wget https://iso639-3.sil.org/sites/iso639-3/files/downloads/iso-639-3.tab
    grep -xFf <(grep -o ^... iso-639-3.tab) /usr/share/dict/british-english 

    woo yes, any fun car has the big dry cat, and thy ads are zen too; bye!

[0] https://noai.duckduckgo.com/?q=pot+au+feu&iar=images&noai=1

[1] What's the English word for Bildung?

In https://mastodon.social/@grimalkina/116743715688970777 she gives a concise explanation of the minimal groups paradigm where "People assigned to arbitrary groups immediately form strong allegiances, even though they haven’t been given any other psychologically meaningful cues about their group"

Tools foster conviviality to the extent to which they can be easily used, by anybody, as often or as seldom as desired, for the accomplishment of a purpose chosen by the user. The use of such tools by one person does not restrain another from using them equally. They do not require previous certification of the user. Their existence does not impose any obligation to use them. They allow the user to express his meaning in action.

Industrial tools deny this possibility to those who use them and they allow their designers to determine the meaning and expectations of others. Most tools today cannot be used in a convivial fashion.

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/115840278905803451

https://mastodon.social/@sundogplanets/116796122687129600

https://www.theregister.com/offbeat/2026/03/31/starlink-spra...

Are they?

I suspect AI labs are buying stuff not just for their own use, but to make local use too expensive to be an option :-( And they can always make the "best" frontier model even bigger (though only fractionally better) so it's always out of reach of local use, while consumer laptops have nearly the same amount of memory they had a decade ago.

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> (I think older generations would do well to recognize this fact.)

That is so, so much better than the default mode of blaming kids for getting addicted to the systems their older generations developed.

https://ploum.net/2026-01-19-exam-with-chatbots.html is another interesting perspective

wat? why is it still alive? the paragraph just ended like that, no further explanation? I get the feeling I should not trust these words. (Looking at the pre-2023 articles by the same writer, they are in a very different writing style. Sigh.)

That "ABOVE: aerial view of fortified structure of Sharba" picture though is amazing. Like it was swallowed by the sand, or it's an outgrowth, a welt being covered by a skin of sand.

And https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qanat (foggaras) is intriguing.

(And printed menus tend to have allergy info too, just like online menus sometimes don't.)