Appreciate the kind words!

As a type nerd, I was very happy with Grammarly swapping my dashes to em dashes. But now everyone associates em dashes with AI, I can no longer enjoy that luxury.

Obsidian has a Community plugin called “Smart Typography”[1] which was updated 4 years ago. That is one of my very few default plugins. I want my quotes curly, em-dashes corrected, and arrows shown as arrows.

These are also my defined rules in Grammarly (might be moving to LanguageTool).

1. https://github.com/mgmeyers/obsidian-smart-typography

I wonder how many people change how they express themselves just to sound less like AI.

I've been a regular users of the em dash for years before it became associated with AI output — and I refuse to let that change me!

I've always used the double-hyphen for m-dash -- it's a carry-over from learning to touch-type on a typewriter.

Hopefully that's enough of a distinction...

i do the same thing, but not for typewriter, but because back in my leopard/snow leopard days, i setup -- to transform into —.

the thing is, i never setup it again but i kept typing --.

Not millions, but still, they have a point.

Relearning and reconnecting..

Buy the cassette 4-track I had in ‘93 and reconnect with my teenage self - record whole songs on it, not worrying about sound quality and knob tweaking. It is what it is.

They turned it off and on again.

Three times.

https://youtu.be/uRGljemfwUE?si=Sq0t-2ipXr_gDqao&t=69

:D

I can't help thinking AI would have done a better job of this image (no disrespect to the artist)

https://time.com/redesign/_next/image/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi...

The Story Behind TIME’s 2025 Person of the Year Covers https://time.com/7339703/ai-architects-person-of-the-year-20...

I thought it might be AI but the composition is so much worse.

I like how odd it looks on the whole--it captures the moment we're in.

I agree, Jakob

Do I have to turn my VPN off for this?

I know this is bad, and some people's livelihood and lives rely on critical infrastructure, but when these things happen, I sometimes think GOOD!, let's all just take a breather for a minute yeh? Go outside.

It feels like a waste of my time to archive, delete or even read emails if its subject doesn’t look important. I haven’t deleted or archived an email since 2004. There are always 10k+ unread. But I’m fine with that, I glance at the list, then close it. No effort. Works for me. Search is my friend.