2023 Word of the Year Is “Enshittification”

The American Dialect Society, in its 34th annual words-of-the-year vote, selected “enshittification” as the Word of the Year for 2023. More than three hundred attendees took part in the deliberations and voting, in an event hosted in conjunction with the Linguistic Society of America’s annual meeting ( Read more... )

This poem is spillover from the May 3, 2022 Poetry Fishbowl. It was inspired by a prompt from Dreamwidth user Starbit. It also fills the "Don't try to lessen yourself for the world; let the world catch up to you." (Beyoncé) square in my 5-1-22 card for the Mixed Quotes Bingo fest. It has been sponsored by a pool with DW user Fuzzyred. It belongs to ( Read more... )

A big flaw in dating apps is ... people. They tend to keep swiping and never pick a partner.

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"When We Wuz DOS" is a retrospective about the evolution of word processing software.

It mentions something that drives me nuts about technology.  The early versions are almost always better than t he later versions.  I cannot count how many programs I've abandoned because they just stopped being usable.  I'm at a point where new computers are no ( Read more... )

I found this fascinating video about mechanical mirrors as interactive art. 

I was horrified to find that the racial dotmap of America will be taken down at the end of December.

Racial Dot Map
This map, which uses 2010 Census data, no longer accurately reflects the racial/ethnic composition and distribution of the U.S. population and will be taken off our site on Dec. 31, 2021. The 2020 census data, released on Aug. 12, 2021 ( Read more... )

This article talks about the dangers of augmented reality.

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At the moment, the net is working smoothly, and our ISP believes they have solved the problem. 

Cyberspace has been screwy for days.  It's not a local problem, it's the distant source, apparently spread quite widely.  Sometimes we can't download or send things.  Some websites load slowly or not at all.  So this is bogging down the process of writing and posting poetry.  I'll try to keep up as best I can.  Sorry for the delays.  :/ 

This article talks about autonomous weapons.

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