Why would a human ever use the #EmDash? #99Pi #ChatGPTHyphen #Podcast
Last summer, Bryan Vance found himself in an argument with a stranger on Reddit. Vance, a Portland-based journalist who runs Stumptown Savings, a newsletter covering local grocery deals, had been accused of using ChatGPT to write his content. The evidence? His use of em dashes. “A Reddit user accused me of using AI, pointing to
Remember when em-dashes were just punctuation?
Now they’re slop-watermarks.
You can’t read anything online anymore without seeing them lined up like little forensic clues:
“Here’s the thing—”
“Let me explain—”
“The future is—”
The em-dash used to mean:
“Ah, a stylish writer.”
Now it means:
“This paragraph was assembled in 0.8 seconds by a stochastic parrot that thinks every sentence needs the cadence of a TED Talk delivered during a hostage situation.”
We’ve reached the phase of the internet where punctuation itself has become a tell. Like digital fingerprints left at the scene of a content crime.
Soon literary critics are gonna write:
“Early 2020s prose is characterized by emotional support em-dashes, vacant aphorisms, and the overwhelming sensation that the author has a podcast microphone somewhere nearby.”
The em-dash died for AI’s sins.
Cloudflare launched its big WordPress competitor. What can WordPress learn from where Astro's CMS is heading?[...]
#WordPress #Uncategorized #EmDash
https://www.wpnews.io/emdash-first-thoughts-and-takeaways-for-wordpress/
"James Joyce preferred it to quotation marks, which he sneered at as 'perverted commas.' Nabokov — maestro of almost every punctuation mark — deployed it like a jazz musician. Faulkner, Fitzgerald, Plath, Zadie Smith: all on its side.”
I'm with Kev here — I'm with him in everything he says here.
#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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"Emily Dickinson so thoroughly owned the mark that biographers now speak of the 'Dickinson dash' — her first editors, in 1890, quietly deleted most of them to make her seem more ladylike, an act of vandalism successive generations of scholars have spent a century undoing.
Virginia Woolf used the em-dash to splice consciousness."
#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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"The em-dash was not invented last November in a Silicon Valley server farm. It has been a staple of English prose since roughly the seventeenth century, and a darling of the literary canon for nearly as long. Laurence Sterne built Tristram Shandy on it. Lord Byron reached for it to grieve."
~ Chitown Kev
#EmDash #SiliconValley #AI #language #writing #literature
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https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2026/4/26/800028011/community/abbreviated-pundit-roundup/
WordPress isn’t dying. It’s disaggregating
The plugin sales data is real, but it's being read as a market-death signal when it's something else. Here's the bet I'm making on what's actually happening.https://www.alexstandiford.com/articles/essays/wordpress-isnt-dying-its-disaggregating/
Dziękujemy #Wordpress, witamy #EmDash. No cóż, to jeszcze nie tak, ale powoli trwają starania o przejęciu tronu po najbardziej popularnym systemie #CMS. Jednym z pretendentów jest właśnie EmDash oparty o #AstroJS.
Today we are launching the beta of EmDash, a full-stack serverless JavaScript CMS built on Astro 6.0. It combines the features of a traditional CMS with modern security, running plugins in sandboxed Worker isolates.
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