Lady, EVOLVED 
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
this is in part due to the fact that journalism as an industry has taken a big nosedive
but only in part
i used to respect journalists but not since, like, 2018
@jdp23 (you can call me fedi cassandra if you WANT but that’s a description, not a name)
@jdp23 typically these days i sign things as “Lady of ladys.computer” or something similar, but if you prefer to emphasize my link to the fediverse, i think “Lady, admin of glitch.cat.family” would be fine
(where ladys.computer and glitch.cat.family can be replaced with Ladys Computer and GlitchCat if you prefer prose names over domains)
thinking about it, it is kind of weird that we make acronyms based on the first letter of the first syllable, not the first letter of the stressed syllable
re: WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
@aschmitz doesn’t look like they did 15 or (unsurprisingly) 15.1, so it’s not looking great…
i haven’t heard anything concrete tho
@jdp23 @rra @jonny @noracodes @rwg you’re welcome to :)
@jdp23 @rra @jonny @noracodes @rwg but i think about “the blogosphere”, which was, at once, every person who ever had a blog with an RSS OR an Atom feed, as well as a distinct cultural community with its own practices and norms (and there were also “multiple blogospheres”: food blogs, writing blogs, photo blogs, podcasts…)
when you start talking about the community, something you can belong or not belong in, and something you can talk to and expect better from, that’s “fedi”, to me, because now you’re not just talking about protocol conformance, but something else
@jdp23 @rra @jonny @noracodes @rwg i would define “The Fediverse” as the set of servers and resources on the Internet which encode social interactions and relationships in a linked, machine-readable, open(-protocol, not necessarily public), and interoperable fashion, drawing on the definition of the Web as the set of servers and resources on the internet which encode human-readable documents in a linked, open(-protocol, not necessarily public), and interoperable fashion
the The for me emphasizes that all of these networks are ultimately connected, by nature of being open platforms sharing the same Internet
this is perhaps a more progressive definition than is really vernacular
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
otherwise, seven new scripts were added, and a ton of work was done on Egyptian Hieroglyphs, which continue to be a real challenge to encode
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
Unicode has added a new data file, DoNotEmit.txt, which collects information about characters and character sequences which “should not” be generated in newly authored texts and for which suitable alternatives exist
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
lots for legacy computing once again in this release, including:
• a whole host of missing characters for Amstrad CPC, Apple II, TRS-80, Sharp MZ, Sharp X1… <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21235r-terminals-supplement.pdf>
• five symbols for Smalltalk <https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2021/21234-terminals-smalltalk.pdf>
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
also new in Latin: capital ram’s horn; capital and lowercase S with diagonal stroke
re: WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
Unicode originally designated these characters, proposed in 2023, for a 17.0 release, which is a frankly glacial pace and i’m glad people succeeded in getting them to move it up
WHAT’S NEW IN UNICODE 16.0?
most importantly to me personally, Unicode 16.0 comes with U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA, U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA, and U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE
these letters are siblings to the long‐encoded character, U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE. they originate with an American phoneticist notation and are used as part of the orthographies for many Salishan and Wakashan languages, spoken in the Pacific Northwest
see the proposal for more details: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-three-latin-additions.pdf
wake up nerds, new Unicode® is out
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if you ever go to a Mexican restaurant/fast food place and they *don't* sell Jarritos as a drink option, don't eat there fr fr
@packetcat and like, to be clear, all the worst critics of mastodon? they’re mastodon users. we make fun of other people who go after the software not because they’re critical, but because they haven’t spent enough time here to know where to throw stones. this has always been the case.
same wasn’t true on cohost. people spending time there were nurturing delusion, not honing a critical mindset. and that’s partially because unlike mastodon, on cohost there was absolutely nothing you could do to make things better. the ship was doomed.
@packetcat the thing that tempers my sympathy is these people knew this was the end. the writing was on the wall for most of its existence. folks actively turned away from reason and nurtured a cult mentality when they promoted that space.
they could have invested that social energy elsewhere. mastodon genuinely did miss their absence.
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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- Dusk Form Lycanroc concept art from Pokémon Sun & Moon
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Administrator / Public Relations for GlitchCat. Not actually glitchy, nor a cat. I wrote the rules for this instance.
“Constitutionally incapable of not going hard” — @aescling
“Fedi Cassandra” – @Satsuma
I HAVE EXPERIENCE IN THINGS. YOU CAN JUST @ ME.
I work for a library but I post about Zelda fanfiction.
Joined Sep 2021
