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lie on couch
lie in bed
girlfriend
girlfriend
sleepyhead

Indiana University is hiring a Research Data Software Engineer.

$65,000–$75,000/yr; eligible for remote work. This is a two-year position, but word is they hope to convert it to a permanent position at the end of that period.

https://hrms.indiana.edu/psp/PH1PRD_PUB/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/HRS_HRAM_FL.HRS_CG_SEARCH_FL.GBL?Page=HRS_APP_JBPST_FL&Action=U&FOCUS=Applicant&SiteId=1&JobOpeningId=312854&PostingSeq=1

they CLAIM there is a gengar in these pokémon fruit snacks but i haven’t seen one

ok well, if you print out a JPEG of a page of text, surely that is still an image then?

you can get out of this one real easily with <doi:10.4242/BalisageVol5.Renear01>, if you¦re a coward

is a statistic a document?

meteor garden (2018) chuckling to itself while spending a full eight episodes deviously setting up this question

would you rather date someone cute who makes you anxious or someone you feel comfortable calling out every time they’re being an asshole

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

ActivityPub could have been abbreviated TP

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

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

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

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>

also new in Latin: capital ram’s horn; capital and lowercase S with diagonal stroke

Unicode originally designated these characters, proposed in 2023, for a 17.0 release, which is a frankly glacial pace and i’m glad people succeeded in getting them to move it up

most importantly to me personally, Unicode 16.0 comes with U+A7DA LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA, U+A7DB LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA, and U+A7DC LATIN CAPITAL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE

these letters are siblings to the long‐encoded character, U+019B LATIN SMALL LETTER LAMBDA WITH STROKE. they originate with an American phoneticist notation and are used as part of the orthographies for many Salishan and Wakashan languages, spoken in the Pacific Northwest

see the proposal for more details: https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2023/23191-three-latin-additions.pdf