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The tilde thing remains uniquely obnoxious in a field that seems want to mangle language for fun, so that's innovative I guess

Can’t believe Cabinet is still around. Issue 8’s “bang the keys swiftly” (2002) is still one of my favorite articles re: media history

Boy I have not seen Scalzi's bluesky but I gotta imagine there's a minion named Hugh getting a nasty splinter in a Starter Villain sequel

As a style, slop is starting to settle into an aesthetic effect that's hard to find a word for, but "twee" is getting close. Anyway I can't read more than a paragraph of this crap …

Was sad to hear about the fate of WMHD. Growing up in the US around that time college radio and left-of-the-dial stations were the only places you'd get introduced to different stu…

Always try to find time for the Evan Davies show

"Thankfully I can crib from John Christy's work, reproduced here out of context and without attribution"

>is rather stigmatising Oh you went with the "rather" instead of the "quite" that's interesting. Anyway if vegans want to say "I am vegan" you'd profit from taking just a second to…

Yes, people in the US definitely have trouble with virtue.

"Instead of a lemonade stand, parents should have their children try to make pastries, which is more amenable to an early-career pastry empire" is one of the more stupid propositio…

nvm author explains in the comment directly below this one, lol

"It’s not that the engineers are getting slower: it’s that every new button has to coexist with all the previous buttons." I thought it might be intentional though? The first half …

>This is so shockingly naive I feel I’m being trolled I'd take the under on "getting the joke" in this thread, imho, if people start piling in

...and This Is Discrimination (title in full)

>Let's all work together Nah

I'd like to add that "DEI" is, in this administrative environment, often reduced to a collection of terms searched for and flagged without regard for context. Such that "diversity"…

Perhaps better than "if I don't like it, it deserves to have its funding cut"