[AnimalMuppet]

Hmm. Expanded text. You have just explained why I hate the writing style of the New Yorker.

And when you put it that way, it makes me think of steganography. That's a form of "expanding" the text, and it seems like it might be a useful way to think about the problem. Somewhere hidden in that wall of text is an actual message... but I don't want to have to go find it.

[arjie]

I’m fond of the New Yorker’s fiction section but there is this genre of “long-form writing” purporting to be non-fiction which is just text expansion that I too dislike. I think The Atlantic is probably the top example of this and I, like you, cannot stand it. Write into the LLM summarizer machine if I feel the slightest inclination to read it, which I usually don’t.

I like this “steganography” interpretation.