Sitting in a riad in Casablanca, Morocco, reading about Selk'nam (a language and people from Chile / Argentina) on Wikipedia and then following a tangent to this article about language revival:
The American perspective is strong here watch out, but there were some interesting tidbits I hadnt heard before, like "Kōhanga Reo" or language nests. Nor did I know that Hawaiian was banned in schools till 1986.
we all have such wildly different terms for everything. there no such thing as speaking the same language. I have never in my life spoken the same language as another human.
If you have notes in Evernote it might be a good time to make sure they are safely backed up! Evernote looks to have fired almost all its employees.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36609641
this is frankly amazing, ai summarization of hacker news into podcast format. I would listen to my fedi feed as a podcast if it was done in a way that was just for me and not uploaded to a proprietary service