@PhillipAdams_1 I’m surprised you are not more critical of Professor Langton. A close reading of some of her commentary around the cashless debit card should remedy that.
When the "these platforms' actual product is content moderation" talking point was floating around recently i kept thinking about how the actual content moderation, which is a source of extreme psychic harm to those who do it, is just ruthlessly outsourced away from the west.
@SlayerRules_420 You know that stuff your Nonna calls “dialetto” is properly known as “Venetal” - argued by some to be a language in its own right? Have you encountered people who look like you yet?
Today’s best thing was when I started to thank the 10 am tutorial group for a great semester and one of them burst out with “OMG no! It’s the last one”!
@KirstiMiller30 Yeah nah. In the 1960s/70s it was all about refusing pre-marital sex (“if he respected you he wouldn’t ask”) and avoiding pregnancy. Anything more radical couldn’t be thought about, let alone discussed.
@DrKatyBarnett@HusaJaakko Apparently silence is the trick. Old linguistics joke: Finnish farmer visits his neighbour, who greets him with a nod. After several silent hours and a few cups of tea, the neighbour finally asks “so what brings you here?” - to which the farmer replies “my house is on fire”.