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Are the emojis on Apple (macOS, iOS etc) vector graphics these days?
Why does that site feel like I am reading typed text on paper?
The letters are super fuzzy (a ton of anti-aliasing, even on the bottoms of the letters where it's not needed)
There is still no walnut emoji. Blonde-haired, black-skinned pregnant man? Yes. Walnut? No.
We got the mpreg emoji instead of a chainsaw, which makes me feel like we need an emoji lobbying group for things like sex, drugs, sawed-off shotguns and jury nullification.
Been waiting for seahorse myself.
Representation emojis and object emojis are solving different problems
So cool to get the background story on this. I remember adding the Japanese keyboard here in the US just so I could get access to emojis.
If the author is reading this, the hyperlink to the book in the first paragraph is broken. Looks like it's attempting to direct you to an absolute url that was meant to be relative.

    <a href="https://books/face-with-tears-of-joy">
> We mapped almost 1:1 to SoftBank’s set, though Apple chose to omit a few of the more risqué ones.

Which are these risqué emojis mentioned here? I don't think I have ever seen any that are even slightly graphic, which is probably why all the emoji slang conventions have spread like fire (Aubergine, Peach, etc.)

I was going to say that the love hotel emoji was the only one I could think of, but in the process of trying to find the emojipedia link (https://emojipedia.org/love-hotel) I found a Reddit thread that leads to a now-defunct blog post:

12 years ago - Apple removes beer, wine, love hotel, and other emojis from insertion palette in Messages app https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/2qqaya/apple_removes...

The blog it links to is dead, so here's an archive link: https://web.archive.org/web/20150312182931/http://blog.getem...

I just finished Keith Houston's previous book _Empire of the Sum_, a history of calculators, I'll be reading this next.
Off topic: Perhaps it's just me, but I have a pet peeve about emojis in anything formal. Even before LLMs, I instinctively took a repo less seriously when README.md had emojis in every section. And now LLMs have popularized that style, it's the first signal for me to vibe-detect AI repos.

I do use emojis. I love them, actually, but only in message apps.

Emoji are fun to use because they make written communication more human… corporations or LLMs using them just comes off as insincere.
I don't like to see them anywhere. They were cool for a while back in version 1.0 when there were a few that everyone knew and used in creative ways, before Apple* decided to make so many that you need a search bar. It's kinda like Pokémon. At this point I only get them in text messages from old people.

* yeah I know technically the Unicode Consortium, but Apple pushed it hard

Emoji themselves aren't the problem. It's more that context changes the meaning completely
I do not use emoji and I do not have (and do not want) colourful emoji on my computer (emoji as ordinary text characters would be acceptable for the purpose of displaying texts that have emoji, but I don't really need to that much, even if the texts have them, so I can do without that, too). The reason does not have to do with AI; I think that things can rarely be explained better with emoji, and is usually better to explain by text, and sometimes also diagrams will help (for computer programs, having good documentation is very helpful). (I also don't like Unicode.)
> and then through to Steve Jobs for final approval

I miss Steve Jobs

Cultural impact often comes from boring product work done carefully