devindoyle.bsky.social
Writer for games and TV. Star Wars: Eclipse, Divinity: Original Sin 2, Banishers: Ghosts of New Eden. Red Planet Prize winner. Metalhead. Bassist. Social Democrat. Irish-Australian-British (but mostly Irish). Résident en France.
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Ah. Now we're getting somewhere. Here's the thing. Just because sub-editors have been doing this for decades does not mean it isn't exonerative weaselry. It just means you've been weaselling for decades.
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Version 1: "A rubber bullet struck a journalist."
Version 2: "A police officer shot a journalist with a rubber bullet."
Both are factual. Only version 2 tells an accurate story of what happened, because in version 1, the police officer responsible isn't even mentioned. /
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Those rubber bullets, man. They're out of control. Someone should call the cops.
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"Reportage isn’t about taking sides, even with right vs wrong. It’s presenting events as they happen, without prepositions, adjectives or adverbs steering opinion."
Mate. Is "a police officer" a preposition, an adjective or an adverb?
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You may have been lulled into thinking it's acceptable by the fact that it's widespread. Even her own organisation exonerates the cop, says she was caught in the crossfire.
With fascism on the rise, I refuse to accept weasel-worded journalism, and I think you should too.
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If your position is that stating that the officer shot the journalist - over a video of the officer shooting the journalist - is opinion and not reportage, I'm here to tell you that that position does not stand up to logic.
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From the headline, RTE seem to think it's the rubber bullet's fault.
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Exonerative passive-sense headline bullshit.
Video footage has captured the moment AN LAPD OFFICER SHOT A JOURNALIST WITH A RUBBER BULLET.
Fixed it for you.
Get some balls, will yis?
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Many societies have gotten this wrong, granting police swingeing immunity in the courts, the media, and elsewhere. The US system has taken it so far it has become, in many ways, a militarised police state.
Public servants should serve the public.
This should not be controversial.
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Place de la République in Paris regularly sees protests. Here's a pro-Palestinian rally from a fortnight ago. Few years back, in advance of a rally later, the CRS (riot squad) were hanging out. I heard one say to another "Can't wait to break some heads tonight."
Literal gang mindset.
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Also... the impact on cognition.
A decade of slop will lead to minds of mush.
Kids now who eschew AI are going to be intellectual and creative giants. Their peers who do not are going to be morons.
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ACAB:
- Cops inflict serious injury.
- One cop half-heartedly tries to drag the injured person away... then gives up.
- Another cop then gives actual aid. Good guy, right? Okay. But he's part of the machine that caused the injury in the first place, so yeah, bastard.
bsky.app/profile/chad...
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Also, ACAB. All cops are bastards.
That's not to say that every individual cop was a bastard when they joined and remains a bastard once in - there are good (to a given level of "good") cops who do good work - but being a cop means accepting a level of bastardry. You unavoidably become bastardized.
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Do you remember how in Inception it was incredibly difficult to implant an idea in someone's head?
Now you just need to be a White House reporter.
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You know real people can read this, right?
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We named the prison in Divinity: Original Sin 2 after it.
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I mean, two gigantic enemies of the people are trying to destroy each other. That's a win for the people. Even the fact they're not working together is a win.
Also it's entertaining.
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Fuck their feelings.
(That's how this works, right?)
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Ah. Big love and (virtual) hugs, then!
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Making changes now based on anticipated technological advances to come is extremely fucking stupid.
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Big picture: I think the widespread adoption of LLMs and other "AI" is going to further divisions and I worry about some groups falling further behind. I'm at a minority serving institution with a large number of students who are first gen and/or low income...