhclg that work with the Council of Europe on UK commitments including national minorities and minority languages.
The British media in a nutshell
How did that come about? It's a bit of an obscure song.
Do you know if Drummond ever heard it?
How come there hasn't been a quality, 21st century, cover version of The Mock Turtles "Can you dig it"?
I was just reading about this. basically it costs the US or Israel a few million dollars to intercept 1 missile or drone with their ”iron dome” defenses. So if Iran fires just a few hundred missiles it’ll cost the US a billion dollars to defend.
They can basically brute force this.
That never happened.
At no point did anyone try to learn Scots from the Scots wikipedia. And no made up words from the wikipedia were used in official documents.
Finally a fifth image, with against a completely different turbine design.
Its all AI slop. If this was a genuine initiative in Norway, there would be real life, non-AI photos of it, taken both by the project managers, and by random members of the public.
A fourth image, with a fourth design of turbine. Still AI slop.
Here is a third image for the same story. Again its AI, and the design of the turbines is completely different. Different blades, different colours.
Here's another image for the same story, found via google. The turbine design is different, the shape of the blades and the colour.
Its a bit of a weird one this.
Whilst I don't doubt that the image quoted is AI. I can't seem to find any real photos of the project, anywhere.
Presumably people in Norway have camera phones, but so few have chosen to take photos of this energy innovation that AI images must be used.
For context, this is roughly the cost of one (1) Brimstone missile
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I've developed a psychological countermeasure for AI voice deception… and it's surprisingly simple! 🗣️
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The National Library of Scotland's map collection and expertise is awesome. Its my go to website for old maps of England, and Scotland and now for Wales.
Furthermore, by using assassination as a negotiation tactic, you have empowered your adversaries to use the same tactic.
Why bother negotiating at all.
In business too.
