Yes, 'The Algorithm' REALLY IS Like That

[Ryujin]

Books don't have headlines, they have titles and different norms.

When you see it with news outlet headlines, they are 100% aping the New York Times.

Or NYT is just using literary convention.

 

[trappedslider]

Editors?

I cast protection from editors

 

[Morrus]

When you see it with news outlet headlines, they are 100% aping the New York Times.

I do it and I’m pretty sure I’m not aping the NYT. It’s not even a publication I’m particularly familiar with other than having heard the name before.

I was taught about title case and sentence case in school. At the time most British publications used title case. It’s only in the last 10 years or so many of them have shifted to using sentence case in headlines.

The Times (not the New York Times, the original Times which predates the NYT by a hundred years) used title case but dropped it about 20 years ago I think? Maybe earlier.

Looking it up it looks like the New York Times is one of the last holdouts.

So I’m afraid I have to reject the idea that I (and others) are aping the NYT. It was pretty much the standard until (relatively) recently and many people who still use title case do so because they grew up with it.

 

[CleverNickName]

I still put two spaces after periods and colons, so who am I to complain about title case?

 

[Micah Sweet]

I still put two spaces after periods and colons, so who am I to complain about title case?

I have had a real hard time unlearning the two spaces.

 

[CleverNickName]

I have had a real hard time unlearning the two spaces.

Eh, I don't even bother. Folks who stress out about that level of grammar (typography? etiquette?) need to re-evaluate their priorities.

 

[trappedslider]

I still put two spaces after periods and colons, so who am I to complain about title case?

as long as i can read something i don't sweat it. I mean just look at how i type here. the only times i pay close attention is when i'm working on my book or making an actual formal request for something like information or a suggestion. otherwise,it's all copy and paste or short typo filled postings lol.

 

[TheSword]

I don't fear a post-truth world, I fear surveillance so intrusive that it makes the social credit system look like a liberal paradise in comparison. I'm not afraid of truth dying out, I'm more afraid of people right now dying out for telling the truth and in the future for daring to seek the truth. The regulation you so much want will be the Trojan horse for mass surveillance and control. With it, nobody will ever be able to feel dissent again -yes not even voicing dissent, feeling it-. I might be paranoid, but not so much given what is happening around me that is beyond the boundaries of these forums.

Not that I don't worry about the dangers of social media, but in the grand scheme of the things it is a first-world problem.

Well you absolutely should fear a post truth world. That’s how the oppressive regime gets to power in the first place and how they stay in power. What is the point of your dissent if nobody believes its real and nobody believes the suppression of your dissent is real?

That’s all a bit of a red herring though because the overwhelming majority of citizens are using their real names on social media… that includes the dissenters. There are people dissenting under their real names all the time in oppressive regimes.

The problem is the fakes and the pseudonyms. They’re the ones generating the AI images and sharing them. The disinformation. You’re talking as if these hidden actors are doing something worthy and useful. Even if they are they are being counterbalanced by the mountain of people using it for nefarious reasons.

 

[FrogReaver]

So, it looks past time for social media to come with warning labels about its content.

Maybe a nice dialog, every time the page loads or content refreshes?

I think they hope they can get off as easy as change nothing and add warning label.

 

[FrogReaver]

I have had a real hard time unlearning the two spaces.

When did the 2 spaces change?