Lady, EVOLVED @Lady@cat.family

sure, a Facebook Lite in the early days when Facebook was cool and you mostly used it to hang out with your same-aged friends outside of the gaze of parents and teachers and bosses

but then again, that was the Facebook which killed thousands of personal websites, RSS/Atom, decentralized collaboration, persistence, and the open web

the number of posts to this effect i have seen have convinced me above anything else that cohost truly was a Facebook Lite

with cohost shutting down, i am migrating all of my things which never should have been on cohost to my personal website, where they should have been posted in the first place

@unspeakablehorror the photocopy poll was immediately preceding

@unspeakablehorror this was my thought, but the polls disagree

what do you think a photocopy is

yall

probably my favourite paragraph in an essay full of amazing paragraphs

« A thousand things make it impossible to mistake the verdict on queer lives and on women’s lives, as on the lives of those who are poor or not white. The hecatombs of queer youth; a decade squandered in a killing inaction on AIDS; the rapacious seizure from women of our defense against forced childbirth; tens of millions of adults and children excluded from the health care economy; treatment of homeless people as unsanitary refuse to be dealt with by periodic “sweeps”; refusal of condoms in prisons, persecution of needle‐exchange programs; denial and trivialization of histories of racism; merely the pivot of a disavowing pronoun in a newspaper editorial: Such things as these are facts, but at the same time they are piercing or murmring voices in the heads of those of us struggling to marshal “our” resources against illness, dread, and devaluation. They speak to us. They have an amazing clarity. »

eve kosofsky sedgwick, 1993

@SportsGoblin i was trying to explain to @Satsuma earlier why anybody likes the Cowboys and really struggling

they were like “like the Yankees??” and i was all “no see the Cowboys aren’t actually any GOOD”

@gaditb no, TEI is in general a very loose set of guidelines (because the scope of things they encode is very very broad)

the expectation is that you decide on the types that are applicable for your project and then document them yourself in the TEI header, if you care to be formal about it

some elements will, in their documentation, suggest types for common purposes (<title> suggests "main" and "sub" i’m pretty sure), but even that is a soft recommendation

@gaditb yeah i think it is current and they just scrubbed “maiden name” because sometimes men change their name on marriage and “maiden” is gendered

reasonable, but kind of awkward when it comes to findability

@gaditb (searching for “maiden” obviously would not bring up “birth” if it isn’t mentioned in the surrounding text, which i suppose it was not?)

@gaditb oh! i was thinking of a very similar example which used "maiden" instead of "birth"… is this current??

@gaditb it’s also pretty unsatisfactory; in current American traditions some people consider a maiden name a first surname and some consider it a last middle name, with differing implications for sorting and format, and there is no obvious T·E·I mechanism to distinguish the two

@gaditb if you check the URL this is outdated documentation in the Vault, not current recommended practice

does T·E·I seriously not have a single word of current guidance on how to classify maiden names