Daisy Rockwell

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Artist, Hindi-Urdu translator, etc. http://www.daisyrockwell.com 🍉🍉🍉

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the planet is on fire and people can’t afford air conditioning, surely this is the time to come up with a technology nobody asked for and nobody wants then dedicate all the electricity to maintaining it

New AI data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals. Read The Big Take ⬇️

AI Is Wreaking Havoc on Global Power Systemswww.bloomberg.com New artificial intelligence data centers are coming online so fast that the electricity demand is straining global power grids and threatening clean energy goals.

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Oh Fangèd Night! | شب گزیده by Hijab Imtiaz Ali - translated by Daisy Rockwell "We'd been on holiday at the Shoon Sea only three days when the incident occurred..." Read the translation and the original at the link to the latest Samovar issue in our bio!

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This sums it up perfectly. It’s not a conversation.

If you see this post, post a kitty

If you see this, post a kitty.

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The IDF surrounded a little 6 year-old girl, Hind Rajab, trapped in a car with her dead family members (who they killed), coordinated with paramedics trying to rescue her and killed them, and killed her. What does one even say to so called progressives who support this genocidal army & state.

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“The only question is whether threatened parties — the Israeli apartheid regime, American foreign-policy hawks, all the board members and lobbyists and donors and hedge-fund managers — deserve to be threatened. They do.”

The Free-Speech Debate Is a Trapnymag.com Free speech is a public utility, not a guarantee of justice. It’s time for the left to stop expecting it to serve its values.

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I don't even know how the case against calling this a genocide is supposed to go anymore

Israel presses on with Gaza bombardments, including in areas where it told civilians to flee

Israel presses on with Gaza bombardments, including in areas where it told civilians to fleeapnews.com The latest strikes came a day after the United States vetoed a United Nations resolution demanding an immediate humanitarian cease-fire in Gaza.

So many thoughts of death and poetry today--I happened to need to translate this Urdu couplet by Pandit Narayan Chakbast for the novel I'm working on right now and it seemed fitting. Translated with a generous assist from Aftab Ahmad. 🍉🍉🍉

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I have signed.

A Statement of Solidarity With Gaza From More Than 100 Literary Translatorslithub.com A group of over one hundred literary translators—including International Booker Prize winners Jennifer Croft, Daisy Rockwell, and Deborah Smith, as well as Susan Bernofsky and Antonia Lloyd-Jones��...

If you are a literary translator and would like to sign, please let me know! ♥️🖤🤍💚

Proud to be a signatory of this literary translator statement in solidarity with Gaza 🍉🍉🍉 lithub.com/a-statement-...

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A whiteboard in a Gaza hospital, which usually tracks upcoming surgeries, is wiped clean and instead now displays this message: WHOEVER STAYS UNTIL THE END WILL TELL THE STORY WE DID WHAT WE COULD *REMEMBER US* (Source: Doctors Without Borders)

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🇵🇸 London for Palestine. Ceasefire now.

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Flaco the Eurasian eagle-owl, late of Central Park, is by all reports having a downtown ADVENTURE. Stay safe, Flaco!

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Rough draft done of Geetanjali’s 1998 novel Our City, that Year.

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With great sadness we mourn one of the most talented Gaza feminist poet and novelist, Heba Abu Nada. Her novel named, “Oxygen is not for the dead”. She write yesterday,”If we die, know that we are content and steadfast, and convey on our behalf that we are people of truth."…….. Oh gosh Heba

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Announcing the longlist for the Warwick Prize for Women in Translation 2023! “From an exceptionally rich field of submissions we have chosen 16 remarkable books in first-rate translations. All of them deserve to find delighted readers everywhere." warwick.ac.uk/fac/cross_fa...

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UNFORESEEN Lapis lazuli + foraged red earth on handcut paper, 56x56cm. Uncertainty is now our constant companion; making plans no longer means anything. Anxiety is the usual response, but uncertainty means "anything can happen", including blessings unhoped for. 1/2

Image search is everything for translators.

Lmao Google has one successful product and it’s literally doing everything it can to destroy it. Search is pretty much unusable now.

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Google killing image search is so funny its a fundamental misunderstanding of why one searches for images. looking for references historic moments, anatomy, places, artists works?? No, people just want to see "duck with human legs" and other nonsense prompts. goodbye reality.

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Very important overview of anti-Palestinian violence. Read the thread in full, and then donate to MAP, which is doing vital on-the-ground work as we speak: www.map.org.uk/donate/donate

Dear friends and whoever else is listening! We are writing this with very heavy hearts and an acute sense of mourning and loss, exactly a week since the terrible terrorist attack perpetrated by the Hamas started on October 7.

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This is the very definition of a pogrom.

Since October 7, the settlers, with the complete support of the army and police, have been on a violent rampage, shooting innocent Palestinians point blank (as in the village of a-Tuwani and Qusra), invading their homes, beating up men, women, and children, destroying property…

I received this morning an urgent appeal about the growing anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank, from my friend, Yigal Bronner, and David Shulman, both Israeli Indologists, translators and peace activists. Major points below…

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For logistical context, it takes roughly 72 hours to evacuate around a million people from New Orelans and Southeast Louisiana ahead of a hurricane, and that assumes most people will leave in their cars, supported by highway contraflow, or city assisted evacuation by bus & train.

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Mahmoud Darwish, Memory for Forgetfulness: August, Beirut, 1982 (Trans. Ibrahim Muhawi)