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X redesigns water pistol emoji back to a firearm
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#282The fact that the emoji was "censored" to begin with is weird to me. But the internet is weird and now people will be getting banned from X for using gun emojis to promote political violence.
good, if they use it in a threatening manner it's good that they get themselves banned. I've personally gotten 27 people banned on twitter and 11 suspensions. I'm sure some came back but I made sure they didn't just look like russian/iranian bot accounts and were people as best as I could determine. All were obviously white supremacists or people threatening others.
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#283I wish that websites would stop overriding the emoji icons and just use the platform default.
Fun fact – Apple will reject your app for using emojis in an unapproved way, for example as a UI element, button or reaction. Default system emojis can only be used within regular text. For any other use you have to import your own versions and can't use Apple's.
you can't use a vector image of the emoticon (if you like it) ?
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#284Earlier quoted context omitted.
It’s literally there in the standard: “The shapes of the reference glyphs used in these code charts are not prescriptive.” The standard says “pistol”, what a pistol looks like is left to the implementer.
It's exactly this that makes Unicode the wrong place to define emojis.
You’re allowed to make your letters however you want too, even if they’re ambiguous.
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#285This from a guy who unveils his new data center at exactly 420 and has a line of cars intentionally named to spell out “s3xy” and the reason we’re all forced to say “space sex” out loud every time we talk about a rocket launch. We are trapped in a meme.
> forced to say “space sex” out loud Unless your spoken English isn’t very good, it’s quite clear there is no “s” sound in the second half. Say “space sex” out loud and yes you’ll hear two distinct ‘s’ sounds. Not at all the same as “space ex”.
Nice to know that variations in spoken English are still used to segregate people into good and not very good groups rather than merit or personality. I apologize ahead of time for not using a solid Midwest Accent annunciated as per traditional evening news.
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#286Earlier quoted context omitted.
The book bans are only primary school libraries. I think this is fine, K-12 is mandatory, so clearly the state and local districts should have influence over what's allowed there. There's restrictions on religious teachings in school and likewise there should be limits on opinionated secular topics that don't advance reading, writing, and arithmetic skills. There's plenty of exposure to that stuff via other channels.
Censorship is censorship. The fact that it is happening in a government-run institution makes it worse . Like I said, everyone is for it when it suits them, and outraged when it doesn't.
No, it's not censorship when an elementary school is selective about what material they teach kids. For example, I don't think violent video games like Call of Duty should be banned, but I also don't think kids should be playing Call of Duty in school computer labs. It's irrelevant to basic education. Discretion is obviously mandatory in order to focus students on subject material that expands their skills while not trying to convert them to Scientology or any other similar ideology.
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#287This seems like approximately the dumbest possible place to have political battles. Isn't the entire purpose of having a standard set of emojis as part of Unicode to enable reliable communication of the concepts and emotions associated with them? In that sense it's perfectly fine if it was a water pistol, a real gun or whatever else as long as it's the same thing everywhere . But the same codepoint showing up as a wa…
Disagree. If the cat emoji becomes a dog, it isn't OK if it's the same everywhere. I don't think it's much different to turn the poo emoji into flowers, the bomb emoji into a kiss, or the pistol emoji into a water pistol.
This would still happen with or without the platforms doing it. Like any other piece of language, emoji will change meaning over time or between groups, and make it hard to read other group's texts. For a current example, if you see a text saying "I loved your ", it can have at least two very different, but quite common meanings (either liking some eggplant based food, or a sexual allusion).
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#288I grew up with the argument that video game violence causes real violence. At the time, conservatives were keen on censoring violence, blood and gore in movies, video games and TV shows. It was the liberal establishment that defended artistic violence and sexuality. Now it seems like the pendulum swung and liberals seem keen on promoting squirt gun emojis, meanwhile some of the most popular video games on the market…
If you think about it, there’s a difference between a game you play in your home, and a font you use to communicate with others.
I'm sorry, is there some kind of difference between streaming a bloody match of Call of Duty on Twitch or YouTube and sending a gun emoji as a funny expression of sarcasm (which obviously doesn't mean the same with a squirt gun) to my friends or followers? It's silly that such dichotomies even exist.
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#289Earlier quoted context omitted.
This is why I believe including emoji in unicode was a blunder. A capital "A" is the same in any font; I can write a message in monospace and my interlocutor can read it in sans-serif, or tap in morse code and have it rendered in hand- writing, in all cases the difference is immaterial. On the other hand we don't use pictures in the same way, the meaning of the message depends on the exact picture used as part of the…
Even worse, the Emoji descriptions (on some platforms) don't correspond at all to what the emoji actually represents. For example, the " " emoji, described by Unicode as "health worker" is called "non-binary doctor" by Apple. If you send that emoji in a text to somebody, and they're e.g. using accessibility software, wearing AirPods and have notifications read out to them by Siri, or have their phone integrated with…
The irony of assuming someone’s gender for political correctness…
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#290Earlier quoted context omitted.
I found it alarming that the meaning of previous texts between many people could be altered by simply changing the glyph of an emote. And noone voted for it, all companies effectively in charge of these emojis (Google, Apple, etc.) decided for everyone that it was for the best. What will they change next, who initiated and coordinated that effort, and why, are all important questions. I'm very much against it. It's t…
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Don’t give them ideas!