While I’m on this hobby horse, I’ll add that since “tragic” implies the victim brought about his own demise because of his fault, it’s also inappropriate to describe innocent victims as “tragic.” Victims of, say, a school shooting were not destroyed by their own hubris, but by someone else’s malice.

Greenhorn brings up a side point about the overuse of the word “tragedy” in that article, and it’s something that annoys me all the time. In a tragedy, a noble person is destroyed by a single fault, classically hubris but not always. So, Othello is a tragic figure because he’s a great man but has one vice, jealousy, which Iago stokes to destroy him.

This woman was not at all noble. She was a wicked person, doing something wicked, who was killed as a result of her wickedness and stupidity. As Greenhorn puts it, “ this is sad only in a Christian sense, in the sense that a fallen soul has met its end. But there is nothing sad in an evil woman bent on doing evil and being struck down while doing an evil thing.”

How is some obese lesbian from Colorado affected by a Guatemalan woman being forced to live in Guatemala? There are all the political aspects of corruption and Democratic Party power that we might bring up, but the ultimate point is disorder for disorder’s sake, lawlessness for lawlessness’ sake, violence for violence’s sake. This is an ugliness your average citizen cannot bear seeing. And so our victim is a poet, a wife, a mother, though she is none of these things. She lives only to make the world as vile and despicable as she is to herself and to God.

https://richardgreenhorn.substack.com/p/dostoyevskys-political-demonology

@nprofile1q... I don’t have an example on hand, but often the cover art is something like just a gradient with the title/author in a generic font.

Getting caught up on the latest in AI research.

@nprofile1q... for academic publishers, I’m willing to give points for at least trying.

I doubt I’ll ever read this, but the title is pretty good.

@nprofile1q... oh, I know, but for the record: I’d almost rather get Canadian healthcare than use Facebook.

@nprofile1q... me? For real?

@nprofile1q... I’ll add that the lack of watermarks is also true of artsy and landscape photography, not just portraits.

@nprofile1q... poisoning the models for people who want to generate a realistic image. If you just want a picture of the prettiest woman possible, it’s fine.