Laura Matthews

and I would pro bono the heck out of editing all of that with you.

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The next wave in editing? What think?

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YouTube video by Comedy Central Latinoamérica Lip Sync Battle - Tom Holland

happened to see this this morning and had to post. i don't make the rules.
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'The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke...' - Gandhi Gandhi: The function of a civil resistance is to provoke response and we will continue to provoke until they respond or change the law. They are not in control; we are.

Quote of the day from the movie Gandhi. #indivisible

"the function of a civil resister is to provoke response. and we will continue to provoke until they respond or they change the law. they are not in control, we are. that is the strength of civil resistance."

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If you have two minutes free right now, call Netflix and leave a comment in support of this programming and ask them to stand up for their shows against political pressure.

Phone number is 1-866-952-4456, and I waited less than a minute before a human picked up.

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

Just cancelled #Disney with this note:

Pet #editing peeve: Contrived interruptions to delay characters having important conversations, in an attempt to build suspense. "I was just about to hear the secret when the phone rang."

Coming late to this party but #Mo on #Netflix is a great show. Will be thinking about it for a while.

a tumblr poll, started six days ago, headlined "Fuck it. Best Punctuation poll." The em dash is winning with 28.9% of the vote, followed by the semi-colon at 20.3% and the comma at 12.2%.

There is literally a poll on tumblr right now about everyone's favourite punctuation and em dash is beating out even the humble semicolon!!

every professional writer i know is an absolute pervert for em dashes but go on

These are the reviews I love.

Netflix is stepping in to save Sesame Street.

The streaming giant has inked a deal with Sesame Workshop for new episodes of the long-running children’s show, just months after Warner Bros. Discovery opted not to renew: bit.ly/3ZqxTyp

What do you think of Daniel Sjursen, if you have seen his "a true history of the United States"

True. That's why I really love the revisioning history series from Beacon. Zinn's work is just the beginning.

Thank you. There have been so many next level books since him, like disabled history of the US, queer history of the US, AA and Latinx, indigenous people, the whole revisioning series from Beacon. So for me he was kind of my gateway drug I think. Agree you can't stop with him, must go deeper.

I would really like to know more about what you mean with this! I've always been a fan of Howard Zinn, do I need to know more?

Again, LLMs aren't designed to give you the *right* answer but *a* answer. Whether than answer is correct doesn't matter all that much, bc the LLM has no way of knowing what is accurate and what is made up. Getting the right answer is more a matter of luck than anything intellectual.

Mötley Crüe.

Well, with the quote marks, you're sort of saying *this phrase is…* so I would allow it. (The English language is ours to mess with.) Also exactly correct sentiment.

Twitter post/pohoto from JK Rowling who sits on what looks like yacht, taking a puff of what looks like a cigar. She holds a cocktail close to her face and looks smug as fuck. Text on tweet: I love it when a plan comes together. #SupremeCourt #WomensRights.

Text on screen: our.moral.imperative British billionaire JK Rowling has posted several gloating tweets today after the UK Supreme Court ruled that only 'biological women' legally count as women, excluding trans women from legal protections and safeguards. Rowling's vicious smear campaign against trans people in Britain has been going on for several years now and has played a major role in cultivating the extremely hostile and toxic environment that exists in the country towards trans people, particularly in the name of liberal 'feminism'. @fight_for_a_future @rowllingofficial

You all need to treat Harry Potter IP like we’re treating the Tesla brand.

Oh, look a bird.

Seth Rogen’s Criticism of Silicon Valley’s Support for Trump Was Cut From the “Full” Stream of Breakthrough Prize While presenting an award at the event known as the Oscars of Science, 'The Studio' star pointed out the irony of tech titans' support for the Trump administration's defunding of science. The potentia...

“This year’s ceremony lasted longer than the prior few years, and several edits were made in order to meet the originally planned run time.” Rogen could not be reached for comment.

Come on. Seriously? We're supposed to believe that?

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HBO Reveals ‘Harry Potter’ Remake Cast, From Hagrid to Snape to Quirrell HBO just confirmed the six adult leads from its upcoming Harry Potter TV series and pledges a "faithful adaptation."

This is pretty gross:

"#HBO's Bloys addressed controversies surrounding #Rowling [& her] anti-transgender sentiments. 'I’m not worried about it,' [he]said. 'Look at the huge success of the #Hogwarts video game. I’m not concerned about consumer response.'"

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This looks breath-takingly gorgeous.

I've seen lefties floating the idea that "We should use the R word against bigots to show that our hatred for them transcends our morals" and

Absolutely THE FUCK not. Are we for real with this? Like, seriously? Absolutely not, under any circumstances actually.

Dismay as cross-border library caught in US-Canada feud: ‘We just want to stay open’ The Haskell Free Library and Opera House sits half in Canada, half in Vermont. Now, the US is planning to cut off main entrance access to Canadians

I'm still mad about this library, but at least they raise enough money to give the US the finger.

It'll be an external reminder of how a best friend can stab you in the back. Carney is right: the old relationship is over.

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I am a fairly bilingual grammar nerd so I have a lot of thoughts here.

Firstly, I know some white people have decided to be aggrieved by the capital letter, but it makes perfect sense.

In the American context, Black is a fairly specific ethnic group. White is a trait, not a specific group.