thank you too Zaz - you're one of my new links in tomorrow's update - I'll add you the neighborhood too. And thanks for the kind words - glad you like it ;)

like, I really hate diet coke, and coke zero is just so much better

I do agree. I'm not one for cola generally but CZ > DC

You *must* read it. I love MICHAEL and T.E. with my whole heart.

Ah thank you! I haven't actually played fallout but I've seen footage of the terminals and can definitely see what you mean

LIKE I LITERALLY DID THE "NOT JUST ___ BUT ___" THING, I DIDN'T EVEN MEAN TO

I read the Wikipedia like "how to spot AI writing" and now I am fighting the urge to look through everything I have ever wrote in my entire life to see if I write like a damn robot

like a big one: I tend to summarize the content of my writing in the conclusion it at the end of sections cause that's how I was taught to do it in undergrad. I also connect sections with like, connecting sentences/ideas, cause I was also taught to do that in undergrad

now I am second guessing everything, and am genuinely paranoid that I'm gonna be accused of having AI write my shit, and I'll have no means to prove my innocence

every em dash is like another letter on my fucking death certificate

I struggle with the fear as well however what sets us apart of LLMs is that our writing doesn't feel uncanny. when I read something of yours, I know you have made it and do not suspect AI in anyway. You might have more proper grammar than most but that doesn't make you any less of a writer. If anything you are proving that us humans can still be formal in our writing :P

thank you!! Your writing also does not give off AI to me at all :)