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Angus Johnston Profile picture
@studentactivism
Aug 15, 2020 • 5 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
So @michaelwhitney just tweeted a bunch of @APWUnational merch, and oh my goodness some of this stuff is so badass. This shirt commemorates the 1970 postal workers' strike. apwustore.org/product/W-0270… Image
Postal Workers' Union facemask. apwustore.org/mm5/merchant.m… Image
Super seventies, super cool baseball cap. apwustore.org/product/W-0031… Image
Do they have rhinestones? Damn straight they have rhinestones. apwustore.org/product/W-0186… Image
So, yeah. I absolutely just bought fifty bucks worth of @APWUnational merch. #SaveTheUSPS #Solidarity

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Nov 1, 2023
Okay, let's take a look at the free-expression issues raised by how this confrontation went down.
(I tweeted about it last night, but as I sometimes do, I frontloaded conclusions rather than explanation, so I'm rebooting.)
There are a lot of people around—including a lot of people in my comments—who start from the premise that tearing down these posters is hostile to free expression, and so what happened to this guy was a free-speech victory. Let's unpack that.
Read 25 tweets
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Jun 6, 2023
I ran the first paragraph of Orwell's 1984 through ChatGPT, asking it to fix any "spelling, grammatical, or usage errors."

I think my copyediting gig is safe. Check it out:
Orwell: "It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, his chin nuzzled into his breast in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped quickly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions..."
ChatGPT: "It was a bright, cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen. Winston Smith, with his chin nuzzled into his chest in an effort to escape the vile wind, slipped rapidly through the glass doors of Victory Mansions..."
Read 7 tweets
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Jun 6, 2023
It's only—the quoted text—not dangerous because it's so ignorant. If your goal is to "evaluate grammar" in order to determine whether a manuscript is publishably competently written, all you need to do is have a copy editor spend three minutes reading a random page. (1/?)
It's not an onerous task. But it's not also a useful task. Because lots of books that get published are written by authors who have a shaky grasp of grammar. Lots of GOOD books are written by such authors. Such manuscripts are the baby, not the bathwater.
Me, to my partner, also a copy editor, or vice versa: "How's the book you're working on going?"

Them, to me, or v-v: "It's fine. The author doesn't know how commas work, but it's fine."

This happens ALL THE TIME.
Read 15 tweets
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Jun 5, 2023
"Meryl Streep is grievously miscast in Postcards from the Edge."
My view: Streep was perfect in the breakup scene with Dennis Quaid and a few others, but she needed to (1) be meaner to, and more like, her mom and (2) give the impression that she'd be a fun person to get high with.
I can buy Streep being Maclaine's daughter in Postcards, and I can buy her living the life she's living in the movie, but to believe the former I have to disbelieve the latter, and vice versa.
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Apr 1, 2023
It would have been SO EASY to leverage the cachet of the celeb blue-checks in monetizing the new buy-in system. It really is astonishingly perverse how far he’s gone to do the opposite.
Obvious Step One: Give the legacy blue-checks access to the paid features for free. Get them talking up the product, beta-testing it, debating it.
Obvious Step Two: Announce that the "For You" feed will be people you follow, legacy blue checks, and paid blue checks.
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Mar 25, 2023
When people ask me why I think decency is a better organizing principle than civility, I'm going to point to this right here.
Seems like this may be about to reach exit velocity, so to be clear: I'm applauding Megan Hunt here. She is upholding and insisting upon decency by refusing to reciprocate empty civility from her colleagues.
Don't hurt my family and send me a Christmas card. Don't reveal yourself to be a bigot and ask me how my weekend went. Don't vote for evil and assume my ongoing goodwill. Don't be indecent and expect civility in return.
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