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HUMANS WANTED

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Readers these days are no longer satisfied with spellcheck, grammatical correctness or institutional tone. They want signs that the writer wrestled with the ideas: emphasis, asymmetry, judgment, risk, specificity and even mild inconsistency. In other words, they want evidence of a human and not an artificial mind at work.

Once upon a time writing rewarded impersonality, and it now resembles AI-generated prose.

The center of gravity captures what institutional writing lacks: AI produces bland prose, but that academic culture normalized blandness long before AI arrived.

DONT BE CRUEL

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There have been time in my life that I have lost my temper for good reasons, but I don’t like violence or profanity.

LEGO WAR

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Which nation has created epic Propaganda props using LEGO?

MUSIC MADAMES

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Musically Masterful Madames refers to pioneering female composers and musicians from the 18th-century royal court all the way towards today.
Graphic: Pablo Picasso

GOP TYRANNY

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Why has the Republican Party gone from unpopular to unrecognizable? Discussions about "GOP tyranny" used to involve critiques by political scientists, journalists, and Democratic opponents who argue that the Republican Party enables authoritarianism, subverts democratic institutions, and imposes the will of a political minority on the majority. In prosperity, and in destruction we the people suffer. Meanwhile, the fourth Cabinet official departs the Trump administration, and the hits just keep on coming..

GOOD BUY?

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Everyone knows that first they get played and used until they’re tossed aside when their value has faded and it’s gone. We the People Need more Lenny Bruces.
Did CBS go from Good night Gracie, to Good Night and good luck to so long good bye, or have we all gone totally crazy?

ERRORS

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Recent sea-level studies reveal global sea levels have risen roughly 8 to 9 inches since 1880.

Америка—прежде всего?

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The #ReaganBush administration, the greatest Republican tag-team in modern American history was successful in tearing down the #BerlinWall and destroying the #IronCurtain by breaking up the Soviet Union into separate independent nations. It now appears that the GOP could be compromised and it will be a heavy lift for the current administration to top their accomplishments..Are Republicans looking for love in all the wrong places?

ON CUBA INTERVENTION

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American cartoon, published in 1898:
"Remember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans!"