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@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

#AltText

@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

#AltText

@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

#AltText

@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

#AltText

@markhburton I feel like we could all talk about #money and #banks more often ?

Banks are not neutral and money is root of all #evil / pays for it / enables others to take the good money (all money passing through #rich people's hands) and use it for very #unhelpful things in life...

Banks = #Negative #Equations #Maths / #Immoral #Math

#AltText

I wanted to check something about "them's the breaks."

I used Ecosia.

It helpfully responded with a page of results that opens with a translation from English to English.

Thank you Ecosia. I did not already know that "them's the breaks" is expressed as "them's the breaks" in English.

:holdthepain:

#ecosia #translation #useless #unhelpful

I wanted to check something about "them's the breaks."

I used Ecosia.

It helpfully responded with a page of results that opens with a translation from English to English.

Thank you Ecosia. I did not already know that "them's the breaks" is expressed as "them's the breaks" in English.

:holdthepain:

#ecosia #translation #useless #unhelpful

I wanted to check something about "them's the breaks."

I used Ecosia.

It helpfully responded with a page of results that opens with a translation from English to English.

Thank you Ecosia. I did not already know that "them's the breaks" is expressed as "them's the breaks" in English.

:holdthepain:

#ecosia #translation #useless #unhelpful

I wanted to check something about "them's the breaks."

I used Ecosia.

It helpfully responded with a page of results that opens with a translation from English to English.

Thank you Ecosia. I did not already know that "them's the breaks" is expressed as "them's the breaks" in English.

:holdthepain:

#ecosia #translation #useless #unhelpful

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

Random Wikipedia #criticism (rant?)...

One of the things that bugs me about (English) #Wikipedia is how aspects of it are controlled by, for lack of a better word, #pedants, without consideration of the actual #readers - without considering the purpose of an encyclopedia.

One example of this is how, when an article features aspects of another language or dialect - for instance, something from Old English, or Arabic - where the reader will not be familiar with how to pronounce something presented transliterated to a modern Latin/English alphabet, or with a word shown in a non-Latin script entirely.

It used to be common in reference works to give a simple #pronunciation key that was at least close to the correct pronunciation, but was easily understood by a normal literate reader. You know; the stuff that looked like "ED-joo-KAY-shun" or "SHEH-joo-ull" or whatever.

Well, that's not good enough for Wikipedia most of the time. Instead, they give the pronunciation in International #Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), so you get stuff like "æɪ" and "aʊ" and "/ɔː/".

These are absolutely more #accurate guides to how a word should sound. And they are absolutely, completely #useless and #uninformative to 99% of people reading the article.

You know who already knows and is completely comfortable reading #IPA?

#Linguists. Students of language.

You know, the people who *already know* how to #pronounce the words. The people who don't actually need it.

#FFS.

#pedant #unhelpful #rant

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

@eWalthert @letterror #TypicalFediversAnswer #Unhelpful

#LookSee...

#VisualSearch is #StillQuiteCool... 100% #Accurate... And, #Over 50% #Unhelpful...

#Still: #WorkingAsIntended...

🧙⚔️​🤖:wolfparty:🤖⚔️​🧙 | 🎈​🦹:fediverse:​🦄​​​​​:fediverse:​🦹🎈

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

#JohnKennedy is now accusing the #FBI of a #CoverUp, the investigation isn’t even 12 hours old.

#ConspiracyTheory #ConspiracyTheorist #Republican #MAGA #FearMongering
#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #NOLA #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

OMG the inanity just spewed by freak show #ConspiracyTheory disseminator & guzzler Republican #JohnKennedy at the #NOLA press conference 🤦🏼‍♀️

He’s a hardcore Conspiracy Theorist who needs help. He actually just indicated the US federal government (Biden / Harris) was involved in this. Idiot. Asshole. Vote him out.

#SickPoliticization #Unhelpful #grotesque
#NewOrleans #terrorism #DomesticTerrorism #US #NationalSecurity #Truth

A 🔥 to the geniuses who have made commercial canned soup labels exasperating -- they post weight of the whole can of soup in grams, but then post "serving size" and #nutritional info in milliliters. C'mon 🙄

#deceptive
#unhelpful

And so... I've decided the conversion is not mathematical but pragmatic. I'll make the soup from scratch with reduced salt, sugar, fat. Healthier and cheaper.

A 🔥 to the geniuses who have made commercial canned soup labels exasperating -- they post weight of the whole can of soup in grams, but then post "serving size" and #nutritional info in milliliters. C'mon 🙄

#deceptive
#unhelpful

And so... I've decided the conversion is not mathematical but pragmatic. I'll make the soup from scratch with reduced salt, sugar, fat. Healthier and cheaper.

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "not being difficult" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is also deeply unkind.

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "not being difficult" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is also deeply unkind.

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "not being difficult" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is also deeply unkind.

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "not being difficult" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is also deeply unkind.

Specifically for the folks who get annoyed at what ends up happening when they've avoided input:

Maybe you didn't know what you wanted at the time! That happens. Sadly, it's still on you, An Adult™️, to deal with the fact that you prioritised "*not being difficult*" over interrogating your likely feelings.

It's also on you to accept that your actions led to the #organizer doing what they could to plan around your totally #unhelpful responses and reigning in your #jit emotional response. Making it anyone else's problem is *also* deeply unkind.

I think #google just made their "make a URL link" function stupider in #googleDocuments etc.

Previously: highlight text --> CTRL+K --> CTRL+V (paste the URL on your clipboard)

Now: Highlight text --> CTRL+K [if what you highlighted looks like a URL already, Docs/Impress just creates that URL, even if that's not your link, and it takes some fucking around to get the actual link to paste]

Ugh.

#UnHelpful #downgrade

I think #google just made their "make a URL link" function stupider in #googleDocuments etc.

Previously: highlight text --> CTRL+K --> CTRL+V (paste the URL on your clipboard)

Now: Highlight text --> CTRL+K [if what you highlighted looks like a URL already, Docs/Impress just creates that URL, even if that's not your link, and it takes some fucking around to get the actual link to paste]

Ugh.

#UnHelpful #downgrade

I think #google just made their "make a URL link" function stupider in #googleDocuments etc.

Previously: highlight text --> CTRL+K --> CTRL+V (paste the URL on your clipboard)

Now: Highlight text --> CTRL+K [if what you highlighted looks like a URL already, Docs/Impress just creates that URL, even if that's not your link, and it takes some fucking around to get the actual link to paste]

Ugh.

#UnHelpful #downgrade

I think #google just made their "make a URL link" function stupider in #googleDocuments etc.

Previously: highlight text --> CTRL+K --> CTRL+V (paste the URL on your clipboard)

Now: Highlight text --> CTRL+K [if what you highlighted looks like a URL already, Docs/Impress just creates that URL, even if that's not your link, and it takes some fucking around to get the actual link to paste]

Ugh.

#UnHelpful #downgrade

Really didn't want to moan on here again about #britishgas, but im really at a loss what to do next gotta laugh she wouldn't even raise a complaint for me. Unhelpful unwilling to listen or help #Shameful #dire #unhelpful

Really didn't want to moan on here again about #britishgas, but im really at a loss what to do next gotta laugh she wouldn't even raise a complaint for me. Unhelpful unwilling to listen or help #Shameful #dire #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I want to read this because I have been feeling as if the web and other worlds of media I experience have been shrinking thanks to algorithms that both shove too much of the same thing into my recommendations and don’t surface enough other things I would like to see/read/listen to/etc. 🙄 How about teaching AI to actually know what I want or might be interested in, instead of whatever else you’re making it do? 😒

https://hyperallergic.com/864904/can-we-free-ourselves-from-algorithms-filterworld-kyle-chayka/

#algorithms #tech #annoying #unhelpful

I now have a cold 🤒

Bugger

#hashtag #asteconn #dayinthelifeof #illness #again #unhelpful

I try to make #AllMyToots as #Informative / #Entertaining and as #Unhelpful as #Possible... There's an #Art to #IT | #IT's #True...! #TrueTrueTuesday

#YouAreWelcome

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