How would you like to be invisibly tracked and identified by Wifi?

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/05/260522023127.htm

Are any AI companies profitable? Take a look:

https://isaiprofitable.com/

A very important essay:

https://blog.johanneslink.net/2025/11/04/to-gen-or-not-to-gen/

The planet Jupiter is amazing:

https://www.nasa.gov/image-detail/pia25729orig/

I did not know this:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/2026/06/world-cup-grass-science-artificial-turf/687491/?gift=jDw299G8PAYpd8-JGed7UTwSNVT4dKSP1rpThcteL1U&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

This "close"—Please close the door—is pronounced with a Z sound.

This one—Your head is too close to that lion's mouth.—is pronounced with an S sound.

My Tandem party will start in 10-15 minutes. I have to take care of some dogs before I can start the party, sorry.

Starting shortly. Here's a poem of dubious poetic value...

ING
A poem by Barry Kahn
© 2026

Would you rather be napping
Or washing, or playing?
Fishing or hunting,
Swinging or swaying?
Running or reading,
Beading or eating?
Giving or taking,
Watching or seeing?

Would you rather be saving,
Or shopping and spending?
Starting a book or
Reaching the ending?
Practicing singing or
Sobbing and sighing?
The answer escapes me:
I’ll just keep on trying.

Hey, I’m inviting you to a Language Party on Tandem! 🎉 Join "Pronunciation practice with Barry. " with me before it ends!

https://go.tandem.net/party?party_id=-Ov0XXjZx_6B46wCbbTs

tacoma narrows bridge and swaying

I will be hosting a Telegram party at 11am New York time today. The topic will be "code switching".
Note that if you search for "code switching" online, you will find a variety of definitions. Here's one explanation:
https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-code-switching-5270156

At its simplest, code switching can be, for example, speaking one language at home and a different language at work or school or in the local community. Immigrants commonly experience code switching.

See you at 11am (my time). 17h in western Europe.

More info about code switching:
https://altalang.com/beyond-words/what-is-code-switching-in-language/

Trust AI? Seriously?
https://mastodon.social/@VeroniqueB99/116750797753421809

A German court is not happy with Google's lying, inaccurate, false AI Overview:

https://mastodon.laurenweinstein.org/@lauren/116760310025944827

How we talk about "artificial intelligence" matters.

https://buttondown.com/maiht3k/archive/how-to-talk-about-ai-without-adding-to-the/