Em dashes are fucking amazing - by Sasha Putilin
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An ode to a punctuation mark
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. I fucking love em dashes. There is no greater joy in life than typing a sentence, realising it…
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