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burnet: senpai…
fennel: you know we are the exact same age right
burnet: s–senpai… 🥺
@alyssa these are college students for clarity
@alyssa oh the implication is that because fennel was so knowledgeable burnet thought she was her senior
@alyssa what?
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on reordering names in translation
@clarfonthey person as a person from a culture which uses western ordering, i prefer the original ordering be preserved, with the following notes
• if it's not clear to readers whether the name is using an eastern or western order, the family name should be written in allcaps
• although japanese names have historically switched order upon translation to english, some style guides are starting to reverse that trend. see https://www.cnn.com/2019/05/21/asia/japan-name-abe-shinzo-intl/index.html for an example
• chinese names should never be written in western order (chairman mao = mao zedong)
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@alyssa not etymologically (elaine < helen)
due to the rarity of adeline as a name in the english‐speaking world, people do however sometimes conflate aline with eileen (< eibhlín < aveline < avila)
due to similarity in pronunciation, eileen is sometimes also considered an irish form of helen, so you could probably say aline ~ eileen ~ elaine
@alyssa no although i always forget that alice ∶ adelaide ∷ aline ∶ adeline
any system with ethical or privacy implications needs manual human supervision and intervention. it cannot be automated. if this makes these systems infeasible, then they are infeasible. not inevitable
if you want to clearly delineate what is or isn’t allowed you can do that easily just by saying “i would like you to do this / i would not like you to do that”
what legal frameworks give certain classes of individual is the potential for enforcement. but as far as content licensing goes, the potential for enforcement by a marginalized internet user is basically zero. this advantage is a myth
what legal frameworks give the programmer is the illusion that they can automate systems based on a string matching of a content license and still have those systems be ethical. this is also a myth. a computer can never be held accountable. you need a human making those decisions regardless of what the license does or does not say
certain kinds of tech people find clear terms and rules and specifications attractive, and are drawn to legal frameworks for solving social problems because they think that legal frameworks can provide that structure and “clearly delineate what is or is not allowed”
and i don’t know what to tell you, other than, they can’t
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