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Cake day: June 10th, 2023

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  • I’m glad you pointed out that this is in reference to old literature. Whenever I see a white person singing to a song and they say it “because it’s just part of the song,” hard cringe. Just didn’t say it. Skip the word. It’s easy.

    A good example I can think of is that young white man at the DNC singing along with Not Like Us who was so joyous and animated and went viral. When it came to the n-word, he just skipped it. Just fist pumping and keeping the energy, and closing his mouth for one word. A lot of people noticed and were grateful that he was respectful in this way.







  • I feel like the problem with AI generated content is it’s so easy for anyone to generate stuff, so there can be a huge amount created with little effort. There is high quality AI-generated content, but whew there’s a lot that’s total slop.

    I don’t know what the best response is, though. Requiring disclosure of AI-generated comment doesn’t seem like it would help because that’s going to be mostly honor system. User-flagged could be used to brigade/suppress posts. Really it’s probably just a matter of blocking users and communities where you see consistent slop.










  • Custom autocompletes/corrects. Just figure out a non-word (i.e. something that you wouldn’t want to use without autocorrecting) that’s easy to remember and set it up frequently used snippets of text. Some examples:

    • meetnow - my zoom meeting link
    • booktime - a link to my calendly
    • frequent sentences or blurbs I use in emails (e.g. thanks so much, let me know if i can help with anything else sorta stuff)
    • nicknames for different frequently used hex codes
    • galert/yalert/redalert populate a styled HTML snippet to make a green, yellow, or red div that I can then just pop my content into
    • lots of other little HTML snippets like that
    • group nicknames to populate a list of email addresses (like an Outlook contacts group but you can use it outside of Outlook)

    Anyway there are a ton of things I use it for, those are just a few examples. Saves me a lot of time.

    You can do this on Macs at a system level, on Windows you can do it on some programs but it seems to have to be set up on each one which is worthless.