Tag: Editors
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Ned Green and enjoyable science
Linked in previous, worth a reprint. = = = = = START 2021 REPRINT: Following part 1 and part 2 and part 3. Saved the best for last. Colonel Ned Green was the most influential of these three men. Money talks, and intelligently-directed ENJOYABLE money talks best. His mother Hetty Green was the equivalent of…
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Another 400 year sync
History Today’s short features are good this month. The London Gazette is the longest-running continuous newspaper in Britain, and possibly in the world. I think one Dutch paper might be older. The Gazette’s starting point gives us another neat 400 year resonance. = = = = = START QUOTE: The Restoration government needed to manage…
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More Hudson trivia
Bought yet another picture book on Hudson. This one is by Don Butler, who worked as a stylist for Hudson in the 40s, then moved to Nash and Chrysler. He didn’t have as much inside access as Conde, but did some long research to gather up a wider variety of pictures. His book answers a…
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Thatcher as editor
Enjoying the latest print issue of History Today. I appreciate both the content and the form. It resembles an old-fashioned newspaper with features and short human interest stories. I read those first, then the articles that look interesting. This month includes an inside look at Thatcher’s speechwriters. Unlike most politicians she recognized her own limitations.…
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Odd specialty
Whoda thunk it? One industrial designer specialized in weird super-streamlined trucks. This Vintage.es article shows a weird 1936 armored car, with an elevated cupola for a tailgunner, designed by Everett Miller. The article mentions that Miller also did the Gilmore fuel oil neon truck and the Arrowhead Spring Water teardrop car. The latter reminds me…
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You have to learn
Comment seen on substack: so now people are pretending like you need an editor to be on substack?! lmaoooo the point is to get rid of gatekeepers and hurdles and barriers shut uupp i write in lowercase and sometimes not and i definitely make typos and none of it serious. we’re all exploring our writing…
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Today is is Proofreading Day!
My kind of day for srue. I’m a natural proofraeder and corrector, always on teh lookout for sutble errors and repepetitions. Not sardonic; editing and proofreading were always my strongest skills. I should have stuck with printing and moved into an editing career. But the official day IS sardonic. Corporate Trainer Judy Beaver created National…
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Still hammering an old point
An email today from an “independent” news source brags THE CENSORS CAN’T STOP US! Nonsense. If you were censored, you couldn’t send this email, and your podcasts wouldn’t appear ANYWHERE. PUBLISHING IS NOT CENSORSHIP. By BASIC DEFINITION, a publisher edits and selects what it will print or display, for commercial reasons. Before 2000 nobody expected…
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Omission vs commission
The most effective propaganda is omissive, not commissive. Example: One of the tech-sponsored websites was trying to steer Americans away from Tiktok and Rednote. They highlighted some Americans who ran afoul of Chinese censors banning a thread that was pro-LGBTQA2ABCDEF. See? Red Communist Atheist Godless Marxist China is imprisoned, we are free! What’s omitted: Our…
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Better distinction
Thinking about publishers vs carriers, ran into a concept that isn’t usually included. Carriers are roads, postal systems, railroads, telegraphs, telephones, and the hardware of the Web. A carrier makes money by quantity, not quality. Roads formerly charged tolls by weight, and a few still do. Postal systems charge by weight and volume. Railroads and…
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Oh stop it.
“Rights” fans are screeching that the Supreme decision on Twitter and FB destroys the constitution and ruins freedom of speech. Sheer nonsense and crazy bullshit. The decision is precisely and fully correct by the original “constitution”. Freedom of press means that a publisher can censor and edit as much as it wants, for any reason…
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Modularity is the key
The latest appeal from Brownstone: = = = = = START BROWNSTONE: It became clear in 2020 and following that a major purge was on. It hit academia, media, government, and industry. The vaccine mandates helped cull the dissenters from many institutions. Censorship also worked wonders. The demonization of the resistance was ferocious. It remains…
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CompactNN?
What the fuck is going on here? Is the editor asleep, or is the magazine switching sides? Compact Mag exists to defend populism in various forms. This article belongs in NYTimes or CNN. It stoutly defends the need for Deepstate’s worst abuses, and weirdly assumes that the world is still in 1960. The first definition…
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Better name
Responsible people are quite properly worrying about AI’s habit of hallucinating. We’d have a clearer conversation if we called it dreaming. Everyone dreams. The process is the same whether it happens in sleep or drug-induced haze or ChatGPT. A system assembles facts and images and sensations in ways that don’t occur in real life. We’re…
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Useful pushback
At the Ankler, a producer discusses what AI can and can’t do for producers. He concludes that AI can replace human editors for first-stage filtering to winnow down a huge pile of incoming scripts. He received immediate and knowledgeable pushback from two human editors, who pointed out the fallacies: = = = = = START…
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