Apparently the use of m-dashes is now seen -- by some -- as a mark of genAI writing?
'ChatGPT Hyphen': Are Em Dashes a Giveaway of AI Writing?
Viral posts and clips on social media suggest the em dash is the product of AI chatbots, with some calling the punctuation mark a 'ChatGPT hyp...
 Man I dunno I use *ton* of m-dashes! In fact a couple of years ago I created a little web tool that let you take a piece of your writing and strip out *just* the punctuation ... 1/x
Keyboard.io makes high-end angled and "split" keyboards they wrote a letter to customers explaining how Trump's new tariffs will affect them it's bad news for them -- prices have already shot up, and new tariffs Trump is threatening would *double* prices their description of "why building something as complex as a keyboard is an inherently cross-border enterprise" is really interesting they have to ship wood to China! that sort of wood isn't readily available there
Keyboardio
An open letter to U.S. customers
Updated 2025-04-09 10:02 PDT to reflect new tariff rates and add a note about de minimis rates for HK Post. Updated 2025-04-09 20:02 PDT to reflect...
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A very good and unsettling interview with the lawyer for Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, the Maryland resident that the Trump administration grabbed and sent to El Salvador -- and later admitted they did so in error as the lawyer notes, he has dealt several times in the past with administrations that wrongly deported residents ... ... and in those previous cases, even during Trump's first term, they got them back immediately upon realizing their error no longer https://archive.is/gfVty image
I can confirm this – I was there today and the streets were absolutely packed … tons of people all fired up and excited to be in each other’s company
Bluesky Social
Mor Naaman (@informor.bsky.social)
I have never seen anything like this in NYC. 5th Ave covered from 42nd St well to the 20s. Nobody prepared for this volume. Volunteers are holding ...
"Technocracy" was a movement in the early 20th century ... ... that insisted that democracy was terrible ... ... and society should be run by elite engineers, scientists and businesspeople A major figure in that movement? step forward, Joshua Haldeman ... .... grandfather of Elon Musk When you read the list of stuff that Technocracy folks believed and wanted, you can see a *direct* line to Musk and DOGE gift link:
Opinion | The Failed Ideas That Drive Elon Musk
His belief that liberal democracy has failed and that technologists should lead can be traced to the unusual life of his grandfather.
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"Welcome to Donald Trump’s America, where the Cabinet texting about war plans on a nongovernmental messaging app is β€œnot a big deal,” but an op-ed in a school paper is a threat to national security." this nails: it
The Atlantic
Students Yelled at Me. I’m Fine.
All Americans should defend campus protesters.
 unpaywalled: https://archive.is/TnnfT
who could have seen *this* coming
Futurism
23andMe Is Selling All Your Data, in Largest Sale of Genomes in History
As Nature reports, consumer-genomics company 23andMe has filed for bankruptcy β€” and legal permission to auction off all of that data.
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So it turns out that Michael "Reply All" Waltz, Trump's national-security advisor -- the guy who accidentally invited the editor of The Atlantic into a Signal chat to reveal top-secret military plans in realtime ... ... also had left his Venmo "friends" list comppletely public Wired discovered this and reported it, whereupon the account went instantly private:
WIRED
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive informati...
 (in other news, Wired continues to kill it)
WIRED
Mike Waltz Left His Venmo Friends List Public
A WIRED review shows national security adviser Mike Waltz, White House chief of staff Susie Wiles, and other top officials left sensitive informati...
 Unpaywalled: https://archive.is/G68KW