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  1. We’re now showing #Unicode 16.0! 🥳

    codepoints.net/search?age=16.0

    And, even better, we also include the #Unikemet #hieroglyph data, too, e.g., codepoints.net/U+13000 .

    As always, if you notice something off, don’t hesitate to contact me!

  2. We’re now showing #Unicode 16.0! 🥳

    codepoints.net/search?age=16.0

    And, even better, we also include the #Unikemet #hieroglyph data, too, e.g., codepoints.net/U+13000 .

    As always, if you notice something off, don’t hesitate to contact me!

  3. A photo of a #drone operator, allegedly from the #Ukraine front is doing rounds on the internet, often captioned

    "The future is now" #cyberpunk

    It does look very cyberpunk, doesn't it? The aesthetics leads us to a specific narrative (warfare) and state-of-the-world, forming a cultural #hieroglyph (as proposed by Neal Stephenson).

    It's hard to imagine this as a #solarpunk engineer using drones to inspect the local bridge for cracks or surveying tree health.

    Even though it'd look the same.

  4. A photo of a #drone operator, allegedly from the #Ukraine front is doing rounds on the internet, often captioned

    "The future is now" #cyberpunk

    It does look very cyberpunk, doesn't it? The aesthetics leads us to a specific narrative (warfare) and state-of-the-world, forming a cultural #hieroglyph (as proposed by Neal Stephenson).

    It's hard to imagine this as a #solarpunk engineer using drones to inspect the local bridge for cracks or surveying tree health.

    Even though it'd look the same.

  5. #Unicode will get an Egyptian Hieroglyph Database, “Unikemet”: unicode.org/L2/L2024/24121-uax

    This data file is meant to collect and bundle meta information to #hieroglyph code points in Unicode.

    /via @UnicodeWatch

  6. #Unicode will get an Egyptian Hieroglyph Database, “Unikemet”: unicode.org/L2/L2024/24121-uax

    This data file is meant to collect and bundle meta information to #hieroglyph code points in Unicode.

    /via @UnicodeWatch

  7. Interesting discussion on the #Unicode mailing list about an egyptian #hieroglyph that managed to get into a proposal for encoding. (The picture : alamy.com/stock-photo-egyptian)