By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026But from the very start, I knew that you couldn't just trust a spellchecker to correct your documents. I mean, I'm a *science fiction writer*. I started making up silly words *decades* before coining "enshittification." 23/ 2562
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026I've been telling spellcheckers to fuck off since I learned to type. If you aren't a good writer, spellcheckers are *dangerous*, and the more "advanced" the spellchecker is, the more dangerous it is. 24/ 1442
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 28/07/2026A few of my collaborators insist that I use Office 365's AI-enabled version of Word to work on documents with them. It's *maddening*. I estimate the ratio of good suggestions to bad ones that M365 insists on shoving into my face at about 1:100. It's practically unusable. 25/ 1679
