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Open original source ↗Never giving up the em dash.
Me to the bots: https://t.co/c4QNTA0IOf
My threshold is that if I can’t write something that is clearly not AI slop to any reader that counts, despite normal usage of em dashes therein, then I shouldn’t bother to write it.
Bots learned em dashes from people, because they are good.
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I deeply resent that AI has forced me to eliminate em dashes from my writing for fear of signaling slop
btaylor ↗