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The more we work on YayText, the more we start to “see faces” in various text characters and symbols. Some like ツ are pretty common, but others like ᑛ and ꗸ don’t get as much love. We just launched smileyfaces.io so you can give these misfit smiley faces some ♡.

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@schlarb Nice, lmk what you think! And if you need some bespoke Unicode track titles for your next release, I got you.

I did some data science + ᙏade a video/blog.˚ ῝ If you're into ᜯaporwave ⅋ Unicode, check out my analysis ☁ You might find it interesting... youtu.be/K4iRnj0k-tg

@nightclerkradio @rosspayton @BirkMcBirkinson I analyzed how vaporwave has evolved from 2010 to present day, by looking at how the use of Unicode chars in track titles has changed over time. Clear patterns emerge from the data. youtu.be/K4iRnj0k-tg

@mamnunhaq You were the only candidate to not take a sip of water during the debate. Were you thirsty?

@dougschneiderbk & @ShahanaFromBK You drank from what look like single-use vessels (paper cup for Doug & plastic bottle for Shahana). Did you re-use your drink containers? Coincidentally, you both held your drinks in your left hand. Are you lefties or did you mirror your screens?

I watched the D39 city council debates last night and have a few questions / observations... mostly related to the candidates' hydration habits and drinking vessels.

@andres_e_0 Correct. The text is transformed in your browser, and not sent anywhere else.

We made a trick video. If you try to sing along while listening on an Amazon Echo device, the song will stop playing. Ha. Ha. youtu.be/Wf-XrKkjTes cc @alexadevs

My @ring is glitching. Dubstep remixing. Waiting for the beat to drop. Annoying the neighbors. Help!!

Things were so much harder before @twilio came along.

@jackturner @phantomcolor I appreciate you finding the beauty in this. If the autocomplete tech of the future is "open", I agree it's beautiful, like how couples complete each other's sentences -- but at a global scale. However, if it's "closed", we end up w/ tech facilitating en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newspeak

@phantomcolor @varga A global community of humans using tools that learn from those humans may be finding consensus on spelling something where we couldn’t find consensus alone. This is cool. This is beautiful.

Tech shapes cultures in unexpected ways. I think autocomplete is homogenizing the many spellings of "Chanukah". I predict that in 3 years, the algorithms will determine a single authoritative transliteration. 🥔🔥

@jackturner No, but Gmail's Smart Compose and Smart Reply are opinionated and already go beyond word-level autocomplete... In the future, autocomplete will influence the things at the tip of our tongue... "thought completion" is not far off.

@varga Does autocomplete on Android change the first letter to a C if you start with an H, as in Hanukkah? Since you can start the word two different ways it seems like it would be homogenized down to two spellings. Or at least, that would be the influence of autocomplete technology.

one of these things is not like the other, cc @lowtheband