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It's currently Blaugust, and so I'm counting all my blog posts this month as Blaugust posts, including the Linkdumps. I told a friend about it and she laughed, because "blau" in German means "blue", like the colour, but it can also mean being drunk. And I had this thought too... Blaugust sounds a bit like I'm planning to spend the month getting hammered. Sometimes a totally innocent or meaningless word in one language can mean something entirely different in another language. I'm always reminded of this when I see a website hosted on wix.com. Wix is an Israeli company, and I have no idea if it means something in Hebrew... But I know the Germans in the room are already chuckling, because in German that's a slang expression for masturbation. So when I see the word "wixsite" show up in my URL bar, the image that pops into my mind is for sure not what they had intended... Articles AI Companies Are Trying to Hide a Staggering Amount of DebtYou know things are bad when people start throwing…

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