They’re definitely more likely to be used by AI than by the average person, but I think that’s in large part because people aren’t generally taught to use them, along with their absence from keyboards.

Since keyboards have two minus sign keys, I have a script running on my computer to automatically replace one of their inputs with an em dash.

Em dashes being associated with AI is a disservice to them; in many cases they’re a far more suitable use of punctuation in interrupting a sentence than parentheses.

In this instance, however, the em dashes between the first and second parts of sentences would be better replaced with semicolons than commas, in my opinion.

The AI industry is actively telling companies that they can become ‘more efficient’ (i.e. fire workers) with AI; that’s more than a mere ‘messaging problem’.

It has a financial interest in companies firing their workers and raising prices to make room for it.

Even a 5% fee is 5% too high; letting Apple tax all sales on iOS merely because they control the operating system is monopolistic.

A game that can be taken away (in this case, due to a subscription) is one I won’t play out of principle.

Hyperburner’s a fun arcade flight game (though the iOS release is the definitive version).

AI agents have no agency of their own; their operators are the ones with that control. Negligence in giving an AI agent access to the internet does not absolve the operator of liability.

More OEMs should ship devices with Linux as an option, discounted by the Windows license cost.

The MAU numbers for instances were sourced from Fediverse Observer and calculated as a percentage of 43,287 for the percentages, but here’s a table of the defederation data: