Coincidência temática nos dois textos que apareceram agora no agregador de feeds RSS que uso.

Primeiro Manuel Moreale comentando uma postagem sobre uma das marcas de textos produzidos por IAs ser o uso exagerado de travessão e o receio da escritora de os seus textos serem confundidos como escritos por inteligência artificial.

No you can’t have them. Yes, we can still use em dashes. And no, I’m not going to stop using them because fucking chatgpt is abusing them. What if they tweak the instructions next week and tell it to use more full stops or commas? What are we gonna do then? Stop using those as well? Hell no. I’ll keep writing however I want, and if someone decides to stop reading what I write because they suspect it’s AI-generated because I use too many em dashes, or parentheses, or any other punctuation or word or whatever, well, good riddance. I’m not gonna miss you.

Na sequência, Marco Arment refletindo sobre a cor laranja do recém-anunciado novo modelo do iPhone Pro e a sua associação quase automática com Trump, a quem Tim Cook vem apoiando publicamente a exemplo de outros CEOs de big techs.

I’ve seen this theory floated a few times — but no.

1. With the timescale of iPhone-production planning, these colors were probably selected before the 2024 US presidential election.

2. Trump would hate any association with orange. That’s something his haters say, not him or his fans. (Gold or red would appeal to him more.)

3. Don’t let him own this color association! Orange was cool long before these assholes were alive, and it’ll be cool long after they’re dead.