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Another in a line of “turn the desktop UI into a glorified mobile UI, completely negating the benefits of a desktop display so we don’t have to do as much work”.

I could’ve looked at other authors’ work, tried to find an editorial team, etc., but didn’t think it was worthwhile. When you frequently write and cite sources in said writing, this type of investigation often becomes second nature.

If it’s any consolation, I can show you something similar to potentially swap in which actually is written by experts. The Conversation is always written by subject-matter experts (usually professors of the subject) and covers the same breadth of topics. The Conversation is basically what the Daily Galaxy wishes it were, and it’s one of my favorite items on my feed.

That’s fair, and hopefully here I can give you something more concrete than just saying “wow dumb source lol”.

• The article is written by Arezki Amiri. This author puts out two or three articles per day on a very wide variety of topics, yet he lists no qualifications except: “expert specializing in health and technological innovations. He has extensive experience in sharing his knowledge on the impact of space technologies on health and science in general.”
• A ton of words are bolded with no rhyme or reason. Far from being something related to accessibility, this is done so your brain keeps seeing bolded text and subconsciously thinks “something important; better keep reading”.
• The article links to the Daily Galaxy at the words “sewage system” for absolutely no reason except for SEO. In this article about Bezos, it links to “1,300-Year-Old Royal Flush? Ancient Korean Palace Toilet Stuns Archaeologists!”. When legitimate news sources do this, it’s to enhance understanding; for example, a news outlet referencing an event from four years ago might link to one of their articles covering that topic for readers who may not be familiar.
• The words in this article (and other articles of Amiri’s) feel like they were at least assisted by an LLM. A big tell is that LLMs love to say “it’s not X; it’s Y”. They also absolutely adore em-dashes.
  • “This isn’t just about sewage; it’s about how the wealthiest individuals […]”
  • “This move wasn’t about being unreasonable; it was about fairness.”
  • Other articles of theirs reek even worse.
• Not a single one of their articles appears to be original reporting. It’s always a summary of one source.

TL;DR: I’m 99% sure that every article from the “Daily Galaxy” is just taking an existing article (journal, news, etc.), running it through an LLM to summarize it, randomly adding bolds everywhere for atrophied, dopamine-starved zoomer brains, and published two to three times daily per author. It’s a content mill.

• It’s trivial to bypass the paywall.
• The paywall is only there if you’ve already read a certain number of articles.
• It’s still a considerably better read than this telephone game version from the “Daily Galaxy”.

Here’s the NYT article they’re aping instead of checks notes whatever the fuck the “Daily Galaxy” is.

I don’t know if you remember or saw, but when Rachael Lillis – a voice actress who played Misty from Pokémon among others – died last year, news outlets went wild baselessly saying she was 46 until both the NYT and CBC News actually contacted her family and confirmed she was 55. Unless the outlet did their own fact-checking of the age, I think qualifying with “reportedly” is responsible journalism.

rather than reading an article talking about it

Good as a supplement, but the RPS article gives context itch.io is too much of a cowardly little bitch to include like: “Collective Shout describe themselves as a “grassroots campaigns movement against the objectification of women and the sexualisation of girls”, but are associated with outspokenly homophobic and anti-abortion Christian conservative groups, according to a now-deleted Vice article.”

How would this branch be structured? How would it interface with the other branches? How would its members be appointed? What does “Infrastructure and Public Welfare” entail? Why are “Infrastructure” and “Public Welfare” grouped together? What powers would it have to carry out its job, and what specifically is that job? Based on those previous answers, how would it solve any existing or foreseeable issues? Why would it be better positioned to solve those issues than a change made within the existing three-branch framework?

That’s a hell of a lot of words for “Switch to DuckDuckGo and turn off the LLM in the Settings menu.”