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this one is a joke, i think. he is definitely on the fashy bullshit though

i retain a pretty dismal view of AI for just about any use case, but had some distant friends / people i follow on social media say they used it as a rubber duck for troubleshooting a problem they had, or a place to just dump emotions into. i figured this, at the very minimum, could and should be harmless. i guess i wasn't cynical enough

your third sentence here is a non-sequitur -- do you mean to say disposable razors better work on longer hair that safety razors?

i aim to please

alright, fine, i'll do it.

webshit weekly (2025/03/27)

How to Use Em Dashes (—), En Dashes (–) , and Hyphens (-)

Grammar Nazis (as opposed to the regular kind) publish a guide on how to best calibrate your printing press to 17th-century standards. Several Hackernews (some of which are the regular kind) offer their own competing, more-detailed guides in response. The concern is raised that using too many typographic dashes makes you sound like ChatGPT, to much dismay of those still diligently copying from the Google (business model: "Uber for glue pizza") results page for "em dash". Multiple Hackernews take the opportunity to call the group of people who do not care about the millimeter difference between the types of dashes "NPCs".

claiming to have customers you don't actually have so vocally that they have to sue you to get their names out of your mouth should be a death knell on its own, but the whole "pretending their already-expired three-month trial contract is still in effect for the full year" is a great way to find yourself pulling a Sam Bankman-Fried, except that you don't have a side company to pull $$$ from to cover your tracks

Al sales startup AI start-up claims...

much better :3

random guess, but: "11x” is the name of the company, that's not "eleven times"

some video-shaped AI slop mysteriously appears in the place where marketing for Ark: Survival Evolved's upcoming Aquatica DLC would otherwise be at GDC, to wide community backlash. Nathan Grayson reports on aftermath.site about how everyone who could be responsible for this decision is pointing fingers away from themselves

[hacker voice] i'm in

it's the same playbook, to be sure

it's cool that you discovered a word that lets you call Asahi Lina unnecessarily dramatic and attention-seeking in a way that lets you believe you "never gave an oppinion on the matter" and that you're just neutrally observing a scientifically studied phenomenon!

wait no "cool" isn't the right word now is it