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Aquí quiero hablar de música, libros, ciencia ficción, idiomas, bicicletas, transporte público, urbanismo y deportes (fútbol, béisbol, básquet y lo que surja), pero realmente soy periodista que investiga la desinformación. Toots en 🇨🇴🇮🇹🇺🇸🇷🇺💚

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pluralistic , to random
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Etiquette proposal: if you invite someone from another to a teleconference, the onus is on you to present all times in their local timezone, rather than your own - that is, the person asking should bear the labor of timezone conversions, not the person being asked.

derpoltergeist ,
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@pluralistic @kolya You can already solve this with a Doodle poll of your available times. All the recipients will see these times in their own time zone. I work with people all over America (the continent, not the country that stole the name), we usually have meetings with people in 8+ countries, and we send each other these polls pretty frequently, they work fairly well.

SimonRoyHughes , to bookstodon group
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Before buying an alleged translation ask yourself (and do the research): does the purpoted translator know the source language?

Before heeding the plaudits of a review of a translation (or of a "translation"), ask yourself (and do the the research): does the reviewer know the source language?

A "translation" by someone who doesn't know the source language is a (perfectly legitimate) retelling by an insecure writer (best case).

A review by someone who doesn't know the source language is only semi-competent as a review.

@translators @writingcommunity @writing @reading @bookstodon

derpoltergeist ,
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@Enema_Cowboy @SimonRoyHughes @translators @writingcommunity @writing @reading @bookstodon Hello, I'm a native Spanish speaker who has read the original Don Quixote a few times: it's like it's in a related, but different language (for example, the x now in Spanish makes a completely different sound, so we spell the name Don Quijote). I can understand it, but the reading doesn't flow, it takes extra effort. Similar to you reading, say, Shakespeare.

derpoltergeist , to libros group Spanish
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Desde 2019 estaba haciendo un hilo, en la otra red social, con pensamientos breves sobre cada libro que me terminaba. Como no voy a volver por allá, voy a seguirlo aquí.

Quizás los spamee un poco por aquí hoy mientras me pongo al día.

Por si les interesa, aquí iba el hilo: https://twitter.com/derpoltergeist/status/1575707346457989120

Y aquí las mismas reseñas, pero en The Storygraph: https://app.thestorygraph.com/user_reviews/pablusioumeo

@libros

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[10 de diciembre de 2022]

(Este me lo leí en portugués y una de las reglas de este hilo es escribir el pensamiento en el idioma en el que leo, pero mi portugués no da para eso):

El pasado no está fijo, el pasado está en constante reescritura. Es más, el presente es poco más que una reescritura constante del pasado. Luchar contra esa transformación es inútil.

@libros

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[February 10, 2023]

Technologies that make content available don't have to be monopolized by big tech companies. We can fight back for them.

@bookstodon

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[14 de febrero de 2023]

El miedo y la paranoia que no sólo se aprenden, sino que se interiorizan, se somatizan, al crecer en una ciudad peligrosa nunca desaparecen, ni al estar en un mejor lugar, ni al estar en una mejor circunstancia. Esto, en parte, hace que hagamos de nuestras ciudades latinoamericanas archipiélagos inconexos de lugares que nos parecen seguros. Pero también que nuestra sed de justicia está tan poco saciada que a veces no vemos la humanidad de los otros.

@libros

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[March 16th, 2023]

When you are subject to cruelty, you are prone to fostering cruelty, even if you think you are creating justice.

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derpoltergeist OP ,
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[March 31, 2023]

Some of the digital communication tools we use disembody us to the point that a literal disembodiment goes unnoticed in this story: at work we become only our productivity. Our bodies are irrelevant for most interactions, they matter only for those who actually want to get close.

@bookstodon

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[27 de abril de 2023]

El poder corrompe sin excepción. No importa lo consciente que se sea de esto, de los planes al respecto, de las intenciones, el poder corrompe sin excepción.

@libros

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[May 27, 2023]

There can be mastery in being self-referential, in making your characters be overtly explicit in where they (and we are) in your own plot. There is a good, effective way in guiding your readers through a mystery story, without revealing the solution.

@bookstodon

derpoltergeist OP ,
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[May 30, 2023]

Music is not only about notes and rhythm, it is about connection, and there is no deeper connection that the bond you create with the artists, songs and albums that define your youth, that shape you into the human you will be, that make you realize where you want to go in life. There is no greater joy that finding that sound, no greater pain when it sounds out of tune, no better feeling that knowing you've learned how to find a new, different tune to guide you.

@bookstodon

Book cover of "Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest" by Hanif Abdurraqib: a gold, red and green text that reads "This is the third book by Hanif Abdurraqib. It is a love letter to a group, a sound, and an era. It is called Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to a Tribe Called Quest" over a black background.
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    • derpoltergeist OP ,
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    [June 21, 2023]

    Our society, our collective and our self is based on so many things that we take for granted, that if we change one of those things, it ends up being eery, almost a horror story. But even then, there is power in company, humanity can adapt.

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    derpoltergeist OP ,
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    [July 16, 2023]

    [Second read]

    Evil comes from wilful ignorance, from treating others' dreams and aspirations as subhuman, and discarding them if they get in the way of your own aspirations and goals.

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    derpoltergeist OP ,
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    [July 19, 2023]
    [Second read]

    Not only things can't exist without their opposite (male/female, war/peace/, winter/summer, etc.), opposites aren't fixed values, someone has to think about them and define them.

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    derpoltergeist OP ,
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    [20 de agosto de 2023]

    Los géneros literarios son un artefacto de mercadeo, por lo que las barreras entre la ciencia ficción, la fantasía y el folclor realmente no son tan grandes como a veces imaginamos.

    @libros

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    [August 21, 2023]

    Fascism comes slowly, but it grabs a hold by strongly categorizing people into well-defined roles and making them lust for the little privileges each rung of the ladder seems to offer, blinding them to the big picture.

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