news
Welcome to c/news! Please read the Hexbear Code of Conduct and remember... we're all comrades here.
Rules:
-- PLEASE KEEP POST TITLES INFORMATIVE --
-- Overly editorialized titles, particularly if they link to opinion pieces, may get your post removed. --
-- All posts must include a link to their source. Screenshots are fine IF you include the link in the post body. --
-- If you are citing a twitter post as news please include not just the twitter.com in your links but also nitter.net (or another Nitter instance). There is also a Firefox extension that can redirect Twitter links to a Nitter instance: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/libredirect/ or archive them as you would any other reactionary source using e.g. https://archive.today/ . Twitter screenshots still need to be sourced or they will be removed --
-- Mass tagging comm moderators across multiple posts like a broken markov chain bot will result in a comm ban--
-- Repeated consecutive posting of reactionary sources, fake news, misleading / outdated news, false alarms over ghoul deaths, and/or shitposts will result in a comm ban.--
-- Neglecting to use content warnings or NSFW when dealing with disturbing content will be removed until in compliance. Users who are consecutively reported due to failing to use content warnings or NSFW tags when commenting on or posting disturbing content will result in the user being banned. --
-- Using April 1st as an excuse to post fake headlines, like the resurrection of Kissinger while he is still fortunately dead, will result in the poster being thrown in the gamer gulag and be sentenced to play and beat trashy mobile games like 'Raid: Shadow Legends' in order to be rehabilitated back into general society. --
view the rest of the comments
One thing the anglosphere really has going for it is the status of English as a lingua franca in the spheres of business, technology, engineering, and science. This could hardly be any more apparent than in the world of free software development, where code is written in English. Language keywords, function names, variables, interfaces, filenames, all in English. Issue report tickets and discussion, all in English. Documentation and strings, all in English, before using the English strings as a key to be translated into other languages. This is just one aspect of an enormous cultural hegemony which appears to be on the brink of being squandered.
Thing is, nothing stops people from outside the west from continuing to use English to collaborate with each other even if they don't collaborate with the west.
You just made me realize capitalists would create a language tax if it were possible.
Maybe that could be an interesting sci-fi concept
haha totally