I hate that AI has stolen my emdashes and I can't use them without looking like slop. But I will die defending markdown as my preferred note taking format. They're not taking that away from me.

I felt like this with the word delve. Seemed like nobody had ever heard the word before, and that the only possible way it’d be written was if an llm did it - but it’s just a nice word.

How about not caring about what people on the internet say about your writing using emdashes?

They are a false positive signal for identifying AI texts anyway.

Without markdown I don't even know who I would be anymore.

Em dashes aren’t stolen, it’s still clear from the overall voice of the text if it’s AI written or not.

At least, in reasonably long sections of text. I find it can be hard to tell one way or the other in shorter texts (like comments)