This may be obvious to people who are fluent in several languages, but
communicating in different languages does not have to be like working a proof in
geometry. The Latin I learned focused on being able to consciously understand
all 144 different inflected forms (yes, 144) of any standard Latin
verb. Pretty sure most children in antiquity could not separate a
genitive geurnd from a supine from a plural perfect passive
participle. But they could talk.
Illuminati is a game that allows you indulge your inner conspiracy
theorist, hopefully in a self-aware tongue-in-cheek manner. My son
apparently made off with my copy. I think he’s in on it. He took it as part
of a secret communist conspiracy to keep me from suspecting the truth
about secret communist conspiracies…
Pretty sure I won’t make it daily, but I’ve got a huge backlog of
ideas (from my daily paper journal, email to friends, etc) and now, a
place I feel good about to put them out.
These are some musings I sent to a friend who is a career counselor at
a local community college.
Short version: I’m pretty sure I could not have planned my current
career in “IT” and “Cybersecurity” when neither of those terms even
existed until well into my career.
I’m doing some of the Duolingo Latin course. Who knew you could shop, converse
and joke in Latin? Certainly not the classics professors I learned from.
Quid pudor est.
There is no reason why learners should be made
to treat every Latin text as puzzle to be deciphered into translation,
rather than a specimen of normal human communication to be understood as
such.
I sent this to my son who is on the path to being a high school socials
study teacher.
This article has me trying to project the impact today’s “social
distancing” would have had on a very messed up introverted teenager of
45 years ago. It’s not a pretty picture.
These are a few perspectives on privacy prompted by initial
thoughts on the Usenix PEPR ‘22 Call for Participation. I may or
may not flesh this out as a submission. If I do, it might take a
totally different form, this being a first reaction.
Figure 1: “Privacy Technology for the 21st Centry” by George Jones is licensed under CC BY 2.0