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petersuber

@signalapp
In the article that broke this story, #JeffreyGoldberg called #Signal a "commercial" messaging app.
archive.is/F9FSe

And as far as I can tell, most of the media are following his lead on that.

But Signal is #OpenSource, developed and managed by the #nonprofit Signal Foundation. I'd call that non-commercial or barely commercial. I think Goldberg and other journalists mean "non-governmental" or "private sector".

Small point in the big picture. But it's not as if Signal is profiting from the govt business or even the publicity.

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petersuber

"JD #Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases #Trump"
nytimes.com/2024/08/31/us/poli

The #NYTimes (@nytimes) doesn't understand what "confounds" means. Dems are not "confounded" by Vance's rhetoric. They understand it, answer it, denounce it, refute it, ridicule it.

By contrast. Trump and Vance are confounded by #Harris and #Walz. They're floundering for an effective line of attack.

The New York Times · JD Vance’s Combative Style Confounds Democrats but Pleases TrumpBy Michael C. Bender
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2/ I only post this because the misuse of "PDF" is a pet peeve.

Sorry to spell out the obvious. PDF is a file format, not a paywall. It has nothing to do with paywalls. PDFs can be #OpenAccess.

A related mistake is to use "the PDF" as a synonym for the version of record, as opposed to some other version, like a preprint or accepted author manuscript. Sorry. Any version can be a PDF, and the version of record can be any file format.

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Ross of Ottawa

The letter 'T' continues to disappear. Language is evolving before our ears.

Just hearing an #NPR news reader now talking about the verdict released yesterday in "Manha - un" and then she moved on to an update on the "Affordable Care ack."

This must've been what it was like living through the "Great Vowel Shift" in the English language during the 15th/16th century.

Of course, their Internet radio channel selection was much poorer back then.

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