Post #4203327
2026-07-29 15:26 UTC
Everyone focuses on models' use of emdashes, but honestly the way they use colons is as big a tell to me. They just love to slam the brakes on a sentence for dramatic effect.
Replies (4)
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@OberstKrueger@gamepad.club 2026-07-29 15:35
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange New drinking game to get through slop: take a shot on every colon and em dash.
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@ADHDruid@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 16:12
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange I think I’m partly responsible for the sheer quantity of my writing it’s ingested—which has a lot of em dashes in!
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@abhayakara@mastodon.nl 2026-07-29 16:42
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange And what about all the damned outlines and summaries and "the key issue here is..." nonsense?
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@psh@infosec.exchange 2026-07-29 17:02
@mttaggart@infosec.exchange Now every so often when you use an em dash online some rando calls you a “clunker”.