nfh

Whereas my system is full of daemons and zombies, just the way I like it

Wikipedians are terrifyingly fast at getting out some updates. If someone dies, their article moves to the past tense often within 10 minutes of their death being known, assuming they were at all prominent.

You should always be a bit skeptical, sometimes really arcane subjects’ articles are written by one of the handful of people who understand them, sometimes they’re very subtly wrong but not prominent enough to get the right attention. If something seems off, Wikipedia has tools like the Talk page, and looking at Edit history, that can allow you to glean information in-platform about what might be happening. Edit wars, vandalism, disagreements among editors, maybe a negotiated agreement about a way to represent something controversial, all can become clearer by looking at those resources. You can also check its sources, to see if they agree with what felt off to you, or if there isn’t a good source on that claim.

It’s not perfect, any system can fail, but at least it has reasonable tools to figure out why it says what it says, and dig further.

But if you don’t add cling wrap, how do you make the chocolate covered banana nice and smooth?

Don’t let LLMs take your em dashes; flattening your language to the lowest common denominator to avoid doing anything too distinctive less you be accused of non-authorship… that’s a real harm to you and your reader. If you know how to use them, and enjoy using them, use them fearlessly.

Props for responding constructively.

The false positive rate is pretty low, but a false negative of 35% is pretty concerning in terms of whether they’re fit for purpose. Like it’ll rarely misclassify human writing as AI generated, but it’s somewhat closer to a coin flip in correctly identifying AI generated language. It’s a signal, but I imagine it’s a poor substitute for the judgement of a person who has spent time teaching teenagers / young adults to write.

Which to the original point isn’t totally snake oil, but it’s maybe not a great tool for the professionals who it’s targeting.

Doesn’t the 12th amendment prevent that? Because having served two terms makes Trump constitutionally ineligible for the office of President after his term ends, the 12th should make him consequently ineligible for the office of the vice presidency.

Now getting him into the line of succession, and having a few people above him resign, it’s convoluted, but probably isn’t expressly illegal.

The writing is… worse than I’d thought when I played it as a 13 year old, but the gameplay is from the early era of good 3D Sonic, and the stage layout making a playthrough short means the weaker parts of the design don’t need to overstay their welcome too much. As someone who loved 3D Sonic games growing up, and never got into the 2D ones, I don’t totally disagree.

If you really want a controversial take: Sonic 06 was a good game with redeeming qualities.