Fun fact:  The Chinese dish that westerners call "Chop Suey" actually just means "slop" in Chinese.  雜碎 (Zha Shui) means miscellaneous broken pieces, or miscellaneous leftovers... slop, essentially.



SimpleStacker

https://www.slops-sa.co.za/

This place is really popular with the bitcoiners in Plettenberg Bay. They accept bitcoin and are a very pro-bitcoin business. I wasn't thrilled about eating at a place called slops, but they told me that in South Africa, slops is a slang term for sandals.

jasonb

third ways are for _commies_!

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> either those platforms will have to get serious about content moderation or else their users will shut them off

Is SN a third way?

Undisciplined

the [Oxford English Dictionary]’s first citation is from the 15th century. Its meaning has evolved from 

mud and slush, through a weak liquid used as a poorly nourishing food, to any kind of food scraps, to nonsense or rubbish.

Slop merchants clog up the internet with drivel. Enter a health question on Google and see how many of the top results are brand-new webpages with AI-written prose. Or scroll through Instagram and see how long it takes to come across a video that is made up of fake clips and an AI voiceover. Or head to X and see if you can distinguish the real MAGA accounts from those that were revealed (by a new “About this account” feature) to be slop-shops in Pakistan, Nigeria or Thailand.

It is distressing to imagine a world drowning in slop, 

. If the news ecosystem is sodden with slop, trust in established organisations might rebound. (Research has found that, after being asked to distinguish AI photographs from real ones, test subjects show a greater willingness to pay for a respectable newspaper.) If social-media sites become congested with slop, either those platforms will have to get serious about content moderation or else their users will shut them off. A case, then, for sloptimism?

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BooksAndArticles

What a wonder. 

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Just random crap, basically: 

> the [Oxford English Dictionary]’s first citation is from the 15th century. Its meaning has evolved from **mud and slush, through a weak liquid used as a poorly nourishing food, to any kind of food scraps, to nonsense or rubbish.**


> Slop merchants clog up the internet with drivel. Enter a health question on Google and see how many of the top results are brand-new webpages with AI-written prose. Or scroll through Instagram and see how long it takes to come across a video that is made up of fake clips and an AI voiceover. Or head to X and see if you can distinguish the real MAGA accounts from those that were revealed (by a new “About this account” feature) to be slop-shops in Pakistan, Nigeria or Thailand.

> It is distressing to imagine a world drowning in slop, **so think of the positives**. If the news ecosystem is sodden with slop, trust in established organisations might rebound. (Research has found that, after being asked to distinguish AI photographs from real ones, test subjects show a greater willingness to pay for a respectable newspaper.) If social-media sites become congested with slop, either those platforms will have to get serious about content moderation or else their users will shut them off. A case, then, for sloptimism?

_where them plebs at?!_

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