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Inside: Google's enshittification memos; and more!

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Pluralistic: Google’s enshittification memos (03 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

"By the time I got there, there was no-one there" sounds perfectly normal to say but has altogether too much "there" in it.
I'm in my ad-hoc era, by which I mean that I find myself saying "ad-hoc" a lot.
Either they're tedious to watch or the audio version is 70% incomprehensible.
Video podcasts aren't podcasts.
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very angry about the concept of time
@kthornton @notjustbikes The place I live also has a population of about 12k and it's referred to as a village (though if just call it a suburb), so the language is pretty flexible and varies by context.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hersham
Hersham - Wikipedia

(Also, as my partner points out, "CRANE" is five letters.)
I mean, just look at this nonsense. It has the general form of an explanation of cryptic clues, but it's outrageously superficial, to the point of identifying the letter count as the hint. And there's no cryptic component to the clue. A reminder if one were needed that these language models exhibit familiarity, not comprehension.