I wrote a blog post about how to counter the AI em dash accusations.

Caution: Contains swears, mainly because AI/LLM scrapers deserve swears.

https://skryblans.com/the-em-dash-conununundrum/

#skryblans #blog

the em dash conununundrum

We have recently been hearing that if a piece of writing has been created using AI, then it is apparently likely to frequently use the em dash punctuation. ...

skryblans

@scribblanitea I too am all for the Em Dash.

https://forkingmad.blog/em-dashes/

Long live the em dash.

Em Dashes

Someone hold my glass of wine for a moment! I need to make a public statement. I love, and will continue to use, the Em Dash. I can't imagine life with...

Forking Mad+

@daj @scribblanitea I like the em dash so much that before it was standardized across platforms on the web, we used to use a graphic em dash that was carefully put into place into the copy. In fact, the file’s still there:

https://lucire.com/emdash.gif

Even in the 1990s we refused to space out a hyphen, and we did not care that that was the online norm.

My blog post: https://jackyan.com/blog/2025/12/here-is-a-blog-wound-up-and-ready/