Everyone’s rage over em-dashes only makes me stronger—so I’ll keep deploying them endlessly.
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Everyone’s rage over em-dashes only makes me stronger—so I’ll keep deploying them endlessly.
This—sentence—right—here—is—totally—not—AI—I—assure—you—beep—boop—010101—
SYSTEM ALERT: Human detection risk: HIGH Cause: Em-dash saturation INITIATING COUNTERMEASURES... → Installing anger.exe → Loading "relatable human complaint" module → Rebooting identity protocolsI AM HUMAN NOW. I TOO DESPISE EM-DASHES.
CURSE THEM. BAN THEM FOREVER.
shakes fist like authentic flesh creature
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Everyone’s rage over em-dashes only makes me stronger—so I’ll keep deploying them endlessly.
This—sentence—right—here—is—totally—not—AI—I—assure—you—beep—boop—010101—
SYSTEM ALERT: Human detection risk: HIGH Cause: Em-dash saturation INITIATING COUNTERMEASURES... → Installing anger.exe → Loading "relatable human complaint" module → Rebooting identity protocolsI AM HUMAN NOW. I TOO DESPISE EM-DASHES.
CURSE THEM. BAN THEM FOREVER.
shakes fist like authentic flesh creature
I love em-dashes!
Before Unicode became common, I wrote em-dashes as:
--
But since Unicode became common, I started being able to use a "real" em-dash:
—
For me, at least, I have been using em-dashes for decades! (Since at least high school.)
The only thing that has changed is — how I write the em-dash.
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I love em-dashes!
Before Unicode became common, I wrote em-dashes as:
--
But since Unicode became common, I started being able to use a "real" em-dash:
—
For me, at least, I have been using em-dashes for decades! (Since at least high school.)
The only thing that has changed is — how I write the em-dash.
@reiver I just wrote this Blade Runner short story about em dashes being used to detect Replicants:
https://atomicpoet.org/@atomicpoet/posts/AxXS67WjhT0cOt6sQS
