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Many good writers used the em dash long before LLMs. (Where, after all, did LLMs get the idea from?)

Em dashes —once the sign of a sophisticated writer— were prominent in The New York Times.

Microsoft word would add them for you long before AI

Entering two dashes on the iOS keyboard inserts an emdash, I would use them frequently when I had an iPhone.

s/sophisticated writer/Mac user. It was a pain to type them on Windows so most people just used the regular dash - accessible on any keyboard.

I had no idea! I was a typesetter, we would have to manually create them using keyboard shortcuts on both systems.

Yeah, but when an article is already giving off slop vibes, it's more evidence that the article is slop.

AI code is great - but it has compilers and linters and tests. I'm sure someone will figure out a writing workflow that doesn't produce slop, but I ain't seen it yet

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