Remember the "You wouldn't steal a car" PSA? Turns out they pirated both the font AND the music. Exhibits:

font info: https://fontsinuse.com/uses/67480/piracy-it-s-a-crime-psa

pirated font embedded in this PDF: https://web.archive.org/web/20051223202935/http://www.piracyisacrime.com:80/press/pdfs/150605_8PP_brochure.pdf

and about the music: https://www.theransomnote.com/music/news/antipiracy-advert-music-was-stolen/

EDIT: more context re the composer, music, and royalties; the story is ofc more nuanced and apparently debunked: https://torrentfreak.com/sorry-the-you-wouldnt-steal-a-car-anti-piracy-ad-wasnt-pirated-170625/

I wonder how #hashtags would have been developed differently if they had been invented and popularised by people speaking a #language with strongly marked cases.

If I post 'Sauce mit Pilzen' (German for 'sauce with mushrooms'), and I would like to tag the mushrooms, I can't just go '#Pilzen', because '#Pilzen' is a different hashtag from '#Pilze'. Let alone #Pilzes and #Pilz.

Would we tag things with #SemanticWeb URIs?
#hashtag #tech #compling #computationallinguistics #l10n #i18n #linguistics

The problem we face is simple and brutal: the right-wing swallows anything we say, digests it through their machine, and spits it back as bland, weaponised social shit. Every radical idea gets stripped of meaning and served up as more #mainstreaming slop.

That’s why we need tools they can’t easily co-opt. Systems and language they can’t just regurgitate into empty right-wing talking points. This is where the #4opens and the #OMN #hashtag storytelling come in — it makes ideological hijacking hard, stinky, and uncomfortable for them.

This is real composting: breaking down the mess, feeding the soil, and growing native paths, that are grounded, and unpalatable to power plays of the #nastyfew and there worshipping acolytes.

We need to reclaim simple language that carries shared meaning. This is exactly what we’re trying to seed with the positive side of the #hashtag story. Messy language feeds back into our culture hamishcampbell.com/messy-langua...

Messy language feeds back into...

We need to reclaim simple language that carries shared meaning. This is exactly what we’re trying to seed with the positive side of the #hashtag story. Messy language feeds back into our culture https://hamishcampbell.com/messy-language-feeds-back-into-our-culture/

Glad to have been a part of the creation of #SeasOfMastodon with @essjax today.

Here’s a view of the Cook Strait taken while flying into Wellington Airport at Sunset.

Always nice to have another #TimelineCleanser #Hashtag to follow

Can anyone help with an email enquiry I've received about the history of the hashtag?

"I've been looking at how the symbol evolved from the abbreviation of libra pundo to what we see today. But I'm finding very little about the visual history of the symbol pre-20th century ... of what printers were using for this symbol — and how — between the 17th and 19th centuries.”

cc @shadychars — perhaps this is covered in your book?

The lovely people at @postcrossing are now on the fediverse, so give them a follow. #postcrossing #postcards #snailmail #hashtag

#hashtag

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People are going to increasingly be talking about the#4opens as a political path https://hamishcampbell.com/tag/4opens/

Without using the #hashtag and without linking, this will be sad and bad and will fail #fashernista

Microsoft thinks you should recycle pcs that can't be upgraded to windows 11...

Please do not do this. Try linux or give them to someone else who will, or donate them to charitable organizations.

Goblins need spare computers everywhere!

#question
Can we have a #hashtag on here for people who wish to discard perfectly good computers, so other people on here who are less fortunate can get them and use linux or something?

Any opinioins on a best hashtag for that?

Toot. #hashtag

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Some thought provoking ideas about the open social web with @mike and @chrismessina .

Via @_elena

https://pca.st/episode/3141fffd-4a49-4784-b512-dfd8be55f607