Originally reblogged by me on Tumblr but worth reposting here because YES, PREACH!, and WTF.

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I don't love Robert Reich but I sure like him A LOT 1) because abso-fucking-lutely to the above, and B. many other concise brilliant analyses he's posted.

These fuckers are 100% hypocrites. It's all bullshit to push through an authoritarian system designed to promote and enhance kleptocracy. That is the ultimate goal: kleptocracy. Look it up. You will see that I am right.

Also I am increasingly disheartened that, yet again, William Gibson's scifi and speculative fiction has predicted the course of Western society. Goddamnit. I appreciate his intelligence and creativity but. Why does he have to be right so often. Dogdamnit.

This helpful warning of a comment scam being perpetrated by bots in fic comments on AO3 was originally posted on tumblr by allthingswhumpyandangsty.

I'm copying/pasting it here verbatim; original post linked above.

" just a heads up to my fellow writers out there that AO3 is currently fighting off bots commenting on people’s works to tell them that AO3 will delete their fics “due to the works being deprecated”, and the deletion will affect their accounts unless the authors delete the fics themselves first. IT IS A SCAM. AO3 will NOT delete your works. please do NOT fall for these bots! ( rest of the post behind the cut )

I am not sure why allthingswhumpyandangsty mentions 'copyright infringement issue' - maybe they meant IP infringement? "Copyright infringement" is something fandom and fic are often accused of - despite falling under Fair Use.

AIs trying to vacuum up fanfic in order to "train" AIs, along with tricking the authors into deleting the fics, only to later plagiarize them... I'm not sure what that is called, other than plagiarizing and scamming. Is that copyright infringement, or intellectual property theft, or both? I'm not familiar with the legal aspects, other than what I've read in fandom spaces re: Fair Use.

This gorgeous photo of prosciutto and melon posted by David Marciano on IG is both beautiful and tasty looking! [image: DMprosciuttomelon.png]

It's almost but not quite making me drool. :-D

Joanne Currie shared Happy Victoria Day greetings on the Due South! Facebook page - and also shared a full 50 minute, old interview with Paul Gross and David Keeley.

Tina Carter posted this Scientific American article, about "lexical elaboration" and the number of Inuktitut words for snow, to the Fraser/Kowalski Facebook group with a link. Turns out, while there may not be 100, or 40, words for snow in Inuktitut - there are still a lot!

The original post may be to a private group so I've linked to each item separately.

Anyway, "lexical elaboration" is fascinating... And also totally makes sense. Plus, the Inuit aren't the only ones to have multiple words for snow in their language... We (in American English) have a few, too, which I've certainly heard not just from weather forecasters on local Chicago news, but also among just regular people (and I use many of them myself): snow, sleet/"freezing rain", flurries, snowflake, snowsquall, blizzard, etc.

Like, if it's snowing but only slowly, lightly, and almost lazily (whether big fluffy flakes, or wispy, tiny flakes), the word we (and TV meteorologists) use is "flurries."

Example:

Person 1 [looking out window at work]: Hey, it's snowing out!

Person 2: Oh no! Rush hour traffic will be horrible!

Person 1: Nah, it's just flurries - they don't stick; it'll be okay.

Here's the Finch app finch as Fraser shared on the Due South! Facebook group... albeit by one Erin Galbraith, not Katy Penland. Maybe the latter shared it with the group after the former shared it with latter...?

On April 15, Jackson Yee reposted (a post by Silver Screen Hub) about Leslie Nielsen in the Due South! Facebook group, with a really nice "then and now" stitched-together duo of photos of Leslie Nielsen.

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The Silver Screen Hub post had a lot of text about Nielsen I won't reproduce here. He sure was a handsome man, though. Dramatic while young, comedic when older, and of course, beloved as Sgt. Frobisher on due South!

Claire Wickes Saunders posted this in the Due South! Facebook group:

The Guardian review of Good Night, and Good Luck

PG is not mentioned except in passing, though.

Saw this on Facebook. Original link is here at https://www.facebook.com/share/p/16By5MvzNN/ [image: riv1.jpg]