Posts by tkinias@historians.social
(DIR) Post #AUSUfgg8vbZdOWP8E4 by tkinias@historians.social
2023-04-09T00:06:19Z
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Some exciting news: A very generous man with a +91 phone number has added me to his private investment advice WhatsApp group. I can’t wait for the riches to flow in!
(DIR) Post #AUaAlv5no5Jq17mQwy by tkinias@historians.social
2023-04-12T16:47:38Z
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OMG can we please stop using Islamic concepts to criticize Christian theocrats in the States.The US far right doesn’t want to establish a ‘Christian caliphate’, they’re not ‘Christian taliban’, and they’re not going to introduce ‘Christian shariah’.Don’t use Islam to try to scare white people. Muslims are not the ones trying to dismantle our secular republic.
(DIR) Post #AV9By5AYCUHeBIRtiK by tkinias@historians.social
2023-04-29T14:33:51Z
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Something I think about a lot is how computer screens have gotten markedly less useful in the last 15yr or so, because of the shift to so-called “wide screen” formats (which is a marketing-speak for “reduced size in the vertical dimension”).I’m not really sure why we tolerate this, given that most of what we use computers for is working with vertically-oriented documents, and most of the width of the screen is wasted pixels.
(DIR) Post #AVCGSlCRTl3yVz666q by tkinias@historians.social
2023-05-01T02:05:28Z
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I’m reading a #linguistics work on Aboriginal Australian languages, and while it generally uses Americanist transcription it confusingly mixes in numerals—especially 7, but also 3 sometimes. I’m guessing these are workarounds for font limitations, but they’re not explained.I’m guessing that <7> is standing in for <ʔ> like in Squamish (though I have to fight my instinct to read it as Arabic <ح>!). Could <3> be <ʒ> (representing IPA /dz/)?
(DIR) Post #AVJd1xbysj74F8x6NE by tkinias@historians.social
2023-05-03T21:52:42Z
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Vaguely intrigued by how my TL is evenly split between people cheering the Ukrainians for the apparent drone attack on the Moscow Kremlin and people saying the attack was obviously fake or false-flag.
(DIR) Post #AVV94wPLdGZjDVMBMW by tkinias@historians.social
2023-05-10T04:54:50Z
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It’s been on my mind all day how a few students mentioned in their reflection essays that my class was the first time they’d ever heard Islam discussed outside of a scary-foreign-bogeyman context.
(DIR) Post #AVYu5jmxJYJrgkA17w by tkinias@historians.social
2023-05-12T00:16:57Z
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My mission: To get students to appreciate the beauty of a properly-formatted footnote.
(DIR) Post #AVtMSSx8dUgkG9C1YG by tkinias@historians.social
2023-05-21T21:15:06Z
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After spending a couple of weeks with my mother, who—well, let’s say she doesn’t hear as well as she did a few decades ago—I’m going to need to relearn how to speak at a normal volume.
(DIR) Post #AXJ4YbPAamyrXf5Wzo by tkinias@historians.social
2023-07-02T13:49:05Z
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There’s an interesting linguistic thing happening where the word ‘GIF’ has ceased to refer to a file format and come to refer simply to short video clips. I just realized that most of the ‘GIFs’ out there now are actually .mp4 or other video files.I wonder how many young people even know that .gif was just a crappy 8-bit file format with patent problems?
(DIR) Post #AZEz1ErymboBKr6GxM by tkinias@historians.social
2023-08-30T00:12:06Z
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Guardian: “The Great Cancellation” <https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2023/aug/29/the-great-cancellation-why-megabucks-tv-shows-are-vanishing-without-a-trace>I’ve got a suspicion that the recent trend for media companies to memory-hole content is going to drive a lot of people who had given up pirating stuff out of laziness to go back to torrenting instead of relying on streaming services to have what they want.
(DIR) Post #AZZX9MBANkujmBZtom by tkinias@historians.social
2023-09-08T23:08:12Z
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Just read somebody—apparently seriously—ask “when did pronouns become a thing?”And my question is: When did teaching kids what pronouns are stop being a thing?
(DIR) Post #Aa1sHwH3G3kgFHsNZg by tkinias@historians.social
2023-09-21T15:19:20Z
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I just checked with our county health office, and it turns out there is no COVID vaccine currently available anywhere in our county.I really am amazed sometimes at how shambolic the healthcare system is in the United States.
(DIR) Post #AhDs13Cdf8MjWqLMO0 by tkinias@historians.social
2024-04-16T23:15:51Z
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I just read that a single Bitcoin transaction requires upwards of 1,000 kW-hr of electricity.That’s like running a small air conditioner 24/7 for a month and a half.Edit: This got way more attention than I expected from an offhand remark; I guess it hit a nerve on here! But I’m going to have to mute this, as it’s taken over my notifications...
(DIR) Post #Aillv4mdA2Q9B9bUsi by tkinias@historians.social
2024-06-09T15:58:37Z
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When I am god-emperor, it will be illegal to interfere with highlighting and copying text on a Web page.
(DIR) Post #AjMuSFS3yO3JGJQM8O by tkinias@historians.social
2024-06-27T21:38:13Z
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It should be illegal to make it harder to cancel a subscription than it is to subscribe in the first place.
(DIR) Post #AkpUkrXx9qxvpVzlBo by tkinias@historians.social
2024-08-10T16:32:53Z
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Anybody know why sometimes replies fail to show up in my notifications? It’s not a post privacy issue, as the example I’m looking at right now was set to Public...
(DIR) Post #AnDIyq6loUIxkmW3CC by tkinias@historians.social
2024-10-20T23:59:34Z
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@futurebird God help me, you’re gonna make me empathize with an arthropod.*sigh*
(DIR) Post #AoS7ObkMMmJqmSTAZ6 by tkinias@historians.social
2024-11-27T01:22:32Z
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@futurebird ‘The scheme was laid before Mr. Gladstone, who had succeeded Lord Salisbury as prime minister, by a deputation of the League on April 13, 1893 but was rejected by the Premier on the ground that its proposals did not constitute the “definite scheme” for which Lord Salisbury had asked.’Seymour Ching-Yuan Cheng, _Schemes for the Federation of the British Empire_ (New York: Columbia University Press, 1931), 42.
(DIR) Post #AoVaInxzWdSlcGZPmK by tkinias@historians.social
2024-11-28T17:30:33Z
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@futurebird I mean, I’m 40 years younger than that and I remember cars without tape players!—new cars tended to come with cassette players by the 1980s, but my first car (for example) only had a radio.@trinsec
(DIR) Post #AoWo1ZSjn6jEE4aVXc by tkinias@historians.social
2024-11-29T00:15:11Z
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Who was I talking to about tea on here the other day?I just encountered a plastic teabag in the wild! It’s a very posh herbal tea from a sampler set we received as a gift some time ago, that had been lurking in the back of the tea cupboard...