Abigail Nussbaum
Blogger, critic, 2017 best fan writer Hugo winner.
Blogs at wrongquestions.blogspot.com and www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com
Review collection TRACK CHANGES available at briardenebooks.uk/shop/
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- political journalists obsess over the public’s lack of trust in our profession but strangely see that as downstream of things like “we didn’t talk enough about how biden was old” and not “many of us appear to be indifferent to a nihilistic attack on the constitution”
- If political journalists are concerned not about the public’s lack of trust, but only about Republicans’, and assume right-wing anti-media sentiment is good faith criticism, not bad faith in pursuit of political power, and don’t care about anyone else’s declining trust in them, it makes more sense.
- Media orgs and journos who say "we need to regain the public's trust," mean "try harder to satisfy Republicans' bad faith." I don't think I'm exaggerating here. Is there even one instance where it meant "stop using euphemisms to downplay Trump's actions," let alone "appeal more to progressives"?
- CNN decided the key was appealing more to MAGA, and made hires accordingly. The result? MAGA still hates them, but they alienated some non-MAGA viewers. WaPo tried distorting info in pursuit of praise from MAGA, lost hundreds of thousands of subscribers, and reacted by denouncing their own audience.
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- given the overwhelming number of targets with the trump administration and the republican majority in congress, it is actually bonkers to think that democrats have anything to gain from litigating biden. let the guy disappear and focus on the stuff that is unpopular with voters!
- the single best thing democrats could do to win back trust with voters — and a good number of those voters who have a low opinion of the democratic party are democrats themselves! — is adopt an aggressively partisan orientation toward republicans and loudly perform their opposition
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- One of the main reasons for having an issue with students using generative AI is that when a lecturer asks students to write essays on the social impact of railways in Derbyshire in the early 19th century it's to gauge the students' understanding, not to fill an urgent essay shortage.
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- Pedants: actually, AI doesn't use that much water compared to farming Wise people: literally a single drop of water spent on the Plagiarism Machine That Lies is one drop too many
- Exactly. The reason the media and some desperate Dems are spending so much time on Biden, despite Biden being irrelevant, is because the general public is starting to blame the media and the Business Plot 2.0 for helping Trump into power. They want Dems to disavow Biden so the public stops asking.
- Again, it's *because the media and these anti Biden Dems are trying desperately to convince everyone that they were right to assist the Business Plot 2.0. They're starting to feel guilty for bringing us into open fascism and are desperate to avoid blame.
- Biden is doing interviews and riding bikes while Trump's brains are leaking out of his ears on live TV and an entire segment of the media is telling us that, no, actually, they were *absolutely* right in insisting that everything was normal with Trump while *Biden* was the truly infirm one.
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- i am endlessly amused by the ongoing story of David Zaslav: America’s Worst CEO www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/dig...
- My approach to dealing with ChatGPT in students' written work is pretty straightforward: 1. It's plagiarism. 2. Plagiarism is poison. 3. It doesn't even make your writing good. 4. I will catch you if you do it. 5. I will flunk you if I catch you.
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- It is amazing to me that Dems are pressured to water down their messaging in order to avoid alienating 'centrists,' but Republicans can round up and deport sobbing children without fear of alienating 'centrists.' Says a lot about what we mean when we say 'centrists'
- my kingdom for anyone on the “dems should take culturally moderate positions” to explain what this actually means in practice? www.thebulwark.com/p/hard-calls...
- british fan chat
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- Guys I’m going to say something difficult… fail them
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View full threadYou in school and don’t wanna do school work??? It’s time to go home
- Learning is your entire job… you can’t be bothered to do the work? It’s some sweet potato fields in Stantonsburg that need some strong backs
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- I'm not asking you to get from point A to point B. I'm asking you to get some exercise.
- "i dont know what id do widdout my chatgpt 🥺👉👈" Oh my god go back to Baby School you fucking failure
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- I cant believe that what they thought would be the best/splashiest bit of gossip to intro their "Biden Old" book was "some aides thought he might end up needing a wheelchair sometimes," as if thats not a thing millions of Americans use, including some in office, without issue. Just ugly, ugly stuff.
- I feel every Starmer speech now has a moment like the 'no, problem...' scene in 'The Death of Stalin' the day after.
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- this is the kind of thing you post when your entire exposure to “the rest of the world” is europeans talking about health care
- whats so galling about the sweaty poll-chasing is that the next election they'd have to call is in late 2029. Literally do anything right now, no one is gonna remember wtf was happening in 2025. People keep acting like Reform is gonna take over next week unless Starmer pleases the mystical center
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- this is not true either legally or in a colloquial sense, but an NYT reporter says it like he's telling you the weather.
- Developing vaccines and medical treatments requires understanding the mechanisms by which viruses infect human cells. It is not remotely suspicious for a country that has experienced deadly outbreaks of a disease to be performing work to understand that disease.
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