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✨Great analysis of Unicode's emoji frequency data. We really want to emojify concepts people find useful. Once I understood how emojis are used to convey emotion, intent, body language, volume, etc. it totally changed my perspective on what to prioritize. wired.com/story/why-unic…
Since the last emoji release I've been consulting with a number of experts around gesture, linguistics & comics theory to craft a strategy for smiley emojification. One area we are exploring w @visual_linguist is established visual language found in comix
unicode.org/L2/L2019/19390…
There is some good representation of these visual morphemes found in existing emoji. Not surprising considering emoji's roots.

Coercion through cuteness
Dizziness
Loudly crying
Face With Steam From Nose
There are quite a few well visually established ways of communicating emotions that are not emojified and are worth exploring! To name a few ...

Holding back tears
Relief
Fogginess
Motion
Update! A few of these smiley emoji have moved forward to the UTC. First up, "breath face" aka "sigh". This is an emoji Samsung users previously had but was sadly lost in years past 🔗 unicode.org/L2/L2020/20066…
Next is FACE HOLDING BACK TEARS. A lot of Samsung's designs were fantastic but were discarded as everyone tried to converge in the darkness. This time around I'm optimistic we'll be holding back prideful tears together when it rolls out. unicode.org/L2/L2020/20064…
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Jennifer Daniel
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Awhile ago, @thrillist Job Goals invited me on their show to talk about emojis (what else?). We had a fun little chat but really the shots of the twins steal the show. 👯 m.facebook.com/story.php?stor…
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There's big talk about inclusion and diversity at Google so if you need any evidence of Google is making this priority may I direct your attention to the 🥗 emoji— we've removed the egg in Android P beta 2, making this a more inclusive vegan salad.
All ya'll red heads are losing your red headed minds over the new red head emoji but ya'll realize this doesn't mean you get red headed skateboarders or redheaded vampires, right? You get … a redheaded person. That's it.

Also, shout out to my baldies, silver foxes, and curls!
For those asking, this image features you fiery types.🔥😊🔥
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Sure. Why not. Likes will generate statistics opinions.
your inferential framework doesn’t matter as much as your checking framework
before solving a problem, you should work out at least four ways to do inference for it. these dead soldiers will form a basis for model checking
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A new data set on the popularity of emoji reveals a problem with Unicode's approval process, along with a way to fix it.

My latest for Wired:
wired.com/story/why-unic…
I made this graph breaking down emoji popularity by category

Some expected results (hearts, faces, and gestures are popular, flags and transportation unpopular)

Some surprises (plants, especially flowers! they're so popular!)

Full analysis:
wired.com/story/why-unic… How popular is each category of emoji: graph
The emoji set to appear on your phone next year are dismal.

A screwdriver, a toothbrush, a bell pepper—what is this, a shopping center?

When you think of emoji, you don't think of a laundry list of random objects. You think of iconic, sometimes weird, expressive faces The emoji set to appear on your phone next year are similarly dismal. A screwdriver, a toothbrush, a bell pepper—seriously, what is this, a shopping center? When you think of emoji, you don't think of a laundry list of random objects. You think of iconic, sometimes weird, expressive faces, like the face with tears of joy, the thinking face, the angry devil, the smiling pile of poo, and the see-no-evil monkey.
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The car ride was awkward – for Baekhyun at least. The teenager with him looked like he couldn’t care less about being with an enclosed space with a stranger. In fact, Sehun seemed very comfortable, even humming under his breath.
Baekhyun’s thoughts on the other hand were a tangled mess. Who was this kid? How did he know so much about him and Chanyeol? If he was indeed lying, he was doing an exceptional job. Baekhyun chastised himself for even considering that Sehun was telling the truth.
In what universe do time machines and sons from the future exist anyway?

His musing was interrupted when he recognized the words and tune the teen was singing under his breath.

/What the hell?/
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So, I've waded through the Evangelical Alliance's new pastoral "guidelines" for interacting with trans people (ughh, the things I do to expose #transphobic #ciswits to the world), and let's just say it's time to tear this particular sh*t-bag a new hole.

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So, straight off the bat, first page of text, the use of #language is . . . well, yeah, see for yourself:

"It is important to remember that transgender is not simply an issue to be debated;" - p5, #Transformed

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When such language gets reinforced by insisting...

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