at least when The Sun used to do it, they'd subtly let you know they'd made it up by using the word "dubbed".

Eg "Tim Davie, dubbed 'teflon tim' [BY US AND US ALONE]..."

Someone should send The Economist a thread of all those moral panics going back to how the invention of writing was going to destroy our ability to think

I'm going to Google

Never used the phrase "cultural appropriation" before but, yeah: so you've worked out that dropping thousands of acres of data centre in the desert and draining the grid of electricity can help you create a totally pointless imitation of something of real cultural value... Well done tech bros!

I used one of my free links

And I think it's really good news for progressives if this is the case. The route to defeating nativist nonsense is clearer IMHO

Only if you accord no value at all to the nature destroyed

It's one of the greatest. Up there with are we the baddies IMHO

See also
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