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Slop Ahoy!!
“Slop” is the most momentous word of 2025, says Merriam-Webster. And if we thought that the big AI revolution would be worth the slop, we might think again. It is, apparently, having an outsize role in the wave of far right pols sweeping the world. And those in power, like Rump, are using it continue to stupefy.
We can see it everywhere we go, it seems. And where we can’t go: in the minds of people.
Much more on this as we go.
Reminder: the Sunday Challenge this week will be whatever you can turn Kash Patel into. God knows he needs your help! Your thoughts below, por favor.
More later,
Steve
On a merchant ship, the Slop Chest is where the crew goes to buy personal supplies. In days of old, cigarettes, alcohol tax free, working clothes and gloves, etc. It is run by the Captain and profits go into their pockets. Some Captains would pocket the money, some would upgrade the ship in some way. It is the one weekly event where the Captain is forced to face his crew on a personal level. Think of Maralago as the new Global Slop Chest... Now if we can only fence around Florida and wait for that Category 6 Hurricane which can't happen because Climate Change is a hoax.
In our endless addictive quest for entertainment, we pause momentarily to fear for our economy and social safety nets. But we are tragically misguided because we have become stupid enough, not to fear for the loss of our minds. Technology with its bright, blaring wonders is the mind candy that is devouring us as we sit with eyes daily glued to screens whose algorithms are feasting on our humanity. If history records our era as the Age of Fools, it will be for good reason. We accept all of this because we can, not because we should.