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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Feb 19, 2026

RE: @wonkcosmo@masto.ai

"Journalism is better when it's backed by live markets"

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A real shame if this photo went viral again today. #uspol #ukpol

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 18, 2026

@eco-g quick, make sure nobody sees this one

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 13, 2026

@RedstoneValley@sh.itjust.works @Buffalox@lemmy.world Marie Le Conte left X and joined Bluesky ages ago. She's mostly trying to make the point to some of her fellow journalists who are ridiculously clay-footed and don't seem to have realised that they haven't "made themselves a nice little corner of X", they're just swimming in fascist waters now.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 06, 2026

@glitchdx@lemmy.world hmm. I'll have to look into it. Most of the companies I work with are locked into office so I may be stuck with it but it'd be lovely to get rid.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 06, 2026

@glitchdx@lemmy.world @ripcord@lemmy.world how good are either of them for compatibility with word track changes and comments?! *Really* want to come off MS Word after this but I need collaborative tools.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 05, 2026

@Gsus4@mander.xyz @TheBat@lemmy.world the more worrying thing is how many times it has made something up that nobody has spotted because it looks normal. Proofreading spots spelling/punctuation/formatting issues. You need a deeper copyedit, not just a scan, to check the sense of something. And that won't necessarily catch factually untrue, but perfectly plausible, things.

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@TimWardCam@c.im @mort@procial.tchncs.de NO LOVE for modern electronics where the paper manual is a 10cm square glossy white pamphlet printed in pale grey 4-point type that's so tiny and illegible I n

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Jan 04, 2026

@cstross@wandering.shop @TimWardCam@c.im @mort@procial.tchncs.de ah but sometimes it has a QR code on it for a webpage with a search bar which may or may not yield some relevant results

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Dec 30, 2025

@NikkiDimes@lemmy.world @Wlm@lemmy.zip racism is about far more than tone. If you've trained your AI - or any kind of machine - on racist data then it will be racist. Camera viewfinders that only track white faces because they don't recognise black ones. Soap dispensers that only dispense for white hands. Diagnosis tools that only recognise rashes on white skin.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Dec 24, 2025

@Xenny@lemmy.world @frongt@lemmy.zip it's definitely not good for words with any technical meaning, because it creates references to journal articles and legal precedents that sound plausible but don't exist. Ultimately it's a *very* expensive replacement for the lorem ipsum generator keyboard shortcut.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Dec 17, 2025

@return2ozma@lemmy.world so they crash 12* more than human drivers, even though they currently *have* human drivers?! The AI makes human drivers 12* worse. Cool.

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My personal favorite accusation is that “I write too perfectly.” Thanks, I guess? Maybe the models were trained on me?

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Books. The models were trained on books. And it’s terrifying that 90% of people think you’re not real if you use a semicolon correctly.

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Dec 07, 2025

@IronBird@lemmy.world @mirshafie@europe.pub did you use a comma where you should have used a semicolon there on purpose

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@Flisty@mstdn.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network Abilene paradox in a nutshell: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abilene_paradox

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network I didn't know it had a name!

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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network Yup to all that. My read on Starmer is that he's a brittle authoritarian who's been airdropped into a crisis manufactured by the Tories and has no c

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@Flisty@mstdn.social @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network The British press are irredeemably corrupt—the rot goes back long before Murdoch, the Daily Mail started it in the 1920s/30s—an

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network absolutely. Amazing the damage you can do with a bacon sandwich.

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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network I think he thinks he's pandering to the press. Who he pays altogether too much attention to: he *should* be mounting an all-out attack on them via a

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network he should be SO much stronger on the digital publishers (because whatever they say, they *are* publishers. They choose what articles people see, and take revenue from those views.)

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@Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network Yup to all that. My read on Starmer is that he's a brittle authoritarian who's been airdropped into a crisis manufactured by the Tories and has no c

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Nov 29, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop @Remittancegirl@mstdn.social @hypostase@bsd.network The waves are still felt now from the Cameron/Osborne destruction of what had been a relatively effective crash survival strategy from Brown. I still blame way too many of our problems on the "that bigoted woman" hit.

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Found elsenet. And now, with my memories of home taping off the radio using a cassette recorder and a microphone, I feel *ancient*:

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@Flisty@mstdn.social · Nov 22, 2025

@cstross@wandering.shop our local radio station franchise (now a Heart) used to use the tagline "we don't talk all over your favourite songs" and it was *absolutely* aimed at the "press record as soon as the DJ stops talking" market (plus it meant they could leave it on a playlist when they didn't have enough DJs)

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