Making Science Public

Year: 2026

  • Timelines we live in: A linguistic investigation

    Timelines we live in: A linguistic investigation

    At the beginning of the year, I was browsing my timeline on Bluesky* and came across sentences like this: “The absolute dumbest possible timeline. That’s what we live in.” “I know we all say ‘this is the stupidest timeline’ a lot but seriously this is the stupidest timeline”; “What a sh!tty-ass timeline to live in”;…

  • From sloppers to slopocalypse: The lexical productivity of AI slop

    From sloppers to slopocalypse: The lexical productivity of AI slop

    At the end of last year, I wrote a blog post in which I dissected the word ‘enshittification’, a staple of AI slang. At the beginning of this year, I want to do the same for enshittification’s conceptual friend ‘slop’. As the MIT Technology Review said in its overview of AI words you couldn’t avoid…