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Three words of the week (opens the original)
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Word-of-the-year (WOTY) season is just around the corner. I’m playing catch-up with three newish and slightly icky lexical items that I can’t stop thinking about.My words of the weekMy 2025 words of the year<a class="button primary" href="https://f
September linkstack (opens the original)
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Happy autumnal/vernal equinox, depending on your latitude, and welcome to the September linkstack, a compilation of interesting things I’ve spotted on Substack and elsewhere over the last four weeks. New here? The August linkstack is still available to read free of charge, as are the rest of my archived newsletters. But a change is in the wings: Beginning on October 16 older posts will be paywalled. Why not lock in the introductory rate now? <div
Word of the week: Vig (opens the original)
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Vig is a great old American slang word, short for vigorish (sometimes spelled viggerish, viggrish, vigerage, vigerish, or viggresh — thank you, !), that I learned years ago from crosswords and Scrabble. If I were a financializing woman, of course, I’d have learned it via a different route, because vig, like its longer forms, can mean “the money charge
Photo break: Dreamforce 2026 (opens the original)
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Dreamforce again? In this economy? Salesforce’s annual hypeapalooza is happening right now in downtown San Francisco, a full month earlier than last year’s edition, and it’s more hypetastic about AI than ever. Featured speakers include Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman, Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, and — what’s this? — the UAE’s “Minister of State for Artificial Intelligence,” a job title I hadn’t known existed until
Word of the week: Rogue (opens the original)
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The last time I wrote at length about rogue, in 2015, I was inspired by the release of Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation, a big-budget summer release starring Tom Cruise as Ethan Hunt. Today’s prompt is another blockbuster, but not in the escapist-summer-fare sense. More like the scream-into-the-void sense.<a class="image-link image2 is-viewable-img" href="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!ef
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