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Periodic reminder: I've already said many times that I think Fediverse (or at least a future flavor of it) wins in the end.@mekkaokereke no one is safe until we're all safe.
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soOoOOoOoooo@blogdiva domain block on the web app should do the trick.
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Someone on a call told me they liked reading about my info dumping about #Food even though they don’t love food as much as I do.@skinnylatte that could be your logo!
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@chu @mayintoronto Canadian accent?@atomicpoet @chu I'll bet Sook-Yin Lee could find out who sang it, but she's more film maker than music/general culture person these days.
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@chu @mayintoronto Canadian accent?@chu @atomicpoet Yeah, that's why I've been struggling with the language context switching. It's hard to tell when they've switched languages. The words are not distinct like they should be in Chinese.
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Cantonese people, I need your help@chu @atomicpoet This is INCREDIBLE.
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Cantonese people, I need your help@atomicpoet @NicMakesStuff This has the very specific Canadian twang. It sounds more like modern Canadian indie like Cindy Lee (not Chinese, lol) than Canto pop. Can't say I know much Canto pop though.
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Cantonese people, I need your help@atomicpoet @chu you might like this.
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What we have here is a genuine mystery!@atomicpoet I wouldn't say so much that it's a new language, so much as the dialects that form with diaspora populations. It's reminiscent of conversations I'd have with my parents. My Indian Canadian friends tell me it's the same way in their families.
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Cantonese people, I need your help@NicMakesStuff @atomicpoet I think it's a little too seamless. The older HK songs I know that use both Chinese and English are usually just one or two common words, or separated in phrasing.
In a song like this that's so seamless, it's hard to "change the channel" so you're thinking in the right language, especially when it's in a song when you're thinking about the melody as well. This would be much easier to follow in a regular conversation.
The music itself is quite Canadian-coded. A very cool find.
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Some of the replies to my post have now escalated into “simply seize trillions in corporate assets, raze global data centers, salt the earth, and convert everything into cattle pasture.”'n'nWhich… impressive!@atomicpoet I don't personally believe that regulating models will help. It creates a distraction. What needs protections are human rights and human creations.
What I do like about your proposal is the ownership model for everything we use. I think if we swap out "AI" for "platform", this becomes a nonbrainer.
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I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games.Someone put together a list of board game publishing companies that have gone under/are struggling from 3 months ago. I presume the list of longer now.
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I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games.I went to a tabletop game store to look at their board games. Asked the guy for recommendations for 2 player games.
"I don't know anything we have stocked anymore. The tariffs have killed the board game business, so all our popular games are gone. One of the big manufacturers went bankrupt already.
"If you want to know how bad it is, take [some popular game]. We used to stock it for $70-75. Everything ships in through the US, and since it's all made in China, after all the tariffs, we're looking at $220-250 for the same game.
"The industry is dead. We're not stocking any new board games until the market comes back to life. Who knows? Maybe Canada will start manufacturing our own games again! I guess we'll have to see."