Alasdair MacCaluim

Spiderman, Spiderman, nì e a h-uile rud a nì dàmhan-allaidh...

Chan eil e ag obair cho math 's a Ghàidhlig!

Taing Simon!

Iomairt bheag – Caledonian Sleeper Gach turas a bhios mi a’ dol a Lunnainn, ’s e an trèana-oidhche, an cadalaiche “The Caledonian Sleeper” a bhios mi a’ faighinn. Tha mi air sgrìobhadh mu dheidhinn an s…

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'S math sin!

Feasgar math! Tha #Gàidhlig agam.

The black pudding of time – turas gu Allt nam Breac agus Fors an-Àird Bidh fios aig luchd-leughadh cunbhalach gu bheil mi beò-ghlaicte le Loidhne a’ Chinn a Tuath eadar Inbhir Nis agus Inbhir Ùige/Inbhir Theòrsa. Chaidh mi air turas eile ann tràth san Iuchar ai…

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An dòchas gun tèid seo air adhart.... Pròiseact cudromach dhan lìonra agus dhan Chuimrigh.

Sign the Petition Rename Birmingham Airport as Ozzy Osbourne International

Athchuinge gus ainm ùr a chur air port-adhair Birmingham gus urram a thoirt gu "Prionnsa an Dorchadais" www.change.org/p/rename-bir....

Tha mi ag iarraidh "The Sensational Alex Harvey International Airport" ann an Glaschu a-nis! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alex_Ha...

Petition: Grant Cornwall nation status We urge the UK Government to formally recognize Cornwall as a nation, granting it equal status to Wales and Scotland. This includes devolved powers, cultural preservation, and official recognition of ...

Athchuinge do Phàrlamaid na RA mu bhith ag aithneachadh na Cùirne mar nàisean:

petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...

Cornwall Council passes motion calling for Cornwall to be recognised as the UK’s fifth nation Cornwall Council has today (July 22) backed a motion calling on the Government to formally recognise Cornwall as the fifth nation of the United Kingdom, alongside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern...

Cornwall Council has today (July 22) backed a motion calling on the Government to formally recognise Cornwall as the fifth nation of the United Kingdom, alongside England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland

Cornwall Council has voted in favour of the motion calling on the Government to formally recognise Cornwall as the UK’s fifth nation, and to reach a devolution settlement that properly reflects Cornish national identity.

(Well, they said it in English but I translated it for fun!)

Has nobody listened to the warning in "Metal Gods" by Judas Priest?

"Cha tug ar planaid an aire
Rè an fhicheadamh linn
Gun robh teicneolas a rinn sin
Air tighinn beò leis fhèin

A' caismeachd air an t-sràid
Le casan iarainn àrd'
Le cridhe stàlainn fuar
A' marbhadh gun sgur!"

Glè mhath! Mholainn iad.

Sometimes I think about Wikipedia, and what they're trying to do, and what they could be, and compare their budget with the funding for LLM slop machines, and it drives me a little insane. We tried to build a library of Alexandria that would not burn, then tried a library of babel for profit.

Èibhleag ùr air a’ Ghàidhealtachd – bus dealanach gu Gallaibh Tha mi gu math dèidheil air a’ chomapanaidh coidse eadar-chathrach Albannach Ember. Thoisich iad le seirbheis eadar Dùn Dè agus Dùn Èideann agus an uair sin eadar Dùn Dè is Glaschu agus tha iad air…

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"I'm sorry, but our large language model shows that dangerous advice is more statistically likely than correct advice. Please conform to the statistics by being dead."

why AI should not replace human translators #38265073

"A striking example from Prof Federici's research showed the risks of unchecked machine translation of cancer information, with "Don't stay at home if you develop a fever" being translated as "Do stay at home"

www.ciol.org.uk/ai-translati...

Tha sinn ag obair còmhla ri @byleaveswelive.bsky.social gus piseach a thoirt air a’ ghainnead de bàrdachd cho-aimsireil Ghàidhlig do chloinn.
Fiosrachadh an seo ⬇️

Given widespread UK misreporting on EVs it's worth noting…

* New EVs only cost ~14% more than petrol
* New EVs to reach "price parity" by 2026-28
* 2nd hand EVs already cheaper
* EV drivers can save £1,000/year on fuel
* The vast majority of EV drivers save money overall
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Sounds like the similarly daft, inaccurate and divisive view sometimes heard in the Gaelic world - "aaargh - the learners and cities are getting all the money and all the support".

Tha e gruamach sa cheann a tuath! Turas gu Hawes Chaidh mi air turas rèile gu Hawes anns na Yorkshire Dales aig deireadh na seachdain. Carson? Tha e a’ toirt dhomh deagh leisgeil a dhol air an rathad-iarainn as dreachmhoire agus as cliùitiche ann…

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#cleachdi

Mo chiad “extreme day-trip”? Bha tòrr sna pàipearan bho chionn ghoirid mu “extreme day-trips”. Sin nuair a tha daoine a’ dol air turas fada fada air plèana agus air ais san aon latha. Thug mi sùil air bhideo no dhà bho chionn …

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Absolutely delighted to be at the launch of The Lass and The Quine by Ashley Douglas and Kate Osmond, Scotland’s first LGBT+ picture book in Scots. This beautiful book, published by Tippermuir Books is in your #localbookshop now.

If you type -AI in the search bar before all of your google searches, it doesn't give you the AI summary.

Tha seo coltach ri rudeigin a chitheadh tu ann am bhideo air choreigin aig @jagohazzard.bsky.social! 'S e an aon rud nach eil agad an seo iomradh air Charles Tyson Yerkes!

Broc na ruith air staran, feur tioram ri fhaicinn air gach taobh dheth. https://zastita-prirode.hr/clanci/jazavac-cinjenice/

Barail a’ bhruic air a ladhran.
The badger’s opinion of his own claws, i.e. a poor opinion.
(1881 Nicolson Proverbs 382)

Scotslanguage.com - Scots-Yiddish: A Dialect Re-imagined The Jewish immigrants from Tsarist Russia and Eastern Europe brought to every city in which they settled a mother language, the mamaloshen, known as Yiddish, along with Hebrew, their language of relig...

“The late David Kaye recalled hearing a snatch of conversation on the street in the Gorbals … in the 1950s. In response to a neighbour’s question, Ach, are you weel?, came the response: Oy, vay’z mir, ich hob ayn gey sair heid”
—via @scotslanguage.bsky.social
www.scotslanguage.com/articles/nod...

'Whit a wonder it wud be, fur young Scots tae hae thir ain wey ae talkin (ae bein) validatit ootwae the confines ae the iver-ignored literary sphere.'

From Colin Bramwell's report, 'Oan Scots and Respair', published in PN Review 283: www.pnreview.co.uk/archive/oan-...

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