Daisy Rockwell
@shreedaisy.bsky.social
Artist, writer, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉
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Norman Rockwell was an anti-racist, as you can see from this 1962 celebrity questionnaire in Esquire.
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we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
December 15, 2025 at 5:11 PM
we can kill them all if we just work together and ✨believe💫
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Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
December 15, 2025 at 2:07 PM
Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.
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International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026’s 16-book Longlist
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026’s 16-book Longlist
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
arablit.org
December 15, 2025 at 12:19 PM
International Prize for Arabic Fiction Announces 2026’s 16-book Longlist
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
The International Prize for Arabic Fiction today announced 2026's judges and 16-book longlist.
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It’s the right time of the year to post a painting of a turtle dove. Painted on cradle gesso panel, with a pure silver leaf sky. These gentle birds, now much endangered well once the background sound to our childhood summers.
December 15, 2025 at 8:56 AM
It’s the right time of the year to post a painting of a turtle dove. Painted on cradle gesso panel, with a pure silver leaf sky. These gentle birds, now much endangered well once the background sound to our childhood summers.
This is the way to defend our honor!
Please alert the entire literary translation world that me and this guy now officially have beef, and if I see him it’s bare knuckles Queensbury rules. Margaret Jull Costa is a hero to me and her name must be defended
December 14, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is the way to defend our honor!
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Take away a translator's dictionaries, knowledge of grammar, experience overseas, decades of research and deep reading, professional development over the course of a lifetime, coffee, and a deep-seated self-loathing that first brought them to the profession and they have nothing.
michael hofmann (translator, writer) has seemed to me like an ass before, and yet again:
“But these are translators: take away their originals and their dictionaries (and their lazy cognates) and they have nothing.”
(latest LRB, review of Margaret Jull Costa’s Vallejo translations)
“But these are translators: take away their originals and their dictionaries (and their lazy cognates) and they have nothing.”
(latest LRB, review of Margaret Jull Costa’s Vallejo translations)
December 13, 2025 at 11:10 PM
Take away a translator's dictionaries, knowledge of grammar, experience overseas, decades of research and deep reading, professional development over the course of a lifetime, coffee, and a deep-seated self-loathing that first brought them to the profession and they have nothing.
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Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202
December 14, 2025 at 4:07 PM
Childe Hassam, "Late Afternoon, New York Winter," 1900, from collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art www.brooklynmuseum.org/objects/1202
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This is basically EVERY university in the Anglophone world.
They claim financial exigency, but then turn down $4 million pledges to keep the PhD programs open and disregard financial analyses that point to the real problem—bad real estate deals, spending on consultants, and their own salaries 2/2
December 13, 2025 at 3:55 PM
This is basically EVERY university in the Anglophone world.
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Chomsky’s language ideologies have directly contributed to a culture of linguistics in America where arrogant Anglophone children scoff at you if you dare ask them if they speak something besides English
Where was our great anti-colonial leftist hero? Encouraging it.
Where was our great anti-colonial leftist hero? Encouraging it.
December 13, 2025 at 3:58 AM
Chomsky’s language ideologies have directly contributed to a culture of linguistics in America where arrogant Anglophone children scoff at you if you dare ask them if they speak something besides English
Where was our great anti-colonial leftist hero? Encouraging it.
Where was our great anti-colonial leftist hero? Encouraging it.
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Hi folks — I’m back on the job market and open to roles + freelance work in language and localisation.
I work across Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Angika and over the last few years I’ve taught, translated, interpreted, edited, and generally helped people communicate better across contexts. 🧵
I work across Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Angika and over the last few years I’ve taught, translated, interpreted, edited, and generally helped people communicate better across contexts. 🧵
December 13, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Hi folks — I’m back on the job market and open to roles + freelance work in language and localisation.
I work across Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Angika and over the last few years I’ve taught, translated, interpreted, edited, and generally helped people communicate better across contexts. 🧵
I work across Hindi, Odia, Bhojpuri, Magahi and Angika and over the last few years I’ve taught, translated, interpreted, edited, and generally helped people communicate better across contexts. 🧵
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Lucien Guitry and Granne Granier
November 29, 2025 at 2:15 AM
Lucien Guitry and Granne Granier
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Japanese artist Nana Akua photographed her grandmother's embroidery work - Temari, a folk art meaning ‘hand ball’ given as special gifts #WomensArt
December 12, 2025 at 4:31 AM
Japanese artist Nana Akua photographed her grandmother's embroidery work - Temari, a folk art meaning ‘hand ball’ given as special gifts #WomensArt
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“Inequality is silent until it becomes scandalous”
1% of Indians take 40% of national income: latest World Inequality Report. Kavitha Iyer reports how such inequality entrenches unequal opportunities, worsen health & education outcomes for the poor.
article-14.com/post/the-hid...
1% of Indians take 40% of national income: latest World Inequality Report. Kavitha Iyer reports how such inequality entrenches unequal opportunities, worsen health & education outcomes for the poor.
article-14.com/post/the-hid...
The Hidden Cost Of India’s Economic Boom: Inequality At Historic High, As Wealth & Income Growth Leave Out Millions
The World Inequality Report 2026 finds India’s celebrated growth story sitting atop deep and record inequality. The country remains one of the world’s most unequal, and an extreme concentration of eco...
article-14.com
December 12, 2025 at 4:00 AM
“Inequality is silent until it becomes scandalous”
1% of Indians take 40% of national income: latest World Inequality Report. Kavitha Iyer reports how such inequality entrenches unequal opportunities, worsen health & education outcomes for the poor.
article-14.com/post/the-hid...
1% of Indians take 40% of national income: latest World Inequality Report. Kavitha Iyer reports how such inequality entrenches unequal opportunities, worsen health & education outcomes for the poor.
article-14.com/post/the-hid...
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BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
December 11, 2025 at 10:06 PM
BREAKING: Democrats and Republicans in Congress just voted to pass the Protect America’s Workforce Act to restore federal workers’ union rights – the first time the House has voted to overturn a Trump executive order in this term. https://bit.ly/4oNyBQc
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December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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A new dataset, stored at a repository housed at Sciences Po's Centre for International Studies (CERI) and published in India by The Caravan, sheds light on the global network of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), identifying over 2,500 organisations tied to the RSS.”
Exposing the largest far-right network in history
What the world’s first network map of the RSS, revealing over twenty-five hundred organisations with concrete, traceable, material ties leading to the organisation, tell us about how the Sangh functio...
caravanmagazine.in
December 11, 2025 at 12:30 PM
A new dataset, stored at a repository housed at Sciences Po's Centre for International Studies (CERI) and published in India by The Caravan, sheds light on the global network of the RSS (Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh), identifying over 2,500 organisations tied to the RSS.”
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December 11, 2025 at 6:20 PM
…is antifa in the room with you now?
GLASHEEN: Antifa is our primary concern right now. That's the most immediate violent threat we're facing
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
BENNIE THOMPSON: Where is antifa headquartered?
GLASHEEN: ... ... ... we are building out the infrastructure right now
THOMPSON: What does that mean?
December 11, 2025 at 6:18 PM
…is antifa in the room with you now?
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The only reason “hallucinates less” is now a metric of progress is rich people decided so and our media landscape is almost entirely captured by these rich people’s rich mates. That’s the only reason.
GPT-5.2 is here. OpenAI calls GPT-5.2 the best model yet for professionals, and says it “hallucinates less” and is more accurate than GPT-5.1 www.theverge.com/ai-artificia...
OpenAI’s GPT-5.2 is its latest front in the agentic AI battle
It “hallucinates less” than GPT-5.1, according to the company.
www.theverge.com
December 11, 2025 at 6:15 PM
The only reason “hallucinates less” is now a metric of progress is rich people decided so and our media landscape is almost entirely captured by these rich people’s rich mates. That’s the only reason.
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Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling. africasacountry.com/2025/12/minn...
Minnesota was promised to us
Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling.
africasacountry.com
December 11, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Somalis have answered Trump’s latest racist tirade not with outrage but with a tidal wave of trolling. africasacountry.com/2025/12/minn...
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I was told this is called “AI veganism.” So be it 🌱
OBVIOUSLY do not use AI, at all. AT ALL, for anything. I don’t wanna hear about the theoretical good version, it’s not what they’re pushing on us. The absolute worst people in the world have gone all in on this shit, and it needs to be starved out as much as possible. AI: not even once!
Sec. Hegseth rolled out the U.S. military’s new AI platform, GenAi.Mil, with a link to an empty website. trib.al/tbCJAkT
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
Predictably, the platform can’t actually be accessed from external networks, but the wonky rollout triggered eyerolls across the internet.
December 9, 2025 at 10:31 PM
I was told this is called “AI veganism.” So be it 🌱