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From my blog[0]: "I instinctively type alt + 0151 (Windows) or option + shift + - (Mac). I don’t use it everywhere (e.g., code comments), but I often employ it in my writing—a habit I developed after years of roleplaying in online games with native English speakers.

An "advanced, trusted GPT-4, ChatGPT and AI Detector tool" flagged the text above as 100% "AI GPT". If I swap the em-dash for a hyphen, it drops to 48%.

The em-dash is a stylistic choice that's been around since the 1830s–used to create a break in a sentence.

I don’t know why this particular style of writing is flagged as AI-generated—as if real humans can’t pause for dramatic effect. We're left second-guessing our own voice and swapping out em-dashes for clunky commas—just to prove we're real.

If that makes me sound like a bot—so be it."

[0] https://www.carlos-menezes.com/em-dash-1830-invention/


Nit: why is Portuguese named "European Portuguese"? If anything, the language spoken in Brazil should be called "American Portuguese".


I think in this case volume wins out in that over 90% of Portuguese speakers are Brazilian Portuguese speakers. If anything it may one day just become "Portuguese" and "European Portuguese".


At that time, we will have niche dialects "American English" and "British English". "English" will be identified with the variety spoken in India. Please kindly do the needful good sir.


We might as well say European Spanish when referring to the language that originated in the Iberian Peninsula.


Castilian/Castellano already carries a distinct name.

But just to complicate the matter, “Castellano” is also used in South America.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Name_of_the_Spanish_language


Why is the language that using the spelling "colour" often called "British English?"


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Portuguese

The word "European" was chosen to avoid the clash of "Portuguese Portuguese" ("português português") as opposed to Brazilian Portuguese.


It's obvious clickbait.


Cardinal Robert Prevost, the first American pope.


VI's website was updated: https://www.rockstargames.com/VI


Mobile network is fully gone on the islands now — it was working until ~10 minutes ago.


Still working in mainland Portugal but it's getting slow, probably severely overloaded.


Yeah, it's back and slow. Sidenote: RTP (National Public broadcaster) is gone.


RTP came back for me an hour or so ago.


Getting two network bars in Madeira. Seems to be affecting 4G/5G now.


Who would be responsible for writing the postmortem? Are they required to?


I think it's ENTSO-E, here's their most recent report into an incident on 21 June 2024: https://www.entsoe.eu/publications/system-operations-reports...

For that incident, an expert panel was set up in July, the interim report was published in November, and the final report in Feburary 2025: so it'll take a few months.


I would expect the Spanish parliament to have some means of summoning an explanation, via its local regulator and grid authority. https://www.ree.es/en/about-us/regulatory-framework


Not required, but engineers tend to enjoy this sort of thing. Also, since it affected some 60 million people and EU-wide grid interconnects, someone will have to explain what happened.


This outage does not affect the islands, at least in Portugal. Madeira has power.


Spanish islands are also all ok, they have independent networks


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