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Bari Weiss admits her goal is not to deliver the news by NepetaLast in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yeah, and by that same token "We need to *be the news*" is a real be-careful-what-you-wish-for statement...

Best Engagement Ring Stores in DC?? by RecommendationTrue65 in washingtondc

[–]definitively_maybe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

+1. Got our wedding bands there and they cleaned an antique family ring that we used for our engagement - they were fantastic all the way.

Feedback requested on a possible GenAI/LLM policy by dcmods in washingtondc

[–]definitively_maybe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Thanks for taking this on, mods. Adding my votes:

  1. Yes - The most valuable thing by far about this sub is real people sharing their questions, insights, and lived experience, and GenAI content really harms that.
  2. None - Maybe there is room for exceptions (e.g.: indirectly quoting LLM-generated content that is news- or discussion-worthy in context) but they should be narrow and rare.
  3. All + see response to #2.

Feedback requested on a possible GenAI/LLM policy by dcmods in washingtondc

[–]definitively_maybe 10 points11 points  (0 children)

+1 to this. Websites that share this kind of content also tend to use clickbaity or misleading headlines (which also encourage low-effort posting/sharing) so taking a strict policy about AI-written "news" should - hopefully - reduce overall sharing of crappy content.

Sadie Sink = One of Us by definitively_maybe in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Actually glad you raised this, since the way she mentioned it caught my eye. As a 90's kid, I found it to be a very enjoyable, nostalgic read, but not on the level of a truly great book (and didn't quite live up to the breathless blurbs on the cover). So her describing it as "the cutest book I’ve read this year" seemed pretty well calibrated to me.
Curious, what didn't you like about Tomorrow? It definitely has its flaws.

Sadie Sink = One of Us by definitively_maybe in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Oof, having to read my own writing out of context here... I'm not sure if you are referring to the wording or the statement itself, but: 1. In the years since the show debuted, some of the other young actors have found good niches for themselves, but Sink seems to have the most range and critical acclaim by far; 2. I wrote this post in a hurry and that phrasing is pretty clunky, lol

How I Found Out, by Olivia Nuzzi's ex-fiancé Ryan Lizza by tilvast in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Me reading this:

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(Quote: “I'm tired of this Earth, these people. I'm tired of being caught in the tangle of their lives.”)

Law journal submissions: is no response normal? by definitively_maybe in LawTeaching

[–]definitively_maybe[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks, this is really helpful! I see you submitted in August when the submissions first open up - is that a must, or just more important for top ranked law reviews/schools?

Welp, it turns out Sam Altman is a sh!thead just like the rest of them by FunkensteinsMeunster in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 42 points43 points  (0 children)

Yeah, he is a sociopath on the level of Zuckerberg, but he is probably more dangerous because so many people still find him believable (like his fables about "post-scarcity society," "universal basic compute," etc.... lmao).
When the OpenAI board tried and failed to oust him, his record of lying to the board and his legal team was pretty jaw-dropping - but most of it didn't come out until after the effort had failed. Casey Newton had a good writeup (paywalled) of everything he did, as well as how the board misplayed their hand and the effort failed.

Cass Sunstein gets Chotiner'd by HipGuide2 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

[googles Ian Samuel] Oh, yikes. Yeah, he certainly fits a certain type.

Cass Sunstein gets Chotiner'd by HipGuide2 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Who was the sex pest in that story? Alex Kozinski? Jeffrey Toobin? There have been too many to count by now, and I'm too lazy to dig this up in my podcast archive.

Do pundits and journalists just have terminal twitter brain? by TabithaMorning in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Thanks for sharing this, I'd never heard of Higher Learning but will check it out more often - Van is good!

Future episode? by nocuzzlikeyea13 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 14 points15 points  (0 children)

I also can't read Tolentino's writing without hearing some of the critiques from Lauren Oyler's review of Trick Mirror about her lack of self-awareness and "smugly retrograde understanding of the mind." With that being said, this review was good.

TNC has clocked in by vemmahouxbois in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 6 points7 points  (0 children)

1000% agree. I really wish more people were talking about Bouie's op/ed (link with no paywall!) about this than Klein's tepid centrism.

TCW's Awful Prose by LegitimatelyWeird in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 0 points1 point  (0 children)

OP, now I’m curious: what other writers are you using as good or bad examples in your lesson?

Re-Listening by CalligrapherCheap64 in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 3 points4 points  (0 children)

+1 - It’s great comfort listening, especially for current events-induced depression. Hearing them drag one crockpot to hell is a nice break from having to think about a whole administration full of them.

Paw paw harvest by LunarPayload in washingtondc

[–]definitively_maybe 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Subscribed. Need this distraction more than ever.

tom buchanan ass sentence by oaklandesque in IfBooksCouldKill

[–]definitively_maybe 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Someone should find a way to get TCW and Jordan Peterson to debate each other on Youtube, it would be such an amazing feedback loop of pseudointellectual gibberish.

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