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Courtney Milan @courtneymilan.com [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 13:48 UTC

So a thing about AI is that, not understanding the material itself, it cannot understand what the gap is in someone else’s understanding. Students already have access to materials that will repeat important points over and over. They don’t need more.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 02:06 UTC

And my dude, I never said you were a third grader. I said that’s how ad buys work—though I’m not sure why that surprised you if you work in M&C. And reflecting on that, I think we’re done here, because I’m not a third grader, either, and don’t deserve the mansplaining. Ciao.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 02:05 UTC

And they were going to get this crystal ball where? You can’t account for every possibility in advance, especially not when your job is to promote your candidate. Are you going to run a “our candidate may have had a shitty night—or maybe he didn’t, because we can’t know ahead of time” ad? No.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

The new context was irrelevant to the pronunciation. It was just people being snooty about it because they thought they could.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 02:03 UTC

But “harassment” was not a new word in the language. It’s that people were getting snobby about the “correct” way to pronounce it, deciding suddenly that the UK was correct and we weren’t, and basically attempting a reeducation campaign. It’s not that we’d never heard/used the word before.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:55 UTC

No, that’s just how ad buys work.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:46 UTC

Those were almost certainly bought and placed well in advance of the debate, so there’s not much they can do about them now except run them out. Sad, but true.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:41 UTC

(To clarify—the word was not at all new. The concept of sexual harassment, and so that usage, was not commonly known, for sure. But the word “harass” had been around for centuries.)

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:39 UTC

There was discussion at the time about that actually being the correct pronunciation. HARass is the UK, harASS is the US, so of course there’s snobbery around it. The word was definitely NOT new at the time, though.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:31 UTC

I’ve started unsubscribing without guilt. It’s not my fault I’ve landed on these lists (and not a few of them think I’m someone else, so I feel especially not guilty about those). And I often mention, if asked why, that they need to stop sharing lists bc it pisses people off. 🤷🏻‍♀️

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 01:19 UTC

Once you’re on one of those lists, you end up on ALL the lists, too. It’s such an incredibly good way to piss off your base that I can’t figure out why they still do it. Just because I’m interested in one candidate doesn’t mean I’m willing to hear from all of them!

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 07, 2024 at 00:09 UTC

Is anyone else noticing that they’re getting logged out of BlueSky more often lately? Seems to be somewhat more on my iPad (where I use the browser, because the app is just not iPad friendly), but it’s every couple days now.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 23:58 UTC

There are a zillion different legit and less legit text and email campaigns, from the DNC, the actual campaigns, and way too many PACs, and I have trouble believing that the overload doesn’t end up turning most people off—but it clearly works well enough that they keep doing it.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 23:56 UTC

Are you sure it’s actually the DNC? There are a ton of other groups with names like “Dem Voters,” “Dem Majority,” “Dem Power,” etc., and none of them are the DNC.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:39 UTC

I haven’t read anything else he’s written, and from this thread? I see a guy trying to get people to listen to each other and stop flying off the handle every five seconds. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Follow Your Curiosity podcast @fycuriosity.bsky.social [ View ] Jul 06, 2024 at 15:38 UTC

I’m reading this thread and I have no idea which camp he’s in. Just for the record.

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