Apple’s new custom emoji come with climate costs
date linked: 11 June 2024
source: link to article, from theverge.com
I am very grumpy about this. Also, the point of emoji is that they exist within Unicode, yeah? So these aren’t really emoji in the way that those icons are useful—they’re just a fun trick that’s helping advance the climate crisis.
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