I went through a phase where I used lots of em-dashes. Now I use lots of semicolons. If LLMs start using lots of semicolons I may be in trouble.

Little app in response to the em dash identity crisis

Em dash of various forms:

https://didyouemdash.com/?username=pg

Actual em dash:

https://didyouemdash.com/?username=dang&strict=true

Yes—and before AI slop started ruining writing for everyone.

Me too — and I'm not going to change the way I write because of genAI slop. GenAI is already ruining too much else.