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ChatGPT essentially gives every professional writer an intern–one who might occasionally surprise with an insightful turn of phrase, but who will generally be supplying a rough attempt that still requires considerable finesse from the person in charge.
Speechwriter: These Aren’t the Droids You’re Looking For
David Murray
No voter can master every issue, and few voters try. Any democratic system must cope with that. Referendums, instead, invite us to ignore the question, give the snake-oil peddlers an edge, concentrate our ignorance into a tightly focused beam, and hold nobody accountable for results. They magnify the vulnerabilities of our democracies and diminish their defences.
How Referendums Break Democracies
Fran Monks
Spotted in the clinic:
“This scale can only give you a numerical reflection of your relationship with gravity. That’s it. It cannot measure beauty, talent, purpose, life force, possibility, strength, or love.” https://t.co/oGyPvFFn9Q
Tweets From Rebekah Fenton, MD, FAAP
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