Greg

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Vell, Greg’s just zis guy, you know?
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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
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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!

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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