Tag: illiteracy

They do it with their friends

As a drunk waitress, you’re one of us — you’re a human, and humans, there’s are a lot of people that have opinions or ideas on things, they’re just not good at articulating it (or they never learned how to articulate it). But everyone does what we do (or everybody can do what we do) — they do it with their friends, they talk with their friends, they bullshit about stuff … and, you know, it’s just a process of putting it out there.

JRE 2270 Bridget Phetasy [ 1:58:12 – 1:58:39 ]

For more about publicacy, see “What is Publicacy + Why does it Matter?” [ https://socio.business.blog/2024/04/29/what-is-publicacy-why-does-it-matter ]

For more about mainstream milieus, see “Mainstream Milieus” [ https://socio.business.blog/2025/02/01/mainstream-milieus ]

For more about reliable sources of information concerning thought, ideas, opinions, etc. see “Rational Media” [ https://phlat.design.blog/2024/01/14/rational-media ]

For five years publishers, agents and authors were duped into sending digital copies of new books into the ether

Keywords: opinion

It is a good story and maybe we’re fascinated by instances of literary fraud precisely because publishing is still widely regarded as a business grounded in trust, relationships and old-fashioned courtesy. I’m thinking of Can You Ever Forgive Me? or the curious case of author AJ Finn, the pen name of former editor Dan Mallory, who allegedly spent years creating a fictitious biography for himself within the publishing world. The idea of someone abusing that assumption of decency for their own advantage seems more shocking in this context than it might in, say, the world of finance or arms dealing.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jan/09/filippo-bernardini-book-thief-steal-for-money-revenge-love-of-reading