Tony Meredith · @Tony_Meredith
234 followers · 2170 posts · Server mastodon.me.uk

Small thoughts. Some of us on mastodon feel unhappy about a lack of diversity and global coverage in our comfy local nests.
Today, nudged by something @transponderings said recently, I looked at
IMO it feels bad that this kind of post below didn't get picked up and shared a bit.
So. How can we do better in welcoming a bigger world into these online spaces??
dw.com/en/africas-rich-tapestr

#anglophone

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Patrick O'Beirne · @PatrickOBeirne
56 followers · 548 posts · Server mastodon.ie

Long shot but let's try for international reach (RTs welcome)

A friend is writing an English language to , . I imagine that may not think to visit local - - bookshops.
What's a good way to reach English speakers in the sector? ? Bulletin? ?

#guidebook #geneva #switzerland #anglophone #expats #francophone #international #newspaper #forum #visitgeneva #suisse #romande #geneve #un #unitednations #nationsunies #tourism #tourisme #expat #frontaliers

Last updated 1 year ago

Zane · @Zolyguy
48 followers · 208 posts · Server polyglot.city

Also, I feel like this is mostly the world users on Mastodon. I follow tons of people from and on , and they're mostly just being fun and wholesome. Do we just have more belligerent tendencies on social media in the US and greater anglosphere?

#anglophone #brazil #iran #bluesky

Last updated 1 year ago

DW English - Deutsche Welle · @dw
2916 followers · 3339 posts · Server mas.to
Nadine · @nadine_nonny
128 followers · 48 posts · Server mas.to
Ecologia Digital · @josemurilo
77 followers · 49 posts · Server mato.social

"In the background to all this are rapid changes in consumption, with Silicon Valley slowly executing a strategy of cultural imperialism over the rest of the world (we share not only a , but the too)."

novaramedia.com/2023/01/25/bri

#media #anglophone #language #platforms

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Oyinbo · @Woolwich
42 followers · 162 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Lesson of this story: are by design.

If you're an , your very bones are poisoned with .

Listen to the indigenous folks of those 'exotic' lands you're so keen to help, before opening your mouth.

#westerners #colonial #anglophone #westerner #colonialmentality #whitesavior #whitesupremacy #colonializm

Last updated 2 years ago

Oyinbo · @Woolwich
0 followers · 61 posts · Server hachyderm.io

Emeka Ajene :
Bonus startup:

does something quite similar to , but with a bit different positioning & a different initial target market — Fleri serves

(The two companies will be in overlapping markets soon enough though)

twitter.com/eajene/status/1614

#fleri_global #fleri #susu #anglophone #Africa

Last updated 2 years ago

@onceitwas @futurebird

If you want to explore this whole meta-topic of earlier literature, great milestone to start is Market .

There are couple books about the phenomenon, absolutely fascinating.

Of course there's a whole corpus of texts that stretch way deeper and richer than Anglophone literature.

Yet Islamic conquest in many parts of Africa brought local traditions into reach of written word.

Obscure for the US observer? Exactly!

#arabic #literature #onitsha #anglophone #african

Last updated 2 years ago

Anupam Basu · @abasu
66 followers · 52 posts · Server mas.to

Reading this very interesting paper on sizes for applications like and . Speaks to so many things that have been on my mind about the quality, size, curation and modeling of data. But one preliminary thought that jumps out is how this insistence on massive amounts of training data essentially focuses on the and perhaps world, or how it perpetuates differences of and access in other places.
epochai.org/blog/will-we-run-o

#class #western #anglophone #computervision #llm #machinelearning #TrainingData

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mardub 🇫🇷🇸🇪 · @mardub
2 followers · 18 posts · Server piaille.fr

@tillgrallert @quinnanya @cosima_wagner @elotroalex @roopikarisam @felwert @djwrisley @Jomla

" How do we avoid another on the and " A quoi ressemblerait un réseau qui n'a pas fait cette convergence selon vous? Avez vous un example de pratiques que vous attendez?

#convergence #anglophone #hegemony #ascii

Last updated 2 years ago

supernal resonance · @resonancewright
14 followers · 100 posts · Server infosec.exchange

An underappreciated difference between the and is that Canadian and have long benefitted from their firsthand 'there but for the grace of god' style closeup of the brassy excess and fool misrule that so often characterizes my home nation.

And yet these days I am worrying that never quite got that memo that what they're seeing out of the US is, in fact, a cautionary tale.

#us #canada #anglophone #politics #culture #alberta

Last updated 2 years ago

Jumbo · @jumbo
167 followers · 2210 posts · Server mas.to

@Ashpolt

I use mas.to When I joined it was 90% teens tooting about and lunch. Rest was mainly tooting about random stuff not . Low impact. Bliss.

implodes. Now my feed is maybe 60% users. It's USA everything. Tense. Some guy mentions entering to cash-in. Fuck!

will try to raid popular instances so I will keep jumping to new places to escape them, even host my own.

Instances = choice. Yeah!

#capitalists #Fediverse #tumblr #USA #Twitter #anglophone #Europeans #anime #asian

Last updated 2 years ago

André Darmanin (he/him) · @AndreDarmanin
18 followers · 92 posts · Server mstdn.social

I'm all about promotion of bilingualism in Canada. I'm not bilingual. The recent Census showed there was a decline in French within Canada. So is Bill C-13 amending the Official Languages Act meant to equal the playing field, especially for business, or is this a political ploy to save Liberal votes in Québec?

montrealgazette.com/opinion/co

#bill101 #billc13 #francophone #francophonie #allophone #anglophone #multiculturalism #bilingulaism #bilingue #cdnpoli #qcpoli #quebecoises #quebecois

Last updated 2 years ago

SupDoc12 · @SupDoc12
274 followers · 74 posts · Server mastodon.nz

Fans of - I put out an audioversion of my 'Foundations' a few weeks ago. It's part part part part of set against a and critique of across and spaces including the etc. Available from and most ather audiobook outlets. Also available in and

#audiobooks #book #memoir #familyhistory #campusnovel #genealogy #research #history #colonialism #francophone #anglophone #aotearoa #australia #pacific #louisiana #europe #westafrica #audible #paperback #ebook #kindle #5starratings

Last updated 2 years ago

baegislash · @baegislash
34 followers · 23 posts · Server kolektiva.social

Important PSA to Anglophones:

There is no Ñ in the word Habanero.

#psa #anglophone #Pronunciation #linguistics #spanish

Last updated 2 years ago

Till Grallert · @tillgrallert
145 followers · 39 posts · Server digitalcourage.social
Jumbo · @jumbo
140 followers · 2149 posts · Server mas.to

calls 's wet dream an "extremist organisation". Russia is right about that but not in the way they mean.

Kicked out of & Russia, where will Meta operate? ghetto?

Can't see any of Zuckerberg's unethical businesses surviving much longer. He will sell virtual reality stuff to military & retire to a bunker to sit out the end of the world like all American oligarchs eventually do.

He will call it & utter '' as he dies.

#rosebud #xanadu #us #anglophone #eu #zuckerberg #russia

Last updated 3 years ago

Jumbo · @jumbo
140 followers · 2149 posts · Server mas.to

As usual, I disagree with editorial. As usual, Guardian writes as if zones were the whole planet. As usual, I remind Guardian it is not.

World pushes back N. American corporations no longer tolerated (, , /Meta, etc) But this is not . What has happened is the rise of brands and a Chinese-led globalisation (, , etc)

I fear Chinese globalisation will be even worse.

#alibaba #huawei #tiktok #chinese #deglobalisation #Google #facebook #starbucks #MacDonalds #anglophone #The_Guardian

Last updated 3 years ago

sebsauvage · @sebsauvage
10253 followers · 30576 posts · Server framapiaf.org