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Shepherd @neolithicsheep.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 17:17 UTC

Seriously academics get genuinely excited about this, it is often the best email they will get all month. I once had a professor send me not just the paper I requested but six more that he'd written that related to the topic he was so happy someone outside academia wanted to read his work

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 22, 2024 at 04:46 UTC

Yeah, I'll get right on that

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 08:38 UTC

Instead they’ll just talk about it until (they hope) everyone moves on.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 08:11 UTC

We have a friend whose husband beat her head with an iron bar then wrapped her face in Glad Wrap to try to suffocate her, and he’d written down his plan to kill her beforehand. He was convicted for assault, not attempted murder, because of this plea system, and now he’s out of prison. Ridiculous.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 21, 2024 at 07:04 UTC

Maybe stop calling this shit "manslaughter" and start calling it "murder"?

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 23:07 UTC

very sadly so!

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 22:54 UTC

WRONG DONALD, GOD

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 10:03 UTC

I really really hope this book has an index, and that it is great.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 20, 2024 at 09:19 UTC

From the excellent index to ‘The Stuffed Owl: An Anthology of Bad Verse’:

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 06:25 UTC

lol

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 05:32 UTC

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 05:12 UTC

Sad, bitter lol

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 02:25 UTC

As far as I can see it's trained on extended interviews about their answers to "likely" questions about the book, but then the chatbot can just make up other stuff and synthesise their voices for it.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 19, 2024 at 02:01 UTC

When reading a book, you know who I'd like to hear from even less than Roxane Gay? A chatbot simulacrum of Roxane Gay.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 09:04 UTC

Yeah, just really sleazy stuff. Apparently they're being sent to people in Sturt and Boothby, so nice to know where the Coalition is running scared.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 18, 2024 at 08:34 UTC

This crappy fake Greens flyer from Senator "I'm a shithead who loves it when Israel murders Australian citizens" Birmingham is a pathetic piece of work that is simply threatening me with a great time. These policies all sound brilliant. Bring it on, motherfucker.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

Yay!

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 12:51 UTC

It’s much more domestic in focus, I would say, but the quality is there.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:32 UTC

It wouldn't be surprising; it seems to attack EVERYTHING.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:31 UTC

Thank you!

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 11:31 UTC

It's full of great little touches like that.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 08:56 UTC

Daughter has it and it's absolutely ruining.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 07:45 UTC

If you'd like a near-as-damnit perfect little novel you can read in one go, might I suggest this?

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 17, 2024 at 02:18 UTC

www.abc.net.au/news/2024-06...

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 09:40 UTC

I feel as though I have been waiting months for it come in.

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Caustic Cover Critic @causticcovercritic.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 09:39 UTC

they should just read a difficult book, it’s less stress on the body and the rest of us don’t have to hear them going on about it.

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