Well, that's viewing all sorted out, then. Perfection. Would never have arrived here myself. Thank you so much! (Y'all rule.)

The film weaves landscape and local tradition into its romantic, quietly eccentric tapestry, much like Local Hero.

I'm feeling something like 'Local Hero' (whose Criterion Blu-Ray I do, yes, absolutely own). Whatcha got?!

Also Happy World Linguistics Day from Cincinnati, OH!

Talk about commitment to the bit!

Even we dictionary insiders didn't know this new edition was coming out—and we're delighted. Merriam-Webster says it still does a good clip of print sales, selling about 1.5 million dictionaries a year. But yes, the audience is smaller and smaller, as most are using their phones/Google/AI.

Classic!

Crossopterygians for the win!

That's amazing!

There are! Many of them are here, too!

Oh, its heft, its physicality, makes it all the better!

This is the only sensible way forward. If people don't want to do the work, they should do something else. Thank you for holding the line against the slop.

This is so relevant to my day-to-day thinking at @hubcitypress.bsky.social. instead of being demoralized and saying, let AI do all the publishing work and pump out more slop to boost sales, our new focus is carefully curated + clearly human created. Hence the focus on short stories, novellas, etc.

I said this when the fake books supplement came out this summer but, if the internet is mostly bots now then that's who's reading and engaging with these fake AI articles. I think that's what's making me feel so untethered--how little humans matter to any of these systems now. Bots talking to bots.

Thanks for the shout-out!

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Ooh, lot hinges on “Ninja Rap”