







If caring solved i18n, it would already be solved. Part two of a cognitive linguist's response to #ATmosphereConf — this time to @vicwalker.dev.br . Three cases, three misdiagnoses. plurality.leaflet.pub/3mit3ebov6s25
The Clinic: Three Cases from the Other Side of i18n - Nightflight
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Jan Kulveit on Twitter / X
To take the most egregious example, in the tweet you say"No. Agents lines of code. They do not feel emotions, assume things, think things, want things, or figure things out." [frame is asking people to not use such language]This is wrong on many levels.The meta-problem is…— Jan Kulveit (@jankulveit) September 1, 2026
We Should be Able to Change our Languages — Jimmy Miller
It's time we stopped treating languages as sacred fixed objects. We need now, more than ever, languages we can change.
Anthropic on Twitter / X
New Anthropic research: A global workspace in language models.Of everything happening in your brain right now, only a tiny fraction is consciously accessible—thoughts you can describe, hold in mind, and reason with.We found a strikingly similar divide inside Claude. pic.twitter.com/aLUPBifxth— Anthropic (@AnthropicAI) July 6, 2026
The Lexicon Interop Problem - anuj's leaflets
Competing AT platforms are using different lexicons. Should we be worried?
MMitchell on Twitter / X
If you haven't read this piece on language use in around AI, you definitely should. Great work from @emilymbender , @NannaInie and @peter_zukerman with solutions for what to call things we backoff to just anthropomorphising. pic.twitter.com/HxdA7Im57h— MMitchell (@mmitchell_ai) July 6, 2026

Positech@CSCW2026
People care about climate change, injustice, and humanitarian crises. The challenge is not apathy but capacity: sustained engagement with large-scale problems is psychologically costly, and social media architecture often amplifies awareness while providing few pathways to meaningful action.
Large Language Muddle | The Editors
The AI upheaval is unique in its ability to metabolize any number of dread-inducing transformations. The university is becoming more corporate, more politically oppressive, and all but hostile to the humanities? Yes — and every student gets their own personal chatbot. The second coming of the Trump Administration has exposed the civic sclerosis of the US body politic? Time to turn the Social Security Administration over to Grok. Climate apocalypse now feels less like a distant terror than a fact of life? In three years, roughly a tenth of US energy demand will come from data centers alone.


Livetweet @mcxfrank.bsky.social talk: If we care about intelligence and cognition, AI has recently allowed a change; we now have two ways to study them. AI is of course allowing us a lot that we wouldn't dare on our Children (brain surgery, never tell a child about cats...) #acl #conll
to my i18n experts, is there a type out there that I can use in my lexicons? I want to be language friendly, but alas am ignorant!
Common "langs" type?
discourse.atmosphere.communityFull essay below. Written at @bmann.ca 's prompting in the Discourse thread — language barriers keeping atproto's non-English implementations out of the design conversation. night-terrace.offprint.app/a/3mlxygoehwd23-three-layers-…
Three Layers of Post Editing in atproto: A Case for History-Preserving Design | Nighthaven⛺︎ | Offprint
night-terrace.offprint.appExperience Localization: what non-English communities need from ATProto. A spec request from Bluesky's second-largest language community. Five asks for @alexbenzer.com's Discover team. Responds to @vicwalker.dev.br and @signez.fr at #ATmosphereConf. plurality.leaflet.pub/3mhunxn7y3s22 $ATOPR ▰▰▰▰▱
Experience Localization: What Non-English Communities Actually Need from ATProto - Nightflight
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