<p>Stopped to check in on a long install and I see this.... oh no.</p>

<p>Despite it sounding like a very niche news, I think it is important. The more people around the world would know and care about Ukraine, the easier it would be for politicians to continue support the country in its fight against Putin&#39;s Russia.</p>

<p>The last <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/sumo" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>sumo</span></a> championship ended in a dramatic fashion, and had all sorts of headline news. But one important news concerns <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Ukraine" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Ukraine</span></a>.</p><p>There is a new rising star in sumo&#39;s top division going by the name of Aonishiki[1]. He doesn&#39;t just fight on the level, he is inventive and resilient. I only started watching sumo last year, and even I can see it! This time around, Aonishiki earned a Fighting Spirit award. (cont.)</p><p>[1]: <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aonishiki_Arata" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aonishik</span><span class="invisible">i_Arata</span></a></p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://retro.social/@ajroach42" class="u-url mention">@<span>ajroach42</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@jamey" class="u-url mention">@<span>jamey</span></a></span> I stand corrected then… What I remember vividly is that I had a hard time clearing up some 80 MB on my HDD for an early release of Windows 95, but I&#39;m probably forgetting how fast things were changing back then, so 1999 could be very different. I also lived in Russia back then, and the progress was happening with a slight delay there.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://mastodon.social/@glyph" class="u-url mention">@<span>glyph</span></a></span> a bigger problem among progressives is to think that arguing about naming things is as important as fixing them. You know, like that time when everyone renamed their branches from &quot;master&quot; to &quot;main&quot; and patted themselves on the back for fighting racism.</p>

<p><span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://toot.cat/@jamey" class="u-url mention">@<span>jamey</span></a></span> 1GB, Isn&#39;t that pretty huge for 1998? If I remember correctly, most consumer HDDs only crossed into hundreds of MB at that time. Am I misremembering?</p>

<p>I see a lot of progressives doing this and I think it&#39;s a good thing but I just wanted to articulate it as an explicit principle. I don&#39;t actually think &quot;homeless people&quot; vs. &quot;unhoused people&quot; makes a huge difference, but once you cross the line into &quot;the homeless&quot;, you stop thinking of a group of people with a specific attribute and start thinking of an amorphous threatening blob.</p>

<p>One linguistic habit I&#39;ve been consciously trying to adopt for a few years is to always use the noun &quot;people&quot; to refer to people, and always use *adjectives* to describe aspects of identity. This foregrounds humanity, avoiding an implicit othering that occurs when we use language to sort people.</p>

<p>How it started / how it’s going </p><p><a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dog" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dog</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dogs" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dogs</span></a> <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/dogsofmastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>dogsofmastodon</span></a></p>