This morning is all grim reflections on how oily and smooth Vance was, and other than the single line about the “damning non-answer” I haven’t seen a word about anything Walz said. (Caveat that Bluesky is of course not the real world and is largely already Team Walz, so we gnash teeth as recreation)
Reading takes on the VP debate and thinking @nameshiv.bsky.social was right all along—that there was no upside for Walz, whom everyone already likes, and all upside for Vance, who could use it to sound “reasonable” and give cover to voters who feel awkward about their support for racism and fascism
Jumping on Bluesky because Nude Africa is down for server maintenance
They were and are good guidelines, in that they ask you to consider what you’re writing to be sure you’re not unconsciously making something worse by using inaccurate or freighted expressions. That’s good! And that line may be drawn more strictly for scientific writing, and that is also ok!
Even if that’s true though, the dogpile-like response to it sucks. Like, if 2 people have already argued that it’s ok to use “decimate” to mean near-total destruction, perhaps just leave that alone? We’re not trying to run any more people off this website.
That entire unfortunate thing could (likely) have been avoided by clarifying who the advice was for, I think. In the context of writing for a scientific magazine, all of those recs are reasonable, and if it was framed that way I think fewer people would have felt personally aggrieved by them.
This last rant is directed at the world, obviously, and not yourself
I think that’s a really good example of how AI technology can be used in a helpful productive way, by automating painful rote tasks so more people can benefit from them. Let AI be good at that stuff and stop trying to make it a hack plagiarizing artist!
I can speak only for myself obviously but I will commit to buying one (1) print for each poorly-shot TikTok as a show of support, and an additional print if the song is particularly cringy but in a fun way not an “oh, dear” way
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