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@grammargirl Are co-authors eligible? And also, I loved Grammar Girl, and I read as many books as I could before I started my career in tech writing. I still have a couple Grammar Girl books in my reference library at home.

@coreyspowell I agree with the sentiment (anti-intellectualism and ai are bad), but I've heard from reputable scientists that physics and other science fields have stagnated due to compounding reasons (mostly related to poor funding). What's off-putting about your claim is that 1) you're basing "his claim" from a summary on Twitter (ad hominem), and 2) you've made us beg some questions without building much context other than "some smart people." I think you do not address issues with not just the data but the arguments, which AI can certainly help with cross-textual analysis (and there have been studies, which I don't think you'll find convincing so I'm not going to go look everything up). I don't think from the context (a twitter post) that anyone wants to cut scientific spending in research, but there certainly people who have and will.

Partially what frustrates me -- isn't your post but just the uncritical support it received despite the ad hominem, which is just not super helpful and an echo chamber. Let's just say we'd rather fund humans do the research and call it a day without having to raise our blood pressure over someone we don't like.

@zak i thought he looked nice

browsing mastodon, usual experience -- phd in astrophysics, working in cyber [ninja] for the past 17 years [old man face], 38 and love world of warcraft. married and divorced and owner of cats. following nyorker [eyes]. non-usa based flag somewhere in name or bio. i exclusively only toot to talk to my wife.

@zak /joke or comptia ad. unsure due to internet reasons

@ghostsarespooky no it's that we are over productive and have friday off