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least often elsewhere. Posts are matched on those words alone —
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19 September
American software engineer; worked on code-server at Coder and teaches TypeScript and open-source contribution. Publishes at joeprevite.com.
17 September
Bulgarian-born writer and founder of The Marginalian (formerly Brain Pickings), a reader-funded blog on books, science, art and philosophy running since 2006.
Economic historian at Columbia; writes Chartbook on economics, geopolitics and history, and wrote Crashed and The Deluge.
15 September
Librarian, technology instructor and writer in rural Vermont; longtime community manager at MetaFilter and author of a book on the digital divide.
Excellent free zine about overcoming voting barriers in the US "Plenty of people hit a wall when they try to vote. Their name is missing from the voter list. The mail ballot never showed up. The signature on the envelope doesn't match. Someone at the door tells them they can't. None of that happens by chance. This guide covers the barriers that come up most often, and what to do about each one. English and Spanish versions are the same zine" From @monteiro and friends howtovote.tips
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Psychologist and writer. Author of the memoir Troubled: A Memoir of Foster Care, Family, and Social Class, and of a newsletter on human nature, psychology, social class and what he calls luxury beliefs.
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The deniers of free will haven't improved society. They have merely produced a more forgiving vocabulary for those who damage it.
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robkhenderson.com
30 August
Writer and researcher, founder of New Science; writes essays on science funding, sleep research, productivity and ambition at guzey.com.
"Let me google it" has been completely replaced by "Let me ask chat about it" in my vocabulary. And chat is so much better. Google Related
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Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
7 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
2 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
1 August
Polyglot; founded Fluent in 3 Months and argues for speaking from day one rather than waiting until you are ready.
23 June
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
13 April
Polyglot who speaks twenty languages and co-founded LingQ; argues that comprehensible input, not study, is what does the work.
21 August 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
14 August 2025
Polyglot and language coach; teaches translating back and forth from a text as the core exercise.
How to Improve Vocabulary: A Practical Method Figuring out how to improve vocabulary can be frustrating, but with the right approach, it's a skill anyone can master. A good friend of mine was once in a Paris restaurant, confidently trying to order a steak for dinne…
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Irish independent game developer, maker of VVVVVV, Super Hexagon and Dicey Dungeons.
Just released a v1.1 patch for my Other Games. Things are feeling pretty stable, so this might be the last one? Highlights are: it shows a pop-up on itch for achievements now, it has improved accessibility options, and I added Japanese and LATAM Spanish localisations: terrycavanagh.itch.io
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I think that the Spanish and the Portuguese get unfairly maligned in what’s been called the Black Legend, that they just marched into America and murdered everyone. That’s not the fact. It was the diseases that murdered everyone.
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17 April 2024
Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
26 December 2023
Machine learning engineer working on recommender systems, personalization and information retrieval. Previously worked on LLMs and LLM infrastructure at Mozilla.ai and on ML and recsys at Duo, Tumblr, Automattic and Comcast; wrote the 'What are embeddings?' text and ran the Normconf conference.
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The Outlaws by Javier Cercas - This book, translated from Spanish, covers the years of Spain after the Franco dictatorship but only obliquely hints at them.
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vickiboykis.com
29 November 2023
Development economist; argues that letting people move to rich countries does more for the poor than aid, and wrote Let Their People Come.
immigration
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Governments should create three tracks for people who come to live in their country. One track is that of people who hope to become Spanish. Another is that of those who we are going to allow to live and work here; the third is that of those of we are going to allow to be in Spain out of necessity.
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3 November 2022
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
16 August 2022
Language mentor and polyglot; teaches people to design their own learning method rather than follow a course.
21 September 2021
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10 September 2019
Software engineer; co-founder and former CTO of Tailscale, previously on the Go team at Google.
Zero Trust Networks 2019-09-10 I am leery of jargon. I am as guilty of using it as the next engineer, but there comes a point where there are just too many precise, narrowly-understood terms polluting your vocabulary. The circle of people…
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Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
27 May 2013
Author of Fluent Forever and founder of the app of the same name; teaches pronunciation first and vocabulary through images rather than translation.
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A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one
sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at
korrents.com .
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said.
The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in
korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who
else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public
statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
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About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they
do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in
this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the
serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to
quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter,
especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked
article and a belief on korrents.com
are left in their original language.
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