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Wonderful piece by @EditorSkinner on writing and America's Founding @WSJFreeEx @WSJopinion
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David Skinner
@EditorSkinner
Formerly of @humanitiesmag and The Weekly Standard. Language, culture, history.
Alexandria, VA Katılım Haziran 2009
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"A colleague said that even if AI could do all his writing for him, he would still have to write to discover what he thinks. He was onto something."
@EditorSkinner: Mightier Than the Sword wsj.com/opinion/free-e… via @WSJFreeEx
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"Sifting through fabrications and compiling a dossier alleging academic dishonesty was not my idea of fun. Or maybe it was?" Sweet piece of writing on AI in academic writing in @chronicle by @LKonstan (@aldaily): chronicle.com/article/peer-r…
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"Roosevelt sought in 1906 to introduce 300 new spellings, recommended by the Simplified Spelling Board, into all government publications through the Government Printing Office. T.R. was then mocked relentlessly by the press." freebeacon.com/culture/do-i-h…
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We have been "speaking truth to power" for centuries, not just decades (as previously believed). So I learned and so I wrote today at @thedispatch. thedispatch.com/article/speaki…
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"Safe" as a verb to mean "make safe"? Never seen it used this way before: "Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site . . . and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue."
SpaceX@SpaceX
On Wednesday, June 18 at approximately 11 p.m. CT, the Starship preparing for the tenth flight test experienced a major anomaly while on a test stand at Starbase. A safety clear area around the site was maintained throughout the operation and all personnel are safe and accounted for. Our Starbase team is actively working to safe the test site and the immediate surrounding area in conjunction with local officials. There are no hazards to residents in surrounding communities, and we ask that individuals do not attempt to approach the area while safing operations continue
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"There is a purpose, Mamet says, that unites his essays as a group. It is an overtly political purpose, a response to the unsettling political and social dramas of the last 10 to 20 years." @EditorSkinner reviews David Mamet's The Disenlightenment. #WeekendBeacon
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David Mamet has turned full-on MAGA. He believes the United States is in decline but remains hopeful, saying, "Trump is a hero, and his heirs will, God willing, increase the longevity of the American Experiment." My review: freebeacon.com/culture/the-ma…
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The Weekend Beacon welcomes Robert Messenger, who reviews Tim Bouverie's Allies at War, plus @PaulHTice on The Mysterious Mr. Nakamoto, Kevin McNamara on Summer of Fire and Blood, @EditorSkinner on David Mamet's Disenlightenment, & @cjscalia on Brian Wilson!
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@Blahbliptyblah Also not on the 7th specifically, there was a nice piece in the Atlantic recently, describing Bernstein's fixation on Mahler. theatlantic.com/magazine/archi…
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Listening to Mahler for the first time (7th Symphony) and what is going on
Can tell I’ll need to read something to make sense of this bc he’s clearly trying to Say Something
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I keep thinking these cookies had a different name. Fijis? Tongas? Vanuatus?
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"Says Who? proceeds through a venerable circuit of quintessential usage and grammar dilemmas: double negatives and why other dialects and languages allow multiple negation," writes @EditorSkinner. Double negatives! Oh yeah, that's the stuff... freebeacon.com/culture/a-war-…
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The WB lineup: @aroberts_andrew on Winston Churchill, Harvey Klehr on To Overthrow the World, @mattklewis on @TeviTroy's The Power & the Money, @MikeWatsonVa on Singapore, & @EditorSkinner on Says Who? Keep Calm and read the Weekend Beacon! freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…
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Had the pleasure of praising Anne Curzan's new usage guide and critiquing one key aspect: the discussion of politically correct language.
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The modern portrait of the Aztec society has been constructed using Spanish texts discussing Aztec culture. Camilla Townsend discusses how narratives written by the Nahuas themselves reveal a far more complex version of a history we have simplified. tinyurl.com/mst2925z
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Virginia Driving Hawk Sneve has authored 27 books that speak to Native American life and challenge stereotypes. @NEHChair Lowe interviewed Sneve about her identity as a storyteller and Lakota writer. tinyurl.com/5t2jw9pv
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The #NEHgrant funded AIDS History Project Archive
@ucsf_library preserves oral histories in order to humanize the disease’s victims and document activism in queer communities. @EditorSkinner discusses the project and the “San Francisco Model”: tinyurl.com/vdw4fcup #Pride
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Still puzzling over this pseudonym in @thenation: FT, which is short for Fuck Theory. See thenation.com/authors/ft/. And see instagram.com/genderfail/p/C… What else might be effed in a byline?
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Smug married man reviews bestselling divorce memoir: "@Lyzl often seems a little too ready to believe the worst about men and this may be the fatal flaw of her book." freebeacon.com/culture/divorc…
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The kids are not alright—and neither are the grown ups: Christine Rosen analyzes Abigail Shrier's Bad Therapy, @EditorSkinner finds irreconcilable differences in This American Ex-Wife & @StrackHaley sounds the alarm in her review of The Anxious Generation. freebeacon.com/arts-culture-o…
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