‘Slop’ - Commonly used to describe AI and is a common criticism of things people deem lacking in quality in entertainment mediums.
‘Slams’ - Commonly used in headlines to describe how critical someone’s views are towards another.
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Woke, it’s an American bullshit word that means whatever the speaker criticizes. It’s a shame that it got exported to other parts of the world.
It started as “I understand and acknowledge that our society has systemic inequality and I would like to change that”. Perfectly reasonable way of stating it succinctly. As in, “I woke up” to this fact.
Right-wing lunatics stole the term and make it “anything I don’t like”.
I know exactly when that became rampant. 2016, basically the year where society had a huge meltdown in the USA.
Right-wing people stole ‘Woke’ and associated it with SJWs and along with ‘snowflake’ too. To them, being ‘Woke’ meant that you’re aware of their bullshit and the bullshit being forced by the right-wing politics about how incredibly backwards they want to take the country into. Like by allowing racism again, xenophobia and whatnot. So, anything that worked against that, then you’re suddenly ‘Woke’ to them. ‘Snowflake’ is what they called you when you have feelings and emotions, whereas they are the ones trying to be tough and were told to pull things by the bootstraps all their life.
Ironic how the tables turned on that one where these right-winged people are going into sandwich shops trying to be intimidating with their military cosplay outfits. They clung onto that shit like their security blanket and if you take it away, then they’re the ones crying up rivers over it.
Exactly right.
‘Slop’ is fine, it’s short and to the point and describes something for which we don’t quite have another word yet (in the context of AI) and which definitely needs to enter the public consciousness.
Agree on ‘Slams’ though.
Trump… as a non American, I would love to return to a world where don’t hear anything about their government…
The words I must filter to have a somewhat decent Lemmy experience…
I never see kamala mentioned anymore. She fell off the map hard
From the US and I’m right there with you in spirit. So fucking sick of that pedo sucking the life out of our country, fucking over our old allies and being a shit talking unconscionable fuckwit. If his decisions didn’t directly affect my day to day existence I’d like nothing more than to take a year long media hiatus.
flamiera SLAMS new age SLOP words for their ubiquity
“Clanker”. For… reasons.
I do think it’s weird how we invented a slur for something before it even exists, even if ironically.
It’s such a Boomer word. It’s like what robots would be called in a 50s sci-fi novel. And it has nothing to do with the software it’s being applied to.
To me it just screams “I’m trying to be clever, but I’m actually demonstrating that i have no idea what I’m talking about”.
How about the more PC “Clanka?”
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Unprecedented. I cannot recall a single time that word was used in the past five years to describe a situation or event that was without precedent.
Since COVID, the use of that word has got unprecedented levels.
Articles containing “here’s what we know”, “what you need to know”, etc in the title or headline. These “writers” should be court ordered to never post anything on the internet again.
Hack. When used to describe anything that some idiot realized was possible. For example, “I just discovered this amazing hack to save on my grocery bills. I buy garlic and potatoes then bury them in my yard. Six months later, I have more garlic and potatoes! Epic!!”
STFU
AI.
Yeah, this one gives me a headache. Clearly the product of some marketing douchebag trying to sell the public on their LLM. Now repeated ad nauseum by talking heads on every media outlet around the world, to the point that every idiot believes there is actually some intelligence behind ChatGPT and the like. Repeat a lie often enough and the majority will believe it. The term AI is now so commonplace and misunderstood, that most people won’t understand the gravity of a bonafide general AI if-and-when it actually becomes a reality. It seems like the majority is so convinced of the “intelligence” that they allow these LLMs full control over their phones, computers, appliances, vehicles and homes. WTF. FUBAR. How does it happen that we allow corporate controlled media and advertising to redefine what words mean? Makes me wanna hurl.
Yup, agree on all points and real AI is still far away and definitely not evolving from llm. But why not still go all in with the economy!
And now AI agents are the new hot shit (that nobody wants) .
(oh and we even defined AI so that llm should be called AI. 🤢)
The term AI has been around for decades. Most people wouldn’t have a clue what an LLM is, even if they use one daily. It was inevitable that AI won out.
“Here’s the kicker”
I really hate the whole generational thing that’s going on… it started around 2020 and has been going strong eversince…
But I really hate that people deivide themselves and make fun of other generations… “That’s sooo Boomer”, “that’s so millenial”, “that’s so gen z” etc are complete bullshit. Not everyone in these generations had the same experience or has the similar traits. You are telling me one guy being born in 2012 and 2013 have a complete different childhood, or 1996 and 1997…
Also not every boomer is a person of power that uses ot to undermine the youth, not every millenial cries the next beat moment and not every genz has brain rot…
I can’t be the only one that feels like these narratives feel very fabricated and forced on to people, so we have another group we feel part of and other groups to be mad at. It feels like it was made to create division between people…
And it kinda makes sense that division is good for the ruling class. I mean it’s easier to rule a bunch of idiots wasting the energy getting mad at each other that over people using their energy queationing your rule…
Latchkey kid here. It started before 2020. I was in grade school hearing crap about generations.
Kinda an interesting read: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strauss–Howe_generational_theory
Generations was published in 1991 and this segmenting of people into these categories has only increased since then. I agree it divides people. But I think it’s popularity isn’t manufactured, the simplistic narrative resonates with people naturally
I think a lot of the annoying stereotyping is just people saying shit they know will get likes online.
Putting that aside:
Having ~5 generations simultaneously active in society is a first for our species. The effects of which are exponentially amplified by the internet and globalization.
As ever, GenX got left out of every one of your examples. 😢
We’re a really unique generation. No one else straddled the digital divide like us. Elder millennials were using the first PCs, but we went from nothing to the first home computers to PCs. Same for video games.
We didn’t grow up anything like our Boomer parents, and Millenials feel like my really young sibling who I completely understand.
At 54, where would you put me? (I know, that’s the exact opposite of your comment’s thrust.)
So and so “breaks their silence” on a topic. What an overdramatic way to say someone made a statement about said topic. It makes it sound like people have been waiting for a prolonged period for them to say something and they’ve been inexplicably silent. On Monday morning, I saw a headline saying the Reiner family were breaking their silence on their parents murder. IT HADN’T YET BEEN 24 HOURS! HOW SOON SHOULD THEY HAVE SAID SOMETHING? someone responds to a situation as soon as could possibly be expected and headlines call it “breaking their silence”.
I’ve also seen headlines that say so and so “breaks their silence” on things nobody was asking for their thoughts on. Oh, someone hasn’t commented on every little thing that happens? They must have been holding something back.
FreshParsnip breaks her silence on this annoying headline trend. It was so weird she wasn’t saying anything until now!
I saw one where someone “broke their silence on attack on their house.” Their house had been egged with no evidence that they were specifically targeted for any specific reason.
Idk if this is just me but at my job everyone says “Correct” in this really weird way that pisses me off in a way I can’t explain. Clients, workers, everyone and it’s like, the same tonality consistently, nobody’s ever like “uh huh” or “yeah” they say Correct" now, do they think it makes them sound smart or something?!
‘POV’ - then proceeds to present something that isn’t a first person perspective.
Oh, and “positive anymore”. That’s such a bastardization. It makes me cry.
What’s the context for “positive anymore”?
Anymore is intended to be used in a negative context. You can think of it as a substitution for “no longer”. Positive anymore is a blatant abuse, and would be better substituted for “nowadays” or similar.
Correct anymore: “I can’t stand it anymore.”
Positive (super wrong) anymore: “People’s grammar is really stupid anymore.”
Oh wow, I’ve never seen that but it makes me want to file a formal complaint.
“Drop” or “dropped” to mean something’s been released/made public/announced/appeared pretty much anywhere. I know it’s not new. But over the last few years people have been saying it for everything. New thread just dropped. I just dropped my first album. That sort of thing, but for EVERYTHING.
