Could spellcheck stop autocorrecting Ossoff to Ossify before he becomes president, thank you very much? When it comes to what names voice recognition, auto-correct, etc. recognize, there's always a white/Anglo-Saxon bias. Extra little hurdle for less familiar names to appear, and appear correctly.

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Your friendly reminder that in 1980, UW Madison professor Francis Hole (really) wrote Antigo: The Silt-Loam Song as part of a campaign to make it the Wisconsin State Soil. He was successful.

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If you’re unclear Amanpour’s exit from CNN after 43 years has to do with the Ellison takeover and her coverage of Israel/Gaza you’re not paying attention. Fascism is taking hold in 🇺🇸, as the Trump-friendly pro-Israel oligarchs buy up the outlets.

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"Tech corporations don’t have decades of propaganda efforts under their belts, like the oil and gas industry does." drilled.media/newsletter/p... via @drilledmedia.bsky.social

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"Weekend at Bernie's" may be the most invoked pop culture reference shorthand to describe something (ie "they're dragging Trump's carcass around in a real Weekend at Bernie's situation") relative to how few people actually saw it. So many more people cite it than saw it. Are there other examples?

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