The following is a modified excerpt from my second book, Words from Hell. Many armchair etymologists like to claim that the infamous F-bomb is an acronym, standing for phrases such as “fornication …

Here are some of the things I’ve seen characterized as a shitshow (or a shit show) during the last 115 days: A Q-and-A session involving the ride-hailing company Uber The British Labour Party The B…

Pervert glasses, meat proxy, vagmaxxing.

New dictionary words, the return of Spy magazine, pumpkin or not, moneyed baby names, and more.

And its flip side, Novig. Just sports? Sure. You bet.

The first women to join San Francisco’s swimming clubs in 1976 said they struggled against discrimination but found empowerment and community in the water.

The collected essays of Dario Amodei help explain why some people are so worried about artificial intelligence.

AI ads galore!

.Not so lovable when it’s an out-of-control AI agent.

Round and round we go.

Habituée à égratigner le président, la série se moque cette fois aussi d’Apple et de Google, qui ont adopté sur leurs cartes destinées aux utilisateurs américains les nouvelles dénominations décidées par Donald Trump pour plusieurs étendues d’eau.

A Labor Day labor of love.

Tripled threats: SIIIBA and BRRR°.

Across the city, spray painted screeds against the city’s AI boom and its billionaires have popped up on AI billboards.

Waymo's newest robotaxis are imported from China at a time when other Chinese EVs are shut out of the U.S. market.

An underloved, overneeded word.

How “lore” turns fact into fiction — and vice versa.

A free, browser-based simulator of the classic Microsoft Windows 98 Disk Defragmenter. Pick a drive, cue the HDD sounds, and relive the nostalgia of 1998.

Strong Language aims to be free of AI-generated text and images. We want the site to remain the exclusive product of human effort and character – not becacked by something that anyone can toss off …