#emoji
Vivaldi (the browser, not the composer) lacks proper emojis by default, at least on my Ubuntu linux.
I fixed by downloading and installing this font:
https://fonts.google.com/noto/specimen/Noto+Color+Emoji
After that, restart Vivaldi.
Done
"The unbearable ambiguity of emoji." "A grain buyer in Saskatchewan, Canada, texted farmers asking to buy flax at $17 per bushel, and one farmer indicated he could deliver on that. The buyer texted a photo of the contract, as it had done numerous times before, and asked, 'Please confirm flax contract.' The farmer replied with a thumbs-up 👍 emoji. But when prices for flax jumped to $41 per bushel and the farmer failed to deliver on the less-lucrative contract, the buyer sued for breach."
7 years after Emojis: The Musical warned us all about the problem of the ambiguity of emoji.
Court agrees with #dictionary #definition when texted.
'Thumbs Up' #Emoji Created Legally Binding #Contract
Lehto’s Law - July 7, 2023
If you drag an emoji family with a string size of 11 into an input with maxlength=10, one of the children will disappear.
https://ohai.social/@simevidas@mastodon.social/109919980698211659
Return to sender: writers mourn loss of physical letters as Australia Post contemplates decline
The Guardian
The postal service predicts letters will become ‘peripheral’ as mass communication further shifts to digital – to the regret of some.
Before email put them at risk and smartphones became an existential threat, handwritten letters played a vital role in everyday life. They could be used to declare love to a partner, or convey news of a tragedy. They united penpals from around the world. Sometimes, grandma slipped money into them. (...)
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‘Letter writing is an expression that is necessary for wellbeing’ says Melanie Knight, an arts therapist and avid letter writer from Melbourne. Photograph: Ingo Oeland/Alamy.
The postal service expects the “unstoppable decline” will gather pace, making letters a peripheral form of communication by 2030.
Knight, an expressive arts therapist who runs creative letter-writing workshops, says society will be poorer for its demise.
“Even though there’s thousands of emojis, [digital communication] is so homogeneous,” Knight says. (...)
Peter Slattery, a research fellow at Monash University, says he sees a future role for physical letters even if more generic correspondence goes digital.
“Both in the business world and the personal world, letters will be associated with high-value, selected communication and more of the mass communication will switch to digital,” says Slattery, who writes on behavioural science.
“People value getting a letter a lot more; they know it takes more effort and feels more tangible.” (...)
Some fear the transient nature of digital communication means future generations will miss out on having documented insight into the minds of notable figures, such as the thoughts contained in archived love letters from Johnny Cash to June Carter, Napoleon to Josephine and Elizabeth Taylor to Richard Burton.
“Letters are so precious, they can give a really personal lens into a period of time through lived experience,” says Knight.
“I hope we don’t lose that. What it’s like to walk down the driveway and open the mailbox and find a personal letter there – it’s just thrilling.”
Tags: #letters #letter_box #post #mail #mail_man #e-mail #digital_communication #emoji #post #correspondence #love_letter
I am an emoji dyslexian. When someone writes an ;) emoji, I have no clue whatssoever what the persons wants to say to me. Was the former sentence meant ironically, does that person want to flirt with me or has he or she something in the eye that doesn't come out? I have no idea.
And I never used emojis. But in the last two years or so I use to add emojis in my texts whenever I want to express something that is hardly expressable.
My favourite emojis are:
🚀 : when something is groundbreaking or modern in an ironic way like a missing button to delete my profile on a plattform.
🍖 : when something is like cool but in a male and slightly macho way like an Arnold Schwarzenegger film
🐧 : when something is odd and doesn't fit in place like penguins in a zoo
💣 : when something bad is going to happen but in a beautiful way that I use to enjoy due to my excitement of catastrophies
👻 : when something is haunting us in a way that it is highly annoying but nevertheless harmless
✨ : when something is wonderful but a little bit too wonderful like a chocolate bar that is a little bit too sweet to be delicious.
With these emojis I am absolutely sure that there are people that are never getting what I want to express with them. But that is like my vengeance because I usually don't get what all the other emojis are trying to express.
🧝♀️ 🔥 = Elven Fire
The only emojis I use regularly, mainly with my larger family of siblings and their children who has adopted the combination.
The general meaning is something powerful and wild and is used when people exceeds themselves, take difficult decisions, listen to grindcore or throw furniture out of the window.
Anti-vax groups use carrot #emojis to hide #Facebook posts
source: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-62877597
Just got invited to a Facebook group with a couple of hundred thousand members where people share stories about why they think the #Covid #vaccine killed people they knew. But instead of saying vaccine they use the 🥕 symbol, presumably to evade #censorship.
#emoji #meta #internet #corona health #coronavirus #pandemic #news
