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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

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@ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org Long-term exposure to solvents damaged Duane Jensen’s lungs - he talked about it in this interview: https://www.kjzz.org/the-show/2025-02-13/the-analogs-meet-one-of-the-few-people-in-america-who-knows-how-to-fix-manual-typewriters He had one of the best YouTube channels on typewriter repair, now archived since he passed away earlier this year: https://www.youtube.com/@phoenixtypewriter2136/videos

THE ANALOGS: Meet one of the few people in America who knows how to fix manual typewriters

KJZZ

THE ANALOGS: Meet one of the few people in America who knows how to fix manual typewriters

This is a series about analogs, things people make by hand. The first person I want to tell you about is Duane Jensen, who fixes typewriters.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2w ago

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action in Canada, saying it would be irresponsible not to prepare for what he called "extreme tail risk." https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/carney-nyt-interview-9.7356284 #Carney #Canada #tradewar

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Carney tells NYT he studied risk of U.S.-led military action in Canada | CBC News

Prime Minister Mark Carney says he studied the possibility of U.S.-led military action in Canada. In a lengthy New York Times interview, he declined to discuss in detail what that examination involved, but suggested it would be irresponsible not to prepare for what he called "extreme tail risk."

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

Fun headline https://kotaku.com/the-odysseys-critical-and-box-office-success-has-completely-broken-online-chuds-who-forgot-twitter-isnt-real-life-2000718025

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@chu I thought it was an interesting ad. I would guess it was perceived as too aggressive, not because it equates flirting with harassment, but because it calls out HR for protecting harassers. It does disparage a profession, although the Authority was apparently reluctant to state this in their argument. Maybe they felt HR was indefensible - Thomas would only have to show examples where HR failed to protect victims.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

I came across a comic book artist on Instagram (pacorodriguez_art), who I’d never heard of, who draws Disney comics. Really good stuff, all drawn the traditional way on paper. Turns out he’s been drawing Donald Duck for over 30 years for comics published in Scandinavia, Netherlands, and Germany. There’s a recent interview where he discusses, among other things, what isn’t allowed by Disney (no socialism, no toilets): https://arsnotoria.com/2025/09/01/a-conversation-with-paco-rodriguez/ #comicbooks #DonaldDuck #illustration

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@CStamp @chu Yes, I agree. The ad copy doesn’t expressly say “flirting = harassment” it says that if HR is dismissive of your harassment complaint you should call Thomas, a lawyer. Somebody at the authority took exception to the message, but their choice was to make the argument that the ad goes too far in equating flirting with harassment, and to suggest that the message was disparaging without specifically identifying the disparaged party.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@blogdiva Tintin in the Congo was omitted from the books available in the English editions available when I was a kid for very obvious reasons. Strange to find this just lying around in a waiting room somewhere. Like, that Seinfeld episode with Jerry finding a Penthouse magazine in his dentist’s waiting room weird.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@thomasareed Blue was supposed to have a special spiritual meaning to the Der Blaue Reiter group. Maybe the sculptures being blue alludes to this.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 3mo ago

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@aliceamour@beige.party It’s for real. Photo was taken by Cheney Orr and published by Reuters.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@chu @CStamp I suspect that whoever reviews ads for the authority tried to apply “within the organization” standards to material for the general public. It’s ingrained in organizations that HR will deal objectively with complaints, and even people who know it’s a fiction see it as a necessary one to protect the organization from legal actions. Maybe a really sexist person would misinterpret the ad and feel called out for “harmless flirting” but it depends on a misreading.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@davidr @chu No - the need for the ad suggests that multiple people will find themselves in this position and want to seek assistance from a lawyer. It’s supposed to be a relatable scenario.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Daojoan Ground zero was this book - bestseller of 2007:

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@CAman @fribbledom Affinity has had some recent changes. There was a lot of concern expressed by users when Canva bought them as there is a fear they will move to a subscription model. They stepped in that direction by merging the drawing/layout/photo programs and automating updates, but for now it’s free.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 7mo ago

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@jpoesen Craft breweries, garages, maker spaces, libraries, metal recyclers, used computer shops, diners, campsites, trails...

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@paninid@mastodon.world This is all true, but…

The X-men present a fantasy of being special, powerful, and sexy - a superior race
Captain America is sometimes jingoistic, “You think this letter on my head stands for France?”
Black Panther is African, Deadpool is Canadian
Ursula K. Leguin criticized the Royal Award Ceremony (end of Star Wars IV A New Hope) as a fascist fantasy - Lucas borrowing from Leni Riefenstahl
Star Trek TOS is diverse but a white guy is clearly in charge

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@historyofpunkrock@sfba.social Holy crap! The book was right.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@kevinbowrin@ottawa.place Marketplace reported on industry concentration and property controls that result in high prices: https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7061870

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange Well… my impression is that even if a bit of money is coming from wealthy tech bros, these people are doing this to themselves. It’s not a company town in the old sense. These people seem like idealistic communalists who would have been Shakers or Hutterites or something along those lines in the past, but today’s gods are tech and money.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@VeroniqueB99@mastodon.social America has communists, but since communism is anti-American, they don't think they could be communists and must be something else. Lotta confusion out there. https://communistusa.org/report/maybe-im-a-communist/

Revolutionary Communists of America

“Maybe I’m a Communist” - Revolutionary Communists of America

Jordan P, Detroit, MI At a recent paper sale in Flint, we met a man who couldn’t believe he’d run into communists. “Like Russia?” He said, “Isn’t communism a bad thing?” We explained that workers produce all the wealth in society, but don’t get any say over how it’s distributed. We told him the capitalist […]

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@Alison See, this too brings back vague memories of doing drop shots.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

RE: @EricAlper@mastodon.social

Generations of Canadians are familiar with Nazareth despite rarely hearing them while sober. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

TikTok users are listening to Anita Ward’s 1979 Disco hit ‘Ring My Bell’ in the belief that it will bring them good fortune. In an article today, Elias Leight commented that since most of GenX have heard the song, the belief must be misplaced… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1eRBRL27rCQ #magic #disco

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@raymaccarthy @ChrisJagged @Garwboy Marche used to be an English professor teaching Shakespeare. He’s written books without using AI, and contributes articles to Esquire, The New Yorker and The Atlantic. I don’t see why people consider this Guardian article pro-AI, as he’s saying AI produces mediocre writing.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@tiffanycli@mastodon.social I heard an interview earlier today with Norman Wong, the great grandson of the man who won the original case for birthright citizenship. "He (Trump) was there to put pressure on the scales of justice. He didn't go there to applaud their hard work. He went there to stare them down, ensure that they didn't interfere with his decrees. That's what I call it, not executive order, imperial decrees." https://www.cbc.ca/listen/live-radio/1-2-as-it-happens/clip/16206649-his-great-grandfathers-legacy-u.s.-supreme-court

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@shanie It’s a bit of an apples to oranges comparison though, isn’t it. The grid in the first case has to accommodate cars, which could be anywhere: new areas, old areas, apartment parking lots or suburban garages. Data centres can be more optimally located. Also there’s an investment case for building data centre power generation ”behind the meter”. You probably wouldn’t want the equivalent, where an automaker runs energy to your home charger from their own power plant.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 8mo ago

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@Sheril@mastodon.social Pluribus is much more ambitious than the usual science fiction tv show, for sure. It's interesting how the collective expresses itself, how it tries to appeal to Carol, and what it hides from her, while also being transparent about its ultimate objective. If you want to read a perspective from way out in left (or maybe middle-left) field, Howard Chaykin mentions Pluribus in a recent essay/vitriolic attack on millennials: https://howardchaykin.substack.com/p/tomorrow-belongs-to-me

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@Richard_Littler@mastodon.social

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@fabio@manganiello.eu This is complicated in Israel’s case because they are surrounded by Arabized states, none of which are democracies. They can be a Jewish state or they can just give up on democracy altogether and likely consign their people to subjugation and reprisals as well.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 1mo ago

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@nixCraft@mastodon.social KDE has a weather widget - not sure how much memory it uses, but probably not a lot.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@ashtime@mastodon.social A Wikipedia article identifies her as the woman on the right: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dora_Richter (which was sourced from here: https://trickymothernature.com/insideout1.html#n18)

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@davep@infosec.exchange What do you have against French vampires? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TiCz5CTOGvg

La Femme - Le Sang De Mon Prochain

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@opencage The Northwest Passage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northwest_Passage It has an interesting history of various countries testing Canada’s control of the territory and still may become a viable alternative to the Panama Canal for some ships.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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“we might also want to consider a system … whereby you would send to a legislature, not the top 10% of the socio-economic distribution, but a representative sample that captures multiple dimensions of the people, in terms of gender, in terms of age, in terms of race, in terms of income, in terms of ideology, etc.” - Hélène Landemore, author of Politics Without Politicians - The Case for Citizen Rule https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/730879/politics-without-politicians-by-helene-landemore/

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 2mo ago

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@wrzky@kolektiva.social @fabio@manganiello.eu Okay, sure. Call it pan-Arabic and anti-colonial; it still isn’t strongly democratic or pluralistic. It’s not coincidental that democratic countries generally support a two-state solution.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@ck@chaos.social @halla@kde.social @Li@tech.lgbt @KitsuneofInari@mastodon.sakura-star.net Every once in a while, I think about an old science fiction story that was about what could be lost if we relied on computer data as a substitute for deeply understanding things ourselves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession_(novella)

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@blogdiva@mastodon.social @overholt@glammr.us A lot of people used courier in newsreaders which was originally developed for typewriters in the 50s. https://www.historyofinformation.com/detail.php?id=2059 But I don’t recall seeing it when using mailing lists, my earliest memory of those was on an Apple computer with a bitmap font, probably Monaco.

historyofinformation.com

History of Information

An interactive, illustrated timeline of historic moments in humankind

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 4mo ago

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@D4lt0n@infosec.exchange 60 Minutes has generally been considered to be a legitimate mainstream news show featuring investigative reporting. Even if they had the occasional misstep over the years, the current revamp to make the show friendlier to the Trump administration is unprecedented. There’s a podcast version, so it’s easy to scroll through past episodes and see the kind of things they covered: https://podcasts.apple.com/podcast/60-minutes/id81210923

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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The music video for Dry Spell is fun: https://youtu.be/NlohfwTunwU #MusicVideo

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange These people aren’t employees though, they’re “founders”.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @EricAlper@mastodon.social

Today in history… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cyuw6t07_ok

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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From the perspective of Canadians looking at the United States… “We've got a particularly vivid example of what can happen when what we call first act democratic institutions become compromised, when too much money finds its way into the system, when too many of the arm's length institutions start to be co-opted and corruption becomes pervasive.” - Peter MacLeod, co-author of Democracy's Second Act: Why Politics Needs the Public https://utppublishing.com/doi/book/10.3138/9781487517137

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@ignaziop1977 Maybe. I wouldn’t say an objection to the ad, even on the basis of a belief that flirting is not the same as harassment, is necessarily evidence that the person objecting has past misdeeds to cover up.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

RE: @cbcsk_mirror@mastodon.hongkongers.net

Dumped wet and momentary on a dull ground
that’s been clear but clearly sleeping, for days.
Last snow melts as it falls, piles up slush, runs in first light
making a music in the streets we wish we could keep.
Last snow. That’s what we’ll think for weeks to come.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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In the WSJ it’s described in a way that sounds almost like a religious farm community, but the belief system is startup culture: “[Proto-Town] serves as a business commune for young tech founders and other entrepreneurs who all live and work there. Founders and employees live together in the house or nearby trailer parks they call man camps. Workers at the dozen firms on site often eat meals as a group. Many work on their startups from morning to night.”

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

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@Lightfighter@infosec.exchange While I’m sure some of the startups hire people, the article doesn’t get into it at all. A town with a bunch of entrepreneurs isn’t what I’d normally think of as a “company town” which was historically centered on one company that also owned the company store. You can’t really have one without a degree of remoteness and limited mobility. All these people can just drive into Austin if they want to.

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 5mo ago

Antonia Hitchens (The New Yorker) wrote a very good account of what she saw at the White House Correspondents Dinner last night during the assassination attempt. #Trump #AssassinationAttempt

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Kerry Mitchell 🍁 @KerryMitchell@mastodon.social

· 6mo ago

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@raymaccarthy @ChrisJagged @Garwboy LLMs may not be here to stay (who knows), but they are here. One-third of senior content marketing job listings now mention AI. AI is used a lot in business writing now - technical writing, proposal writing, HR communications, reporting and so on. Requiring writing skills at a liberal arts level (English and Journalism grads) has dropped out of many job requirements as well.

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