Eileen Higgins’s win has reset the city’s political landscape in some ways not seen in 28 years, and in others not at all
Miami’s new mayor, Eileen Higgins, hailed it as “a new day” for the city after the Democrat ended three decades of Republican rule on Tuesday night in a stunning election triumph.
In reality, the result is more of a seismic shifting of sands given the magnitude of her victory over the Donald Trump-backed Republican candidate, Emilio González, in the most populous city in Miami-Dade county, which the president won in 2024 by 12%.
Higgins won the run-off with almost 60% of the vote, according to preliminary results reported Wednesday by the Miami Herald. More than just further evidence of a growing national backlash against Trump’s policies on the national stage, particularly immigration, her win has reset Miami’s political landscape in a manner not seen in some ways in 28 years, and in others not at all.
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Some humans write like this too. That’s kind of how it learned it.
Woe unto them. They sound like ChatGPT now.
Nah. ChatGPT sounds like us.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/chatgpt-is-changing-the-words-we-use-in-conversation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/08/20/chatgpt-claude-chatbots-language/
https://www.vice.com/en/article/youre-not-imagining-it-people-actually-are-starting-to-talk-like-chatgpt/
https://www.theverge.com/openai/686748/chatgpt-linguistic-impact-common-word-usage
chatgpt favored a few articles in its training data that used “its not x – its y” more than others. it was sheer accident and coincidence to begin with, but is now being cemented into the language by chatgpt’s relative ubiquity and a feedback mechanism where new training data contains this artifact, increasing its favorability in subsequent models. I’m not saying that the phrase didn’t exist before chatgpt. it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – It’s a feedback mechanism. The same feedback mechanism causes it to prefer “it’s not” vs “it isn’t” despite there being no grammatical distinction between them. “It’s not” was presumably slightly more popular among the training data it (or rather, its trainers) happened to favor during initial training. The same feedback mechanism causes it to write metaphor like a bored, not-particularly-bright college student in a poetry class they’re taking just for the credit.
edit: shibboleth
more edits: everything after “it’s not a seismic shift in language patterns – it’s a feedback mechanism”