Seriously?
None of you fit?
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“known informally as a pterodactyl”
Today I learned that pterodactyl is not the official name for a pterodactyl.
My only question is why would you have a common name that is just as hard to spell and pronounce than the official name.
In this case that is a pterosaur.
“Argy Bargey” is definitely an expression I know and understand, just didn’t expect a Kiwi reporter to use it in the middle of their 6pm news report.
What say you Kiwis?
Right To Work ~v~ Union Busting
This post originated as a comment in another thread, but it made me think more - again - about how language is constantly being twisted to operate against people.
I wrote
“Language is powerful - funny how we use the term ‘right to work’ state - rather than ‘union busting’ state ….
and
It’s like how we used to have data warehouses - but now we have data ‘lakes’ and ‘mountains’ that we keep in ‘farms’ - so that we can ‘harvest’ information … it’s all so wonderfully natural - and nothing to worry about …
What say you?
A single post that connects two things I am currently watching - ‘Web3isms’ and ‘Ottawa’.
It happens to be in Ottawa - but that is my shorthand for all the stuff going on around the world that is ‘Ottawa like’ … I’m looking at you Wellington!
We MUST Abandon the Language of the Market to Reclaim our Humanity
🔗 Thomas Keneally’s 2020s vision: We must abandon the language of the market to reclaim our humanity
I posted this link at the time it was published (2020).
It surfaced the other day through my DayONE - and I decided to repost it in the category 🖇️ ‘Language Is Important’- ‘Tom’ and I are on the same page.
Oh the irony …
And we’re off … and the response?
Strong words.
My Pinboard renewal is coming up. I think I will let it lapse. Raindrop seems to be winning that share of my mind.
The headline reads:
“U.K.’s Boris Johnson Ends Covid Rules in England in Major Policy Shift”
Presumably the politicians of Scotland, N.Ireland and Wales disagree with the move.
England does need its own representation.
Only the English are held to the whims of Boris.
Honesty at last !!!
Found on an NFT site I visited today.
Two Posts - Many Coins
This post, by Dave Rosenthal caught my eye this morning. It's long, it’s deep and is written with authority and knowledge.
Who is David Rosenthal? In his words
I worked with James Gosling on CMU's Andrew project in the early 80s. I was a DE with him at Sun later in the 80s working on window systems including X, and file systems. I quit to be employee #4 at Nvidia where Curtis Priem and I did the basic I/O architecture, then was an early employee at Vitria, the second company of founders of Tibco. Before I start talking about cryptocurrencies, I should stress that I hold no long or short positions in cryptocurrencies, their derivatives or related companies.
David Rosenthal
It obviously also caught Cory Doctorow's eyes, because he went on to write a post as well. To many Cory's will be more readable - I guess helped by him being a professional writer and Dave's original post actually being a summary of notes and slides he presented at Stanford's EE380 Whether you read Dave’s or Cory’s - if not both, the conclusion is the same ...
The Links
https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/14/externalities/#dshrhttps://blog.dshr.org/2022/02/ee380-talk.html
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I prefer the reading experience of Apple Books over the Kindle - a LOT - but I guess I now need to assess exactly how much a ‘lot’ is.
60% more?
LATER : Make sure you read the comments below. What can I say - operator error!
I loved Web 3 is Going Just Great - and then it just stopped.
Over the weekend I found it again.
Looks like she changed the blog’s name - and unwittingly (?) the RSS feed’s URL.
Why I Might Not Revisit An Awesome Experience
Stone Age culture in the Orkney islands
When I was eight years old, we took a family trip to the Orkney islands off the north coast of Scotland. I don’t know why we went there particularly, but it was amazing. I almost don’t want to go back because it might break the spell the place has cast over my life.
I was 18 when I did that journey (sans family)
Never been back - despite it being amazing. Not really thought about it before - but I think subconsciously Doug has drawn out my reasoning.
