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Semi-retired writer, currently in Austin, defrocked academic, published over the years in the Austin Chronicle, Texas Observer, The Baffler, Houston Press, & (eons ago) the New Haven Advocate. Editor, Collected Early Poetry of Ezra Pound (ND, 1976}
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Something weird about this recording, whatever its sentiments -- Noam is ill, likely not in strong voice, & here refers to himself in the 3rd person. I smell AI, & it stinks
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Is the NBA\CBA killing the golden goose? Curry, Tatum, Haliburton all down with non-contact, overuse injuries. Seems like a pattern, not a coincidence.
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Yes, but also seeing the limits of player exhaustion. Curry, Tatum, Haliburton all with non-contact, overuse injuries. Seems like a pattern, not a coincidence.
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Cults always believe they are the last on earth. Most don't have access to nuclear weapons.
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You demand brutal honesty but don't like to hear it. Brutally, on how journalism actually works, you have no idea what you're talking about. You just want to read opinions you agree with, for free. I'm done.
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And you follow Bump. That should pay his salary right there. Piece of cake.
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A Kickstarter. Yeah, that's the ticket. Maybe they could have a bake sale too. Blood drive. Coupla yard sales & you've got a major journalism institution. Broadcast on fairy dust. I wish you well.
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Mad at you? Please. Just thought you wanted to be an instant publisher & journalism hero, but I guess not. Don't like Bump, or Wilbank, or Buckner, or Dionne, or Wemple, or Jenkins? . . . Easy. Don't read them. The "Web" is all yours
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Maybe you should bankroll it: handle publication & payroll, Web servers, libel insurance, start-up money to support families for a few years while they build paid audience, build a paywall (web advertising is paltry), handle the business side etc. Because that was such a bad headline.
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WaPo is dead because the corporate owner is a quisling? Such a standard would render thousands of good reporters to exile or silence.
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Yiddish to the rescue:
Zey zoln zikh opshlepn mit di hor.
May they drag each other off by the hair.
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or like,
"Elon Musk is right; Donald Trump should be impeached; Donald Trump is right; Musk should lose all his government contracts. This is bipartisanship!"
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Calling them "mistakes" is a feckless dodge