Greg

@greg@icosahedron.website
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Vell, Greg’s just zis guy, you know?
Websitehttps://greg-kennedy.com

I have heard it said that tech people do not commission enough art.

https://ericwbailey.website/published/you-must-listen-to-rfc-2119/

You MUST listen to RFC 2119

It turns out you can just pay people to do things.

Wikipedia has a cheat sheet of well-known tells for identifying generated text. (With an appropriate warning not to over-index on minor ones as absolute proof) https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:WikiProject_AI_Cleanup/AI_catchphrases
Wikipedia:WikiProject AI Cleanup/AI catchphrases - Wikipedia

It occurs to me that with AI crawlers not respecting robots.txt, this old trick might come back in vogue
interesting things happening at the bottom of my sudoers file

Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.

This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)

You can read my proposal here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf

and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"

Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!

My favorite Boards of Canada song covered by a chamber orchestra:

https://youtu.be/sVrVSEwKjCQ?si=XiT8dC7U4NpQeiDy

Everything You Do Is A Balloon (BoC Cover) - Stargaze - St Giles Cripplegate, London - 2nd July 2016

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it's cool to have one day set aside every year where five of the worst people tell you which rights you no longer get to have
It's not lost on me that their explainer docs are all clearly AI generated as well.
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Did you know that new #Emoji can be proposed by anyone, simply by following some guidelines laid out by the #Unicode consortium? There's a time window each year where they accept proposals, and a select few might make it into future sets.

This year I turned one in: "Circuit Board", which I was surprised to find 1. didn't exist and 2. had not been proposed before (though CPU and Microchip have both been submitted and declined in the last 5 years)

You can read my proposal here:
https://storage.googleapis.com/greg-kennedy.com/Proposal%20for%20Emoji%20%E2%80%9CCircuit%20Board%E2%80%9D.pdf

and you can see the Unicode emoji proposal guidelines here:
https://www.unicode.org/emoji/proposals.html

Anyway, the odds aren't great of getting accepted, but if it IS then you can say "hey! I know the guy who submitted that one!"

Attached are the sample images I drew up for the proposal - which, incidentally, are now Public Domain as well. Enjoy!

@greg
Good #emoji proposal!

I always worry how they’ll “read” at 18 px

If someone has to pick them out of a lineup the colour is great, but such things may need some perfect design for people to see what they are

See FAX MACHINE 📠? ROLODEX 📇? PAGER 📟?

(Thank you 2000s emoji developers)

We just did PHONOGRAPH but got denied too 😔

Tried to simplify the image

Maybe they didn’t like the trademark Grammy/RCA confusion?

Or our comparing w/ other emoji
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/an0z2lff1106uav3fhhat/Proposal-for-Emoji_-PHONOGRAPH-RECORD-PLAYER-July-30.pdf?rlkey=gbh7mz16ylwac71nm8cqb1al7&st=27pzloxj&dl=0

@AccordionBruce Ah that's unfortunate! I reviewed the big list of denied proposals and there's quite a lot in there, so I don't have much hope in this one getting through. But at least I can say I tried :)

@greg
Pretty sure the 🪗 will be the most widely seen accomplishment of my life

Until/unless my kids do something fabulously famous/infamous

@greg
Totally worth doing the proposals either way. I love the genre combination of “Serious academic research grant” and “Please let billions of people use my tiny cartoon” 🙏🏼
#emoji

@greg it’s disappointing that a microchip was not approved.

I’m surprised there’s no Easter egg

@greg I was literally looking for a circuit board emoji three days ago - great timing!
@greg my favorite line from that proposal:
"Circuit Board is its own character."
yes! be independent! don't let the other characters tell you what you are! be yourself as you always were meant to be!
@greg @anthropy I love it! I was shocked there wasn’t even a CPU emoji. Any black IC with legs would do. It’s very symbolic and suitable for use as emoji.
@greg it's so weird seeing all those emojis in such an official proposal, even though it is literally an emoji proposal 😁
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@greg There’s a surprising amount that haven’t been submitted