Al-generated content. You read that wrong.

AL-generated content. I get it now

I really do hate that sans serif completely fucks I l | o O 0 among others.
I should have those things on top and bottom l should have a curl. But no...
Fwiw Verdana is the currently the recommended best ADA font.
- Helvetica (and it’s clones), not all sans serifs.
  DIN has nice little feet on the l, as do:
  Cabin
  Cantarell
  Comfortaa
  Iwona
  Kp-Sans
  PT-Sans
  MS Trebuchet
  Thank you for listening to my Typeface Talk.

"Is that an English letter in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?"

Or : a lesson in typography, and why lower-case L ought to have a serif or curve.

Fʀᴀɴᴋʟʏ, I'ᴍ ɴᴏᴛ ᴇᴠᴇɴ ᴄᴏɴᴠɪɴᴄᴇᴅ ᴡᴇ ɴᴇᴇᴅ ʟᴏᴡᴇʀᴄᴀsᴇ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ɪɴ ᴛʜᴇ ғɪʀsᴛ ᴘʟᴀᴄᴇ. Sᴇᴇᴍs ᴛᴏ ᴍᴇ ᴛʜᴀᴛ's ᴊᴜsᴛ ᴀsᴋɪɴɢ ғᴏʀ ᴛʀᴏᴜʙʟᴇ.
- I read this in the voice of Death from Discworld. I didn't even realize I had an internal voice actor assigned to him.
- Minuscule letters were invented to write on paper and similar materials, because curved strokes had lower probability of tearing the material (as opposed to majuscule letters' angular features, adapted to carving in stone or similar materials). Now that we're not restricted by materials, might as well only use one case
- Come to think of it, is there actually much of any point to capital vs lowercase letters? You know what the first word of a sentence is anyway because of the period before, and names can be identified by context. Why do we even have capitalization in the first place?
- Hmm. Still harder to read and comes across as yelling, even when the capital letters are itty-bitty...
- 𐑯𐑴𐑐. 𐑿 𐑒𐑨𐑯 𐑛𐑵 𐑢𐑦𐑞𐑬𐑑 𐑤𐑴𐑼𐑒𐑱𐑕 𐑓 𐑖𐑫𐑼.

It should be illegal to have a font where Il| are not all easily distinguishable.

lI|

Also, O and 0. And there's a special place in Hell for font designers that make 1 look like I
- O.0
- Straight to jail
And lose jokes like Al's?
Sure all that fraud sucks, but there are tech fixes (which also have problems - SSL certificates prevent old computers from using the internet without a translating proxy)
Ah yes but that font looks kinda ugly tbh :(
- Hard disagree all my homies fw consolas
- Careful, the programmers may rise up!
- IT IS A PERFECTLY CROMULENT FONT THAT IS EASILY READ BY ALL REAL HUMANS.
Discord solved it by giving l the same tail that t has, I wish more sans-serif fonts did that
Then you have the 1l 1L problem

I'm not ready for AI AL.

Ready or not, Al be baming

If that's an official account, that's actually amazing. Also an amazing comment.

Seems to be official. He hasn't set up the domain but a bunch of prior posts and interactions make it seem real enough

Oh Al, you little scamp!

Generated by the state of Alabama?

That would be straight indiscriminate racist ramblings.
- I don’t know if racism can be indiscriminate…
- So it's Tay?
Aluminum?

every posted

You are telling me that one of the most prolific and influential artist of our time, 5 time Grammy Award winning musician Weird Al Yankovic, would run his own social media account on a niche platform to crack jokes and shitpost on the Internet, as if celebrities are just regular people at the end of the day?

I don't know, maybe this is one of those "novelty account" I've heard so much about here.

Honestly seems on brand for him.

I ran into this exact scenario with an acquaintance on Facebook back when I engaged in such silly endeavors.

Her name was Al and I couldn't figure out for the life of me if it was Al or AI. I think I finally did ask, but damn I could NOT figure it out on my own. I suppose there must've been some way to copy paste it into word and configure to all caps, but the thought never occurred to me.

On PC, you can open the browser console and type in
js

("your string").toUpperCase()
it's usually on F12.
js

>> "Al".toUpperCase() <- "AL"
- Simply pasting the string would give you the answer as the console uses a programming font
https://www.fontspace.com/unicode/analyzer
Pasting into notepad is good enough, where I and l actually look different.
I always copy just the I, l, or rarely | and search for it with any search engine. It usually clears it up
and I couldn’t figure out for the life of me if it was Al or AI.
The uppercase 'i' and the lowercase 'L' each have to enter the Thunderdome, and have just one emerge alive.
https://convertcase.net/

What a weird guy.

This is the best pun I've ever seen in my life.

Big Al is just not as bad is regular AI

God dammit.

I know it's a joke but there is a sliver of truth to it since there have been multiple reports of these tech companies ignoring copyrights to feed their algorithms and I'm sure his works are included.

It's easy, just need to look at the context.

Then look again.

And repeat.

By default, all chat bots should be Al-generating AI. The world would be better off.

That's how you develop new messaging protocols.

The second one. I've spent enough time on the Internet to say that capital I is smaller than lowercase l.