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

johann150@genau.qwertqwefsday.eu

@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip the pause in speaking those is three times as long. its logic!

fristi@56k.dile-up.nl

@volpeon noice

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@volpeon@icy.wyvern.rip what the ⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻⸻ meow

ki@chaos.social

@volpeon
wait, what? LLMs ruined em dashes? how? is nothing sacred anymore?

stefan@akko.lightnovel-dungeon.de

@volpeon but what about.... hear me out.... 3-rem dashes?

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@ki @volpeon apparently LLM's tend to use them relatively frequently and now people got the brainworm that any text containing one is 100% LLM crap

lucidiot@snug.moe

@volpeon petitioning unicode to add a over nine thousand em dash

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@volpeon aren’t those toxic and bioaccumulative

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@dragonminded The plot thickens … @volpeon

ki@chaos.social

@glowl @volpeon
what the fuck, so we can't have orthography anymore? nah, I'm still gonna be dashing all over the place
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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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Since LLMs ruined em dashes, I will switch to 3-em dashes ⸻ enjoy.