The Guardian

Stop making sense: focus on sounds to help learn a language, study suggests

Research shows that the best linguists process unfamiliar foreign speech sounds more like non-speech sounds If you want to get really good at French, Arabic or Hungarian, don’t start with rote ...
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Sil on X: "Hmm I believe that if you need to censor every dirty word in your smut (c*ck, f*ck, d*ick, p*ssy) throughout the fic, maybe you shouldn’t be writing smut? "

Hmm I believe that if you need to censor every dirty word in your smut (c*ck, f*ck, d*ick, p*ssy) throughout the fic, maybe you shouldn’t be writing smut? 🥹 ...
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Ari on X: "Arknights has got to have the stupidest censor system ever dude. Wdym “1st Squad”is banned hello? It was named that when I INSTALLED THE GAME?! If it has a ...

Arknights has got to have the stupidest censor system ever dude. Wdym “1st Squad”is banned hello? It was named that when I INSTALLED THE GAME?! If it has a banned word why was it named that by default ...
Reuters

New Zealand censor says it would be powerless to block livestreamed US execution

Pentagon says Nidal Hasan's December 3 execution by firing squad to be livestreamed New Zealand censor says law sets high threshold for banning harmful content Amnesty International Australia urges PM ...
Fast Company

New research: Avoid these 3-word phrases if you don’t want to sound like AI

With each new model, artificial intelligence is getting closer and closer to replicating human writing—but it’s not there yet. Anthropic says its newest model for Claude, Opus 5.5, “communicates more ...