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Bryan Mitchell
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Writer, Anglophile, Nostalgia Geek. Power User sans excess apps. Meshed between the literary ether and some leftover code. BA English as of 2014.
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European Commission📱 Built to last
Your new smartphone or tablet must last longer, be easier to fix, and use less energy.
As new EU Ecodesign and Energy Labelling laws have entered into force, here’s what changes:
🔧 Easier to repair – spare parts for at least 7 years
💧 More durable against drops, water, dust
💡 Labelled for energy use, battery life, durability
💶 €20 billion savings for consumers by 2030
🌱 Using 1/3 less energy vs. doing nothing
Smart rules. Smart savings. All win.
The Nexus of PrivacyIf you're trying to understand the impact of mastodon.social's new Terms of Service (which will also be the template for new instances once 4.4 is released) ... well, you're not alone. Here's a few discussions that I've found useful.
@neil has a blog post with Some thoughts on mastodon.social's updated terms
@sarahjamielewis has a thread at https://mastodon.social/@sarahjamielewis/114699476927561899
@mcc looks at the lack of a termination clause at https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114699201989866226
And here's the actual text of the new Terms of Service - https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/17/mastodon-updates-its-terms-to-prohibit-ai-model-training/
Mignon FogartyAccusations of AI use are flying around — often based on nothing more than vibes. But there’s (almost) no shortcut to knowing for sure in any one case.
And em dashes? They’re not the enemy. They’re glorious.
Check out the whole show for all the details:
Watch: https://youtu.be/zM0QAxF5P1k
Read: https://grammar-girl.simplecast.com/episodes/ai-em-dash
Listen: https://pod.link/173429229
Are em dashes really a sign of AI writing? 'Caretaker' vs. 'caregiver.' Episode 1091
Here’s what else I found:
— There is some research showing that AI tends to overuse certain words, like "delve" and "meticulous." But this is based on looking at hundreds of thousands of papers and can't really tell you anything about one piece of writing. Don't stop using these words!
— Software-based AI detectors are also quite bad at what they're supposed to do.
— Marginalized groups are far more likely to be falsely accused of having used AI in their writing, and this causes real harm.
OMG, em dashes are not a sign of AI writing!
I kept hoping this myth would burn itself out, but no — the idea that em dashes are a sign of AI writing just keeps spreading. I finally couldn't take it anymore, so I crashed a segment into the latest Grammar Girl podcast.
The whole thing seems to have taken off after a popular GenZ culture podcast advised people to stop using the “the ChatGPT hyphen.” (And I have to confess it kills me that they didn't even know the name for it.) 🧵
Tats 🇬🇧🫖
Philip BallAlso: big US newspapers (with, I'm sure, some exceptions), we see you. We have done for some time, but today especially. One day you will either be ashamed or will not even exist in any meaningful way.
I hope US folks on the No Kings rallies know how much people outside the US are heartened to see them. We always knew the US is full of very fine people who totally reject and revile what's happening, but my god it's good to see it.
@atomicpoet I don’t even believe that AIs & LLMs know how to properly use the em-dash, but I’m also someone whose only experiences with AI are with a dream interpreter & to test out the AI caption feature* on the very app I use to interface with Mastodon (IceCubes).
Neither instance made use of em-dashes though. Feels more like a full-on illiteracy problem than just an NT/ND conflict.
*For transparency: I only used it once and made clear that it was from said feature.