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  1. Oh.... one thing that almost screwed me on the Spanish test I mention above. For some inscrutable reason, the people who made the test decided to ignore capitalization conventions.

    So one question began with "lucas...." and you had to accord a verb with "lucas." There I was... thinking "wait... this should be Lucas with a capital 'l' and then it would be third-person singular... but are they in fact referring to an object called a "luca" that I've never heard of, and then the verb should be third-person plural?"

    I went with the first options. My suspicion that I should ignore the capitalization was later confirmed when Bilbao and another place name appeared without capitalization.

    :why:

    Thank you for the confusion, test makers. 👍 (/sarc)

    #SpanishLanguage #capitalization

  2. Even I, as a Norwegian, know that there is something completely off with the #capitalization when this loony types... No wonder he has issues following other rules.

  3. Capitalization Tip: File Formats

    👉 Most of the time, use all caps for file formats:

    “Discussing GIFs out loud is now against office rules. The last argument over pronunciation ended in two black eyes and a broken toe.”

    "I forgot to attach the PDF!"

    👉 But use lowercase when writing them as extensions:

    “Look for the .docx extension on the file name.”

    “Maybe downloading Virus.exe was a mistake.”

    #AmEditing #capitalization #Grammar #WritingTips #WritingCommunity

  4. Capitalization Tip: File Formats

    👉 Most of the time, use all caps for file formats:

    “Discussing GIFs out loud is now against office rules. The last argument over pronunciation ended in two black eyes and a broken toe.”

    "I forgot to attach the PDF!"

    👉 But use lowercase when writing them as extensions:

    “Look for the .docx extension on the file name.”

    “Maybe downloading Virus.exe was a mistake.”

    #AmEditing #capitalization #Grammar #WritingTips #WritingCommunity

  5. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
    • The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
    • In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

    Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

    #progress #appropriation #enclosures #landGrab #economics #property #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #anthropology #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #domination #beliefs #manufacturingConsent #whiteSupremacy #India #colonialism #BritishRule #BritishIndia #BritishEmpire #UK #Britain

  6. "Capitalism and extreme poverty: A global analysis of real wages, human height, and mortality since the long 16th century
    […]
    • Data on real wages suggests that, historically, extreme poverty was uncommon and arose primarily during periods of severe social and economic dislocation, particularly under colonialism.
    • The rise of capitalism from the long 16th century onward is associated with a decline in wages to below subsistence, a deterioration in human stature, and an upturn in premature mortality.
    • In parts of South Asia, sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America, wages and/or height have still not recovered."

    Sullivan, Hickel, 2022 : sciencedirect.com/science/arti

    @histodons 🧶

  7. Here is an AI Demo showing and aid emo.

    Remember this: #Capitalization is important in #hashtags, too. Text to speech engines depend on #CapitalLetters in hashtags for prounciation. And some users with #visual challenges depend on #TextToSpeech engines.

    #AIDemo #AidEmo

  8. Here is an AI Demo showing and aid emo.

    Remember this: #Capitalization is important in #hashtags, too. Text to speech engines depend on #CapitalLetters in hashtags for prounciation. And some users with #visual challenges depend on #TextToSpeech engines.

    #AIDemo #AidEmo

  9. "The #law is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."

    Mehrsa #Baradaran in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"

    @economics 🧶

    #memes #economics #property #enclosures #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #slavery #capitalization #history #sociology #anthropology #patriarchy #bioPower #bioPolitics #reputation #honour #domination

  10. "The is the most powerful engine through which ideologies can become self-replicating engines. John Locke’s theory of property as the endowed right of white men to use and to produce worked like witchcraft—the natural world, which had sustained societies for thousands of years, could suddenly be taken by force, enclosed, and tilled for the sole profit of one man, with trespassers punished. The conversion of land into one person’s permanent property was not permissible under the indigenous populations who had long occupied it, nor was such a thing permissible anywhere in the world except Europe—and even there, only after the enclosure movements of the 1600s."

    Mehrsa in her book: "The Quiet Coup: Neoliberalism and the Looting of America"

    @economics 🧶

  11. A thread I was in elsewhere made me think of a broader topic I was to write about.

    **Move Fast And Break Things Is A Recipe For Slow Progress**

    #Capitalists are, ironically, bad at understanding how #capitalization works.

    The current process we employ to create and design things turn every single thing we create into a huge liability.

    Investors, in the #MFBT mindset, keep trying to make bigger and more powerful #LLMs. The reason the LLMs aren't working well isn't because the #LLM isn't smart enough, it's because YOUR FUCKING #API SUCKS!

    It would be hard to overstate that massive cost that the proliferation of shitty #APIs has created.

    I've seen one big #company (#BigTech) actually spend time and energy to make good APIs. From that we got #AWS.

    They then imagined that it was clever #engineering and product management that made AWS a success, and stopped paying attention to their APIs.

    Now AWS is as shitty as every other company.

    The problem, at its core, is that #corporate #governance and corporate structures are designed to create a #Kakistocracy.

    Investment is likewise a Kakistocracy. With #class signifiers being how you get #money to set up the shitty corporate structure.

    Yes, I do in fact know how to make a Ship's #Computer from an LLM that can run on your #SmartPhone. The problem is that no one is ever going to give me the money it would take to do it.

    Especially because it requires a lot of unsexy boring #work.

  12. A thread I was in elsewhere made me think of a broader topic I was to write about.

    **Move Fast And Break Things Is A Recipe For Slow Progress**

    #Capitalists are, ironically, bad at understanding how #capitalization works.

    The current process we employ to create and design things turn every single thing we create into a huge liability.

    Investors, in the #MFBT mindset, keep trying to make bigger and more powerful #LLMs. The reason the LLMs aren't working well isn't because the #LLM isn't smart enough, it's because YOUR FUCKING #API SUCKS!

    It would be hard to overstate that massive cost that the proliferation of shitty #APIs has created.

    I've seen one big #company (#BigTech) actually spend time and energy to make good APIs. From that we got #AWS.

    They then imagined that it was clever #engineering and product management that made AWS a success, and stopped paying attention to their APIs.

    Now AWS is as shitty as every other company.

    The problem, at its core, is that #corporate #governance and corporate structures are designed to create a #Kakistocracy.

    Investment is likewise a Kakistocracy. With #class signifiers being how you get #money to set up the shitty corporate structure.

    Yes, I do in fact know how to make a Ship's #Computer from an LLM that can run on your #SmartPhone. The problem is that no one is ever going to give me the money it would take to do it.

    Especially because it requires a lot of unsexy boring #work.

  13. "The most important feature of private ownership is not that it enables those who own, but that it disables those who do not. Technically, anyone can get into someone else’s car and drive away, or give an order to sell all of Warren Buffet’s shares in Berkshire Hathaway. The sole purpose of private ownership is to prevent us from doing so. In this sense, private ownership is wholly and only an institution of exclusion, and institutional exclusion is a matter of organized power."

    – a citation of Nitzan and Bichler, "Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder." 2009: bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/

    #economics #property #is #theft #capitalism #power #ownership #stateViolence #policeViolence #finance #capitalization

  14. "The most important feature of private ownership is not that it enables those who own, but that it disables those who do not. Technically, anyone can get into someone else’s car and drive away, or give an order to sell all of Warren Buffet’s shares in Berkshire Hathaway. The sole purpose of private ownership is to prevent us from doing so. In this sense, private ownership is wholly and only an institution of exclusion, and institutional exclusion is a matter of organized power."

    – a citation of Nitzan and Bichler, "Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder." 2009: bnarchives.yorku.ca/259/

  15. "The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. That instability, it seems, translates into capitalists’ fears about the future. When the price system is more unstable, capitalists discount present income more steeply."

    in "The Ritual of Capitalization" by @blair_fix: economicsfromthetopdown.com/20

    #rituals #religion #inflation #prices #value #discountRate #finance #privateEquity #acquisition #valuation #capitalization #capitalizing #markup #money #property

  16. "The inflation rate signals instability in the social order. That instability, it seems, translates into capitalists’ fears about the future. When the price system is more unstable, capitalists discount present income more steeply."

    in "The Ritual of Capitalization" by @blair_fix: economicsfromthetopdown.com/20

    #rituals #religion #inflation #prices #value #discountRate #finance #privateEquity #acquisition #valuation #capitalization #capitalizing #markup #money #property

  17. If you search for "Move-In Day", your primary result is colleges and universities, who aren't sure how it's capitalized either. #gamedev #indiedev #capitalization

  18. devcodef1.com/news/1101685/wal #Wallbox #electricvehicles #chargingstations #capitalization
    Wallbox, a Spanish unicorn founded in 2015 by Enric Asunción, former Tesla executive, began as a company dedicated to the development of intelligent charging systems for electric and hybrid vehicles, both in domestic and corporate settings. The bet on electric mobility, when very few were doing so, paid off. However, with the passage of

  19. #capitalism feeds on chronic needy states. Taken alone, it can only foster disatisfaction at every level because this is the only way for it to work.

    If we want #happiness, #freedom and #health, #capitalization should only be a mean to an end, not a way of life and capitalism shouldn't be consider as a system but as a form of dementia.

  20. #HashTag #Capitalization

    I read somewhere that multiple word hashtags should include capitalization of each word to assist text readers- is that true?

  21. #HashTag #Capitalization

    I read somewhere that multiple word hashtags should include capitalization of each word to assist text readers- is that true?