— A response to Drew Lyton’s “The Future is NOT Self-Hosted” （Disclaimer: This blog post was drafted with the help of a language model, but all opinio
    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      11·
      4 months ago

      Are we at war with em dashes now? —? I’m starting to feel like the only person who actually knows how to type them on a keyboard.

        • SreudianFlip@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          6·
          4 months ago

          It’s sad, because for most people the use-case for an m-dash is relatively narrow—a parenthetic interjection relevant to the topic (but not sufficiently off-topic for brackets), and needing a subtle call to authority—it mostly popped up in academic or pseudo intellectual non-fiction, or in faulknerian ponderous fiction, but also as a hapless crutch for endlesss neurodivergent layers of qualification.

          So I am going to claim disability discrimination about this brutal and unjust sudden boycott, on behalf of crew #adhd.

          Edit: shits and giggles

          • irmadlad@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1·
            4 months ago

            My main point is: you need to understand and play this game of tango.

            Very true, and good point. The average technology consumer has no clue of what is going on behind the pretty pictures. I don’'t say that to denigrate them. It’s a lot to digest. If you hit the average Joe with a barrage of information and stuff he needs to stop doing right this minute, he’s going to think you’re a bit paranoid and perhaps a touch mental… message not received.

        • Libb@piefed.socialEnglish
          3·
          4 months ago

          They are one of several signs of LLM writing. That said if you’ve always used them then you do you

          Not the person you replied to but allow me to chime in: I’ve been using em dashes for decades and I will not stop using them because AI has started playing with them—no more than I will stop writing because AI can write too ;)

        • panda_abyss@lemmy.caEnglish
          2·
          4 months ago

          I’m not going to let LLMs enstupidify my writing.

          I’ll continue using en dashes and em dashes — they’re very easy to type on macos, iOS, and Android.