Because Language - a podcast about linguistics, the science of language.
Aug 11, 2026 · 2 hr 17 min · 19 segments
How does it feel to be isolated from a language and a culture that could have been yours? There are many paths to language loss, but there are also many ways back. Language revitalisation is now…
Daniel MidgleyHost
Ben AinslieHost
Sophia Smith GalerGuest
Some of the tastiest plants and the most dangerous plants you'll ever have [laughs]
Nightshade is a way of taking images that show one thing to you and then poisoning them so that a computer will think they actually show something else
You remember when protesters, um, in Hong Kong were drawing, like, funny lines on their faces to fool facial recognition?
But, but I also think another connection here is, um, the kind of arms race that various apps do to try and protect, um...
So the Snapchats of the world that have, like, destructible messages, um, there's a kind of arms race to make sure that you can't get around, like, screenshotting things that are supposed to disappear forever.
So there's things that when you screenshot, it'll show up as black or entirely white or something like that.
So I imagine there's probably a slight software connection to that sort of technology as well
So this is about a typeface called Shield Font, and this is a way that you can, um, poison data by making it look one way to a human [laughs] and another way to a computer, just like with nightshade and images
Some of the tastiest plants and the most dangerous plants you'll ever have [laughs]
Nightshade is a way of taking images that show one thing to you and then poisoning them so that a computer will think they actually show something else
You remember when protesters, um, in Hong Kong were drawing, like, funny lines on their faces to fool facial recognition?
But, but I also think another connection here is, um, the kind of arms race that various apps do to try and protect, um...
So the Snapchats of the world that have, like, destructible messages, um, there's a kind of arms race to make sure that you can't get around, like, screenshotting things that are supposed to disappear forever.
So there's things that when you screenshot, it'll show up as black or entirely white or something like that.
So I imagine there's probably a slight software connection to that sort of technology as well
So this is about a typeface called Shield Font, and this is a way that you can, um, poison data by making it look one way to a human [laughs] and another way to a computer, just like with nightshade and images
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