The digital humanities are a true delight of this era.
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The digital humanities are a true delight of this era. Anthropologists are counting things like sociologists, sociologists are grappling with qualitative data like ethnographers, computational linguists are scraping and making sense of vast corpora of informal speech:
https://memex.craphound.com/2019/07/24/because-internet-the-new-linguistics-of-informal-english/
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https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/16/fast-good-cheap/#getting-up
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I'm not sure if this fits what you are talking about here, but I found a problem with groups is the level of knowledge assumed and desired.
Some groups are made up of Great Experts pontificating solely for the benefit of other Great Experts.* Which is overwhelming if you are not a GE. And the participants may be impatient or unhelpful to the clueless new guy.
* Stealing a line from Anna Russell.
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@pluralistic Reddit “circlejerk” communities are often adversarial to the community they affix. For example, there’s r/fuckcars, which is anti-car, and r/fuckcarscirclejerk, which just mocks r/fuckcars posts all day as ridiculous.
This wasn’t always the case in other online communities; there, a topic “circlejerk” referred to an undying thread for fans of a topic to discuss it ceaselessly. But for some reason, on Reddit, semantic drift has flipped the meaning of the affix.
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