If you were wondering why @lillikoifish was singing my praises earlier, it's because they got to beta test my latest lil project inspired by our convo, where they mentioned how annoying it is going through lots of pesterlog scripts and formatting em for ao3... even with the homestuck skin... and I was like, oh, surely there's a tool somewhere that can look at your chatlog, see which character is typing and add it in for you??

Nope, apparently that didn't already exist? So figured I'd make one. I'm still messing around with it rn, but you can try it here: https://viridiancubist.tumblr.com/pesterlogformatter

Most of the kids share shortened handles, like Dirk and Rose both being 'TT' so one of them is the default TT and on is 'TT2' - you can toggle which one that is. The output script removes the '2' part.

So you can put in a chatlog like this;

TT: Hi.

TT2: Sup.

and it will give you this:

<p><span class="rose">TT: Hi.</p> <p><span class="dirk">TT: Sup.</p> or <span class="rose">TT: Hi.</span><br> <span class="dirk">TT: Sup.</span> (depending on whether you want line breaks or not)

which will end up looking something like this in Ao3:

TT: Hi. TT: Sup.

So long as the character handle/name at the start of the line is followed by a colon (:) and matches one of the aliases in the drop-down menu, that character's style should be automatically provided in the output. You can add new characters and aliases via the 'character name + aliases' drop-down menu.

I probably shoulda gone into more detail about what I was doing, but I'm lazy at explaining things... and now that I've updated I can just show ya'll what what I'm tinkering with!

There are more features than just the workskin colour formatting - you can also toggle/create multi-colour and other typing quirks that will be added in the output. Your customisations should be remembered in localstorage (until you clear your cache/cookies), so you won't have to redo them each time you visit. I'm sure there may still be some bugs I haven't ironed out yet, so do lmk if you find any issues, or if there's any other features that could be added for max pesterlogging convenience!

You can still access the formatter here:

Ok so roads are important infrastructure. A lot of stuff that's important happens on roads. Now, let's imagine that quadrillionaire Matt Stench has decided that the next big tech innovation is the Wide Car. It's a car that takes up six lanes despite seating only one passenger.

The Wide Car is supposed to be the future, and everyone's going to be driving Wide Cars, even though nobody who makes Wide Cars is turning a profit. Employers are offering Wide Cars as an employee benefit, and getting "nah." Some employers are going as far as demanding their employees drive Wide Cars, and the result is that people take time out of their workdays to get in the mandatory gas usage for their Wide Car before driving home in a regular car.

In spite of the fact that the Wide Car is clearly set to fail, there's an enormous push to expand to twelve-lane roads to accommodate a bunch of Wide Cars that simply will not materialize. This is not an organic response to demand, but a speculative investment that amplifies the existing issues with road development for no good reason.

You can find me in the glub, unlike all you grubs

Hey loser, come at me if you lookin’ to get snubbed

You want a bucket, I’ll fill a whole goddamn tub

However, there are longstanding rights intended to protect authors. These are legally called 'the moral rights of authors.' Good naming.

These rights include:

The right to attribution. To have your name on your work. Don't repost peoples work without attribution.

The right to use a pen name or to publish anonymously. Publishers should protect the privacy of authors. Service providers shouldn't require posters to provide ID.

The right to integrity. Editors should not cut up your work to make it say something you do not endorse.

So let's review:

❌ AI harms authors because it violates copyright.

Bugs Bunny and Lola Bunny reinterpret this cartoon first published in German magazine Lustige Blätter in 1932:

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