Published on Dec 16, 2025 [Permalink]
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Tuesday links, from Twitter et al.

Merriam-Webster: Merriam-Webster’s human editors have chosen ‘slop’ as the 2025 Word of the Year.. A year behind the times, no? Although, same could be said about Oxford’s.
eryney marrogi: This paper is being interpreted as something it isnt.. The paper in question being about AI-designed super-proteins, with claims of the proteins' supremacy being somewhat overstated, particularly by the perennial AI alarmist whom Marrogi quote-tweets. Although the thought of humans creating new super-stable proteins by any means, LLM or no LLM, does give me heartburn. Haven’t these people heard of prions?
Chris Arnade: I just always assumed Oliver Sacks was bullshitting. Hey, I did too, so a profile in The New Yorker to which Arnade refers was no surprise. Caveat lector, always and forever.
Anil Dash: Cory take decades of fluency in how these systems are broken and serve it up for a mainstream audiences. That’s about Cory Doctorow’s interview for The Daily Show, and I guess I missed the news on Jon Stewart being re-replaced. For a longer pontification from Doctorow, see his conversation with Aaron Bastani.