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Here's the NYT article they're aping instead of checks notes whatever the fuck the "Daily Galaxy" is.
Why is every, like, sixth word bolded? Like I know pragmatically why, but it's so transparently designed for brainrotted zoomers who think 300 words is "long". What a slop trough of an article.
And here is the archive without paywall of the NYT article they're aping.
NYT gets enough bribes for supporting genocide, etc. They can keep their paywall.
I follow a lot of RSS feeds and added Daily Galaxy due to the science stuff. I wasn't aware.
That's fair, and hopefully here I can give you something more concrete than just saying "wow dumb source lol".
TL;DR: I'm 99% sure that every article from the "Daily Galaxy" is just taking an existing article (journal, news, etc.), running it through an LLM to summarize it, randomly adding bolds everywhere for atrophied, dopamine-starved zoomer brains, and published two to three times daily per author. It's a content mill.
Thanks for shedding light on this. Took them off my feeds.
If it's any consolation, I can show you something similar to potentially swap in which actually is written by experts. The Conversation is always written by subject-matter experts (usually professors of the subject) and covers the same breadth of topics. The Conversation is basically what the Daily Galaxy wishes it were, and it's one of my favorite items on my feed.
Thanks. I actually follow those guys!
I should mention that around the time of tripping upon and posting this article, I did catch their post about US supposedly investing in a carbon capture machine pretty close by on my feed reader. It seemed oddly out of place given recent events. Not to mention combined with all the other niche or local outlets I follow, some of which are specifically about renewable technologies.
So, yeah, alarm bells were already ringing.
That’s an impressive deep dive.
I could've looked at other authors' work, tried to find an editorial team, etc., but didn't think it was worthwhile. When you frequently write and cite sources in said writing, this type of investigation often becomes second nature.