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There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist / Unitarian, Irish / Italian / Octogenarian / Zen Buddhist, Zionist / Seventh-day Adventist, Women’s Lib / Republican, Mattachine / Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light the fuse. Every dimwit editor who sees himself as the source of all dreary blanc-mange plain-porridge unleavened literature licks his guillotine and eyes the neck of any author who dares to speak above a whisper or write above a nursery rhyme.

Ray Bradbury (1920-2012) American writer, futurist, fabulist
Fahrenheit 451, “Coda” Afterword (1979 ed.)

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Bradbury, Ray - Fahrenheit 451, “Coda” Afterword (1979 ed.) | WIST Quotations

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches. Every minority, be it Baptist/Unitarian, Irish/Italian/Octogenarian/Zen Buddhist, Zionist/Seventh-day Adventist, Women's Lib/Republican, Mattachine/Four Square Gospel feels it has the will, the right, the duty to douse the kerosene, light…

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Ramesh Gupta Mar 24

⬆️ @timo21 @Crystal_Fish_Caves

>> do we need new word for describing the act of #factChecking #AI?

#Bowdlerize (existing word)
#SlopScreen (new term)

Obviously one would perform #slopScreening before #bowdlerizing, but the end result is still #slopSanitizing

alice 🪞♥️ 🎩🐇May 6, 2025

bowdlerize
verb
bowdlerized; bowdlerizing
transitive verb
1 literature: to expurgate (something, such as a book) by omitting or modifying parts considered vulgar
bowdlerize the text
2: to modify by abridging, simplifying, or distorting in style or content

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