Lady @Lady@cat.family
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- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
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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.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
@aschmitz yeah i toyed briefly with the idea of library-run journalism but we already make our libraries do too much haha
@aschmitz i feel like we don’t have that right now, so basically every journalist in the industry right now (who is able to survive in that industry) is someone who is okay playing loose with ethics to some extent when the scoop demands
@aschmitz the big question for me tho is the existential question: can this organization make ethical decisions without it threatening their ability to continue to exist? and most organizations today, the answer is no, because they have to at some level serve the needs of profitability. i want journalistic organizations which can make compromises on their missions and purposes when ethics demands, without that threatening their ability to show up for work the next day
@aschmitz yes, i mean, this is in part an argument along the lines of advocating for state-run media, although i don’t think anyone has figured out how to do stare-run media well yet
NPR in principle i love but in practice has to try way too hard to appear “impartial”, and their coverage has really suffered as a result. i’d rather have partisan media from an organization whose values were clearly stated, so that i could make my own evaluation on whether they were a reliable source for any given topic.
@aschmitz i have a small amount of respect for 404, but their primary job is still to sell copy
the only journalism i would wholly trust would be journalism that operated as an arm of a different, mission-driven, organization that i also trusted, with the understanding that the journalism was an expense in pursuit of that mission, not a revenue source
or volunteer, citizen journalism. i still think citizen journalism is important
honestly in 2024 i don’t trust anything that doesn’t operate at a loss
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
- Header
- Delinquent (BREAKpoint 98a) by Megumi Mizutani
Owner
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.
For the time being, this is mostly a mirror of <https://status.ladys.computer/>. Want to get in touch? E·mail me!
Joined Sep 2021
