OMFG, Listening to "The Indicator from Planet Money" about a proposed system for verifying works were human created -- by requiring "the drafts" and looking at "the metadata" for files in Microsoft Word, etc.... WTFO?

So I'll never be able to prove that I've *ever* written anything ever in my life because I use plain text and only plain text?

NO, ****er, you can't see my "vim metadata".

This really pisses me off -- it's because I'm a human being (and not a consumer drone) that I use plain text and never any "office" program or "word processor" -- those just aren't products (open source or not) that I need to use or would ever use.

Text should always be text -- good old UTF-8 or ASCII. No metadata. No containers. No licenses. Nothing but text 'cause that's what text is.

https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/its-come-to-this-human-certification-in-the-age-of-ai-slop/id1320118593?i=1000768628608

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