[karthikeyankc]

>That for some reason uses em dashes

You'd be surprised that there are folks on this planet who love em dashes. I'm one of them and I used to write a lot with em dashes, but stopped using it altogether in the past few years because of AI.

[hypfer]

Yes but if I am aware enough of the current landscape on the web to put a "written by a human" disclaimer, I am also aware enough of the fact that current em dash perception rightfully isn't very good.

So exactly what you said. You've stopped because you know how it will be perceived.

There is something not checking out with that blogpost is what I'm saying. Things do not feel organic. Which can be AI, but also can be lots of other things, but regardless of that, it smells.

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Googling the author tells me that they perhaps might just be trying a bit too hard to be taken seriously. Oh well. But anyway

Smell is there. Intent is unclear