Notices by マリオ (Mario Menti) (mario@neko.cat), page 3

I think WaniKani heard about something happening in the US today 😅

@timnitGebru yeah, got aboput 15 or so throughout the day (so not as bad as some other recent cases). Didn't bother to scan the QR codes though :)

@skinnylatte are you there to help them scale up?

@tpherndon @mariolistens it's pretty noisy though (as in, loads of posts)...

Sad to hear that botsin.space is shutting down, but understand the reasons (time, cost, etc....)

In the very unlikely event you want to see every little thing I listen to, I moved my bot @mariolistens to my own instance now 😁

@AncTreat5358 black and white photo 😁 Yellow eyes really

Happy black #Caturday

#CatsOfMastodon

I appreciate it when Japanese words are very literal. I've just come across 各駅停車 ( かくえきていしゃ、kakuekiteisha). I hadn't seen it before, but I know all the four kanji, so you can put them all together and sometimes (not always 😁) the combination makes sense and you can get the meaning.

In this case, 各 each 駅 station 停 halt 車 car = local train (a train that stops at every station). 💡

#LearningJapanese #日本語を勉強する

"I'm invisible!" 😹
#CatsOfMastodon

@cr1901 "When copies of business letters were so produced, it was customary to use the acronym "CC" or "cc" before a colon and below the writer's signature to inform the principal recipient that carbon copies had been made and distributed to the parties listed after the colon."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carbon_copy

With today's announcement that FAZI / 法兹 have been added to next years Portals Festival, it's a good time to share this very lovely album.

Folding Story / 折叠故事 | FAZI / 法兹
https://wearefazi.bandcamp.com/album/folding-story

Good news for my literary translator friends 😁

The study also makes an interesting point about the lack of valid evaluation metrics for literary translation:
"They underscored the need for evaluation metrics that capture the cultural, stylistic, and creative nuances of literary translation — elements that fall beyond traditional sentence-level machine translation (MT) evaluation."

#translation

https://slator.com/large-language-models-no-match-for-humans-in-literary-translation-study-finds/

"Oxfam’s research found that fifty of the world’s richest billionaires produce on average more carbon emissions in under three hours than the average British person does in their entire lifetime."

Further proof that billionaires should simply not exist. They are poisoning society and are literally killing us all.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/28/carbon-emissions-of-richest-1-increase-hunger-poverty-and-deaths-says-oxfam?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

Autumn Sun(day)

I went to church to worship MONO 🙏❤️

#mono

#nowplaying #drums

I was looking forward to being able to order my TfL 60+ card for - mostly - free travel in London today (you're supposed to be able to order it 2 weeks before your 60th birthday), so imagine my disappointment when it turns out that due to the recent cyber attack on TfL, it's still not possible to order them.

It was one of the few good things about turning 60! 😭 😂

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/transport/tfl-cyber-attack-zip-cards-60-oyster-applications-reopen-b1189921.html

@matias lol 😂

@matias yeah, I never worked in HR in my life 😂

@matias I don't even know what that is 😅