The rise and fall of robots.txt
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As unscrupulous AI companies crawl for more and more data, the basic social contract of the web is falling apart.
  • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
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    8 months ago

    Wouldn’t you agree the perfect reply to:

    Emoji are pretty dumb, but I guess I’m just an old fart about it.

    …is a string of emoji? :)

    • LvxferreEnglish
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      8 months ago

      If that was my point, it would be a great answer.

      However my point is not against the usage of emojis to convey linguistic meaning, like that. (It’s a bit pointless, but at least you’re saying something through the emojis.)

      • brbposting@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        2·
        8 months ago

        Well of the three usages:

        • graphical echo (“I saw a cat today 🐱”)

        • mood/attitude particles (“I wish I were just a cat 😕”)

        • ideographic usage (“I saw a 🐱 today”)

        The echo is almost certainly the least useful.

        When overused gratuitously, it can be funny (NSFW examples included)!

        • LvxferreEnglish
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          8 months ago

          That overuse feels a lot like a fourth category. It’s almost meta-, as if using emojis to parody emoji usage!

          I’m not sure if it’s usage for echo or as mood particles makes me roll my eyes the most. Perhaps echo, too.

          Are you a linguist? Fabulous descriptive capabilities you have there.

          More like “ability to remember vocab from uni times” (My second grad included Linguistics, although I don’t work on the field nowadays.)