Michelle Kyoko Crowson

They won’t be translations. They will be fraudulent text-like things that appear to hold meaning but will not. It’s not benevolent or about access, it’s capitalism.

As a product of its historical time and culture, performance can take many forms. 🎭 Revisit our #NCCSpotlight by Ai Yamamoto (UBC) on “Performing Nationalism in UBC’s Kamishibai Propaganda Plays” to learn how “paper theater” reflected the WWII moment. #紙芝居 guides.nccjapan.org/homepage/new...

The Incuriosity Engine There was a great article that Namanyay Goel wrote this week about how AI is leading to junior developers who can’t code that’s worth your…

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An ICE Contractor Is Worth Billions. It’s Still Fighting to Pay Detainees as Little as $1 a Day to Work. GEO Group, whose stock is valued at $4 billion, says that state minimum wage laws don’t apply to the cleaning services that it’s asked detained migrants to perform at facilities where they’re kept.

#ICYMI: An ICE contractor and Washington state are back in court as the company tries to reverse a decision requiring the contractor to pay detainees minimum wage for work done at the facilities where the government has forced them to live.

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白雪姫 (グリム ヤーコプ・ルートヴィッヒ・カール　グリム ヴィルヘルム・カール) むかしむかし、冬のさなかのことでした。雪が、鳥の羽のように、ヒラヒラと天からふっていましたときに、ひとりの女王（じょおう）さまが、こくたんのわくのはまった窓（まど）のところにすわって、ぬいものをして…

More and more readers have found a Japanese translation of Brothers Grimm’s “Schneewittchen”(Snow White) edited by KIKUCHI Kan in our public digital collection: www.aozora.gr.jp/cards/001091...

青空文庫所収のグリム兄弟「白雪姫」（菊池寛訳編）がただいまよく読まれているようです。作品ページはこちらからどうぞ。

Now Trending: How to Be a Fascist - Words Without Borders These days, there could be fierce competition over who could write the book on “how to be a fascist”—if we could agree on what a fascist is. Michela Murgia’s lapidary definition, depicted in a Forrest...

Maybe—just for kicks?—could be a good moment to re/read Michela Murgia's How to Be a Fascist (Istruzioni per diventare fascisti).
(RIP Michela Murgia, tr. @alexvalente.fyi, review in @wwborders.bsky.social)
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