Lots of intriguing patterns in this survey about the disciplines in which Americans think humanity has already discovered all there is to know.

I was intrigued by this 1949 "Gayese-English Dictionary", shared by Lindsay Rose Russell, which included blank pages for the reader to add their own notes about the queer lexicon.

I can't be the only person to have started self-policing my use of LLM-coded locutions.

Farewell, "delve".

Post a warning

Whatever your opinion of spicy fiction, surely we can all agree that the apparent demise of "loins" is to be applauded.
www.economist.com/culture/2025...

If you see this post, quote with a bridge from your gallery.

This visual from the paper illustrates the potential impact of unbalanced training data, giving the example of a hypothetical corpus lacking southeastern US regional content.
www.frontiersin.org/journals/art...

Note of appreciation for the digital databases that enable us to discover that, for example, the first person to use the term "brain rot" was apparently Henry David Thoreau in Walden (1854).