"None of that requires a grand jury, FBI cooperation, or federal permission. If Ross removes to federal court, the prosecution continues under state law. If he is convicted, the president cannot pardon him."

People are bad at spotting AI writing, but think they're good at it. The em dash thing is largely a myth. But human writers are having to avoid writing tricks we've used for years to avoid boring "that's AI" reactions.

No, it's just used a common writing formulation that AI overuses *because it was so common in writing in its training data*. The guardian has an *extremely* strong union that is against AI writing. They're not going to stealth introduce it under real bylines!

I know two people doing online CPD courses. In both cases the "AI detector" flagged paragraphs as written by AI. No recourse or appeal. Told by supervisors to rewrite and resubmit. Rewritten paragraphs passed, but now OTHER paragraphs flagged as AI-written. Absolute bullshit snake oil.

💯. A colleague was talking about his friend whose academic work was flagged as AI when it wasn't. I asked if his friend was Nigerian. He was. (A lot of AI English was fine tuned by Nigerian workers)

"... But an important part of their agenda, and hence that of the right-wing movement as a whole, has always been to keep America burning the fossil fuels on which their wealth rested. If you want to know more, read Lisa Graves’ book on the Roberts Supreme Court, “Without precedent”."

"...the profiteering of today is far more mendacious than that of the past. A century ago, the tragedy was that only hope was available. Today, forces are at work to artificially recreate that situation, entirely unnecessarily, with profit for the few as an obvious motive."

"A few portraits of life with the disease can help us to imagine, and perhaps to prevent, a return to such profiteering."