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Articles and Stories We Do Not Want to Read or Edit
- DavidAdams 9y agoMy favorite: "Insolence of the young: shame of a nation."
- Animats 9y agoAmusingly, the seniority system did end in Congress, the District of Columbia did get home rule, and commercial TV came of age and passed its sell-by date.
- jessriedel 9y agoIn what sense did the seniority system did end in Congress? House Republicans take into account fundraising in addition to seniority for leadership positions, but my impression is that Democrats and the Senate are basically a normal seniority system.
- bitoneill 9y agoGeez, "Next stop Mars" is still going strong all these years later.
- itronitron 9y agoI am hopeful that at some point the "Next stop Mars" stories will end
- omnibrain 9y agoSuperseded by "Next stop Europa".
- QAPereo 9y agoIt seems like Vice took huge swaths of this as a guide, sadly inverted. Nothing for us here to worry about though! Next stop, Mars. ...Uh oh... Throw in a couple more modern cliches—something about driverless cars and the trolley problem, say—and Manning’s list could just as well be used today. Ouch... ok that got personal in a hurry.
- vonnik 9y agoAnd if I could add a meta type of story I wish reporters would stop writing, it would be "The Death of X", when X is not a living being; e.g. The Death of [some Technology]. Most technologies never die. They just fade asymptotically. And all the premature announcements of death, while they're great for clicks, are less great for giving readers information...
- retox 9y agoDon't you remember when "gamers" ended because some buddy-buddy journos on a private forum decided to simultaneously declare "the death of gamers"? Gamasutra was amongst them, and they still crop up here every now and then.
- Endy 9y agoI do remember that statement. I even still agree to the basic conceit of the first article I read on the topic a while back - I want to say it was an editorial on the Escapist. "Gamers" as they were in the past, have been pulled into the public eye. The mass popularity of E-Sports and Let's Play and Twitch & other streaming services means that in general, everyone is a gamer. It's not a separate language or culture with esoterica of its own. Whether it's your mother who plays Candy Crush & Farm Friends on Facebook, your "hardcore" buddies playing the newest Doomclones and Dotaclones, the hordes of Minecraft & Minetest players, mobile gamers, etc., games - and gamers, are everywhere and everyone. The "Gamer" as a separate being unto himself has basically died. He's now just another nerd.
- itronitron 9y agoreminds me of News of the Weird's list of story types it would no longer accept because they happen often enough to not qualify as weird ... cat ends up 300 miles from home, super slow high-speed chase, couple having sex on co-workers desk after hours...
- ohthehugemanate 9y agoInteresting to see this on the same day as the doctorow article. Corey says we become immune to persuasion tactics. The Atlantic says otherwise. And Vice says "next stop: Mars!"