Yeah, I kinda see the government as being stupid here. If my choice is to either pay or not link and then you’re going to “punish” me for not linking.......

They are complying with the act.

For those of us who take child abuse seriously rather than as a sensational news item, “grooming” is a means to an end. What’s being reported here is admittedly cringey behavior that did not, reportedly, lead to the actualized or attempted sexual abuse or predation of a minor.

I am an old, so I am not familiar with her work, or this controversy.

I have to change my password at work once a year. Every single time I try, I get this error a couple times:

Last year for my Birthday my grandmother bought me a “password book”. Like an old style notebook in a similar vein to how people used to have “phone books” where they wrote everyones names, phone numbers and adresses. But for website, username and password.
Without telling Nan, I was confused, like “why would I ever…

I think what needs to happen is people not considering character action games not rpgs. When several fall into both categories. They aren't mutually exclusive.

It’s one of those weird things that was both. It was a game that was absolutely broken on last gen consoles, and “failed” to live up to the hype on PC, which had plenty of bugs, but it was also a pretty fun game that I enjoyed at launch. There were certainly some people just piling on with the hate (a game being less…

It’s a slow-paced artsy walking simulator centered around a rather heavy-handed social message.

Yeah but the “smaller” trucks aren’t really smaller they are darn near the same size as a full sized truck from the 90's

Why the slide show? This whole article could have just been a picture of that chart.

This. Which is why the AP is right. I don’t think they give a shit if people use the word on Twitter or informally but in professional contexts, it’s probably better - and far more accurate - to stick to transphobe.

Absolutely. I saw the headline here and I knew exactly how Jezebel (and the very un-representative handful of tweets that they were going to pull) was going to misread what AP had actually done. AP isn’t saying, “be nice to TERFS.” What’s they’re saying is, “Don’t use TERF, because most people don’t know what it is,…

Agreed. The team I lead deals in CX, so we’re always researching plain English/ readability and how that intersects with inclusive language. Your goal is to communicate your point while ensuring that your audience is included, but not distracted by jargon.

Yes. One of the AP Stylebook’s main tenets from the get-go has been to avoid jargon, and TERF is definitely jargon, and worse, it is jargon that the vast majority of people do not understand. Only very, very online people know what a TERF is. It is better to explain who these people are in plain language. This is…

Open letter to Jezebel for yet again failing to deep dive:

Well, I prefer my kid to use Gmail and Nintendo, and Playstation and Epic and Apple ID with parental controls enabled. I wish Steam had better parental controls. Not sure 18 is the right age, I think 16 or even less would be more appropriate. Not sure about how parental controls on Meta garbage are but I hope I will…

Oh I’ve already uninstalled the game. I’m just saying that gamers have a bad habit of complaining about it, and then still going along with it anyway.

Organized religion is a cancer on the human race.

Can we agree that it’s kinda odd behavior when visiting the White House?