I don't know where the Zuñi got their word for “enemy” from in the first place, and whether in turn it was a disrespectful appropriation (yes, it was).
To recap: a group of people in what is now known as North America (the Apache) use, to refer to themselves in the language of one of their colonisers (English), a loanword from the language of another of their colonisers (Spanish), which is an approximate transliteration of the word that a rival group of people (the Zuñi) used to mean “enemy”, sometimes referring to them (the Apache).
Lastly, and by the same (flimsy) logic, 500+ million native #Spanish speakers would like to have a word with any entitled English speaker who pontificates on the word “apache” being used as a disrespectful cultural appropriation: you guys stole the word from our language in the first place. We could be offended too, or withdraw our approval for you to use it. Just use your own word!
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The #ASF (Apache Software Foundation) is, to most people familiar with it, a good institution with a noble cause. At worst, it would be a neutral organisation, in moral terms. How can the association between the name of a group of people (marginalised or not) and a good entity be bad in itself?
Imagine a brand “Printers Scandinavia”. By itself it would be perfectly neutral, right? Of course “Printers Lousy Scandinavia” or “Printers Great Power of Scandinavia” would carry some connotation. But just the name?
How can one know, by looking at the name _alone_, whether the name is homage or mockery, admiration or contempt?
Honest question: how exactly is just using the name of a group of people (marginalised or not), without any epithets or modifiers, disrespectful or offensive? (“because some members of that group have said so” isn't valid).
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#PhotoJanuary2023 day 9: nobody
That spot would soon after be filled with musicians, for a university orchestra concert. But for now, it’s just a harp and some pretty empty red chairs.
Pues aparte de estar en desacuerdo con algunas de las cosas que dice, su Twitter parece ser al 90% reparto de desprecio, insultos y malos deseos a diestro y siniestro…
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You don’t become cooler with age, but you do care progressively less about being cool, which is the only true way of being cool. This is called the Geezer’s Paradox
All that is interesting, but one can explain it referring to “alcohol and other drugs”, instead of “alcohol and drugs”, which is misleading. Right? That's my point.
…except that there's a big qualitative difference: using an AI service to voice text is perfectly legal, while illegally copying content is… well, illegal.
Opposing that is so Luddite. What's wrong with it, in principle, if consumers either don't notice the difference, don't care about the difference, or think that the advantages (faster releases, lower prices) make up for the disadvantages (worse quality)?
You do realise that instead of voicing your opposition here on Mastodon you could as well write a letter to the editor of The Guardian or to Apple itself, and put it in the mail, right? That would support a number of jobs. Why do you boycott those workers by choosing a much cheaper and convenient way (social networks)?
I am a software engineer. AI is little by little encircling us and doing part of our job. I could not in good conscience ask people to not get their software written by an algorithm if they so choose, purely out of concern for my own job.
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wire worms 1 final version.
#art #loop #creativecoding #generativeart
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Web devs! Do you sometimes find the web frustrating to work with?
Does this list fairly represent your own list of frustrations?
https://gist.github.com/captainbrosset/01a5306525ed377e619a85515eb6c667
@MurrayData@mastodon.world @katebevan
NO.
@edmonde@mstdn.es
It seems so 😆
Now there's more freedom, more technical possibilities, better access to previous art, and more connections between artists. In principle it's difficult to see how that would be bad for art.
Musicians now do covers and remixes and release single songs and do reggaeton, yes… but they also publish four-hour-long conceptual albums, record in acoustic, perform using virtual avatars, sing duets with singers who are long dead, invent new genres, etc. There's just all that there used to be, plus a lot more.
Perhaps, if anything, it becomes more difficult for #music lovers to find the gems among the rubbish. But gems there still are.
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@edmonde@mstdn.es
“Music nowadays is rubbish”?
