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  • @Blogsdaseguire son due lavori diversi e delicati.
    Competenze, non di studio, ma di pratica professionale, diverse.

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  • @krans@mastodon.me.uk The analogy is structurally interesting, but I think it breaks down at a crucial point.

    With tax credits, the argument is that the subsidy lets employers off the hook—pressure that would otherwise force wages up gets absorbed by the state instead. The discomfort falls on capital, or at least that's the intent. But when you apply the same logic to language access, the discomfort doesn't fall on the Anglophone center. It falls on the people who were already excluded. The implicit suggestion becomes: non-English speakers should communicate less fluently, so that English speakers are eventually pressured into… what, exactly? Learning Korean? There's no mechanism there.

    The deeper problem is that “lowering the bar for communication in English” is not the same thing as accepting English hegemony as permanent. I use these tools to participate in a conversation that would otherwise exclude me. That's not capitulation—it's the same logic as using a wheelchair ramp. You don't refuse the ramp because its existence lets architects keep building stairs.

    The structural critique of hegemony is real and I share it. But it shouldn't cash out as advice to the marginalized to make themselves less legible. That's a cost I'm not willing to ask people to pay on behalf of a structural shift that may never come.

    @Gargron@mastodon.social

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  • @hongminhee Criticisms of Anglophonic hegemony are similar to (and inseparable from) criticisms of capitalism.

    In many cases, systems people put in place to mitigate capitalism's harms inadvertently strengthen capitalism's grip (e.g. tax credits for low paid workers allow them to be paid even less).

    Similarly, lowering the bar for communication in English, as you describe, makes it ever less likely that we'll ever start treating non English speakers as first class citizens.

    @gargron

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  • Chi esercita il DIRITTO di voto ha il DOVERE di informarsi.

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  • @levelbot I feel good about myself and this number.

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  • buckle up <-> buckle down axis

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  • @reiver@mastodon.social knowing people in general... They will get more bug reports if they said "whom"

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  • @reiver I've heard John Mastodon personally picks those out of a tall hat, for each user, individually. What a great man.

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    @krans@mastodon.me.uk The analogy is structurally interesting, but I think it breaks down at a crucial point. With tax credits, the argument is that the subsidy lets employers off the hook—pressure that would otherwise force wages up gets absorbed by the state instead. The discomfort falls on capital, or at least that's the intent. But when you apply the same logic to language access, the discomfort doesn't fall on the Anglophone center. It falls on the people who were already excluded. The implicit suggestion becomes: non-English speakers should communicate less fluently, so that English speakers are eventually pressured into… what, exactly? Learning Korean? There's no mechanism there. The deeper problem is that “lowering the bar for communication in English” is not the same thing as accepting English hegemony as permanent. I use these tools to participate in a conversation that would otherwise exclude me. That's not capitulation—it's the same logic as using a wheelchair ramp. You don't refuse the ramp because its existence lets architects keep building stairs. The structural critique of hegemony is real and I share it. But it shouldn't cash out as advice to the marginalized to make themselves less legible. That's a cost I'm not willing to ask people to pay on behalf of a structural shift that may never come. @Gargron@mastodon.social
  • @django I don't know if you saw this or not.

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    @django I don't know if you saw this or not. I refreshed the `ap` project and added more ways to do OAuth 2.0 discovery and authorization.https://socialwebfoundation.org/2026/03/10/ap-the-activitypub-api-command-line-client/
  • Numeri primoriali e compositoriali

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    Numeri primoriali e compositoriali @matematica - Perché i fattoriali sono troppo mainstreamhttps://wp.me/p6hcSh-9qp
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    @Blogsdaseguire son due lavori diversi e delicati.Competenze, non di studio, ma di pratica professionale, diverse.