Post #1673135

2026-04-25 19:26 UTC

a: it was published in 2015. Here's the discussion on Hacker News to prove I didn't backdate it > b: those are en-dashes, not em-dashes. You imbecile. You absolute tool.

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@aral@mastodon.ar.al 2026-04-25 19:27

@mattly@hachyderm.io I’ve uttered b before and I’ll utter it again :)

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@sfoskett@techfieldday.net 2026-04-25 19:40

@mattly@hachyderm.io Let’s delve into this with emoji

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@artemist@social.mildlyfunctional.gay 2026-04-25 20:01

@mattly@hachyderm.io one can always tell that my essays are not LLM-generated ⸻ i use three-em dashes.

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@draNgNon@hachyderm.io 2026-04-25 20:10

@mattly@hachyderm.io I confess I have increased my use of em dashes in my writing in the last 18 months or so just to be a butt

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@solitha@mastodon.social 2026-04-25 20:29

@mattly@hachyderm.io If I may... > c: are you even passingly aware of the fact that AI was trained on human writing?

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@keydelk@fosstodon.org 2026-04-26 14:37

@mattly@hachyderm.io I've started using em-dashes more often lately—it's fun to mess with people who assume they are a sure sign of LLM use, and they are easy to type on Linux with a compose key: compose - - -. BTW, I wish I discovered the Linux and the compose key back when I was in grad school; its far better then searching through the insert symbol menu in MS Word.

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@ramiro@xoxo.zone 2026-04-27 02:40

@mattly@hachyderm.io > c: the algorithm stole em-dashes from real writers from across the web

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