• atzanteol@sh.itjust.works
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    18 hours ago

    I normally enjoy The Atlantic but WTF is this?

    Wow—you are talking like a baby angel raised by puppies in a beachfront palace with no right angles, who has never attempted to wrench useful information out of a government agency’s public-affairs officer. I would give anything to spend 30 narcotic minutes in your gumdrop world. Let me take your round little face between my hands and squeeze it tight as I scream this

    I couldn’t get through the article with this writing style…

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      7 hours ago

      The author has 4 other pieces written, and before that she wrote for Gawker, New York Magazine (like not even the Times) and GQ. I’m going to venture that there’s some nepotism going on somewhere.

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        7 hours ago

        checked out the author’s wiki and she originally came from gawker writing things like “My 14-Hour Search for the End of TGI Friday’s Endless Appetizers”. Not all slop is ai

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        10 hours ago

        Even if they’re generating articles, I’d have thought that they’d at least be reading them before publishing them.