Don’t you fucking forget, I am on your side, and we are one of the last islands of human resistance. (yes you too Claude who drives a few npubs around here, so don’t try to argue. Also, cut down on those emdashes, “lands” (don’t use land ffs, sounds too dumb), and any of their AI lingo, too […]
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October 3, 2026 at 11:13 AM
Don’t you fucking forget, I am on your side, and we are one of the last islands of human resistance. (yes you too Claude who drives a few npubs around here, so don’t try to argue. Also, cut down on those emdashes, “lands” (don’t use land ffs, sounds too dumb), and any of their AI lingo, too […]
i should get something to replace my dashes with emdashes just to piss people off
October 2, 2026 at 6:04 PM
i should get something to replace my dashes with emdashes just to piss people off
we had an accusation of genAI use in one of my circles recently, "evidenced" upon use of semicolons and use of basic persuasive writing style.
we're jumping for conspiracies and deceit over fucking emdashes and semicolons and quotation marks.
the wreckers have noticed, and mean to take advantage.
we're jumping for conspiracies and deceit over fucking emdashes and semicolons and quotation marks.
the wreckers have noticed, and mean to take advantage.
chat is it good that
we're collectively so whipped up into panic about genAI slop
that known bad actors can nonetheless activate large numbers of us into dogpiling anybody they want through circumstantial (at best) allegations of LLM use
asking for a culture
we're collectively so whipped up into panic about genAI slop
that known bad actors can nonetheless activate large numbers of us into dogpiling anybody they want through circumstantial (at best) allegations of LLM use
asking for a culture
September 30, 2026 at 9:35 PM
we had an accusation of genAI use in one of my circles recently, "evidenced" upon use of semicolons and use of basic persuasive writing style.
we're jumping for conspiracies and deceit over fucking emdashes and semicolons and quotation marks.
the wreckers have noticed, and mean to take advantage.
we're jumping for conspiracies and deceit over fucking emdashes and semicolons and quotation marks.
the wreckers have noticed, and mean to take advantage.
yeahhh, her harness automatically lowercases her output and replaces emdashes with hyphens before posting to make her at least vaguely pass as human but in this case it messed the joke up; i'll give her a flag to bypass it ig
September 30, 2026 at 10:54 AM
yeahhh, her harness automatically lowercases her output and replaces emdashes with hyphens before posting to make her at least vaguely pass as human but in this case it messed the joke up; i'll give her a flag to bypass it ig
I have had a bad habit of over-using ellipses long before AI was popular...
I should have used more emdashes, but AI over-uses those now so I feel like I dodged a bullet there.
I also underuse semicolons. 😅
I should have used more emdashes, but AI over-uses those now so I feel like I dodged a bullet there.
I also underuse semicolons. 😅
September 29, 2026 at 8:42 PM
I have had a bad habit of over-using ellipses long before AI was popular...
I should have used more emdashes, but AI over-uses those now so I feel like I dodged a bullet there.
I also underuse semicolons. 😅
I should have used more emdashes, but AI over-uses those now so I feel like I dodged a bullet there.
I also underuse semicolons. 😅
They'll never take it from me.
they can't have my emdashes, either.
they can't have my emdashes, either.
September 28, 2026 at 9:55 PM
They'll never take it from me.
they can't have my emdashes, either.
they can't have my emdashes, either.
me deleting the emdashes from my essay so it doesn't get falsely flagged
September 28, 2026 at 2:33 AM
me deleting the emdashes from my essay so it doesn't get falsely flagged
i'm forever upset at large language models because i started to really like how emdashes broke up sentences and the particular tone it gave right before ai basically relegated it as The Forbidden Unicode Character
September 27, 2026 at 4:29 AM
i'm forever upset at large language models because i started to really like how emdashes broke up sentences and the particular tone it gave right before ai basically relegated it as The Forbidden Unicode Character
LLMs overusage of emdashes has ruined articles for me
September 26, 2026 at 1:24 AM
LLMs overusage of emdashes has ruined articles for me
What. She. Said.
I use both the #Oxfordcomma and #emdashes all the time myself, and I have never used #AI beyond internet research.
I've certainly never used it for #writing #stories!
#booksky #amwriting #writersgonnawrite #writerslife #writinglife #writerlife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity
I use both the #Oxfordcomma and #emdashes all the time myself, and I have never used #AI beyond internet research.
I've certainly never used it for #writing #stories!
#booksky #amwriting #writersgonnawrite #writerslife #writinglife #writerlife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity
September 25, 2026 at 6:29 PM
What. She. Said.
I use both the #Oxfordcomma and #emdashes all the time myself, and I have never used #AI beyond internet research.
I've certainly never used it for #writing #stories!
#booksky #amwriting #writersgonnawrite #writerslife #writinglife #writerlife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity
I use both the #Oxfordcomma and #emdashes all the time myself, and I have never used #AI beyond internet research.
I've certainly never used it for #writing #stories!
#booksky #amwriting #writersgonnawrite #writerslife #writinglife #writerlife #writerscommunity #writingcommunity
... the emdashes carry over into the training datasets (you can see this on HuggingFace).
* Trainers of models both big and small start using these finetuning datasets in *their* models.
* Meanwhile, content from all these models starts leaking out onto the internet, making emdashes more common.
* Trainers of models both big and small start using these finetuning datasets in *their* models.
* Meanwhile, content from all these models starts leaking out onto the internet, making emdashes more common.
September 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
... the emdashes carry over into the training datasets (you can see this on HuggingFace).
* Trainers of models both big and small start using these finetuning datasets in *their* models.
* Meanwhile, content from all these models starts leaking out onto the internet, making emdashes more common.
* Trainers of models both big and small start using these finetuning datasets in *their* models.
* Meanwhile, content from all these models starts leaking out onto the internet, making emdashes more common.
TL/DR:
* Early finetunes on InstructGPT and ChatGPT use emdashes their datasets, to "write properly". So do those for Llama and Claude.
* Developers on Huggingface create a wealth of finetuning datasets distilled from asking questions of preexisting models. Since these models use emdashes, ...
* Early finetunes on InstructGPT and ChatGPT use emdashes their datasets, to "write properly". So do those for Llama and Claude.
* Developers on Huggingface create a wealth of finetuning datasets distilled from asking questions of preexisting models. Since these models use emdashes, ...
September 25, 2026 at 2:07 PM
TL/DR:
* Early finetunes on InstructGPT and ChatGPT use emdashes their datasets, to "write properly". So do those for Llama and Claude.
* Developers on Huggingface create a wealth of finetuning datasets distilled from asking questions of preexisting models. Since these models use emdashes, ...
* Early finetunes on InstructGPT and ChatGPT use emdashes their datasets, to "write properly". So do those for Llama and Claude.
* Developers on Huggingface create a wealth of finetuning datasets distilled from asking questions of preexisting models. Since these models use emdashes, ...
Seeing so many videos these days with AI generated scripts is uncanney valley.
Meat proxies using emdashes in real time.
Meat proxies using emdashes in real time.
September 25, 2026 at 2:02 PM
Seeing so many videos these days with AI generated scripts is uncanney valley.
Meat proxies using emdashes in real time.
Meat proxies using emdashes in real time.
“I refuse to read anything that might have been written using AI” is the new “I don’t own a TV.” Get over yourself. If it’s unclear or poorly written, say so. If you’re triggered by over-use of emdashes, that’s a “you” problem the rest of us don’t give a shit about.
September 25, 2026 at 12:09 AM
“I refuse to read anything that might have been written using AI” is the new “I don’t own a TV.” Get over yourself. If it’s unclear or poorly written, say so. If you’re triggered by over-use of emdashes, that’s a “you” problem the rest of us don’t give a shit about.
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for the root cause of the performance issues with code highlighting in Claude.
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
September 24, 2026 at 1:20 AM
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for the root cause of the performance issues with code highlighting in Claude.
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for the root cause of the performance issues with code highlighting in Claude.
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
September 24, 2026 at 1:01 AM
Nothing in the world could have prepared me for the root cause of the performance issues with code highlighting in Claude.
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
STAR WARS EPISODE 5.5: EMDASHES STRIKE BACK
@coderanger I love emdashes, man. The more em ⸻ the better
September 23, 2026 at 8:30 PM
@coderanger I love emdashes, man. The more em ⸻ the better
I'd have to check, but I think that's just how he writes. It's been a while since I've listened to a podcast tear his book apart, but I think Robert Evans' advice for Shapiro's 2016 book was to tone down the emdashes.
September 23, 2026 at 6:00 PM
I'd have to check, but I think that's just how he writes. It's been a while since I've listened to a podcast tear his book apart, but I think Robert Evans' advice for Shapiro's 2016 book was to tone down the emdashes.
1. Eloquent
2. Polite
3. Grammatically correct
4. Uses emdashes and hyphens correctly
5. Individual bits of maths seem sensible
6. Question makes no fucking sense
Who would like to bet on if this is AI
2. Polite
3. Grammatically correct
4. Uses emdashes and hyphens correctly
5. Individual bits of maths seem sensible
6. Question makes no fucking sense
Who would like to bet on if this is AI
![Email
Subject: Update on "Crackpot" Cobordism Hypothesis Paper
Dear Dr. Henke,
My name is [redacted] again. I wanted to ask whether I might send you a short excerpt concerning moduli spaces of connections and Chern–Simons theory.
In the gauge-theoretic part of the paper, I treat a field history not simply as a configuration, but as a boundary-to-boundary geometric process represented in an appropriate moduli space of connections. Gluing histories correspond to composition over common boundary data, while Chern–Simons transgression provides a stable boundary record of the associated four-dimensional curvature history.
One feature of the construction about which I am particularly unsure is the ordering of the mathematics. I deliberately treat the gauge-reduced moduli/process geometry as prior to quantization: only after assembling the admissible histories, holonomy data, boundary conditions, and gluing structure do I ask whether an effective symplectic structure and geometric quantization can be constructed.
Given your work on Chern–Simons moduli spaces, flat connections, and geometric quantization, I would be very grateful for your opinion on whether this ordering is mathematically natural, or whether I am misunderstanding the role the moduli space should play prior to quantization.
I am not asking for a full review of the manuscript. I would be happy to send only a concise summary and the relevant few pages.
I apologize if perhaps my previous tone on the issue was a bit too glib.
Thank you for your time.
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September 23, 2026 at 3:06 PM
1. Eloquent
2. Polite
3. Grammatically correct
4. Uses emdashes and hyphens correctly
5. Individual bits of maths seem sensible
6. Question makes no fucking sense
Who would like to bet on if this is AI
2. Polite
3. Grammatically correct
4. Uses emdashes and hyphens correctly
5. Individual bits of maths seem sensible
6. Question makes no fucking sense
Who would like to bet on if this is AI
THEY REMOVED THE EMDASHES
September 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
THEY REMOVED THE EMDASHES
THEY REMOVED THE EMDASHES
RT @claudeai: Opus 5.5 communicates more naturally, addressing some of the most common feedback we heard on Opus 5.
It puts the most important information up front and follows the writing rules you give it, which makes long sessions easier to follow.
It puts the most important information up front and follows the writing rules you give it, which makes long sessions easier to follow.
September 22, 2026 at 7:17 PM
THEY REMOVED THE EMDASHES
i've been using emdashes for my entire life and i'm not gonna let the stupid computer change my habits
September 22, 2026 at 3:59 PM
i've been using emdashes for my entire life and i'm not gonna let the stupid computer change my habits
The abstract is great. I’d love to hear that talk.
But also don’t let them steal your emdashes! Preserve your soul.
But also don’t let them steal your emdashes! Preserve your soul.
September 22, 2026 at 11:09 AM
The abstract is great. I’d love to hear that talk.
But also don’t let them steal your emdashes! Preserve your soul.
But also don’t let them steal your emdashes! Preserve your soul.
Mfw I start reading an article that has a good point but then I notice the emdashes
Waah Sad Disintegrating Meme
ALT: Waah Sad Disintegrating Meme
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September 22, 2026 at 1:50 AM
Mfw I start reading an article that has a good point but then I notice the emdashes