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Chicago Sun-Times prints summer reading list full of fake books (arstechnica.com)
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This is peak laziness. It seems that the reading list's author used autoplag to extrude the entire 60 page supplemental insert. The author also super-promises this has never happened before.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Several people should be fired for this.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

The Sun-Times staff has already been downsized, seems plausible that the layoffs could have contributed to publishing the article by mistake. https://www.wbez.org/business/2025/03/18/chicago-sun-times-lose-20-staff-buyout-offer

[–] [email protected] 5 points 9 hours ago

It's soooo bad. Could it be a cry for help?