• Survive '25

    Digital doo-doo

    It’s not just for pigs anymore. What was once known simply as liquid waste, mud or unappetizing food now inhabits our phones. In fact, it’s on all of our electronic devices. And it may be even worse than spam, junk or, for heaven’s sake, the dreaded clickbait. This insidious yucky stuff known as “slop” is infiltrating our lives online in record time. Not surprisingly, it is Merriam-Webster’s Word of the Year for 2025. Allow me to look it up for those of you who choose to lead a more meaningful, analog life. Slop is the onslaught of low-quality, artificial intelligence-generated content that fills our social media feeds and seeps into every…