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guess what i can do

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A toot, with the text “let’s try some” followed by a badly‐styled button with an eyeball icon inside.
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got it in the backend

a mastodon post, with random bits auto‐ROT13’d, although some parts aren’t, namely those which contain internal markup or are inside code blocks
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which is more terrifying

extremely old facebook family emoji. a lady and guy and child and they all have extremely vacant stylized smiley faces.
current facebook family emoji design. lady, guy, girl kiddo, boy kiddo. they are more realistic in depiction but the way they all stare at you together as a nuclear family unit is extremely unsettling.
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anyway ESC is recommending a redesign

the new ESC recommended designs for family emoji are abstract silhouettes which don't convey gender or skin tone (meaning that many existing emoji will wind up with the same appearance if this is implemented)
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Six headings, each accompanied by a sequence of emoji which illustrates the heading. The headings are: Multi-generational families, Multi-racial families, Disabled Families, Families with fur babies, Red Headed Families, and Families with quintuplets :)
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A table labelled “Example of Semantic Changes” with columns labelled “Directionality”, “Sequence”, and “Meaning”. The directionalities are LTR and RTL, and the sequence is the same set of emoji but appropriately flipped. The first is glossed as “Quickly running away from a line of cars”, whereas the flipped version is glossed “Wanting to not run behind car fumes”. This matches what the sequences of emoji appear to depict.
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china 

oddly pro-China headline in the NYT today

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absolutely abhorrent that this is in a major newspaper

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if you’re wondering what Sidekiq looks like on a very small server…

a graph of Sidekiq jobs since the beginning of October. the job count has definitely grown since elon musk bought twitter, about by double, but it isn’t spike‐shaped and is levelling out presently.
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if only there were infrastructural changes which could alleviate this problem

NYTimes article: Why the Price of Gas Has Such Power Over America: Gas prices have been lurking behind economic uncertainty, Supreme Court shock waves, Jan. 6 revelations and enduring pandemic divides.
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NYTimes article: Burned Out on Your Personal Brand: Younger workers embraced the idea of a personal brand as a way to get ahead, and carve out some power and security in their careers. But posting through it has its drawbacks.
J. Dakota Brown as quoted in an interview with Ksenya Samarskaya in AIGA Eye on Design: When these writers did address the constraints of the workplace, it tended to be this thing about how The Man was going to put you in a Helvetica straitjacket and take away your personality.  It seemed to me, on the contrary, that designers were increasingly expected to mine their souls for marketable new expressions.
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some things are easier to say in English

lyrics from the new album by STUTS. most of the text is in Japanese, but it switches to English for “Cause I swear yo / I can fucking love you down / Dem other bitches”.
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i can’t tell if this is offensive or hilarious

Microsoft Bing infobox callout: Lesbian: Homosexual woman. [Definition from Wikipedia] A lesbian is a homosexual woman. The word is also used for women in relation to their sexual identity or sexual behavior, regardless of sexual orientation, or as an adjective to characterize or associate nouns with female homosexuality or same‐sex attraction. Related people: Sappho. Gladys Bentley. Ellen DeGeneres.
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nice graphic, NYT

of the top 10 medicare advantage providers, only CVS, Centene, BCBS of Mich., and Highmark have not been accused of fraud, and only Kaiser and Centene have not overbilled. a graphic breaks this down by provider with very big pink checkboxes which make it clear all of these companies are shit.
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Would you use 🙂 to show happiness? Most respondents said it shows “general positivity” or “feeling happy” (tied at 39%). But 20% of U.S. respondents use it to show “deep exasperation and/or distrust”.
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m-w word of the day: october 3, 2022: languid: adjective. showing or having very little strength, energy, or activity
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studying with ASU is like… being deployed to serve colonialist US military ambitions in the middle east??

ASU Online (Arizona State University): Find your next turn at ASU – ranked #1 in innovation. [A photo of a bad timeline in the form of a guy’s face. Points are marked “Deployed, Iraq”, “Deployed, Afghanistan”, and “ASU Online”.]
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there is another way Charles could not become King Charles

NYT article. Headline: Will Charles become King Charles? Not necessarily. First paragraph: When Charles succeeds his mother as the monarch, there is a chance that he may not become King Charles III, as it’s not unusual for royals to take another name when they ascend the throne.
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GF: Oh wow she finally beefed it eh / me: this is an extremely canadian response
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