Lady of the Land @Lady@cat.family

« not even Facebook, which is hiring literally tens of thousands of engineers to build these environments, thinks the ideas they are imagining are within reach right now. So not only are they willing to hire large teams dedicated to an ambitious betting-on-the-future project they are committing to sustaining those teams for years to come. Museums and libraries, on the other hand, can still barely keep their own websites running for more than five or ten years before they are rebuilt from scratch as part of whatever new initiative is being advanced by the organization. »

« Exascerbating this problem is the belief that digital infrastructure is more like a book than, say, a garden. That, within the limits of aging, it can simply sit unattended on a shelf and be revisited only by brushing off any accumulated dust. Just to be clear about something: I love books. Books are amazing. But a field guide of plants is not the same thing as a living, breathing garden and no one pretends that a garden left unattended will flourish. »

https://www.aaronland.info/weblog/2021/11/12/continuous/

excited to sleep in tomorrow
(hopefully)

compatibility is “i just ranted at you for two hours about my special interest and somehow it only made you love me more”

the correct term for that is “being in someone’s league” and it’s an entirely different concept

tfw you got your ideas of romance from “but i can’t date a princess! i’m only a commoner!” disney flicks

still balking at the take « calling romantic partners ‘compatible’ just means their placement on the romantic hierarchy is relatively equal in its privilege »

i realize you’ve probably never dated and have no interest in ever dating but that’s not what compatible means

imagine having “we should use a transcription system developed by a British ambassador instead of one developed by people who are actually Chinese” as your ideological stance 😮‍💨

« Official pinyin use is controversial, as when pinyin use for a metro line in 2017 provoked protests, despite government responses that “The romanization used on road signs and at transportation stations is intended for foreigners... Every foreigner learning Mandarin learns Hanyu pinyin, because it is the international standard...The decision has nothing to do with the nation’s self-determination or any ideologies, because the key point is to ensure that foreigners can read signs.” »

apparently we have Taiwan to blame for this; the majority of people from Taiwan use Wade‐Giles

[note: for everyday pronunciation‐spelling purposes, Taiwan uses Bopomofo]

you can tell i don’t use Wade‐Giles much

i guess it would be “sup’ejiêrh”

god just use pinyin

oh whoops i misspoke Wade‐Giles doesn’t have R let me try to get it more correct

imachin th’êngk’êng that’ th’is its the sup’ejioj jomanitsashên ssist’êm

imakine th’inking that’ th’iss is the ssup’erior romanisat’ion ssysst’em

this amazon reviewer called Wade‐Giles a “superior” romanization system so now i know not to trust anything said by this amazon reviewer

when they publish a book using Wade‐Giles

the question is just cheating the audience *well*