Notices by miramarco (miramarco@blob.coffee)

@lasiepedimore Capirei se fossero rapidi come giapponesi (sullo Shinkansen)

Today the works of the following authors, among others, enter the public domain in the countries with a “70 years after the author’s death” rule (i.e. Europe and South America, except for Spain and Belarus):

- Narrative writing: Thomas Mann, James Agee
- Essay writing: Albert Einstein, José Ortega y Gasset, Dale Carnegie
- Visual arts: Fernand Léger, Yves Tanguy, Maurice Utrillo
- Music: George Enescu, Arthur Honegger, Charlie Parker

#PublicDomainDay #PublicDomain

This, by Sherronda J. Brown, is a thought I come back to quite frequently. It feels 100% on point, in ways that I do not find simple to explain.

#asexuality #AceWeek

Happy Ace Week everyone! :heart_ace: :heart_demi:

#asexuality #AceWeek

There must be a niche of people who just love reference books, right? By that I mean, people who like dictionaries, almanacs, manuals, glossaries, atlases, cheat sheets, and the like… But where do they gather? Do they have subreddits? Is there a DictionaryTok? I need to find my people

“AI should not be trained on material taken without the creators' consent” is not a Luddite position.

It's being true to a basic principle of intellectual property: It's up to the creator to choose how their work can be accessed and used for.

Most countries' laws assume by default that creators don't want non-paying people to get access to their work, or anyone to plagiarize it without license.

Saying that this applies to AI too is just an extension of the creators' rights as they are now.

Buon referendum a tuttu

The vote breakdown is available on the #Eurovision website:

https://eurovision.tv/event/basel-2025/grand-final/results/

And, as you expected, the televotes for Israel are bonkers

Italy has also reached the target number of signatures, the 10th country to do so.

Next up: Denmark, currently at 81%.

@lelevup @lasiepedimore Io avevo scaricato uno “Statement of support receipt” a suo tempo, l’ho ritrovato nella mia cartella dei download. Magari ce l’hai ancora?

Sweden has also reached its target number of signatures for the EU petition against conversion practices.

Next up Italy, currently at 92.36%

This is where half of the audience is explaining what they understood about the new announcement format to the rest of their watchgroup

#Eurovision #ESC2025

What are some examples of simple, but fundamentally wrong icon designs?

Two examples I have in mind are the crescent moon with a star inside (the star is still behind, even in the part where the moon is not visible to us) and three gears interlocking (which cannot rotate, because two would have to rotate in opposite directions). Are there any others you have seen somewhere?

@lasiepedimore Guardandola dal punto di vista linguistico, mi chiedo se non ci sia un vago senso di stranezza nell’usare nomi e titoli di una sola lettera.

Magari sono solo io, ma mi sembra strano parlare della rivista “D” senza aggiungere “di Repubblica”, oppure del film “M” senza il sottotitolo “Il mostro di Düsseldorf” (a cui si è aggiunto l’esempio de “Il figlio del secolo”). Magari è ciò che ci spinge ad aggiungere “ex Twitter”

I wonder if anyone has ever deciphered the secret message in the EasyJet headrests. (No one will ever convince me that there is no hidden message there.)

@lasiepedimore Una “buona notizia” sarebbe avere un piano per limitare i cambiamenti climatici di cui noi stessɜ siamo la causa. Avere un piano per adattarci alle conseguenze delle nostre azioni è semmai la notizia meno cattiva

@anna If I remember correctly (I watched it about 12 years ago), it doesn’t really get better from there and the rest of the second season is a bit of a drag. It’s fine to stop watching there. There’s a big character development at the very end though

The 2022 Ace Community Survey Summary Report has been published :asexual_flag:

https://acecommunitysurvey.org/2024/10/23/2022-ace-community-survey-summary-report/

#AceWeek #asexuality

I find it weird when people in queer circles, mainly aro/ace, treat certain concepts (e.g. microlabels) as something whose reality has to be proved and vouched for by some vague authority.

Is aegosexuality real? Is amatonormativity true? Has aphobia been recognized?

My answer to all of that is: Those words describe models of reality, and they are “true” as far as the people using them find that they accurately portray a facet of real life. You don’t need validation to use them.

#asexuality