Lord_Griff wrote:Minnesänger wrote:And if anyone here mispronounces Xi I’m not calling them racist. But if you’re part of a news organisation that writes or speaks that name dozens of times a day and still can’t find 20 minutes to check it...
I am anti cultural appropriation... Bonnet de douche Cinty.
Minnesänger wrote:I addressed alien sounds - the example I used was 粗 - in my post. Xi’s name is not an example of that.
Yossarian wrote:Although, the BBC pronunciation guide gives shee.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/magazinemonitor/2012/11/how_to_say_chinese_leaders.shtml
SpaceGazelle wrote:You wouldn't like me when I'm Ang Lee.
hunk wrote:https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future
Remember how I always go on about society repeating its mistakes and everyone's walking blind in circles? That's because everything in history is cyclical. Baby booms, prosperity, decline, strife, revolution. Record history, build a database, let AI have a go at your datasets to make sense of it all and hope you can identify relevant factors to break the cycle of violent revolution.
Very clever, very necessary.
Facewon wrote:Yeah, Nah. I'll read further shortly, but this falls down the exact same hole as Harris and his moral landscape shtick. Like Harris didn't do the reading around what philosophers had already said around arguments like his, so these sciencebros seem incapable of seeing what historians have already worked through. This stuff is inevitably the equivalent of click bait youtube vids with titles like "What THEY won't tell you about X!" Inevitably, as soon as you scratch the surface, even a little, whatever supposed dirty secret or new idea is being raised has been asked and answered and dissected for 50 years. For another good recent example of bs history, see that dumb article about how changes to marriage law in the 15th century created individualism and democracy. (I may have messed up exact title/subject there, but it was something similar, and fuck me if it didn't require some monolithic cherry picking of data sets.) Anyhoo, everyone follow Ted McCormick on twitter.https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/nov/12/history-as-a-giant-data-set-how-analysing-the-past-could-help-save-the-future Remember how I always go on about society repeating its mistakes and everyone's walking blind in circles? That's because everything in history is cyclical. Baby booms, prosperity, decline, strife, revolution. Record history, build a database, let AI have a go at your datasets to make sense of it all and hope you can identify relevant factors to break the cycle of violent revolution. Very clever, very necessary.
hunk wrote:[That is a bit harsh as I don't believe Peter Turchin to be a Sam Harris.
With East London in the midst of planned urban regeneration, on the site of the 2012 Olympic Games, Time is Away considers the cautionary tale of the London Docklands Development Corporation (LDDC). Contributions from Doreen Massey, David Harvey, William Raban, the LDDC and SPLASH (South Poplar & Limehouse Action for Secure Housing) reveal who and what gets left behind when cities privilege enterprise zones over community and quality of life.
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