Another dazzling Ed Cara post. (they aren’t paying him enough, that’s for certain)

The ban on women drinking wine is debated. It’s a pretty interesting topic, see: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/greece-and-rome/article/wine-taboo-regarding-women-in-archaic-rome-origins-of-italian-viticulture-and-the-taste-of-ancient-wines/22F2073BD86846489D26CAADDEF92FC7

I used to dry suit dive a LOT in Puget Sound when I lived up that way, so many stories of giant Pacific octopus... and they are BIG, but not aggressive...
Related to this story though: the mothers used to den themselves in by making a wall under a ledge, using small cobbles/boulders to make a ‘dry stone wall’ before…

It ain’t called Long Pig for nuthin!

Interestingly, vinegar decreases in acidity over time. Acedic acid is very volitile.

White wine goes back to the bronze age in what is now Iran, where the Greeks got it, and then of course the Romans. And believe it or not, an ancient Roman could enjoy chilled wine, see:

Yup.  Otherwise you might find it discussed as evidence in your misuse of election funds trial.

Sure. “Accidentally.” Also...

If a person has a penis that looks like that I strongly, STRONGLY, suggest a visit to a doctor.

If you haven’t read the story of Shackleton’s ill-fated expedition to Antarctica and his rescue of the crew, I heartily recommend it as a cure for First-World Problems.

At least a cat didn’t die.

Perfectly cromulently, as it were.

Yeah, that sentence about how ‘perfect’ grammar and punctuation is a sign of AI use jumped out at me. It’s like being penalized for knowing where the commas and semicolons are supposed to go.

This is REAL journalism. A truly baffling glimpse into an absurd reality, where AI is killing jobs by judging the work of humans as its own.

...spotting the hallmarks of AI penmanship, such as perfect grammar and punctuation.

That’s the rub, right? For every mistake that you leave in after proofreading you lose marks and sound less intelligent, but if you do your job right then the whole thing gets thrown for being computer generated. At this rate all written work will sound like Idiocracy in a couple years, where it’s just a series of…

In general, AI detectors work by spotting the hallmarks of AI penmanship, such as perfect grammar and punctuation.

I am a professional writer, and my work also gets flagged as AI-generated. Essentially, if you’re good at writing, AI is going to say you’re AI. Fortunately I started with my current company before ChatGPT was released, so they know I do my own work. But a lot of writers don’t have that kind of tenure or bosses who…

Great. So we have another YouTube copyright situation but worse. Now writers will have to do all kinds of lingual gymnastics to get around the new rules that affects humans, decided by computers.

I am a young female graduate student from the state of Iowa.