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Another thing here is that the company's response to the crisis is, to this day, frequently taught in business classes as a model of how to handle a crisis.

there was a great study a few years that went into the whole "ppl online are bigger jerks than irl cuz theres a virtual wall and no repercussions" and the researchers were expecting to see that be the case but it turns out that people who were really angry or argumentative online were also found to just be assholes in person and people who were pretty patient and nice online were found to be patient and nice in real person as well

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When I was a kid, I lived on a farm, and once a year the adults would go duck hunting and bring home a few ducks. One year, it was me and my brother's job to pluck those ducks. We were, like, maybe eight or nine? Plenty old enough to pluck a duck, but with zero experience.

Let me tell you what AI is good at doing: Initial proofreading for spelling, grammar, and consistency. Stuff an editor could do but in a fraction of the time that a human could do it. Let me tell you what AI is bad at doing: Thinking things through. Creating new material. Feeling anything at all about the art right in front of it.

I absolutely would not recommend AI for proofreading. It's so so bad at it. If you want a bot proofreader, find a non-AI one. There was a period not long ago when a bunch of proofreaders previously considered reliable, like Grammerly, suddenly went to absolute shit. The writers I know who use such tools were confused as fuck; any proofreader is going to be a little glitchy (there's simply too many unusual cases in English and it's impossible for a mass market bot to distinguish between error and stylistic choice) but they used to be good for finding typos and accidental missing or misspelled words, and suddenly they were complete garbage, recommending nonsense. More than one person experiencing an accidental 'approve all changes' moment (which happens) had their editor read their manuscripts and go "this doesn't... sound like you, is everything okay?" and found that their manuscripts had been turned to fragmentary nonsense by an electronic proofreader that just couldn't do its job. They started abandoning these products in droves, looking for ones that still fucking worked.

A tale as old as time

autumntides

Fucking word.

It’s so significant too that this narrative was collected by Zora Neale Hurston, one of the greatest authors and anthropologists of her time. She was shunned by the “gatekeepers” of both of these professions, largely because of her Blackness, her womanhood, and her uncompromising commitment to honoring and showcasing both in her works. She died penniless and alone in a state-run institution in 1960. All of her works had gone out of publication by then. It took more than a decade before she was rediscovered. A young author by the name of Alice Walker had come across her work and was deeply inspired by it. “In 1973, after an exhaustive search, Walker came across Hurston’s unmarked grave in Ft. Pierce, Fla. She purchased a headstone for Hurston’s tomb and had it inscribed “A Genius of the South.“”

The link doesnt work but a link to the book is here