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Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. I Saw The Best Minds of My Generation Code Increasingly Derivative Casual Word Games It probably is not the case that casual, complete-with-coffee digital brainteasers are not the internet equivalent of classified ads in newspapers: […]
This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Welcome to Today in Books, our daily round-up of literary headlines at the intersection of politics, culture, media, and more. He Coined the Word of the Decade. And Wrote a Book About It. “Enshittification” doesn’t hide what it […]
While using Apple’s automatic dictation feature to send messages on Tuesday, some iPhone users reported seeing a peculiar bug: the word “racist” temporarily appearing as “Trump,” before quickly correcting itself. The message blip, which was replicated several times by The New York Times, provoked controversy after appearing in a viral TikTok post, raising questions about […]
In its early days, “The Word of the Year” was drawn from the idiolect of policy makers and columnists, those who set the tone of conversation in the public sphere. With the rise of social media, “The Word of the Year” has been somewhat democratized. If dictionaries, especially the Oxford English Dictionary, privilege the written […]
