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This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."
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This is long, but worth it. Some choice quotes:
https://www.nplusonemag.com/issue-51/the-intellectual-situation/large-language-muddle/"Not only is the ratio of AI’s resource rapacity to its productive utility indefensibly and irremediably skewed, AI-made material is itself a waste product: flimsy, shoddy, disposable, a single-use plastic of the mind."
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"The way out of AI hell is not to regroup around our treasured flaws and beautiful frailties, but to launch a frontal assault. AI, not the human mind, is the weak, narrow, crude machine."
"[R]esisting AI’s further creep into intellectual labor will also require blunt-force militancy. The steps are simple. Don’t publish AI bullshit. Don’t even publish mealymouthed essays about the temptation to produce AI bullshit."
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Gli ultimi otto messaggi ricevuti dalla Federazione
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Un referendum in diretta televisiva
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2025/12/un-refe…
Bene ha fatto il Consiglio nazionale dell’Ordine dei giornalisti a fare appello all’Autorità per le garanzie nelle comunicazioni perché venga convocato con urgenza il Comitato istituito per vigilare sulla correttezza della trattazione dei processi in tv. L’Agcom
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@bkuhn I went to elementary school in Texas and I think it was just called "The Civil War". Maybe just the schools I went to!
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@evan Yeah, I agree. My impression growing up (again, very Maryland- (maybe Baltimore)-specific) was that "War Between the States" was a shibboleth to communicate that you're the kind of person who would *RATHER* be saying "The War of Northern Aggression", but know that's not socially acceptable anymore.
IOW, "the War Between the States" was my childhood's "All Lives Matter".
Great point re: pre-war political units, I'll respond more fully on that because I too think that's fascinating.
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Nuovo naufragio alla Vigilia di Natale: 16 morti
@giornalismo
articolo21.org/2025/12/nuovo-n…
Un nuovo naufragio alla Vigilia di Natale Secondo quanto riferisce sul proprio account di X l’ong Sea Watch, “116 persone hanno perso la vita nell’ennesimo naufragio del 2025. L’unico sopravvissuto è stato salvato da
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@bkuhn Maybe a better name that would better describe the cause and the illegitimacy of one side would be "The Slaveholders' Rebellion".
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@bkuhn I think the biggest strike against it is that it was a term used during Jim Crow in the South, and so it's tainted with that association.
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@bkuhn I also don't think "The War Between the States" covers up the cause of the war, slavery, more than "The Civil War".
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@bkuhn it's interesting that this is the term. I actually think there's some merit to calling it "The War Between the States". I can't think of another "civil war" where the belligerents were divided on pre-war subnational units. The English Civil War, Spanish Civil War, Chinese Civil War and Russian Civil War were all between political factions, sometimes more than two, intermingled throughout the country. Association with a particular territory was mostly temporary based on military conquest.
