"oh she used double hyphens, she's using ai to write for her" mate where do you THINK genAI learnt about double hyphens and emdashes in the first place?

I Google searched for my emdash to copy/paste .. RESPECT the manual labor to add it

wait until AI appropriates any and all use of hyphens and people will accuse you of using AI for writing 'mother-in-law' in a grammatically correct manner

@maxcrunch the amount of time i've spent typing & # x 2014 ; into all my webpages just to be accused of using like claude or some shit. but yeah anyway, microblog.

AltGr + Shift + hyphen works on both of my keyboards (although i omit the Shift to get en dashes instead)

@maxcrunch you could also use charmap (or your linux DE's equivalent) and avoid giving google any traffic

i became an emdash user thanks to writing fanfic... 😭

thanks @taibhse and @badgraph1csghost for the shortcuts! you've actually inspired me to just make a page on my site that I can reference. I have lots of punctuation to copy and paste and I'm not great with memorization.

You can at the very least assume it reliably for the ads. Tumblr really be the only place accepting ads like *that*

Every few months or so I find that tumblr really tries to push a lot of accounts that upload AI art/videos in my feed, and every time I'm either able to clock it immediately or I get suspicious and most of the comments confirm that it's AI. Either way, those account gets blocked.

moon-room I avoid that problem altogether by only looking at the Following tab. I never use the For You tab, ever

could say the same about duckduckgo's search results at this point. noai.duckduckgo.com exists but it barely filters out anything, there's just far too much slop being mass-produced by the second for them to ever keep up

hacker news is particularly funny (and depressing) now, i swear i saw at least three "ai bad" blog posts on the front page this week that were so obviously written by claude

the subheading and em-dash spam, lists of threes everywhere, "it's not just x, it's y" and especially this punchy "not x. not y. just good old-fashioned z." crap. drives me fucking nuts

the internet is truly dead

You're absolutely right! The modern internet is dead, buried, and irreparable. And honestly? You're so real for pointing that out. The modern internet isn't just a wasteland of AI slop---it's a reminder that all good things must come to an end. (sparkle emoji)

Notepad++? I thought you were using Linux Mint, did you manage to compile it for Linux?

development is happening on windows 7 since thats where the sims 1 is installed

ohh that makes sense, forgot about that

i guess i'll just not link to the subscriber page until that's done. cos like everything else is fine.