A pretentious, postmodern jerk-off idea, popular among some academics, that says that the creator of an artistic work is irrelevant to the work, that their thought processes and intentions in creating the work don't matter, that they are not an authority on the very thing that they created, and that YOU, the passive consumer of the work, are more qualified to know what the work is about than they are, who put tons of hard work and effort into creating it.
Who does this "Ray Bradbury" person think he is, saying that Fahrenheit 451 is about how nobody reads books anymore? *I* say it's about censorship, dammit! What does HE know, he only wrote the damn thing! Death of the author says that creators are just passive, empty vessels through which the Divine Muse speaks!
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Jackie Weaver

Jackie Weaver – if you recall the dialogue from the jaw-droppingly chaotic parish council meeting – had “no authority” to remove councillors from the meeting. “No authority at all.”
theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/29/jackie-weaver-had-no-authority-after-all-investigation-finds
by iwanttodrawahouse January 5, 2023
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Jackie Weaver – if you recall the dialogue from the jaw-droppingly chaotic parish council meeting – had “no authority” to remove councillors from the meeting. “No authority at all.”
theguardian com/society/2022/mar/29/jackie-weaver-had-no-authority-after-all-investigation-finds
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At what age does someone get the authority to shut shit down? If they can shut something down at 40 something, they could do the same thing at 2, and if they couldn't do it at 2, they don't have the authority to do.it at 40 something.
Authority or status is kind of like a title on a piece of paper or a plate of metal. It's about as meaningless as life itself.
by Solid Mantis April 27, 2021
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You are not an authority and this is a pretty egregious violation of my privacy. If it was happening to even one of them, then, I AM CORRECT AND YOU ARE INCORRECT. End of discussion. This was the only way to prove what I knew to be true. You don't need to like how I did it. It's already over. It's been over for 8 years. I'm just waiting for the thing to catch up...
Hym "You have no authority. You've ceded that entirely to the politicians you bitch about on a daily basis."
by Hym Iam August 23, 2023
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A start of authority (SOA) record is information stored in a domain name system (DNS) zone about that zone and about other DNS records. A DNS zone is the part of a domain for which an individual DNS server is responsible. Each zone contains a single SOA record.
<kayos> YO ME AND DA HOMIES HELLA SET OUR SOA start of authority RECORDS THE OTHER DAY THAT SHIT WAS DOPE
<kayos> YEAH DAWG THAT MX RECORD WAS FUCKIN LIT CUZZIN
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