Tony Meredith · @Tony_Meredith
234 followers · 2170 posts · Server mastodon.me.ukSmall 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 #Anglophone
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??
https://www.dw.com/en/africas-rich-tapestry-of-languages/a-65921069
Patrick O'Beirne · @PatrickOBeirne
56 followers · 548 posts · Server mastodon.ieLong shot but let's try for international reach (RTs welcome)
A friend is writing an English language #guidebook to #Geneva, #Switzerland. I imagine that #anglophone #expats may not think to visit local - #francophone - bookshops.
What's a good way to reach English speakers in the #international sector? #Newspaper? Bulletin? #Forum? #VisitGeneva #Suisse #Romande
#Geneve #UN #UnitedNations #NationsUnies #tourism #tourisme #expat #frontaliers
#guidebook #geneva #switzerland #anglophone #expats #francophone #international #newspaper #forum #visitgeneva #suisse #romande #geneve #un #unitednations #nationsunies #tourism #tourisme #expat #frontaliers
Zane · @Zolyguy
48 followers · 208 posts · Server polyglot.cityAlso, I feel like this is mostly the #Anglophone world users on Mastodon. I follow tons of people from #Brazil and #Iran on #Bluesky, 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
DW English - Deutsche Welle · @dw
2916 followers · 3339 posts · Server mas.toAfrica’s Rich Tapestry of Languages
#the77Percent #Africa #africanyouth #Cameroon #Anglophone #Francophone #Ambazonia #Botswana #Nigeria #polyglot #GirlZOffMute #Donkeyracing #lamu #Kenya #healthcare #Dr.Champane
#dr #healthcare #kenya #lamu #donkeyracing #girlzoffmute #polyglot #nigeria #botswana #Ambazonia #francophone #anglophone #cameroon #africanyouth #africa #the77percent
Nadine · @nadine_nonny
128 followers · 48 posts · Server mas.toAlmost two dozen municipalities with #bilingual status in #Quebec are taking the provincial #government to court to challenge parts of the #French #language #law - #Bill96.
#Canada #anglophone #english
https://montreal.ctvnews.ca/over-20-municipalities-take-quebec-to-court-over-french-language-law-1.6431451
#english #anglophone #Canada #Bill96 #law #language #french #government #quebec #bilingual
Ecologia Digital · @josemurilo
77 followers · 49 posts · Server mato.social
"In the background to all this are rapid changes in #media consumption, with Silicon Valley slowly executing a strategy of cultural imperialism over the rest of the #Anglophone world (we share not only a #language, but the #platforms too)."
https://novaramedia.com/2023/01/25/britains-media-gatekeepers-are-no-match-for-americas/
#media #anglophone #language #platforms
Oyinbo · @Woolwich
42 followers · 162 posts · Server hachyderm.ioLesson of this story: #Westerners are #colonial by design.
If you're an #Anglophone #Westerner, your very bones are poisoned with #colonialMentality.
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
Oyinbo · @Woolwich
0 followers · 61 posts · Server hachyderm.io
Emeka Ajene :
Bonus startup: #fleri_global
#Fleri does something quite similar to #Susu, but with a bit different positioning & a different initial target market — Fleri serves #Anglophone #Africa
(The two companies will be in overlapping markets soon enough though)
#fleri_global #fleri #susu #anglophone #Africa
Mihailik 🌼🌼🌼🏃🏿♀️🌼🌼🌼 · @486timetable
41 followers · 512 posts · Server mstdn.socialIf you want to explore this whole meta-topic of earlier #African #Anglophone literature, great milestone to start is #Onitsha Market #Literature.
There are couple books about the phenomenon, absolutely fascinating.
Of course there's a whole corpus of #Arabic 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
Anupam Basu · @abasu
66 followers · 52 posts · Server mas.toReading this very interesting paper on #TrainingData sizes for #machinelearning applications like #LLM and #ComputerVision. 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 #Anglophone and perhaps #Western world, or how it perpetuates differences of #class and access in other places.
https://epochai.org/blog/will-we-run-out-of-ml-data-evidence-from-projecting-dataset
#class #western #anglophone #computervision #llm #machinelearning #TrainingData
mardub 🇫🇷🇸🇪 · @mardub
2 followers · 18 posts · Server piaille.fr@tillgrallert @quinnanya @cosima_wagner @elotroalex @roopikarisam @felwert @djwrisley @Jomla
" How do we avoid another #convergence on the #Anglophone #hegemony and #ASCII " 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
supernal resonance · @resonancewright
14 followers · 100 posts · Server infosec.exchangeAn underappreciated difference between the #US and #Canada is that #anglophone Canadian #politics and #culture 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 #Alberta 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
Jumbo · @jumbo
167 followers · 2210 posts · Server mas.toI use mas.to When I joined it was 90% #Asian teens tooting about #anime and lunch. Rest was mainly #Europeans tooting about random stuff not #anglophone. Low impact. Bliss.
#Twitter implodes. Now my feed is maybe 60% #USA users. It's USA everything. Tense. Some guy mentions #Tumblr entering #fediverse to cash-in. Fuck!
#Capitalists 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
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?
#québecois #québecoises #qcpoli #cdnpoli #bilingue #bilingulaism #multiculturalism #anglophone #allophone #francophonie #francophone #billC13 #bill101
#bill101 #billc13 #francophone #francophonie #allophone #anglophone #multiculturalism #bilingulaism #bilingue #cdnpoli #qcpoli #quebecoises #quebecois
SupDoc12 · @SupDoc12
274 followers · 74 posts · Server mastodon.nz
Fans of #audiobooks - I put out an audioversion of my #book 'Foundations' a few weeks ago. It's part #memoir part #familyhistory part #Campusnovel part #genealogy of #research set against a #history and critique of #colonialism across #francophone and #anglophone spaces including #Aotearoa #Australia the #Pacific #Louisiana #Europe #WestAfrica etc. Available from #Audible and most ather audiobook outlets. Also available in #paperback #ebook and #Kindle #5starratings
#audiobooks #book #memoir #familyhistory #campusnovel #genealogy #research #history #colonialism #francophone #anglophone #aotearoa #australia #pacific #louisiana #europe #westafrica #audible #paperback #ebook #kindle #5starratings
baegislash · @baegislash
34 followers · 23 posts · Server kolektiva.socialImportant PSA to Anglophones:
There is no Ñ in the word Habanero.
#psa #anglophone #Pronunciation #linguistics #spanish
Till Grallert · @tillgrallert
145 followers · 39 posts · Server digitalcourage.socialCan anyone point me to a write-up, #guidelines, #BestPractices etc. for dealing with the infrastructural importance of #hashtags on #mastodon? How do we avoid another #convergence on the #Anglophone #hegemony and #ASCII in #multilingual and #multiscriptoral communities? This is particularly important if #mastodon is to become a viable forum for #critical, #global #DigitalHumanities / #HumanidadesDigitales / #HumanitésNumériques / #الانسانيات_الرقمية.
Would be interested in @quinnanya @cosima_wagner @elotroalex @roopikarisam @felwert @djwrisley @Jomla thoughts
#الانسانيات_الرقمية #humanitésnumériques #HumanidadesDigitales #digitalhumanities #global #critical #multiscriptoral #multilingual #ascii #hegemony #anglophone #convergence #mastodon #hashtags #bestpractices #guidelines
Jumbo · @jumbo
140 followers · 2149 posts · Server mas.to
#Russia calls #Zuckerberg's wet dream an "extremist organisation". Russia is right about that but not in the way they mean.
Kicked out of #EU & Russia, where will Meta operate? #Anglophone ghetto?
Can't see any of Zuckerberg's unethical businesses surviving much longer. He will sell virtual reality stuff to #US military & retire to a bunker to sit out the end of the world like all American oligarchs eventually do.
#rosebud #xanadu #us #anglophone #eu #zuckerberg #russia
Jumbo · @jumbo
140 followers · 2149 posts · Server mas.to
As usual, I disagree with #The_Guardian editorial. As usual, Guardian writes as if #Anglophone zones were the whole planet. As usual, I remind Guardian it is not.
World pushes back N. American corporations no longer tolerated (#MacDonalds, #Starbucks, #Facebook/Meta, #Google etc) But this is not #deglobalisation. What has happened is the rise of #Chinese brands and a Chinese-led globalisation (#TikTok, #Huawei, #Alibaba etc)
I fear Chinese globalisation will be even worse.
#alibaba #huawei #tiktok #chinese #deglobalisation #Google #facebook #starbucks #MacDonalds #anglophone #The_Guardian
sebsauvage · @sebsauvage
10253 followers · 30576 posts · Server framapiaf.org
#ironème #anglophone #AuHasardDuNet
William shakes pear
(source: https://twitter.com/MarineBaron2/status/1452673408865611779)
#ironème #anglophone #AuHasardDuNet