He claims to be concerned about free speech
https://xcancel.com/kadmitriev/status/1997076808765002117
How many journalists has your boss murdered?
This Russian guy is an advisor to Vladimir Putin
He claims to be concerned about free speech
https://xcancel.com/kadmitriev/status/1997076808765002117
How many journalists has your boss murdered?
44 Comments
Hadriscus@jlai.lu · 59 pts · 280d
em dash
SpaceNoodle@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
Can you explain the significance?
dracc@discuss.tchncs.de · 22 pts · 280d
Normal people don't use it while typing. They'd use a normal dash, tops. AI loves using the em dash even where it doesn't fit.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 18 pts · 280d
alt+0151 on windows
long press on hyphen on phone
we do absolutely use them
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 280d
Of the ~3.3 million characters you have typed on lemmy, 133 of them have been an emdash.
ech@lemmy.ca · 4 pts · 280d
What are you using to see that information?
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 280d
I scraped all their comments directly from their user page with a selenium script, dumped them into a text file and opened that in Libre Office.
... I am elegance personified. Someone hire me to work on your codebase.
dave@feddit.uk · 6 pts · 280d
Can you make a leaderboard? We can see which of us is closest to LLM—I’d place myself quite high up.
ech@lemmy.ca · 3 pts · 280d
Hah, I see. Thanks.
Railcar8095@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
OK bot
/s
DScratch@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
Do me!
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 280d
It looks like there's been 1 emdash out of the ~306,100 characters you've typed on lemmy.
(I'm having some trouble with the API (I am spamming the hell out of it to get these numbers so I should probably stop...), I may be missing some of your comments.)
canihasaccount@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 280d
I don't use them on my phone (android), but I use them whenever I type on a word processor. Word, LibreOffice, or any every other office suite most academics and scientists use (Google Docs being the exception, though idk anyone who uses Google Docs after undergrad) automatically converts punctuation with two dashes sans spaces--like this--to an em dash. Google Docs converts to an en dash. Not saying he's using a word processor, just saying why they show up so much in longer forms of writing.
More relevant to this post: My wife uses an iPhone, and her phone automatically converts two hyphens sans spaces to an em dash. It's completely possible he's using an iPhone, which makes em dashes trivially easy to use.
It's a good grammatical tool. Were my phone able to do the automatic conversion, I'd use it in basically every Lemmy post I write. Please don't contribute to the perception that proper use of good punctuation means AI.
umbrella@lemmy.ml · -1 pts · 280d
chonglibloodsport@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 280d
Don’t even have to long press hyphen — doubling a hyphen will get autocompleted to an em dash. I don’t even know how to type two hyphens in a row without iOS converting it to an em dash.
funkless_eck@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
not on android--or, so it seems
Warl0k3@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
The triple hyphen is the markdown encoding for an emdash, (
---) in case anyone on android wants to start using them.de_lancre@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
MrShankles@reddthat.com · 2 pts · 280d
Maybe they're trying to say that we're not normal? Idk, but either way — rude lol
sirleonelle@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 276d
We're on Lemmy. The amount of "normal" people here is really low.
Dasus@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
I've used it long before LLM's were a thing.
Just because most people don't use them doesn't mean "people don't use them" — or else the LLM wouldn't have put them there in the first place
I went through the trouble of learning the alt+0151 on windows and will certainly keep using it
prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 0 pts · 280d
I used to use it all of the time when I still had Windows and used alt codes
Some of us read books.
AnUnusualRelic@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 280d
I never used it in windows (what kind of idiocy is having to use alt codes anyway?) But I use proper characters in Linux all the time as they're only a compose sequence away.
REDACTED@infosec.pub · 1 pts · 279d
Booo —
X@piefed.world · 34 pts · 280d
In what must be a galactic level of irony, conservatives have hilariously become the de facto champions of being woke and DEI. They talk about the principles so frequently that they’re either obsessed with them, or have dementia. Both can also be true.
Tollana1234567@lemmy.today · 8 pts · 280d
they have became thier own caricatures they joked about.
Tar_alcaran@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 280d
Again
cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone · 10 pts · 280d
you can't streisand effect from a dead social media platform
DoomProphet@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 pts · 280d
Not as dead as it should be, not yet at least.
Quill7513@slrpnk.net · 1 pts · 279d
observe: it's made its way here
AngryCommieKender@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 280d
Mecha-Streisand effect? Since it will mostly be bots?
TankovayaDiviziya@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
Despite the initial backlash, X is still as relevant as ever. Never underestimate the opponent however stupid they may look. They're the ones in charge, we're not. This constant "I am smarter than these socially awkward weirdos" is what led to constant electoral defeats and push to fascism. The greatest trick that the devil did is to make people think he's stupid. At least progressives around the world is learning and using the very same weapon that made the fascists win-- social media.
BoycottTwitter@lemmy.zip · 2 pts · 278d
You're 100% right about this! I literally made my username BoycottTwitter so that whenever I post it hopefully reminds people that we still have a lot of work to do to get people to leave that nazi-bar "platform".
I've got a few of my friends to leave Twitter and sign up for Bluesky, I hope everyone can consider contacting organizations/entities and people that are still on Twitter and urge them to switch.
BenLeMan@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 280d
FTFY
Dasus@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 280d
"have turned"
When were they not?
BroBot9000@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
It’s twitter after all, only Nazis and bots left.
TwinTitans@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 280d
Well Russia is run by people that enables corruption for capital gain. Of course these losers want to deal with them.
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d
"Russia Made Me Do It" is increasingly the mea culpa for reactionary conservative policy.
falseWhite@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 280d