Giving up the emdash hurts the English majors, but I have a challenge for all Markdown jockeys, myself included:
To signal your humanity, you must forswear the bullet point.
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@mttaggart You can pry them from my cold, dead wordprocessors. Say that again, and I'll create a whole new bullet point, just to shoot AI with
Context: I was set off by this slopshack. Obviously machine-generated, with a seeming allergy to paragraphs. Every article is like this.
https://otecosystem.com/best-20-ot-security-controls-to-protect-industrial-operations/
@mttaggart I spent the afternoon working on my exam solutions. I put lots of bullet points in, indicating how many points the graders (markers, in UK-speak) should award for each kind of answer: if this, then this many points, and so on. I challenge (with a moderate amount of seriousness only) anyone to provide me a clearer way to do this.
Perhaps I should do an itemized list with different symbols for the bullets. (A numeric list, à la \enumerate, would be very confusing.)
@nxskok I think there's a fair distinction to be made between, like, functional writing and "prose." Obviously itemized lists have a place. Blog posts and articles often can do without, and when a post is chock full of them, I now have every reason to doubt its human provenance.
@mttaggart We need a dislike in Mastodon just so I can react accordingly to this
@mttaggart Something something my cold dead fingers
@mttaggart NOO, I can't give up the em dash for bullet points, I'm just used to it
