latimes.com
latimes.com
Weird is a good way to call out "minority rule" without using technical jargon like "minority rule". Also, on a gut level, have you heard unedited speeches from these folks? Deeply weird.
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presswatchers.org
presswatchers.orgIt could have been a lot better. Trump didn’t just “raise eyebrows” with his vermin line; Welker should have said it was redolent of Nazism. Welker let it drop instead of following up. It also shouldn’t have been a yes/no question, but rather something like “how do you feel when he says something like this”?Small signs the media is evolving on Trump coverage.
jvns.ca
jvns.caI’ve done my best to explain what’s going on with these terms, but they cover basically every single major feature of git which is definitely too much for a single blog post so it’s pretty patchy in some places.I really like this approach to understanding something with confusing terminology—assume the audience has necessary context and just jump in and unpack the confusing parts without starting from zero. I learned some new git tricks from this.
Dan York
Dan YorkIf we as technologists want to help the broader public understand these AI systems, both their opportunities and challenges, then we need to speak in plain language.I’m guilty of trying to find the perfect word with the correct nuance or shade of meaning to describe a situation. Sometimes that impulse works against clarity.
I do think we need to go back to the beginning and just say “ChatGPT lies”.
Useful Ideas Project
Useful Ideas ProjectCrybully definition: “a person who presents himself or herself as a victim of injustice in order to intimidate and manipulate others”.I’m calling it: word of the year!
Comment
Comment"They will say that they don’t demonize all Black people, or gay people, or Jewish people, or librarians. And there are undoubtedly some members of these groups who are themselves fueling this assault on “wokeness.” But it is more complex. In the eyes and objective analysis of many people, the political right is using “woke” to attack “the other,” or basically anyone who has the temerity to not agree with them."Woke is being used in a similar way to "politically correct" which Republicans used for years.
Cory Doctorow
Cory Doctorow"Right-clicker-mentality is a value we should all aspire to. As Matthew Gault wrote on Motherboard: “Sometimes a word or phrase comes along that’s so perfect it almost makes you angry.” “To right-click is one thing, but to have a right-clicker mentality implies an ontological break between crypto-fans and critics.”"I really like this turn of phrase. Right-clicking implies being a power user, being curious, using more than default settings. Right-clicking can lead to viewing a page source which can lead to all sorts of learning and control over what you're consuming. If everyone had right-clicker-mentality, features like blocking view-source in Chrome wouldn't be a possibility.
p.s. Here's a good NFT joke.
buzzsprout.com
buzzsprout.comWe're talking about a guy who received one complaint from a student who came to his office to talk to him, and then he himself voluntarily canceled the course. He took his ball and went home. And yet we're supposed to be like, “All of these kids today, they're so over-sensitive”.Fantastic conversation that connects 90s political correctness discourse with cancel culture discourse. They show how flimsy moral panic stories were fabricated, used as evidence of liberal overreach, and repeated ad nauseam.
The Guardian
The GuardianFrom coronamüde (tired of Covid-19) to Coronafrisur (corona hairstyle), a German project is documenting the huge number of new words coined in the last year as the language races to keep up with lives radically changed by the pandemic.This is great, Schnutenpulli (pout sweater?) for mask is not in this article but I like it so much better than "mask". The full list.
“Changing this name is overdue,” Ray said. “While not intended as reference to the actual Civil War, OSU sports competition should not provide any misconstrued reference to this divisive episode in American history. That we did not act before to change the name was a mistake.”Happy to see that OSU and UO are willing to examine their traditions and make changes to make them more inclusive.
merriam-webster.com
merriam-webster.comDarkest timeline continues. I’m just going to get news via the dictionary now.
MediumI am guilty of using this word as filler or an intensifier all the time. This is a public note to myself to cut it out.