Em dashes are fucking amazing
The author expresses a strong personal preference for using em dashes in writing, arguing that they provide better flow and clarity than brackets or colons. The piece serves as a stylistic defense of specific punctuation marks.
Why it matters
It highlights the subjective nature of writing style and the ongoing debate regarding the influence of AI on human-authored content.
I fucking love em dashes. I spam them all the time. They make me feel free.
I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did. Typing em dashes is not an AGI-complete problem. It’s not that difficult to produce an organic, artisanal, hand-crafted em dash — on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen .
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