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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
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Do they call The Walrus "Wally" for short?@dlakelan No we call it the Walrus
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc @britt #CraigBaird #CanadianHistoryEhx
And, if you see a house hippo, thank Craig for ... the house hippo
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc and don’t forget The Narwhal (real) 😊
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc
I get all my news from The Howler -
Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc As for me, I see the Beaverton as a valuable purveyor of news that must first be sifted for ironic humour. Your klicks per Litre may vary.
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc Don't forget the Narwhal is also real news somehow
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@dlakelan No we call it the Walrus
Missed opportunity I guess. 😅
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc makes sense... more tusk = more veracity. this is why i only believe news i read on mastodon too
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc I wish This Is That was still on CBC - the bilingual dog episode was classic
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/no-dogs-don-t-have-to-be-bilingual-in-montreal-1.1191892
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc How dare you accuse the Beaverton to be fake news !
Like its US counterpart The Onion and long ago predecessor the Weekly World News, The Beaverton is a serious news outlet with headlines like:
Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada “with some regret”Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to run red light
Quebec legislators brainstorming ideas for which religion to scapegoat next
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc Walruses are VERY serious animals.
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@Crazypedia @mcc eh, reality and satire are basically the same these days.
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc and the Rhinoceros is, somehow, both.
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc In my time in Canada I have not heard of this The Walrus
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@mcc In my time in Canada I have not heard of this The Walrus
@brainsoup They're not super prominent they're like a Canadian Mother Jones or Atlantic or something
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Welcome to Canada. Okay so what you need to understand is that if you see a link to "the Walrus" that's a real news article but if you see a link to "the Beaver" that's a fake news article
@mcc @PapyrusBrigade and The Beaverton is our "The Onion," so beware satire.
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@mcc @britt #CraigBaird #CanadianHistoryEhx
And, if you see a house hippo, thank Craig for ... the house hippo
There’s a 2.0 version of the PSA, because, who could argue it’s not needed…
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@brainsoup They're not super prominent they're like a Canadian Mother Jones or Atlantic or something
@mcc I feel just a little bit more Canadian today
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@mcc How dare you accuse the Beaverton to be fake news !
Like its US counterpart The Onion and long ago predecessor the Weekly World News, The Beaverton is a serious news outlet with headlines like:
Carney says he supports US invading Iran, Cuba, and possibly Canada “with some regret”Danielle Smith uses notwithstanding clause to run red light
Quebec legislators brainstorming ideas for which religion to scapegoat next
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@ilcomizietto Ragioniere, cazzi lei!
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titolo: la naftalina di Eta Beta! 🤪
scattata com'è venuta...
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11 Marzo, 2026 14:56
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@ddelemeny@mastodon.xyz @silverpill@mitra.social The confidence comes from an asymmetry I suspect many non-native speakers will recognize: I can read English much better than I can write it.
When I write in English on my own, I often know, as I'm writing, that something is off—that the sentence doesn't carry the weight I intended, or that the nuance I wanted is somewhere between the words I've chosen. I just don't always know how to fix it. When I write in Korean first and then work with an LLM, I can read the result and check it against what I meant. Sometimes I'll see a phrase and think: yes, exactly that, I didn't know how to get there myself. That moment of recognition is the verification step.
So I'm not trusting the machine blindly. I'm using my reading ability—which is reasonably good—to audit an output that my writing ability couldn't have produced alone. It's an imperfect process, but it's not as unmoored as handing a text to a system and walking away.
Your point about polyglot authors is well taken. The tool works better when the person using it can actually evaluate what it produces. I'd agree that's a meaningful distinction.
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@cgbencini @andrea_ferrero
da laureato in agraria ho sempre tenuto i piedi per terra e interessato poco a ciò che sopra la mia testa, ma trovandomi a insegnare rudimenti di astronomia e geografia astronomica cerco sempre di dare un'interpretazione logica che vada un po' oltre la mera nozione
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@hongminhee@hollo.social I think your post makes me think more critically about the use of LLMs for translation services. It is easy for me to judge from a position of privilege because I am a native English speaker, and I do not realize the access I am given simply because of it.
While reading your post it also made me think about the sacrifices you made to contribute to this community. There are precious few people in the Asia-Pacific region who regularly contribute to AP development, and a large part of that is the language barrier.
If LLM-translation makes the AP development community less euro-america-centric, then I am all for it. Cultural differences we can work through, but language barriers are harder to bypass!
Aside, congratulations for making it onto Hacker News front page :)
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In guerra mandiamoci i vecchi
https://www.ilpost.it/2026/03/11/bellu-in-guerra-mandiamoci-i-vecchi/
> Una modesta proposta per il ministro Crosetto che ha chiesto di “prepararsi per il peggiore scenario possibile”. Gli anziani sono sempre di più e sempre più in forma...
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@hongminhee @silverpill I really think there could be a lot to do in terms of bridging the fluency gap in terms of UX. You refer to your experience flipping pages of dictionaries, and I relate to that quite hard : that's where I'd like to see effort and change in software.
However, I feel comfortable bearing the responsibility of making my speech accessible to an English or Spanish speaker that doesn't speak French, and any failure would be mine.
