Lady @Lady@cat.family

@coriander well the thing is that no technology which is good makes money. so you have some people making technology which is bad, like advertising, which of course is an industry built on grifting. or you have people making technology which is good, and somehow having to convince universities or governments that it serves their bottom line to fund this thing which will never make anyone any money, which is a different kind of grift. (in the middle there is the group who works on good technology but sells it to venture capitalists, which is 100% a grift.) and this is all very normalized, because software development is not actually compatible with capitalism, to the extent that most tech workers do not even realize that this is going on and don’t understand that this isn’t how ordinary industries operate

@coriander all programming is a grift but people have really stopped pretending with this one

@coriander VIBE CODING in name only, for it is neither

@wallhackio @aescling @vaporeon_ exactly

@wallhackio @aescling @vaporeon_ lanky is the best kong

@akjcv@types.pl you could possibly make an argument that Modern Standard Arabic is an IAL if you want; i don’t know why you would want an IAL if you know MSA

@akjcv@types.pl typically colonized peoples are trying to preserve or promote their national languages and character, not efface them in favour of international community, so an IAL is not a high priority

unless you scope “international” smaller; there are pan-African languages, e·g Afrihili, for example, but they are only targeting pan-African community, not international community

an exception is the Baháʼí people, who want an internationally spoken language for religious reasons. but i think they might just advocate English

@aescling not tiny

@vaporeon_ oh well that’s in @aescling’s room you’ll have to talk to her

@vaporeon_ too bad! i’m on wifi

@vaporeon_ the pain of adolescence, i think

@vaporeon_ its about biting thru it

@vaporeon_ which of these tracks is most difficult to imagine