Since LLMs ruined em dashes, I will switch to 3-em dashes ⸻ enjoy.

foxhkron@cybre.club

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip please don’t ⸻ don’t do that

lanodan@queer.hacktivis.me

@volpeon What the heck is that character even supposed to be for…

Now I want "…" with moar length.

mezzodrinker@social.mezzo.moe

@volpeon Fuck horizontal em dashes︱all my homies use U+FE31 PRESENTATION FORM FOR VERTICAL EM DASH.

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@volpeon @Binder erm-dashes

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@volpeon Well…
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Look, the entire family is here!

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@ki LLMs have stolen so much content from human-written books, they now try to use em-dashes as often as human writers do. But as a result, some not-very-bright people have now decided that any text that contains em-dashes is LLM-generated. @volpeon

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@volpeon Meanwhile, the humble en dash:

lunareclipse@snug.moe

@volpeon 3M Dashes

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@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip bold ⸻⸻⸻ but understandable

anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

@volpeon ngl I actually just use two dashes-- because I'm far too lazy to find/memorize the unicode or compose key combo for it :'3

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@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip LLMs ruined nothing. You will take my em dashes from my cold, dead hands

volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

@anthropy I started doing them properly once I realized on Linux they're simple to enter with Shift+Alt+- (also Alt+- for en dash).

anthropy@mastodon.derg.nz

@volpeon which desktop is that? for me it doesn't work (plasma, fedora 42). I think that requires compose keys to be on which I don't even have right now xD I tend to default to whatever is available the most widely; also on smartphones and other devices and (CLI) environments normal dashes are more accessible I guess.

But just because I'm curious, let's try turn on compose keys — .. no actually it's compose key + hit - a few times? which is intuitive but I don't always have this available ig

volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

@anthropy GNOME, but I think I could do it before on other DEs. I never intentionally enabled anything fancy, I just went with the "de" keyboard layout in the installer and it just worked

volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip

@anthropy Compose key is disabled, but there's a setting to type alternate symbols with the right Alt key. That must be it since Alt(left)+- does nothing

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Since LLMs ruined em dashes, I will switch to 3-em dashes ⸻ enjoy.