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Mark Gisleson's avatar

Yesterday's 10TyposGame was a 'news' article bashing Elon Musk's takeover of Twitter. Not sure how long this game has been around but it got a big plug from Waxy's Links recently. Want to sell some agitprop? Make people read it closely for typos!

Gmail now routinely blocks my emails if they contain Yandex Translation links to Russian sites. Sites about music, not politics, and the translated pages have dead links and I guarantee they do not have malware or viruses. They're just in Russian and they were translated by Google's new Russian competitor, Yandex.

Linking to sites about politics (and the war in Ukraine) got me soft-blocked from Twitter (on appeal, ten months and counting) but hard to care when my traffic was suppressed (going back to before Twitter actually; word to the wise: do not write about Israeli Apartheid!).

If George Carlin was still with us, we'd be hearing him tell us about the 7 News Stories You Can Never Mention On Television. Or Radio. Or the Internet.

Anyhow, enjoying my new subscription. Just left a comment because my phone asked me to remind you to get a booster.

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The Other Spurgeon's avatar

Predictive text is such an interesting thing. I’ve learned it can be trained. Imagine at one and the same time trying to train it to be religious (using the language of theology) and also to curse [I’m not overly pious in the traditional moral sense (not pietistic)]. In other words, try training your predictive text to say things like “Fuck these leftist bastards who want to take away my rights to state explicitly and unequivocally what the Church has believed for the last two thousand years.” It’s not impossible. Trust me. I’ve tried it. Predictive text may be a child of the “current thing,” but it is trainable.

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