the most important part of #Unicode history is when a mouse fell out of a light fixture and got added to the count of members present at a Technical Committee meeting (9 Nov 2016)

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2016/16325.htm#149-A94

The new historical American Girl doll is from the 90s and makes zines so I'm going to go crumble into dust now.

Right on, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar https://kareem.substack.com/p/hannity-and-carlson-admit-lying-to?sd=pf

It’s amazing how businesses want to run on data, but when presented with the successfulness of a 4-day work week, that’s not the data they want

If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.

In all #gamedev's, there are two wolves.

One wants to make the menu transitions quick and instantaneous

The other wants to make every single button do a unique jiggle, and this cool little slide, and no you absolutely can't start navigating until I finish my cool transition, be patient, look at how much I made this lil button guy wiggle, and did you see how he slidddddd into frame all slick like?

New post for the Inside Rust blog: “Keyword Generics Progress Report: February 2023” — https://blog.rust-lang.org/inside-rust/2023/02/23/keyword-generics-progress-report-feb-2023.html

HR: Do you know why you’re here today?

Me: Is it because I called the new agile project manager a “Scrum Dumpster”

HR: Wait, you said…WHAT?

I'm re-reading Sueyeun Juliette Lee's insightful essay "Shock and Blah" for class tomorrow https://thevolta.org/ewc41-sjlee-p1.html and realizing that... "stuplimity" is exactly the aesthetic experience that LLMs like ChatGPT evoke in me

Gah -- the ChatGPT discourse has reached the point where even Pinker has decided to weigh in. And his remarks are characteristically bad. A short thread:

You know, I really could use a TweetDeck-esque client for Slack. (Or even better, just let me use, you know, windows.)

Sorry, but no.

This piece should instead be titled "3311 Billionaires Is A Crisis, Not An Achievement"

Most of 8B people aren't really the problem; and this reasoning leads... bad places

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/eight-billion-people-in-the-world-is-a-crisis-not-an-achievement/

#Inequality #EatTheRich #Population #ScientificAmerican

(billionaire estimate from: https://www.visualcapitalist.com/mapped-the-worlds-billionaire-population-by-country/)

looks like fly.io just released a set of distributed systems challenges, in collaboration with Kyle Kingsbury?!?! https://fly.io/dist-sys/

Great, another thing that I’ll never be able to un-see again.

https://physicstoday.scitation.org/doi/10.1063/PT.3.4373

(Much like the three intermeshed gears that can’t turn in logos.)

*sits upright in bed* ‘CARBON OFFSETS ARE THE MODERN-DAY EQUIVALENT OF PLENARY INDULGENCES!’ 🤯

Within a few hours, I came across this post by @mekkaokereke and a friend sent me this screenshot from the re-release of the classic PC game 'Oregon Trail' (where the player takes on the role of a settler).

It was a beautiful reminder that it is possible to receive feedback positively, to take accountability, and to do the work to better ourselves. The outrage around "cancel culture" is largely just a way to shield all of those who are unwilling to do that work.

“His hoboness being the only reason for getting away with stealing Emacs from the inventor of Java” is not what I had on my RMS-shittiness bingo card and frankly it adds a new dimension to it.

https://functional.cafe/@tfb/109897415359142549

We have a #cryptlol channel on Slack, but I wonder if it should be a #tech-dystopia one instead now with AI and the like too.

Some things never change.

Left, from 2006: Breathless New York Times article about the Second Life real estate boom.

Right: from 2023: Breathless New York Times article about the Metaverse real estate boom.

h/t @twitskeptic