visual diary by luna

[playburo]

Julia Fernandez

[lamignonette]

[basvandepoel]

[pmpkn]

Ico [2001] Sony Computer Entertainment Japan - PlayStation

[gouged-doll]

gao hang, air brush painting

[nyantara]

was looking up how long people in academia have hated pdfs and was genuinely surprised by the strident tone of this one paper

Get rid of PDF as the publication format. This is likely the only long-term solution. PDF is an objectively terrible format, designed for printing and not for reading, and most of the problems we have with making papers accessible are either due directly to it being a terrible format or are made worse because of it.

It treats the document markup and text as second-class citizens compared to visual layout, which implies that it will never be a great format for people with visual impairments or anyone who needs custom styling. Switching to another document format that preserves text order and allows the user to easily change font size and type would make this problem simple.

For historic reasons this is difficult, as our community is very familiar with distributing PDFs. Researchers have already spent decades making other document publishing formats accessible by default, most notably websites. Using HTML and CSS to format academic publications is a great way to solve the problem. PubCSS could be used to render the document in a way similar to the current proceedings template, if we want articles to still look like the printed page.

Another approach would be to use a document converter like Pandoc to produce a traditional PDF from a better markup language, e.g., using HTML and CSS or plain text. Using a document format that screen readers can access implies that it is easily machine-readable, which also benefits archival and analysis of our field. This is something the community seems to be interested in, as CHI recently changed the reference format partially to make it easier for machines to recognize papers and authors. [...]

It is sometimes suggested that an accessible version of the paper be supplied along with the PDF. In practice, this does not work because it is likely that the PDF will be shared, but not the supplementary information.

[closet-keys]

it's only recently I learned that the 'mog' part of 'mogging' stands for 'male of group' (shortened from 'alpha male of group'). so the definition of 'mogging' as like, being deemed superior to someone else in some way or another is using manhood as synonymous with relational superiority.

this was obvious subtext anyway (the whole ideology in which the term emerges is a male supremacist one) but learning it's so explicit and unambiguous was kind of surprising. doubly so since this term is already starting the process of integrating into general usage outside this subculture, first as "ironic," then as decontextualized ("it's just outshining someone!"), and eventually probably as sincere.

casual reminder that it is probably best to not adopt the misogynistic concept of conveying hierarchical superiority in interpersonal contexts as "funny internet slang."

[earlyaftermath]

[inthemuckandthemire]

[sapphire-arrow-deactivated20210]

[slightlyoffaxis]

muybridge horse, manual typewriter

[billstellar]

[lourensz]

[yourtryhard]

[blondebrainpowered]

The Open Book Fountain is a fountain of an open book with water used at regular intervals to give the illusion of a page being turned. Located at Egyetem Square (Egyetem tér), Budapest.

Created in 2012 by artist Kelecsenyi Gergely and engineer Jozsef Szita.

[iheartmolly]

[crtscreen]

throughout the late 2000s and early 2010s, our generation was inundated with aave. it eclipsed lolcat as the "funny way to talk." ain't nobody got time fo dat turns into dat boi o shit waddup. this is blatantly not an "aracial" or "gen z" way to talk. it IS black english. not to mention the amount of black reaction images!!

WHY, specifically, is it black peoples' facial expressions that are seen as just so comical or exaggerated? analyze the history of this nation's comedy and tell me why you might be predisposed to thinking of black peoples' faces as just, "more emotive" or exaggeratedly funny than a white or nonblack person's

and throughout those years, 00s-10s, many black bloggers -- victims of the mass staff-led purge (under the cover of them being 'russian' while reichblr still exists) -- they DID tell us it was a problem, DID try to educate people who freak out at the insinuation of 'being racist,' DID argue, DID point out the duplicity and the appropriation and the gross equivalence of african american slang with unintelligence, goofiness, etc. and they were ignored, abused, cancelled, chased off, until being eventually mass deleted by our racist transmisogynistic staff.

we didn't do enough, and the generation after us gen z "kids" didn't stop the trend. using the '-ahh' suffix. rizz. no cap. ate. delulu. it's giving. it's serving. crash out. lock in. aura. tea. main character. bruh. slay. real. keep it 100.

all of the following images are or were popular reaction images! what do they all have in common?

it feels like the effort to categorize slang as AAVE and not 'gen z' or 'gen alpha' slang has really petered out. it feels like we stopped talking about digital blackface in an era where the administration is posting ai-generated videos of black women who speak and act like exaggerated stereotypes and it frustrates me because we all have a responsibility to understand our generation's role in normalizing this type of racist shit for kids today. this needs to be addressed!