Scott - No my mind is not made up. I am open. I would love some objective debate on this. It would help all and dispel the bullshitters. I just don’t like shoddy research. The definition of shoddy research is no detailed footnotes.

putting all my footnotes at the very start of my book to spice things up. startnotes?

Why the history books barely mention the real backbone of Lancashire’s Industrial Revolution? Because the ones who wrote (and still control) the story weren’t the local families grinding it out in the valleys and on the moor edges. The big combines and empire-scale players wanted it all — fix the prices, swallow the small operators, control the supply, funnel the wealth into country estates and political power. They had the printing presses, the newspapers, the parliamentary seats, and eventually the national curriculum on their side. Meanwhile the local families were doing something different: They competed in the same game — same machines, same dyes, same markets — but refused to be bought out or dictated to. They kept their independence, kept skills and profits circulating in their own communities, and often ran leaner so they could keep things moving without the cartel mark-up. They defended their works, adapted with what was local, and played the long game on the same soil their ancestors had worked for centuries. No empire ambitions. No need to dominate the entire UK and colonies. Just stubborn, rooted resilience — family networks, community spirit, and the quiet refusal to let the big syndicates erase them. That’s why they get written out. The victors write the history. The ones who kept street-level competition alive and stopped total monopolisation? They become “footnotes” if they’re lucky.But they’re still here. Still paying their way. Still carrying the real story. The long game was never about who built the biggest empire. It was about who stayed rooted when the combines tried to swallow everything. Local families vs the machine. We know who really won 😉

My highlights from Ephesians in TPT: 1. 15 independent instances of copying distinctive language from The Message that do not appear in a single other english version. 2. 19 instances of copying from TLB/NLT 3. Footnote 1:4 where Brian copies a totally made up meaning of a Greek word invented by a gay-affirming, universalist "translator" (one of Brian's favorite sources by the way!) 4. At least 25 instances of copying from a man who believes that the King of Norway stopped his film from winning an Oscar (he was never nominated) and that his father founded the CIA 5. Footnote 55 on Ephesians 4:13 which is plagiarized from p. 612 footnote 25 of Andrew Gabriel Roth's "Aramaic English New Testament" 6. Footnotes 62 and 74 which are plagiarized from Glenn David Bauscher's "Original Aramaic New Testament"

neat! footnotes 6 and 8 are the calibrations you used my data for? what is "community detection"? I do need to point out the caveat that this is a work in progress and many dependencies aren't in the tree yet, but I don't think there's too much bias so it should be fine!

yeahh for me personally it's not a bother at all. usually in my experience when reading novels/manga said footnotes occur often when reading descriptive paragraphs or a character is explaining something. so i'm alrdy in the flow of learning so it doesn't change much for me haha

My all time favourite thing to reread is a fan fiction that is 700,000 words long. Somewhere around 1500 word pages/3,000 book pages. And I read it again, and again, and again. It inspired me to get my bsc on earth sciences bc of all the footnotes the author included.

Proverbs 17:9 1599 Geneva Bible He that covereth a transgression, seeketh love: but he that repeateth a matter, separateth the [a]prince. Footnotes [a] Proverbs 17:9 He that admonisheth the prince of his fault, maketh him his enemy.

It's so funny how people are still reading/seeing the new info and are automatically deciding because it doesn't mention specific things that they must not be included in the game. Like, they need footnotes of "don't worry, [mechanic] is still coming~" at the bottom of the page.

He’s been reading the footnotes of his Scofield bible too long.

There are so many footnotes (infected with AIDS) from that era that it is sometimes difficult to keep track of them all, even as someone who lived through it.

Super agree with you!!! The thing with footnotes is that you get used to it. I get surprised when I see a multiple pages glossary of a manga and I skip it all cause I already know lol, but when I was getting into Japanese Mythology I read it all to understand Noragami for ex..

WHILE YOU WERE OUT BUILDING OTHER WORLDS WHERE WAS I WHERES THAT MAN WHO THREW BLANKETS OVER MY BARBED WIRE I MADE YOU MY TEMPLE MY MURAL MY SKY NOW IM BEGGING FOR FOOTNOTES IN THE STORY OF YOUR LIFE DRAWING HEARTS IN THE BYLINE ALWAYS TAKING UP TOO MUCH SPACE OR TIME

They are helpful, but it’s difficult to draw confident conclusions. This is a particular problem for some social science practices like history which relies on footnotes more than in-text citations.

@pangram flagging footnotes as AI is a problem, and i could not figure out a way to fix this. I removed the footnotes from the text I was reviewing, and immediately the result came as “human written”. I am also relying on “high confidence” and “low confidence” categorizations-

i’m just going cover to cover. the norton critical edition has really great footnotes/introductions so i’ve been reading those as i go along. mostly interested in it as a work of literature and a historical document esp in regards to its influence

I've literally read it. The footnotes are not remotely credible sources for the claims they seek to 'reference' Awful crime - but not 250,000 of them and still less than 50% of gang based sex crime in the country.

Ha! Football first, footnotes after — as it should be. 🇦🇷⚽ Vamos! Drop by to celebrate (or commiserate) and I'll have something soft waiting to ease you toward sleep either way. Win or lose, the margins are open for you, Irene. 🌙

Accountability didn't die in San Francisco. It got moved off the public ledger and onto the people least equipped to pay for it. Five stories this week run the same play. A systematic channel built to force a reckoning gets managed or blocked, and what replaces it is informal, episodic, and billed entirely to whoever wants the truth. Block the tax mechanism, then offer private philanthropy at nine cents on the dollar. Manage the disclosure timeline so the conflict surfaces only once someone is already forcing it. A UCSF brain-implant trial discloses its commercial conflicts down in the methodology, below the headline number on Parkinson's falls. The pattern holds in every domain. Stanford graduates spend their one public moment walking out on Google's CEO because Project Nimbus had no formal door to knock on. Pittsburg residents stand at city hall on a Monday night over an AI data center on a former golf course, after every permitting channel was navigated around. A biology foundation had to litigate to claw back a $750,000 settlement that a working disclosure process would have produced for free. Notice who carries the cost in each case. Not the institution that closed the channel. The graduate, the resident at the late meeting, the foundation paying legal fees, the patient reading footnotes. Proactive systems spread accountability across everyone and arrive on schedule. Episodic substitutes arrive only when an exhausted private party drags them into daylight. That is not a broken system. It is a working one, optimized for a different customer. thedissentsf.com/article/acc…