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Bard spotting on Bluesky 04 February 2025 
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Alejandra Caraballo (@esqueer.net):
I can't believe I'm just now finding out that the ASCII code for the letter "X" is 88. Before I would've thought it was a coincidence but now....
Vivek Ravishanker (@vivekr.bsky.social):
I'll just go ahead and nip this one in the bud because there's plenty to actually worry about. ASCII maps 128 (2^7) characters to binary in groups. They started the letters at position 2^6 (midpoint of 128). So A is 65 (64+1). X is just 64+24 which happens, not for Nazism reasons, to be 88.
Ms. Penny Oaken, SkyWitch (@skywitches.net):
She's not saying that IANA is racist; she's saying Musk picked "X" because it's a plausibly deniable dogwhistle to Decimal 88 on the ASCII table
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