Em dashes are amazing
Em dashes are fucking amazingAn ode to a punctuation markSasha PutilinJul 19, 2026571318ShareI fucking love em dashes. They make me feel free.I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did.
- ▪Em dashes are fucking amazingAn ode to a punctuation markSasha PutilinJul 19, 2026571318ShareI fucking love em dashes.
- ▪They make me feel free.I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks.
- ▪I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did.
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| Original publisher | Substack |
| Canonical URL | https://psychotechnology.substack.com/p/em-dashes-are-fucking-amazing |
| Publication time | Fri, 24 Jul 2026 12:40:27 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-07-26T10:02:19.262Z |
| Last seen | 2026-07-26T10:02:19.262Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | None |
| Cluster logic | Not yet clustered, or no peer story found in the clustering window. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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Em dashes are fucking amazingAn ode to a punctuation markSasha PutilinJul 19, 2026571318ShareI fucking love em dashes. I spam them all the time. They make me feel free.I don’t give a shit what the “oh yeah let’s examine this piece of writing with a magnifying glass for any signs of AI” crowd thinks. I don’t give a shit that AI figured out how to produce em dashes before these online troglodytes did. Typing em dashes is not an AGI-complete problem. It’s not that difficult to produce an organic, artisanal, hand-crafted em dash — on Mac, for example, it’s simply Option + Shift + Hyphen.I fucking love em dashes.
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