knowledge ownership who can be said to ‘own’ knowledge intellectual property rights copyright and patents ideas are everywhere parallel invention indigenous peoples’ knowledge and closed cultures ...
X, formerly known as Twitter pretty much wholesale rejection of the name change of the company is a heart-warming small act of solidarity I’ve seen references on both traditional and social media switched to ‘formerly known as Twitter’ a lot of old site/blog templates etc that build in Twitter integration with hard-coded names and logos, you can see clearly now how recently infrastructures or content has been updated on a lot of legacy sites potential for wider problems with text searching and SEO and other methods of discoverability when considering usability I’ve arbitrarily linked instances of the single letter X here to illustrate the problem ^ef207a any phrase ‘X is Y’, logical arguments, arithmetic or algebra in plaintext/not code-escaped becomes an issue especially bad for legacy systems with with inadequate text management disambiguating a single letter word from a single letter (as with ‘I’) company and brand names generally longer than a single character for trademark etc letter x sometimes used as plaintext ‘exit’ button may be used as a special character in other ways, or worse for screenreaders? ...