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sneela • today at 12:50 PM • 2 replies • view on HN

Yet another clankered finding creating a clankered website with clankered explanations. To be fair, this one's a lot better than the other clankered equivalents, but I wonder whether these people even know enough about their bug to have their own write-up?

Also, what's with this damn trend of typing in lowercase only? Why is this a thing?

> oh did i say "i"? sorry. i had agent swarms. a lot of them. let's not get into it

Still a cool finding... it's just the communication is becoming a lot worse these days - I want to understand the findings please, not be impressed by your webpage! Biggest gripe in recent memory is https://github.com/xoreaxeaxeax/skitter-creek-bath-salts


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BugsJustFindMe • today at 1:06 PM

> Also, what's with this damn trend of typing in lowercase only?

Anticapitalism.

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DonHopkins • today at 2:19 PM

sigh, it's not a new trend. it's just yet another pop-cultural appropriation from the gay community, now mainstream thanks to ai. as trump's gay dementia progresses, pretty soon even he will be truthing about other men's asses in lowercase, just to get a rise out of them!!! however, the *sshole project's shibboleths of lowercasing and anal asterisk punctuation strongly suggest its authors may be bona fide members of the lgbtq+ community.

why do gay people love typing in lowercase?

https://thetastefultwink.substack.com/p/the-queer-lowercase

> Let’s sit and twink about the data. 24.6% of my 19,000+ respondents abandoned capitalization entirely. If you control for age, queer people were 1.5x more likely than straight people to type in lowercase. Lesbians out-lowercased every other sexuality at 28.3%, followed by bisexuals at 24.9%. Honorable mention to the lowercase enbies, at 29.2%.

New and Changing Social Evaluations of All-lowercase and Exclamation Points

https://repository.upenn.edu/server/api/core/bitstreams/edbc...

> both exclamation points and lowercase usage are associated with queer identity.