It seems this year I sent six e-mails on an average day.
Schlagwort: Kommunikation
Packets.
I admit to using ping to check who is awake.
Big Teach does not like Donkeys.
So, who gets to vote on whether an emoji is included in that universal lexicon? There are currently 12 full voting members who pay $18,000 a year for the privilege. Nine of them are United States multinational tech companies: Oracle, IBM, Microsoft, Adobe, Apple, Google, Facebook, Shopify, and Netflix.
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The decision makers along the way are generally male, white, and engineers.
Whatsdisappearing.
The first reaction people had was to think something bad had happened to me, some of them even thought I was dead. Then something socially curious happened: everybody started speaking to each other on Facebook and WhatsApp to try to figure out what was wrong. Some of them even contacted my family multiple times. They all had my phone number, email address and other ways of contacting me. However, none of them did. It was like I had exited the matrix, and was living in another reality.
alvarez.io: Living Like It's 99: No Social Media, No Smartphone
PDF drop.
Professor privilege of the day: interrupting a zoom talk by dropping your own paper into the "Everyone" chat room.