#EmDashes

スパックマン クリスchris_spackman@twit.social
2025-05-04

Working on a sort of (very very) simple #SolarSystem #Civ type game. Just in #linux #terminal for now, because much easier for me. Learning a lot about #python and the importance of indentation.

Makes me want to create a #programming language that uses #EmDashes, #EnDashes, and #hyphens. Just because.

- function
– blah
— blah blah

Planets revolve around the sun, ships travel between planets. basic resource use and collection.

Full disclosure: #Google #Gemini is tutoring me.

Kagan MacTane (he/him)kagan@wandering.shop
2025-04-13

This piece makes the good point that "suspicion of the em dash also speaks to our mounting paranoia over automated communication" — we know there are people passing off AI crap as their own writing, and we want to be able to spot it. But the em dash "cannot be a reliable metric of AI reliance for the simple reason that it is a case of the software mimicking *human* writing patterns."

h/t @raganwald

rollingstone.com/culture/cultu

#writing #grammar #EmDash #EmDashes #AI #AICrap

Kagan MacTane (he/him)kagan@wandering.shop
2025-04-11

I've been writing using em dashes since the 1990s. The reason AI uses em dashes is because it was trained on my writing, and that of countless other humans like me.

#AI #AICrap #EmDashes #typography #writing #FuckAI

Meme based on the Breaking Bad Walter White "I am the one who knocks" scene. Walter White has a furious expression on his face as he bellows at his wife Skyler (off-screen). The caption says, "You think I write like AI? Because I use em dashes?! No, Skyler. AI uses em dashes because it writes like me!"

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