@nprofile1q... "One of the problems is that companies using AI a lot are having a hard time providing to themselves that it’s worth the money."

Also worth the money: copyeditors.

@nprofile1q... People confusing grammar rules with style rules. Italicizing scientific names is a style rule. It has nothing to do with grammar.

@nprofile1q... Now you have created a problem for both of us. That shop is not far away. You've reminded me I want to go there. I could go tomorrow. That will be bad. I will spend money. But I will spend my money on the things I want and there will be none left for the thing you want. I will look at it on the shelf.

@nprofile1q... Had been sort of thinking about getting an 'action cam' for my admittedly fairly low-action bike rides. Maybe I'll order a DJI camera while B&H still has it in stock.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... Though Joe Average User coud be forgiven for thinking that telling something to turn off means "all off" and not "mostly off," even though "mostly off" is the default for most electronics these days unless you physically cut the power.

@nprofile1q... the only problem I have with your posts is the way they're broken up into too many little bits, instead of having related pieces in one post. It's hard to track in the feed.

@nprofile1q... Mastodon and the Fediverse aren't perfect, but for better or worse it's managed to retain a shred of humanity in how it operates. That's why we're here. The AI broligarchs want to take that away from us, and we don't want them to. They don't understand anyone saying no to them.

@nprofile1q... Yeah, not Van Ronk. But maybe someone not many steps from him. I thought maybe Patrick Sky, but not there either it seems.

@nprofile1q... Talarico at least has spoken directly about the separation of church and state, and how Christian Nationalism threatens that, and recognizes that we live in a pluralistic society of different religions and pracitces. He sees that breaking down that wall is a threat to people like himself as much as anybody. Did this guy complain when GA sent a Black minister to the Senate?

@nprofile1q... As a production editor who has spent some time proofreading and copyediting, I am not entirely sure we've ever had working spelling and grammar checkers. I've never lacked for work.

@nprofile1q... I've always found it telling that that right-wing xtians seem obsessed with slapping up the ten commandments everywhere-a segment of Jewish law from the Torah--rather than say, the Sermon on the Mount, the actual teachings of Jesus.

@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... It does, in a sense. What we supply to Amazon for distribution is a regular epub file. Amazon does some proprietary processing of the file before it delivers it to the customer. But the source file is the same file we send to everyone else.