No mention of ArchiveTeam, which has been slurping down social media into the Internet Archive's Wayback Machine for years now. I sicced the crawlers on some of the yuckier corners of Twitter just the other day. The bad needs to be preserved along with the good, for context.
The gratuitous bit of quantum at the end was irritating. I'd have much preferred it if they said something like "Unrelatedly, a recent quantum physics paper used a phrase which is particularly apt in this context:".
HM automatically deletes exclamation points from titles. Was curious (and because it's a lazy Saturday) and found that the title-sanitizer also deletes exclamation points from anywhere in the text (not just the end). I guess that makes submitting a code snippet with `!` a bit tricky.
Is it just me or is the scope of what's considered "clickbait" expanding exponentially?
I don't see how this is clickbait. How and to what degree we record human communication has a direct impact on what's remembered as history. The headline isn't exaggerating.
Now? It's been chockablock full of it for at least a half decade. I loved the crossword, but it got so that was the only part worth reading out of the whole paper.
A "catchy headline" used to mean something with clever alliteration. I doubt the editors from even ten years ago would have allowed something like this one.
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