Esteemed dictionaries have revealed their top words of the year for 2025. Social media trends and a tense political climate ...

The rising impact of social media and artificial intelligence (AI) left a lasting impact on language in 2025 as terms related ...

"Slop" was first used in the 1700s to mean soft mud, but it evolved more generally to mean something of little value.

Word search puzzles have become one of the most popular puzzle challenges on the web. These seemingly simple puzzles ...

The 2025 Hawaiian Word of the Year selected by the UH Hilo Ka Haka ʻUla o Keʻelikōlani, College of Hawaiian Language, is ...

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AI is reputed by some to be approaching general human intelligence. Some might indeed see AI as intelligent as humans, just like AI seems to understand like humans. In an earlier post, I argued that ...

We should be afraid of collective stupidity. What I am referring to is millions of people displaying a lack of intelligence, particularly in areas where humans have made intelligence breakthroughs in ...

Creepy, zany and demonstrably fake content is often called “slop.” The word’s proliferation online, in part thanks to the widespread availability of generative artificial intelligence, landed it ...