@Coctaanatis The first rule of the toadies club is: Don't talk about the disposability of toadies.

Somehow, they never learn. And I mean, it is not that these people urgently need the money.

@MLClark Now, seeing that this is pitched as a cheap tool for improving your manuscript to people who do not have the language skills to check their final text, a wave of retractions will come our way. And lots of publications build on bullshit publications.

@MLClark I regularly see AI-preedited manuscripts and don't know why this is still in use. For every mistake it corrects, it adds another one. It deletes information, adds information, changes cause-effect relationships, changes text from A to B in one sentence and from B to A in the next, and even changes data values. If the original text contains ambiguous phrasing, it simply changes it to one of the possible options without highlighting that other versions might be intended.

@Coctaanatis Doesn't help the suck-up in the end, as one Rudy G. found out.

@Coctaanatis I see a great career for Andy Harris in the #Trump administration.

@Indefinite_Article From the user guide (https://help.counter.social/en/latest/posting-content.html): "...All outbound links are automagically sanitized to remove any embedded tracking parameters. Be sure to include any links at the end of your post, to prevent any other post text from being inadvertently trimmed by this feature. In the case where this impacts your link’s functionality, type /nosanitize anywhere in your post to turn off this feature..."

@feloneouscat @sirgeefive A picture from the 90s sitcom "Keeping Up Appearances". Swift should contact them and ask them to provide a statement that they are okay with being the inspiration for her cover. Sure they would do it, just for the giggles.

@feloneouscat @sirgeefive Am I blind? The first image is not even closely resembling her allegedly infringed image. And I am sure, you find easily images from 1960 that have the same imagery, so I would argue that the accuser stole it from somebody else.

@Museek A Ray Harryhausen night is never wasted. I hope you enjoy it.

@Zevon @matuzalem The faces that the people behind him pull are beyond. Like somebody told them to be excited but they don't know how to fake it.